European Comic Art
Aims & Scope
Editors: Laurence Grove, University of Glasgow, Mark McKinney, Miami University, Ohio,
Ann Miller, University of Leicester
European Comic Art is the first English-language scholarly publication devoted to the study of European-language graphic novels, comic strips, comic books and caricature. Published in association with the American Bande Dessinée Society and the International Bande Dessinée Society, European Comic Art builds on existing scholarship in French-language comic art and is able to draw on the scholarly activities undertaken by both organisations. However, our editorial board and consultative committee bring expertise on a wider European area of comic art production and the journal will emphasise coverage of work from across Europe, including Eastern Europe.
European Comic Art aims to address a broad range of topics in the field of comic art, including, but by no means limited to:
The current 'manga-isation' of the European comics scene by Asian comics
Mutual influences of European and American comics
Feminist comic art and women cartoonists
Comics without words
Hergé and the clear-line school of cartooning
Cartoonist collectives and independent publishers since 1990
Genre and the industry
Comics and digital media
The cartoonist as reporter
Comics in their historical context
Comics as medium for autobiography and autofiction
Postcolonial comics
Comics and national/transnational identity
Time and space in comics
Comics and architecture
Comics and the avant-garde
Advances and debates in comics theory
European Comic Art is published twice a year in Summer and Winter.