LibGuides: Graphic Novels and Comics: Graphic Novels &amp; Comics Resources

Comics Studies: Web Resources

Superhero Comic, Speech Bubbles, Onomatopoeia, Woosh

Comics@Columbia
Take a look at their archival collections.
LaGuardia Community College Libraries
Comics Research Libraries
New York Public Library
University of North Texas
ComicsResearch.org
Comics Scholarship Annotated Bibliographies; this is an incredibly detailed resource - make sure you check this one out. (compiled by Gene Kannenberg, Jr.)

Comics and Cartoon Arts: Libraries and Museums

Zap, Comic, Comic Book, Fight, Explosion, Expletive

Comics Plus- Graphic Novels eBooks

Comics Plus

Log-in instructions from off-campus
• Users will be prompted to log-in must with their Star ID and password

For new users: you must register for an account (using an email/password of their choice) > then, click "Sign Up"
For returning users: click on “log in” and sign in with whatever username/password you had registered with initially

*If you're experiencing issues accessing Comics Plus online, contact Dawn Wing at dawn.wing@metrostate.edu

Online Comics Journals

Broken Pencil
Broken Pencil is one of the few magazines in the world devoted exclusively to underground culture and the independent arts. Broken Pencil reviews the best zines, books, websites, videos and music from the underground and reprints the best articles from the alternative press.
Inks - the journal of the Comics Studies Society, features scholarly research on sequential art, graphic narrative, and cartooning. The journal seeks to bring together scholarly essays, archival materials, and insights and discoveries from leading comics professionals. Inks highlights scholarship from a variety of disciplines and invites essays on all periods of comic history, as well as considering both a US or an international comics focus.
Image & Narrative
Image [&] Narrative is a peer-reviewed e-journal on visual narratology and word and image studies in the broadest sense of the term. It does not focus on a narrowly defined corpus or theoretical framework, but questions the mutual shaping of literary and visual cultures.
ImageTexT
ImageTexT is a peer-reviewed, open access journal dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of comics and related media
SANE journal
SANE journal publishes peer-reviewed articles from researchers and practitioners from a variety of disciplines seeking to add significantly to the global knowledge associated with all aspects of graphica (comics, graphic novels, and its related forms) and education.
The Comics Grid
A collaborative, peer-edited open-access journal dedicated to comics scholarship. Its purpose is to make original contributions to the field of comics scholarship and to advance the appreciation of comic art within academia and the general cultural mediascape

Cartoonist Artist and Writers

Kapow, Comic, Comic Book, Fight, Explosion, Expletive

Cartoonists of Color Database - MariNaomi
Maintained by cartoonist MariNaomi; Here you can find the names and information of almost 900 cartoonists of color (people-of-color comic book creators), LGBTQ & non-male.
Queer Cartoonists Database - MariNaomi
Queer Reads Library - Kaitlin Chan
Kaitlin Chan is a cartoonist, illustrator, artist, and activist from Hong Kong
Alexandro Segade - Comics!

Library Resources on Comics Studies: Available on OneSearch

About Comics & Graphic Novels: Resources via OneSearch
Browse the Library's OneSearch results for books, articles, videos and more on graphic novels/comics available through our collections.

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Graphic Novels and Comics Resources: LibGuide Credits

Many thanks for sharing and compiling these comics resources to:

Ann Matsuuchi, MLIS/MA

https://guides.laguardia.edu/comics