Comic Books and Graphic Novels : Comics Scholarship: Research and Resources

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.

Covers the widest range of cartooning - newspaper strips, alternative and mainstream graphic novels, international works, editorial cartoons, webcomics, manga and much more - all from an arts-first perspective.

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 is a peer-reviewed, open access journal dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of comics and related media.

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.

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

More than 10.000 entries related to comic books, comic strips, animation, caricature, cartoons and other topics.

Searches title, publisher, year, book, or story and finds the work of a particular artist, writer, letterer.

An academic forum from the University of Florida's Comic Studies department, which serves the interests of those involved in research, criticism and teaching related to comics art. All aspects of comics and cartooning from around the world are open for discussion. This page also contains other resources for the study of comics.