About this journal

Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics covers all aspects of the graphic novel, comic strip and comic book focusing primarily, but not exclusively, on the twentieth and the twenty-first centuries. The emphasis is on the production and consumption of comics in their cultural, institutional and creative contexts.

The journal aims to reflect not only standard forms such as the superhero and other genres of the comic book, but also the increasing interest in modern forms and emerging genres of the comic, for instance, medicine, psychology and, autobiography. Our scope is international, covering not only English language comics but also worldwide comic culture, recently featuring articles about European, Indian, Japanese and Korean comics. We would like to extend into other comic cultures in Australia, Africa, South America and Scandinavia.

We are interested in the production and consumption of comics and their context within culture and the mass media, for instance within promotional culture, digital technologies and fandom. The journal aims to reflect and encourage the widest breadth of approaches to the comic, as a mass medium, and its associated forms.

All submissions are subject to two, or more, ‘double-anonymized’ peer reviews.

EDITOR IN CHIEF  

David Huxley

EDITOR
Joan Ormrod,  Faculty of Art & Design, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

ASSOCIATE EDITOR 
Will Grady - Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK
Ian Horton - University of the Arts London, UK

AMERICAN EDITORS
Vera J. Camden - Kent State University, USA
Valentino L. Zullo - Kent State University, USA 

ASIA PACIFIC EDITORS
Ian Gordon, Department of History, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Angela Ndalianis, Swinbourne University of Technology, Australia

CANADIAN EDITOR

Bart Beaty, University of Calgary, Canada

CONSULTING EDITOR
Roger Sabin, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London, UK 

BOOK REVIEW EDITOR

Eszter Szép, Independent Researcher and Educator 

EDITORIAL BOARD

Maaheen Ahmed - Ghent University
José Alaniz - University of Washington, USA
Tomas Gaete Altamirano – Universidad Autónoma de Chile
Érico Assis - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brasil
Jeffery A. Brown - Bowling Green State University, USA
Scott Bukatman – Stanford University, USA
Neil Cohn, Tilberg University, Netherlands
Peter Coogan, Washington University, USA
Professor John Crespi, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, Colgate University
Benoît Crucifix, KBR & KU Leuven as researcher and assistant professor
Dominic Davies, Senior Lecturer in English at City, University of London
Paul Dawson, Manchester University, UK
Harriet Earle - Sheffield Hallam University, UK, and Research Fellow at the Centre for War, Atrocity, and Genocide at Nipissing University, Canada.
Margaret C. Flinn - The Ohio State University, USA
Mel Gibson – University of Northumbria, UK
Shawn Patrick Gilmore - University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
Michael Goodrum - Canterbury Christchurch University, UK
Paul Gravett - Author and Independent Scholar, UK
Dominick Grace - Brescia University College in London, Ontario, Canada
Simon Grennan - University of Chester, UK
Ian Hague - University of the Arts London, UK
Charles Hatfield – California State University, USA
Laura Vazquez Hutnik - Torcuato Di Tella University, and at the National University of Moreno
Katherine Kelp-Stebbins - University of Oregon, USA
Jeffery Klaehn - Author and Independent scholar, Canada
Andy Kunka - University of South Carolina, USA
Pascal Lefèvre - Belgium
John Lent - Publisher/editor-in-chief, International Journal of Comic Art
Andrew Lesk - University of Toronto, Canada
Lisa Macklem – Author and Independent scholar
Anne Magnussen - Southern Denmark University
John Miers - Kingston University, London
Kimberly Myers - Penn State College of Medicine, Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
Golnar Nabizadeh, University of Dundee
Pramod K. Nayar - The University of Hyderabad, India
Suryanandini Nurain - Jawaharlal Nehru University
Anna F. Peppard - St. Jerome's University in January 2023 Brock University
Barbara Postema - Groningen University
Mihaela Precup - University of Bucharest, Romania
Ernesto Priego - City University of London, UK
Candida Rifkind - The University of Winnipeg, Canada
Kristine Michelle L. Santos - Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines
Johannes Schmid - Europa-Universität Flensburg, Germany
Gareth Schott - Waikato University, New Zealand
Deborah Shamoon - National University of Singapore, Singapore
Varsha Singh - Indian Institute of Technology, India.
Fredrik Strömberg - Malmo University, Sweden
Jan-Noël Thon - Osnabrück University, Germany
Tien-Yi Chao - National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Carole L. Tilley - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Pablo Turnes - Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata (UNMDP), Argentina
Laura Vazquez - Northern Illinois University, USA
Raphaela von Weichs - Université de Lausanne, Switzerland
Robert G. Weiner – Texas Tech University, USA
Joseph Witek – Stetson University, Florida, USA

David Huxley was a Senior Lecturer on the Film and Media Studies BA Hons at Manchester Metropolitan University until 2018. He has written widely on comics and popular culture, including British underground comics, American and British war comics, superheroes and horror film. He has also drawn and written for a range of British comics, including Ally Sloper (1976), Pssst (1982) and Oink (1988). He has forthcoming chapters on women in Western comics and also Robert Crumb, and his most recent publication is Lone Heroes and the Myth of the American West in Comic Books 1945-1962 (Palgrave MacMillan, 2018).

Joan Ormrod is a Senior Lecturer in Film and Media Studies BA Hons at Manchester Metropolitan University, teaching a range of units such as Graphic Novels and Comics, Fantasy in Popular Culture and Science Fiction. Her publications and conference presentations reflect her research interests in subcultural audiences, comics and cult films.  In 2009 she co-edited a book, On the Edge: Leisure, Consumption and the Representation of Adventure Sports.  She has published articles on cult films in Scope, and surfing subcultures in History of Sport, presented papers at comics conferences and co-hosted a conference on comics with David Huxley in September 2007.  In a previous life she published a number of scripts with Marvel UK.

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