loading . . . "Do I Have to Draw a Picture?" Reframing Comics Scholarship - The Comics Grid Webinar, 1/04/26, 5pm BST Deck of slides shown at the Comics Grid webinar that took place on Wednesday 1 April 2026.The webinar was a conversation about comics as a form of thinking, researching, and communicating knowledge. Starting from the perspective of the journal’s changing editorial guidelines for our Graphic Scholarship collection, the discussion looked back at major developments in the field over the past 15 years or so while also taking a longer historical view of comics used for and with research.The webinar explored questions of form, readership, experimentation, assessment and editorial constraints, accessibility, and legitimacy, asking what graphic scholarship has become, and where it might go next.The speakers were· Dr Nicolas Labarre, University Bordeaux Montaigne, France, Graphic Scholarship section editor, The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship.· Dr Ernesto Priego, City St George’s, University of London, UK, editor, The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship.· Dr Peter Wilkins, Douglas College, Vancouver, Canada, editor, The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship.Chair:· Dr Paula Clemente Vega, Open Library of Humanities, Birkbeck, University of London. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.31919055
