Call for Submissions
Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society
We are pleased to announce the official call for submissions for the new journal of the Comics Studies Society, to be published beginning in 2017 by the Ohio State University Press. Each issue of Inks will seek to bring together scholarly essays, archival materials, and insights and discoveries from leading cartoon professionals. Special roundtables will be featured each year, on topics of importance to the members of the Society. In addition to scholarly essays, Inks will also include archival discoveries and contributions from comics professionals about insights and concerns central to the field.
Inks invites scholarly essays on any aspect of sequential art, graphic narrative, and cartooning, including comic strips; comic books, papers, and magazines; graphic novels, albums, and other graphic books; webcomics and other electronic formats; single-panel cartoons, including editorial and gag cartoons; caricature; animation; and all other related forms and traditions. We hope to highlight scholarship from a wide range of academic disciplines, and we invite essays on all periods of comics history and on both US and international comics.
Submissions are evaluated using a blind peer review process. Inks uses a house style based on the 16th edition of The Chicago Manual of Style (endnotes). Manuscripts should be limited to roughly 7500 words and should be submitted as a Microsoft Word email attachment to .
Editorial Roster
Lucy Shelton Caswell, Founding Editor Emerita
Editor
Jared Gardner (Ohio State University)
Associate Editors
Qiana Whitted (University of South Carolina): Scholarly Essays
Ben Saunders (University of Oregon): Scholarly Essays
Jenny Robb (Ohio State University): From the Archives
Ben Novotny-Owen (Ohio State University): Book Reviews
Caitlin McGurk (Ohio State University): From the Field
Editorial Advisory Board
Michelle Ann Abate (Ohio State University)
Jose Alaniz (University of Washington)
Frederick Aldama (Ohio State University)
Jan Baetens (University of Leuven, Belgium)
Frank Bramlett (University of Nebraska at Omaha)
Casey Brienza (City University London)
Hillary Chute (University of Chicago)
Corey K. Creekmur (University of Iowa)
Brian Cremins (Harper College)
Lan Dong (University of Illinois Springfield)
Ramzi Fawaz (University of Wisconsin)
Frances Gateward (California State University Northridge)
Paul Gravett (paulgravett.com)
Robert C. Harvey (rcharvey.com)
Ryan Holmberg (Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures)
M. Thomas Inge (Randolph-Macon College)
Dale Jacobs (University of Windsor)
Henry Jenkins (University of Southern California)
Shiamin Kwa (Bryn Mawr College)
A. David Lewis (MCPHS University)
Frenchy Lunning (Minneapolis College of Art and Design)
Anne Magnussen (University of Southern Denmark)
Mark McKinney (Miami University)
Dean Mullaney (Library of American Comics)
Candida Rifkind (University of Winnipeg)
Randall W. Scott (Michigan State)
Art Spiegelman
Daniel Stein (University of Siegen, Germany)
James Sturm (Center for Cartoon Studies)
Carol L. Tilley (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Brian Walker (HiandLois.com)
Rebecca Wanzo (Washington University in St. Louis)
Robyn Warhol (Ohio State University)
Richard Samuel West (Periodyssey Press)
Comics Studies Society Officers
President
Charles Hatfield (California State University Northridge)
Secretary
Susan Kirtley (Portland State University)
Treasurer
Nhora Serrano (Hamilton College)