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Comics and Graphic Novels

eResources for comic and graphic novel research

Add academic value to your assignments by searching the following resources to locate research and other useful material on character design, storytelling, developing style and significance. Research articles and conference papers can give weight to your arguments whether you agree or disagree with the point of view of the author.

  • Most will provide an abstract for the article to summarise what it is about - read this to see if you want to access the full text. 
  • You will get the full text online for most results. If the full text is not available, please click on Find It @ Tees where you see it as this will check for access elsewhere.

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Need help searching - contact your Art & Creative Industries Librarians. Details on the Home page

Please note that all resources are provided for educational use only.

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Click on the link below to access a list of e-journal titles. Then click on the titles to view the Library's holdings.  To access the e-journals off campus use your IT username and password

ImageTexT

ImageTexT

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

Aesthetica

The full content of this journal is now available online.
   
Comics and Gaming magazine

Print Comics & Graphic Novels

    

Go to https://libguides.tees.ac.uk/comics_and_graphic_novels/comics to view some of the comics and graphic novels available on Floor 3, The Library.

How to find journal articles

Do you want to find journal articles on a topic or look for a specific article?

How to sse Discovery - input your topic's keywords or the details of a journal article to search across your Library's resources

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If you have a journal title use Journal Finder to check if the Library has access to full text.

Journal Finder

If you know the name of a Journal, enter the title here to check if it's available in the Library

 

 

To link through to a complete list of e-journals: A-Z list

What are journals?

They are:Journals

  • like magazines but of a scholarly nature
  • published at regular intervals with no predetermined end
  • contain articles on a variety of topics
  • the articles are written by different authors
  • sometimes they also contain reviews and other information
  • in printed and electronic formats

Why Should I use them?

  • journal time is much quicker than for a book
  • using information from journals will keep you up to date and informed of new developments in your subject
  • journals articles are more specific than books.  They give you more detailed information in a more scholarly and concise format
  • subject may not yet (or may never) be covered in books
  • quality research - academic reputation - peer reviewed.

What is peer reviewed?

  • Written by an academic, who is a specialist in the subject
  • Submitted to an editor, who then passes the work to other professionals or 'peers' for a critiques, the work is then passed back to the original writer for changes to be made before being published
  • Longer articles, heavily text based
  • Charts, tables, statistics and images
  • Properly referenced with a list of references at the end of the article.

Click on the link below to access a list of e-journal titles. To access the e-journals off campus use your IT username and password.

Help - journal articles

The following guides will help you to develop your skills in finding journal articles:

Finding Journals

Critical thinking - what it is and why it matters.

Doing a Literature Search

Developing Keywords

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