Research Guides: Comics & Cartoon Studies: Articles (Databases)

Best Databases for Finding Articles

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Multi-disciplinary database providing indexing, abstracts, and selected full text for peer reviewed/scholarly articles, magazines, trade publications, and newspapers in all fields.

Getting articles

When using databases to find articles, sometimes the article will be available as a PDF Full Text or HTML Full Text. In these cases you can click on those links and access the article immediately.

If PDF or HTML is not available you can use the FindText button:

FindText will search the library catalog to see if the article is available elsewhere through the library, either online or in print. If you are not able to find the item through the FindText button, you can request articles through Interlibrary Loan.

Relevant Journals

Studies in Comics
Call Number: Electronic journal
First published in 2010, Studies in Comics aims to describe the nature of comics, to identify the medium as a distinct art form, and to address the medium’s formal properties. This double-blind peer-reviewed journal is international in scope and provides an inclusive space in which researchers from all backgrounds can present new thinking on comics to a global audience.
International Journal of Comic Art
Call Number: Electronic Journal
UO Libraries has full text access for 2005-2010. 2011-present are available for request through Interlibrary Loan (FindText).
The International Journal of Comic Art is published two times yearly. International and multidisciplinary in scope, IJOCA aims to publish scholarly and readable research on any aspect of comic art, defined as animation, comic books, newspaper and magazine strips, caricature, gag and political cartoons, humorous art, and humor or cartoon magazines.
Imagetext: Interdisciplinary Comic Studies
Call Number: Electronic Journal
ImageTexT is a peer-reviewed, open access journal dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of comics and related media. We are published by the English Department at the University of Florida with support from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Our content is available free of charge, and regular issues of ImageTexT will be published three times per year.