Library Guides: Comics & Animation: Journals and Books

Journals

Comics Journal
Only v.5 available. Use Interlibrary Loan to retrieve other articles.
Image and Narrative
An online, peer-reviewed, open access journal from Belgium.
ImageText
An online, peer-reviewed journal of graphic books and comics from the University of Florida
International Journal of Comic Art (IJOCA)
IJOCA aims to publish scholarly and readable research 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. NOT at Penn State. Please use Interlibrary Loan to get articles from this journal.

Books

To use the CAT to identify graphic novels, manga, comics, and related forms, or books about these formats, it will help to use the standard subject headings used in libraries. Try one or more of these:

Animation; Cartoons and comics; Graphic novels; Caricatures and cartoons; Comic books; Comic strips, etc.

Penn State libraries shelve a majority of their graphic novels. comics, and other according to the Library of Congress clasification system. You can browse our collection in the PN6700-PN6790 comics, strips, etc. section of the library.