Dear all,

I hope you are well. Please accept my apologies for potential cross-posting.

As the end of July approaches we'd like to remind members of this list that the deadline for Find David Bowie: Alternative Approaches to Bowie and Comics is fast approaching on 1 September 2016.

*The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship* http://comicsgrid.com/ invites authors and artists to submit contributions for a special collection of papers offering alternative scholarly approaches to David Bowie *and* comics.

This call for papers explicitly invites submissions from early-career, marginalised, or underrepresented scholars, including those who are people of colour, queer, or woman-identifying. This will be an open access scholarly collection edited by Dr Brenna Clarke Gray (Douglas College, New Westminster, Canada) and the *Comics Grid* editorial team.

This call for papers seeks to encourage more diverse, open access comics scholarship around ‘David Bowie’ as a cultural phenomenon. The editors do not wish to establish thematic or methodological boundaries to this call, and invite colleagues to submit research work inspired by its title. Submissions, however, must fulfil *The Comics Grid*’s editorial guidelines, which are available here http://comicsgrid.com/about/submissions.

*The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship* is an open access journal; authors retain copyright of their own work and the published content is made available on HTML and PDF under a Creative Commons-Attribution https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ License.

*The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship* is published by the Open Library of Humanities. Unlike many open-access publishers, the Open Library of Humanities does not charge any author fees. This does not mean that we do not have costs. Instead, our costs are paid by an international library consortium https://about.openlibhums.org/libraries/supporting-institutions/. The consortium keeps growing every day.

The journal’s publisher, Open Library of Humanities, focuses on making content discoverable and accessible through indexing services. Content is also archived around the world to ensure long-term availability. OLH journals are indexed by the following services:

CrossRef, JISC KB+, SHERPA RoMEO, Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), EBSCOHost, and Google Scholar. In addition, all journals are available for harvesting via OAI-PMH.

To ensure permanency of all publications, this journal also utilises CLOCKSS, and LOCKSS archiving systems to create permanent archives for the purposes of preservation and restoration.

Full CFP details:

https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2016/06/06/call-for-papers-special...

http://www.comicsgrid.com/announcement/

*Submission deadline (full papers): 1 September 2016*

With many thanks for your kind attention,

Dr Ernesto Priego

@ernestopriego https://epriego.wordpress.com/ http://www.comicsgrid.com/ Subscribe to the Comics Grid Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/iOYAj

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