What’s the best way to review a graphic novel? In comics form!
I’m clearly not the first one to try this – for other examples, check out Davies, P., (2018) “Enacting Graphic Mark-Making: A Review of A Theory of Narrative Drawing”, The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship 8, 7. doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/cg.127

Here’s the preprint draft (i.e. work in progress) of what I’m working on for a review for Degrowth Journal of Celine Keller’s Who’s Afraid of Degrowth (2024):

Works Cited

Cohn, Neil. 2020. Who Understands Comics? Questioning the Universality of Visual Language Comprehension. United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Publishing.

D’Arcy, Geraint. 2020. Mise en Scène, Acting, and Space in Comics. (Germany: Springer International Publishing).

Degrowth Journal editorial collective. 2023. “Creating a radical, common-sbased, open-access journal for degrowth”, Degrowth Journal, Vol 1.

Keller, Céline. 2021. Discourses of Climate Delay. Self-published, celinekeller.com/discourses-of-climate-delay.

Keller, Céline. 2022. Dawn of the ECT. Self-published, celinekeller.com/dawn-of-the-ect.

Keller, Céline. 2024. Who is Afraid of Degrowth? Self-published, celinekeller.com/who-is-afraid-of-degrowth.

Keller, Céline and Elizabeth A. Woock, Interview 18.07.2024.

Lim, Victor Fei. 2002. The Analysis of Language and Visual Images: An Integrative Multisemiotic Approach (Doctoral dissertation, National University of Singapore).

Peeters, Benoît. 2007. ‘“Four Conceptions of the Page” from Case, planche, recit: lire la bandedessinee.’ Jesse Cohn, trans. ImageTexT: Interdisciplinary Comics Studies, 3 (3): n.p. http://www.english.ufl. edu/imagetext/archives/v3_3/peeters/. 

Woock, Elizabeth A. 2023. “Rubric and Metrics for Peer Reviewing Research Comics”, The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship 13(1)..

Worden, Daniel. 2024. Petrochemical Fantasies: The Art and Energy of American Comics. (Columbus: Ohio State University Press)

Also: Here’s a non-academic background on snails in medieval manuscripts!