acazine provides contributions to comics research.
Each issue will contain one text or several texts around one theme.
Formats can be different between individual numbers with whatever sizes and forms in print,
the digital versions will be adjusted to the limitations of the screen.
Form and layout can be done by everyone involved -
we edit and publish the zine, but happily hand over individual issues to guest editors!
Below you find the issues in chronological order - the most recent first.
Digital for free download, physical to buy, hold and have.
This issue looks at a few selected examples of comics storytelling that are distinct in the way they construct their narration, e.g., variations in formats and the construction of distinctly different points of view are considered.
Massive difference in layout and reading to digital version on the left.
This issue looks into artistic research as a method to
understand better how storytelling in comics is working on the pictorial plane. The focus of artistic research is partly driven by experimentation on visual qualities, clearness of expression or conveyance of narratives are not always most central to experiments.
Feel invited to contribute themes, texts, and comics that are comics research!
acazine practices not anonymised peer-review, reviewers selected by editors.
We do not accept generative AI content - your thoughts in your words, please!
We have started work on the following topics:
history in comics,
documentary comics,
atmosphere in graphic novels,
typography in comics,
graphic medicine.
Methods in teaching comics at university,
this includes zines as method as well.
There is more to say on artistic research in comics, too -
acazine’s issue No.1 only opens the floor!
We are comics researchers and teachers from diverse academic and professional backgrounds with a focus on comics storytelling. The editors Oskar Aspmann and Jakob Dittmar both work at Malmö University, where they have been founding members of much (Malmö University Comics Hub).