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 About Image Text

The objective of Image Text is to advance the academic study of an emerging and diverse canon of image texts. Chief among these are comic books, comic strips, and animations, but also represented are illustrated fiction, children's picture books, digital-concrete poetic forms, visual rhetoric, etc. Any work or works, tradition, school of thought, or critical method that foregrounds the intersections, interrelations, and disjunctions between text and image is an appropriate subject for inquiry and debate in these pages. Under the guidance of an editorial board of scholars from a variety of disciplines, Image Text publishes solicited and peer-reviewed papers that investigate the material, historical, theoretical, and cultural implications of visual textual. Image Text welcomes essays emphasizing (but not limited to) the aesthetics, cognition, production, reception, distribution and dissemination of image texts, along with translations of previously existing research in the field of visual culture.
Exploring all periods and all countries and languages, and deploying a wide range of disciplinary approaches, Image Text is designed to foster innovative discussions of the political and social implications of imagetexts, to generate original formal aesthetic analyses of these works, and to broaden theoretical discussions of genre, period, narrative, and complex image/text relationships in visual media. Image Text will include reviews of current scholarship in the field, announcements regarding relevant conferences and upcoming publications, and links to other theoretical projects of interest to readers. Image Text will also provide currently unavailable English-language translations of seminal essays of comics theory. Image Text is listed in the MLA Bibliography, beginning summer 2005.

Operations

Unsolicited articles submitted to Image Text will appear in the journal only after passing a blind peer-review process and having been reformatted as needed to match the journal's in-house requirements with regard to structure and online presentation.

Format

Image Text is a web-based journal with free and full public access to all articles. Authors publishing in Image Text have the opportunity to use a wider range and number of images, including those in full-color, than would be possible in a print journal. ImagTexT’s web format also allows authors to use links within their essays to other Internet content.
ImageTexT will publish both unsolicited articles in areas relevant to the journal's focus, and guest-edited "forums," including solicited articles on specified themes. We will also publish translations of essays previously unavailable in English. Image Text will maintain a complete archive of previous issues.

Editorial Board and Production Staff

Information about the Editorial Board is available on the Editorial Board page, here.