Comics Studies Resources

Digital Comics Resources

Web comics and comics for other digital formats are becoming increasingly popular. Listed below are some resources for studying or producing digital comics. Please email us to suggest a resource.

Mechademia
A new journal published by the University of Minnesota Press on Anime, Manga, and the Fan Arts.
Holy Hyperlinks, Batman!
Annotated listing of different comics resources compiled by the ALA
Drawn!
A blog on comics happenings.
ComicsML
A proposed simple markup language for online comics.
Comic Life
A program for Mac OSX that allows you to quickly set frames, word balloons, sound effects, and page layouts.
Comics Research
A website with links to many other resources
The Canadian Comic Art Centre
CUSP
The comic update script for PHP for creating web comic websites
Brendan Riley's Random Comic Generator
Useful for discussing panels, word balloons, and stock images.