A list of periodicals (magazines, fanzines, etc.) about comic art in general, including links to on-line information, collections of magazines in book form, and more. Journals about specific topics (cartoonists, titles/characters, publishers, etc.) will be listed in the appropriate specific sections of ComicsResearch.org. Academic journals are listed on our Academic Resources page.

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NOTE:  indicates a new or revised entry added since April 1, 2008.

• For information on academic journals, please see Academic Resources: Journals.
  
• See individual sections for journals about specific Cartoonists, Titles/Characters, or Publishers.
  

Alter-Ego (Alter Ego) [Publisher's Web Site]

• Edited by Roy Thomas, focusing primarily on Golden- and Silver-Age American comics.
• Index to Comic Book Artist and Alter Ego - hosted by the Wittenberg University Library

• Edited by Michael Eury.
  

• A quarterly for the comic arts professional.
  

• Slick, informtative magazine.
  

• From Jon B. Cooke and Top Shelf [formerly TwoMorrows], focusing primarily on American comics of the 1960s-forward.
• Cooke, Jon B., ed.  Comic Book Artist Collection Volume One.  Raleigh, NC: TwoMorrows, 2000.  228pp.  ISBN 1-893905-03-9 (paper).  [publisher's information]
• Cooke, Jon B., ed.  Comic Book Artist Collection Volume Two.  Raleigh, NC: TwoMorrows, 2002.  208pp.  ISBN 1-893905-13-6 (paper).  [publisher's information]
• Index to Comic Book Artist and Alter Ego - hosted by the Wittenberg University Library

• Funky nostalgia, edited by Scott Saavedra.
  

• Edited by Russ Cochran.
  

• Published by Jim Kingman; "Emphasizing the fun in reading comics!"
  

• Now discontinued.
  

• From Robin Snyder; "The original, first-person history by the men who made the comics..."

• "Since 1971, Comics Buyer's Guide magazine has put comics fans in touch with their hobby;" previously The Buyer's Guide to Comic Fandom.
• On-line index to The Buyer's Guide to Comic Fandom.
  

• The Comics Journal Index: Covering issues 2-142+. Indexed by Peter M. Coogan.
• Groth, Gary, and Robert Fiore, eds. The New Comics: Interviews from the Pages of The Comics Journal . New York: Berkley, 1988. ISBN 0425113663.
• Spurgeon, Tom, ed. The Comics Journal Library 6: The Writers [voices from the rebirth of comics, 1975-1985]. Seattle: Fantagraphics, 2006. 358pp, ISBN -13: 9781560976967, ISBN-10 1560976969 (paper).

• Information from and about Rick Norwood's monthly magazine of American comic strips.

• For comics artists.

• Edited by Tom Heintjes; wide-ranging in scope.
  

• For comics writers.