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Volume 10, Issue 2
  • ISSN: 2050-9790
  • E-ISSN: 2050-9804

Abstract

As the () closes its tenth year of publication, this second instalment of a two-part editorial turns towards questions regarding the nature of scholarly journals. Building from Part 1’s exploration of comics artist Chris Ware’s tactile puzzle , the central metaphor of journal as an intellectual puzzle is considered. Specific aspects of time and collaboration are addressed as fundamental concerns for the puzzle of journal editing. After considering, in passing, challenges to editing in the twenty-first century, final comments address the notion of closure, drawn from comics theory.

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  • Article Type: Editorial
Keyword(s): Chris Ware; closure; comics; editing; peer review; puzzles; temporality
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