About the Journal
Focus and scope
CuCo, Cuadernos de Cómic was founded in 2013 with the aim of providing an editorial platform for scholars who study comics from any perspective and field of knowledge. Since its inception, it has maintained a policy of free and open access in order to promote advances in research on comics and help build related knowledge. CuCo, Cuadernos de cómic, therefore, does not charge contributors any type of fee for publication. It is composed by the following sections: CuCoEstudio, CuCoEnsayo, CuCoCrítica, CuCoDebate and CuCoEntrevista.
The journal is indexed on the following platforms:
ERIH PLUS - European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Science
MIAR - Matriz de Información para el Análisis de Revistas
Dulcinea - Derechos de explotación y permisos para el autoarchivo de revistas científicas españolas
DOAJ – Directory of Open Access Journal
Peer review process
Scholars are welcome to submit unsolicited texts to the journal. The Editorial Board of CuCo, Cuadernos de Cómic uses an external evaluation system by blind peers (blind peer review) of the original and unpublished articles received in the CuCoEstudio category, and firmly guarantees the anonymity of both authors and reviewers. This evaluation is carried out by specialists in the corresponding disciplines to which the texts are assigned, who will follow an evaluation template model provided by the Editorial Board and will have six weeks to carry out their evaluation. In each issue, a minimum of 60% of the content will be original research in the scientific and academic field, accompanied by scholarly book reviews and interviews.
Periodicity
CuCo, Cudernos de Cómic has a biannual periodicity. The issues are published in June and December, respectively, with their own tables of contents.
Open access policy
CuCo, Cuadernos de Cómic is published with open access to its content, downloadable in pdf format, under the principle of making research available for free and promoting the circulation of knowledge.
The authors who publish in this journal agree to the following terms:
They retain copyright and grant the journal the right to first publish the work as well as license it under a Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY-SA) that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgment of the work's authorship. and the initial publication in this journal.
Authors are allowed to self-archive the post-print version (editorial version) of their texts in institutional repositories and personal websites immediately after publication in CuCo, Cuadernos de Cómic.
Journal history
CuCo, Cuadernos de Cómic was founded in 2013 by Octavio Beares and Gerardo Vilches with the aim of publishing two issues a year and thus making room for the increasing number of research and analysis works on comic studies that are being carried out in this field in the Spanish speaking community. Since its appearance, it has published numerous studies, essays and reviews by authors from Spain and Latin America, belonging to various disciplines within the fields of Humanities and Social Sciences, mainly. In 2020 Francisco Sáez de Adana joins as co-director of the magazine. In 2021, the journal becomes part of the Editorial Universidad de Alcalá.