Graphic Novels & Sequential Art: Academic Resources

Academic Search Complete is the world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 12,500 journals and a total of more than 13,200 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,400 journals.

Includes more than 770 full-text journals and 220 full-text books, more than 63,000 images, international coverage, and content dating back to 1921. Subjects include advertising art, art history, costume design, graphic arts, graphic novels, motion pictures, non-western art, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, sequential art, television, and video, and much more. 

Film & Television Literature Index is the definitive online tool for film and television research. Subjects include film & television theory, preservation and restoration, screenwriting, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews.

The Grand Comics Database (GCD) is a nonprofit, internet-based organization of international volunteers dedicated to building a database covering all printed comics throughout the world. GCD "intends to be the most comprehensive online comics database for comic readers, collectors, scholars and professionals. This fully searchable and sortable database includes information on creator credits, story details, and other information useful to the comic-book reader, fan, collector, and scholar."

Humanities International Complete provides full text of hundreds of journals, books, and other published sources from around the world. Includes worldwide content pertaining to literary, scholarly and creative thought.

Literary Reference Center (LRC Plus) is a full-text database that combines information from major respected reference works, books, and literary journals, as well as original content from EBSCO Publishing. Includes fantasy/science fiction, contemporary literature, world philosophy and religious literature, and literary study guides covering American Literature, English Literature and literary genres.