Call for paper Vol. 1 Is.1.: Signification and Experience in Contemporary Graphic and Visual Media

Perramus invites the submission of original and unpublished articles for its inaugural issue, devoted to the theoretical and critical study of meaning-making processes in graphic and visual media.

This first issue seeks to bring together research that reflects on the ways in which image, text, and their mediations shape aesthetic, cultural, and political experience in contemporary contexts. Contributions may address, among others, the following areas:

• Theories of the sign applied to visual and multimodal media;

• Semiotic analyses of comics, graphic novels, and illustration;

• Interactive narratives and video games from hermeneutic or semiotic perspectives;

• Image, memory, and configurations of trauma within specific cultural contexts;

• Processes of mediation, materiality, and the construction of meaning;

• Critical methodologies for the study of visual culture.

The journal welcomes interdisciplinary approaches engaging with semiotics, literary theory, hermeneutics, philosophy of language, and cultural studies.

Submission Information

• Submission deadline: 15 April 2026

• Publication date: 15 June 2026

• Length: 5,000–8,000 words

• Languages: Spanish and English

• Peer review process: Double-blind

Submissions must be original, not under consideration elsewhere, and comply with the journal’s editorial guidelines.

Issue Focus

The inaugural issue aims to establish a space for sustained theoretical reflection on contemporary modes of visual signification, integrating conceptual proposals and case studies that approach graphic media as complex forms of cultural production.