ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the young discipline of comic studies about the environmental inquiry for new students and experienced scholars that are alike. Comic genres from funny animal cartoons to comic books sponsored by the nuclear industry to creator-owned environmental justice (EJ) zines to test and reorient the enterprising readers. The ecocritical facility of the graphic texts resonates with the ethos and aims of the environmental humanities as a collection of disciplines that includes literature and media studies. The chapter seeks to activate scholarship by linking the environmental humanities to comic studies, specifically by reframing comic studies through EJ ecocriticism. It explains the several types of issues like toxic waste, incinerators, lead poisoning, uranium mining and tailings and other environmental equity issues. In comics such as aesthetics, comprises a range of verbal-visual moves that denotes the awareness of resistance to environmental disparity. This chapter sought to map the vitality of EJ ecocriticism in comic studies.
