Thanks to Alice Darnton for these links:
Update!! On UBC and Sage Bistro:
http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1146
Here’s a link to the “Newcomer Orientation” page: http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/aboutcomics.html
The comic about journal publication I was thinking about (which briefly makes mention of free/open access journals) is here:
http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1200
And if just for some laughs, especially check out…
“Addressing Reviewer Comments”: http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=581
“Questions Not Even 5+ Years of Grad School Will Help You Answer”: http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=331
“How Professors Spend Their Time”:
http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1060
And
“Grad Motivation Graph”:
http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=125
A lot of the comic is in jest, but it also has some poignant points to make about why people choose to go to grad school and join the world of academia.