The understanding of Malmö as some kind of "comics capital" always built on the understanding that interaction and communications - influences on the national and international level are essential if such a role was to be filled in a meaningful way. At university level, research into comics and teaching of comics courses has been situated in the context of visual communication and cultural studies first, but has been picked up by media and literary studies. Of course, these disciplines have different perspectives on comics but develop some common understanding of the matter despite different terminology etc. The presentation focuses on the understanding of comics as cultural capital in academia and on teaching comics in higher education as element of Malmö's comics environment.