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Vol.1, No.1 Spring/Summer 1999 218 pages / 18 articles x
Vol.1, No.2 Fall 1999 250 pages / 21 articles x
Vol.2, No.1 Spring 2000 213 pages / 19 articles x
Vol.2, No.2 Fall 2000 331 pages / 19 articles Portfolio: 1o pieces
Vol.3, No.1 Spring 2001 302 pages / 24 articles Portfolio: 14 pieces
Vol.3, No.2 Fall 2001 344 pages / 24 articles Portfolio: 7 pieces
Vol.4, No.1 Spring 2002 322 pages / 27 articles Portfolio: 12 pieces
Vol.4, No.2 Fall 2002 375 pages / 22 articles Portfolio: 12 pieces
Vol.5, No.1 Spring 2003 426 pages / 29 articles Portfolio: 13 piecesOleg Dergachov's Special: 8 pieces
Vol.5, No.2 Fall 2003 526 pages / 34 articles 1 special Index/Portfolio: 11 pieces
Vol.6, No.1 Spring 2004 386 pages / 22 articles Portfolio: 10 pieces
Vol.6, No.2 Fall 2004 26 articles Portfolio: 11 pieces
Vol.7, No.1 Spring 2005 35 articles Portfolio: 16 pieces
Vol.7, No.2 Fall 2005
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Vol. 1, No. 1, Spring/Summer 1999
John A. Lent 1-3 Editor's Note: Finally, an International Journal for Comic Art
Joseph Witek 4-16 Comics Criticism in the United States; A Brief Historical Survey
Matthew Lombard,
John A. Lent,
Linda Greenwood,
Asli Tunc
17-32 A Framework for Studying Comic Art
Allen Ellis 33-41 Comic Art in Scholarly Writing: A Citation Guide
Peter Duus 42-56 The Marumaru Chinbun and the Origins of the Japanese Political Cartoon
Gene Kannenberg, Jr. 57-75 Proving "Silas" an Artist: Winsor McCay's Formal Experiments in Comics and Animation
Mike Kidson 76-89 William Hogarth: Printing Techniques and Comics
David A. Berona 90-103 Breaking Taboos: Sexuality in the Work of Will Eisner and the Early Wordless Novels
Leif Packalen 104-121 Comics in the Development of Africa
Bart Beaty 122-139 Featuring Stories by the World's Greatest Authors: Classics Illustrated and the "Middlebrow Problem" in the Postwar Era
Pascal Lefevre 140-149 Recovering Sensuality in Comic Theory
John A. Lent 150-156 The Horrors of Cartooning in Slim's Algeria
David E. Goldweber 157-170 Mr. Punch, Dangerous Savior
Waldomiro C. S. Vergueiro 171-186 Children's Comics in Brazil: From Chiquinho to Monica, A Difficult Journey
Nadilson Manoel da Silva 187-204 Brazilian Adult Comics: The Age of Market
Spiros Tsaousis 205-218 Postmodern Spatiality and the Narrative Structure of Comics

 

Vol. 1, No. 1, Spring/Summer 1999
John A. Lent 1-3 Editor's Note: Finally, an International Journal for Comic Art
Joseph Witek 4-16 Comics Criticism in the United States; A Brief Historical Survey
Matthew Lombard,John A. Lent,Linda Greenwood, Asli Tunc 17-32 A Framework for Studying Comic Art
Allen Ellis 33-41 Comic Art in Scholarly Writing: A Citation Guide
Peter Duus 42-56 The Marumaru Chinbun and the Origins of the Japanese Political Cartoon
Gene Kannenberg, Jr. 57-75 Proving "Silas" an Artist: Winsor McCay's Formal Experiments in Comics and Animation
Mike Kidson 76-89 William Hogarth: Printing Techniques and Comics
David A. Berona 90-103 Breaking Taboos: Sexuality in the Work of Will Eisner and the Early Wordless Novels
Leif Packalen 104-121 Comics in the Development of Africa
Bart Beaty 122-139 Featuring Stories by the World's Greatest Authors: Classics Illustrated and the "Middlebrow Problem" in the Postwar Era
Pascal Lefevre 140-149 Recovering Sensuality in Comic Theory
John A. Lent 150-156 The Horrors of Cartooning in Slim's Algeria
David E. Goldweber 157-170 Mr. Punch, Dangerous Savior
Waldomiro C. S. Vergueiro 171-186 Children's Comics in Brazil: From Chiquinho to Monica, A Difficult Journey
Nadilson Manoel da Silva 187-204 Brazilian Adult Comics: The Age of Market
Spiros Tsaousis 205-218 Postmodern Spatiality and the Narrative Structure of Comics

 

Vol. 2, No. 1, Spring 2000
John A. Lent 1-2 Editor's Note
Leonard Rifas 3-32 Cold War Comics
Annette Matton 33-43 Reader Responses to Doug Murray's The 'Nam
Wai-ming Ng 44-56 A Comparative Study of Japanese Comics in Southeast Asia and East Asia
Andrew Matzner 57-75 Not a Pretty Picture: Images of Married Life in Thai Comic Books
Old Frahm 76-84 Weird Signs: Aesthetics of Comics as a Parody
Maurice Horn 85-89 American Comic Strips And Silent Seriable: A Prarallel
Zdravko Zupan 90-101 The Golden Age of Serbian Comics Belgrade Comic Art 1935-1941
John A. Lent 102-108 East European Cartooning: Differences over Time and Space
Oleg Dergatchov 109-116 Leonid Tishkov's Dabloids: Russian Myth in Comics
Michael Hill 117-132 Outside Influence / Local Color: The Australian Small Press
Anne N. Thalheimer 133-143 Terrorists, Bitches, and Dykes: Late 20th Century Lesbian Comix
Barbara Jo Lewis 144-158 Cyborg Might: Conceptions of Power in Comic Book Art
Libbie McQuillan 159-177 Between the Sheets at Pilote: 1968-1973
Caridad Blanco 178-189 Always the Other One: Salomon
Ana Merino 190-197 Inodoro Pereyra, A "Gaucho" in the Pampa of Paper and Ink: Folkloric and Literary Intertextuality and Its Reformulations in Argentinean Comics
Oyin Medubi 198-206 Leadership Stereotypes and Lexical Choices: An Example of Nigerian Cartoons
John A. Lent 207-208 The Printed Word
Mike KidsonMichael G. Rhode 209-213 Reviews

 

Vol. 2, No. 2, Fall 2000
David R. Spencer 1-32 Double Vision: The Victorian Bi-cultural World of Henri Julien
Wendy Siuyi WongLisa M. Cuklanz 33-53 The Emerging Image of the Modern Woman in Hong Kong Comics of the 1960s &1970s
Francis Nyamnjoh 54-76 Zapiro and South African Political Cartooning
Jordan J. Titus 77-99 Gnashing of Teeth: The Vagina Dentata Motif in "Bad Girl" Comics
Chris York 100-110 All in the Family: Homophobia and Batman Comics in the 1950s
Thierry Groensteen 111-120 Gustave Dore's Comics
Kalman Rubovszky 121-134 The Hungarian Comic Strip at the Turn of the Millennium
Mel Gibson 135-151 Reading as Rebellion: The Case of the Girls' Comic in Britain
Ruth Boyask 152-163 Reading Community in Funtime Comics: A New Zealand Narrative
Waldomiro C. S. Vergueiro 164-177 Brazilian Superheroes in Search of Their Own Identities
Jeff Williams 178-190 The Evolving Novel: the Comic-Book Medium as the Next Stage
Paul P. Somers, Jr. 191-205 Krauts Hinaus: Graphic Stereotypes of German-Americans Before and During World War I
Eric Weitzel 206-232 Of Pop Culture Pleasures and Radical Aesthetics: The Influence of Popular Comic Strips on Picasso's Political Art
Jongmin ParkSung Wook Shim 233-247 The Presidential Candidates in Political Cartoons: A Reflection of Cultural Differencs between the United States and Korea
Michael L. MaynardEdward Lordan 248-264 Laughing at the Glass Ceiling in The Wall Street Journal Cartoons
Michael RhodeTom FurtwanglerDavid Wybenga 265-306 Stories Without Words: A Bibliography with Annotations
John A. Lent 307-309 The Printed Word
310-321 Reviews
Gene Kannenberg, Jr. 322-324 Critical Closure
325-331 Portfolio

 

Vol. 3, No. 1, Spring 2001
John A. Lent 1-2 Editor's Note
John A. Lent 3-8 Comic Art: Some Global Issues
Joost Pollman 9-21 Shaping Sounds in Comics
Jeremy Allen 22-37 A Virtual Revolution: Australian Comic Creators and the Web
Tim Blackmore 38-58 What a Picnic!: Swamp Ecology in Walt Kelly's Pogo
Lim Cheng Tju 59-76 "Sister Art" - A Short History of Chinese Cartoons and Woodcuts in Singapore
David E. Goldweber 77-85 The Function of Dreams and Stories in The Sandman
Pierre L. Horn 86-92 American Graffiti - French Style: Three Comic Strip Artists Look at Pre-War America
Mark C. Rogers 93-108 Ideology in Four Colours: British Cultural Studies Do Comics
Jean-Marie Bertin 109-119 Thoughts and Views on Raymond Peynet, French Artist and Universal Poet
Sheng-mei Ma 120-148 The Nine Lives of Blackhawk's Oriental: Chop Chop, Wu Cheng, and Weng Chan
Sue RalphBeth HallerTim Lees 149-169 "Off Me Head": Cartoons from English Newspapers Concerning the Glenn Hoddle Affair
Peter Nieuwendijk 170-190 Several Ways of Making a Cartoon (with 26 Examples)
Andy Mason 191-197 Africa Ink: Cartoonists Working Group, Towards an Association of African Cartoonists: Report of an International Workshop on Cartoon Journalism and Democratisation in Southern Africa
John A. Lent 198-202 How To Withstand War, the Rastko Ciric Way
Chris Gage 203-209 Can You Dig It? The World of Fast Willie Jackson
William Foster, III 210-216 Interview with Bertram Fitzgerald: The Life and Times of Fast Willie Jackson (1976-1977)
M. Thomas Inge 217-250 Comic Strips: A Bibliographic Essay
Lucy Shelton Caswell 251-262 Resources for Scholars at The Ohio State University Cartoon Research Library
Michael Rhode Ray Bottorff, Jr. 263-274 The Grand Comics Database (GCD): An Evolving Research Tool
John A. Lent 275-277 The Printed Word
Peter CooganMichael Rhode 278-282 Book Reviews
Michael Rhode 283-288 Exhibition Reviews
Gene Kannenberg, Jr. 289-291 Critical Closure
292-302 Portfolio

 

Vol. 3, No. 2, Fall 2001
[Latin American Comic Art: A Symposim]
John A. Lent 1-22 An Historical and Contemporary Overview
Andres Accorsi 23-43 Argentine Comics
Jeff Williams 44-55 Argentine Comics Today: A Foreigner's Perspective
Ana Merino 56-69 Oesterheld, the Literary Voice of Argentine Comics
Waldomiro C. S. Vergueiro 70-78 Brazilian Pornographic Comics: A View on the Eroticism of a Latin American Culture in the Work of Artist Carlos Zefiro
Perucho Mejia G. 79-82 Comic Art in Colombia: a Short Historical Journey
Dario Mogno 83-105 Parallel Lives: Comics and Animated Cartoons in Cuba From Beginning to Present
Caridad Blanco de la Cruz 106-115 Ares: An Undomesticated Humorist
Daniel Puch 116-126 Cartooning in Uruguay: Not Yet the White Flag
Gisel Gil-Egui 127-137 Venezuela's Alonso and the Art of leaving It All to Art
Beatrice Marechal 138-150 "The Singular Stories of the Terashima Neighborhood": A Japanese Autobiographical Comic
Fusami Ogi 151-161 Beyond Shoujo, Blending Gender:Subverting the Homogendered World in Shoujo Manga (Japanese Comics for Girls)
Nhu-Hoa Nguyen 162-174 The Rhetoric of Parody in Claire Bretecher's Le Destin de Monique
Philippe Sohet 175-188 Figures and Representation of the Fantastic in Andreas's Work
Kerry Soper 189-201 Gentrifying the Alternatives or Alternifying the Mainstream? Consolidation, Incorporation, and the State of Comic Strip Satire in Alternative Weeklies, 1985-2000
Bart Beaty 202-221 Fredric Wertham Faces His Critics: Contextualizing the Postwar Comics Debate
Patricia Watson ShariffHilary Janks 222-238 Changing Stories: The Making and Analysis of a Critical Literacy Romance Comic
Mel Gibson 239-249 "Wham! Bam! The X-Men Are Here":The British Broadsheet Press and the X-Men Film and Comic
Mark David Nevins 250-294 "New Voices in Comics III" (ICAF 2000)
M. Thomas Inge 295-328 Comic Books, A Bibliographic Essay
John A. Lent 329-331 The Printed Word
David Berona 332-334 Book Review
Michael Rhode 335 Exhibition Review
Gene Kannenberg, Jr. 336-337 Critical Closure
338-343 Portfolio

 

Vol. 4, No. 1, Spring 2002
John A. Lent 1-4 Editor's Note
[There at the Beginning: Early Days of Comics Scholarship]
John A. Lent 5 Introduction
Maurice Horn 6-22 How It All Began, or Present at the Creation
Alvaro de Moya 23-25 Pioneering in Brazilian Quadrinhos, as a Cartoonist and Researcher
Giulio C. Cuccolini 26-39 In Search of Lost Time or Time Regained
Arthur Asa Berger 40-47 Is This the Kind of Thing That Serious Academics Do?
Wolfgang J. Fuchs 48-59 The Story of an "Anatomy" That Gave Recognition to Comics as a Mass Medium
Will Eisner 60-63 Comics and Electronics
Martin Barker 64-77 Kicked into the Gutters: or, "My Dad Doesn't Read Comics, He Studies Them."
Trina Robbins 78-83 How I Became a Herstorian
John A. Lent 84-96 Almost Left at the Gate: An Arrhythmic Career in Comics Scholarship
David Ehrlich 97-133 Growing up with Dinosaurs: An Interview with Steve Bissette
Randy Duncan 134-142 The Weaver's Art: An Examination of Comic Book "Writing"
Jeffrey A. Miller 143-150 Comics Narrative as Striptease
Trina Robbins 151-162 No Man Is My Master: American Romance Comics of the 1970s and the Women's Liberation Movement
K. A. Laity 163-169 Construction of a "Female Hero": Iconography in Les aventures extraordinaires d'Adele Blanc-Sed
John A. Lent 170-204 New Zealand -- Exporter of Mainstream Cartoonists, Haven for Alternative Comics
Fabrice Leroy 205-217 Absent-Mindness, Mustaches, and the Cold War: The Image of Science in Herge's Professor Calculus and Franquin's Count of Champignac
Oleg Dergachov 218-227 Rosta Windows: As a Phenomenon of Russian Revolutionary Comic Strips
Stanford W. Carpenter 228-238 Alex Simmons and the African-American Soldier of Fortune Known as Blackjack: A Case Study in Independent Comic Book Publishing
Brian Cremins 239-247 "Why have you allowed me to see you without your mask?": Captain America #133 and the Great American (Protest) Novel
Nadilson Manoel da Silva 248-268 Viz Comic: Carnival and Commercialization
A. David Lewis 269-300 Kingdom Code
John A. Lent 301-304 The Printed Word
David BeronaRocco Versaci 305-309 Book Reviews
Micheal Rhode 310 Exhibition Reviews
Gene Kannenberg, Jr. 311-312 Critical Closure
313-322 Portfolio

 

Vol. 4, No. 2, Fall 2002
Mark David Nevins 1-52 "Drawing from Life": An Interview with Joe Sacco
Micheline Maupoint 53-69 Plantu: The Editorial in Caricatures: An Analysis of the Role and the Impact of Plantu's Political Cartoons in the French Daily Newspaper, Le Monde
Hector D. Fernandez L'Hoeste 70-83 Resurrecting the Nation Through the Eyes of a Native: The Case of Turey el Taino
John A. Lent 84-123 Fear [of] and Loafing [with] Ralph Steadman in Turkey
Natsu Onoda 124-138 Drag Prince in Spotlight: Theatrical Cross-Dressing in Osamu Tezuka's Early Shojo Manga
Rik Sanders 139-156 The Changing of Dutch Comics: Some Pluses and Minuses
Waldomiro VergueiroLucimar Ribeiro Mutarelli 157-167 Forging a Sustainable Comics Industry: A Case Study on Graphic Novels as a Viable Format for Developing Countries, Based on the Work of a Brazilian Artist
William H. Foster III 168-185 The Image of Blacks (African Americans) in Underground Comix: New Liberal Agenda or Same Racist Stereotypes?
Christopher Murray 186-208 Superman vs Imago: Superheroes, Lacan, and Mediated Identity
Reiko Tomii 209-223 Akasegawa Genpei's The Sakura Illustrated: When the Good Old Man Makes a Dead Tree Flower and the Bad Old Man Throws a Fire Bomb
Maurice Horn 224-228 The Lady, or the Dragon?
Richard Ostrom 229-240 Bali's Transition from a Traditional to a Modern Society: Some Op-Art Warnings about the Trade-offs
Michael L. Maynard 241-260 Friendly Fantasies in Japanese Advertising: Persuading Japanese Teens through Cartoonish Art
A. David Lewis 261-275 The Secret, Untold Relationship of Biblical Midrash and Comic Book Retcon
Jae-Woong Kwon 276-286 Korean Cartoonists' Reactions to Bush's "Axis of Evil"
John A. Lent 287-291 Larry Alcala and the Depiction of Filipinos As They Are
Wendy Kail 292-314 Clifford K. Berryman: Drawing The Line
Hong-Chi Shiau 315-326 American Imported Animation in Taiwan: A Case Study of South Park
John A. Lent 327-329 The Printed Word
Marc Singer Charles Hatfield Rocco Versaci Mark Rogers Jeff Williams Michael Rhode A. David Lewis 330-352 Book Reviews
Michael Rhode 353-354 Exhibition Review
Gene Kannenberg, Jr. Michael Rhode 355-358 Critical Closure
359-368 Portfolio

 

Vol. 5, No. 1, Spring 2003
John A. Lent 1-2 Editor's Note
[Pioneers of Comic Art Scholarship Series]
David Kunzle 3-7 Kunzle and the Comic Strip
Sture Hegerfors 8-20 Sture Hegerfors and Swedish Comics Scholarship
M. Thomas Inge 21-30 Portrait of the Professor as a Failed Cartoonist
Ana Merino 31-73 Gary Groth and Kim Thompson: Interviews with the Heart of the Alternative Comics Industry
Fredrik Stromberg 74-94 Swedish Comics and Comics in Sweden
Jigal Beez 95-114 They Are Crazy These Swahili: Komredi Kipepe in the Footsteps of Asterix; Globalization in East African Comics
Nhu-Hoa NguyenPhilippe Sohet 115-133 Social Criticism in a Singular Mode of Expression: The Art of New Realist Cartoonist Chantal Montellier
Allen DouglasFedwa Malti-Douglas 134-146 Tardi and Daeninckx: Comic Strips, Detective Novels, and World War I
Deborah Shamoon 147-160 Focalization and Narrative Voice in the Novels and Comics of Uchida Shungiku
Natsu Onoda 161-194 Tezuka Osamu and the Star System
Brad Prager 195-213 Modernism in the Contemporary Graphic Novel: Chris Ware and the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
M. Thomas Inge 214-219 William Faulkner and the Graphic Novel
Hector D. Fernandez L'Hoeste 220-230 The Mystery of Kaliman, el Hombre Increible: Race and Identity in Mexican Comics
Richard Ostrom 231-243 The changed Function of Political Cartoonists in Indonesia: From Challenging a Repressive Regime to Promoting Democratic Reforms
Kenneth D. Nordin 244-255 The Editorial Comic Art of Clay Bennett
John A. Lent 256-289 Cartooning in malaysia and Singapore: The Same, but Different
Ron Provencher 290-291 Remembering "The Chief," Rejab Had: Cartoonist, Story Teller, Teacher, and Philosopher
Muliyadi Mahamood 292-304 An Overview of malaysian Contemporary Cartoons
Mel Gibson 305-324 "You Can't Read Them, They're for Boys!" British Girls, American Superhero Comics and Identity
Chetan Desai 325-333 The Krishna Conspiracy
Craig Fischer 334-354 Fantastic Fascism? Jack Kirby, Nazi Aesthetics, and Klaus Theweleit's Male Fantasies
Live Action Cartoonists 355-365 Have Markers, Will Travel: Live-Action Cartoonists in the Age of Multimedia Performances and Online Comics
Martha H. Kennedy 366-373 Early Creative Responses to 9-11 by Comic Artists: Panelists Share Personal Experiences
John A. Lent 374-376 The Printed Word
David Kunzle 377-384 Review Essay
David Kunzle Leonard Rifas Marc Singer 385-393 Book Reviews
Bart Beaty Maurice Horn Jennifer Wood Michael Hill Michael Rhode 394-405 Exhibition / Festival Reviews and Report
Gene Kannenberg, Jr. 406-407 Critical Closure
408-426 Portfolio

 

Vol. 5, No. 2, Fall 2003
John A. Lent i Editor's Note
[Spanish Comics: A Symposim]
Ana Merino 3-4 Introduction
Viviane Alary 5-27 Briefness in Spanish Comics: A Few Landmarks
Manuel Barrero 28-49 The Evolution of Children's Comics in Spain
Jesus Jimenez Varea 50-65 You Can Never Win: An Analysis of Comic Strips by the Spanish Cartoonist Penarroya
Anne Magnussen 66-84 Spanish Comics and Family
Pedro Perez del Solar 85-101 Old Fashions for New Times: El Desencanto in Spanish Comics
Juan Garcia Cerrada 102-109 The Graphic Humor Program of the General Foundation of the University of Alcala
Miguel Alejo 110-118 Chumy Chumez: The Work of Jose Maria Gonzalez Castrillo
Ernesto J. and Gabriel E. Abad 119-137 Cels Pinol: The Comics Fan and The Author
Alvaro Pons 138-153 Between Avant-garde and Commerciality: The Dichotomy of New Alternative Publishing Companies in Spain
Kenneth D. Nordin 154-167 Cartoonist Dick Locher in Retrospect: His Life and Work
Bart Beaty 168-183 The Contemporary Field of European Comics: The Example of Lewis Trondheim
Wai-ming Ng 184-193 Japanese Elements in Hong Kong Comics: History, Art, and Industry
Muliyadi Mahamood 194-204 Japanese Style in Malaysian Comics and Cartoons
[Pioneers of Comic Art Scholarship Series]
Bill Blackbeard 205-215 The Four Color Paper Trail: A Look Back
Fusami Ogi 216-232 Shimizu Isao: A Pioneer in Japanese Comics (Manga) Scholarship
Sol M. Davidson 233-240 Culture &the Comic Strips
Donald Ault 241-260 In the Trenches, Taking the Heat: Confessions of a Comics Professor
Benjamin F. Towle 261-280 An Examination of Historiography in the Comics Medium
Joseph Witek 281-295 Long Form/Short Form: Narrative Strategies of Some 9/11 Comics
A. David Lewis 296-311 One for the Ages: Barbara Gordon and the (Il-)Logic of Comic Book Age-Dating
Tomas Prokupek 312-338 Czech Comics
Brian Cremins 339-350 "I Asked for Water (She Gave Me Gasoline)": Tim Truman's Scout and Social Satire in the Independent Comics of the 1980s
John A. Lent and Xu Ying 351-366 Chinese Women Cartoonists: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Christopher Murray,Joyce A. Walker, andDouglas Webster 367-391 My Mouth Is Quiet, but My Mind Is Noisy: The Work of John Watson
Jason Tondro 392-424 Angel Passage: An Edition Lyris by Alan Moore
Kinko Ito 425-436 Japanese Ladies' Comics as Agents of Socialization: The Lessons They Teach
John A. Lent 437-440 The Printed Word
David Kunzle 441-449 Review Essay
David Berona 450-452 Book Review
Mark David Nevins,Christian Hill,Susannah Mandel,Marc SingerMartha H. Kennedy 453-467 Exhibitions Reviews
Gene Kannenberg, Jr. 468-469 Critical Closure
John A. Lent 470-483 Tootin' Our Own Horn
Jae-Woong Kwon, John A. Lent 484-519 International Journal of Comic Art Index, Volumes 1-5 (1999-2003)
520-526 Portfolio

 

Vol. 6, No. 1, Spring 2004
Christian Hill 1-17 Narrative Aesthetics of Time and Space in the Comics Series, Broussaille, by Frank and Bom
Clare Tufts 18-36 Vincent Krassousky - Nazi Collaborator or Naive Cartoonist?
Adam Cathcart 37-55 Cruel Resurrection: Chinese Comics and the Korean War
John A. Lent 56-76 India's Amar Chitra Katha: "Fictionalized" History or the Real Story?
Jigal Beez 77-95 Katuni Za Miujuza: Fantastic Comics from East Africa
Levi Obonyo 96-116 Cartoonists in Kenya: Past, Present, and Future
Bert Hansen 117-147 True-Adventure Comic Books and American Popular Culture in the 1940s: An Annotated Research Bibliography of the Medical Heroes
Hector D. Fernandez L'Hoeste 148-162 Vladdo, Aleida, and the Politics of Gender in War-Torn Colombia
Jeffrey F. Taffet 163-190 Selling the Alliance: US Propaganda vs. Chilean Editorial Cartons during the 1960s
David R. Spencer 191-220 The Trojan Horse: Free Trade, the Americans, and Canadian Political Cartoonists, 1849-1879
Marco Tulio Vilela / Waldomiro Vergueiro 221-235 The Brazilian X-Men: How Brazilian Artists Have Created Stories That Stan Lee Does Not Know About
Marc Singer 236-249 Unwrapping The Birth Caul: Word, Performance, and Image in the Comics Text
Masao Yokota 250-265 Satoshi Kon's Transition from Comics to Animation
Jeffrey Miller 266-280 A Response to Kobayashi Yoshinori's On Taiwan
Sueen Noh 281-298 The Gendered Comics Market in Korea: An Overview of Korean Girls' Comics, Soonjung Manhwa
David A. Berona 299-315 Pumping Iron: Male Stereotypes in Delisle's Albert et les Autres
Kent Worcester (Transcribed) 316-328 Words and Pictures in the Classroom: A Symposium
Daiwon Hyun 329-339 Promoting the Digital Content Industry in Korea, Focusing on Exporting Animation
John A. Lent 340-343 The Printed Word
Craig Fisher / Mark C. Rogers / Charles Hatfield / Michael Rhode 344-357 Book Reviews
David A. Berona / Ron Stewart / Michael Rhode / Trina Robbins / Michel Kempeneers 358-367 Exhibition Reviews
Gene Kannenberg, Jr 368-372 Critical Closure
373-379 Portfolio

 

Vol. 6, No. 2, Fall 2004
Patch Adams, MD 1-29 My Life as a Cartoon Character
Fabio Gadducci 30-77 Notes on the Early Decades of Italian Comic Art
Maurice Horn 78-89 Guido Crepax: A Memorial Tribute
Harlen Makemson 90-117 Private Vice and Public Virture: Political Cartoons as "Opprobrious Discourse" Against Grover Cleveland During the 1884 Presidential Campaign
Karon Reinboth Speckman 118-137 The Bush-Blair Duo Before 2003 Iraqi War: Cartoons from London Newspapers
Leonard Rifas 138-171 Globalizing Comic Books from Below: How Manga Came to America
Matthias Schneider(trans. Annette Gentz) 172-181 Der Fuehrer's Animation -- Animation and Propaganda in the German Reich
Kathrin Bower 182-194 Holocaust Avengers: From "The Master Race" to Magneto
Pascal Lefevre 195-204 The Cold War and Belgian Comics (1945-1991)
Joel E. Vessels 205-221 What Your Children Are Reading
Fabrice Leroy / Livio Belloi 222-237 The Cartoonist as Iconoclast: Flaubertian Irony and Media Parody in Pierre La Police's Comics
Dominique Le Duc 238-253 XX1st Century Graphic Novels: A Voyage with Edmond Baudoin
Marc Weidenbaum 254-265 The Maestro of Belleville: Benoit Charest
Barbara Postema 266-272 Memories That Don't Weaken: Seth and Walter Benjamin
David Ehrlich 273-284 An Interview with Dan Mitsui, Dartmouth College's Graphic Novelist
Edward Portnoy 285-303 Follow My Nose: Self-Caricature in Cartoons of the Yiddish Press
Jose Alaniz 304-324 Supercrip: Disability and the Marvel Silver Age Superhero
Tim Blackmore 325-349 300 AND TWO: Frank Miller and Daniel Ford Interpret Herodotus's Thermopylae Myth
Stephen Rauch 350-363 "We Have All Been Sentenced": Language as Means of Control in Grant Morrison's Invisibles
James Bucky Carter 364-375 "There'll Be Others Converging": Fighting American, The Other, and "Governing" Bodies
Masao Yokota 376-391 A Master Animator: Yasuji Mori's Works for Children
Kinko Ito 392-403 Growing Up Japanese Reading Manga
Vivian Zenari 404-414 Sluts for a Story: Narrative and Comics in Patricia Seaman's New Motor Queen City
Lim Cheng Tju 415-430 Chop Suey -- Cartoons about the Japanese Occupation and National Education in Singapore
Carmen Moran 431-444 Allies Cartoon Humor in World War II: A Comparison of "Willie and Joe" and "Bluey and Curley"
Mark T. Rusch 445-455 The Deranged Episode: Ironic Dissimulation in the Domestic Scenes of Edward Gorey's Short Stories
John A. Lent 456-457 The Printed Word
A. David Lewis / Ana Merino 458-463 Book Reviews
Ivy Garlitz / Roger Sabin / Michael Rhode / Stephen Rauch 464-471 Exhibition Reviews
Gene Kannenberg, Jr. 472-476 Critical Closure
477-483 Portfolio

 

Vol. 7, No. 1, Spring 2005
John A. Lent 1 Will Eisner (1917-2005), a Friend of Comics Scholarship
[Late/Post-Soviet Russian Komiks: A Symposium]edited by Jose Alaniz
Jose Alaniz 5-21 Introduction or, Why I Call Them Komiks
Vitor Erofeyev (Jose Alaniz) 22-38 Comics and the Comics Disease
Denis Chekalov (Jose Alaniz) 39-55 Comics: The World, If You Blink Slowly
Oleg Semenyuk (Jose Alaniz) 56-63 Comics Art in the USSR: A Short Overview (1917-1985)
Philippe Morin 64-66 Komiks and Russian Youth Culture
Ivan Mitrevski 67-74 Russian Komiks and the Internet "Underground"
(Seth Graham) 75-94 Comics in Education: Are They Useful? A Roundtable prepared by Svetlana Masimova
95-102 Interview: Andrei Snegirov
103-109 Interview: The Tema Studio
Jose Alaniz 110-125 The "Quintessentially Russian" Komiks of Zhora Litichevsky
Margo Bistis 126-148 Bad Art: The Decline of Academic Art in the Caricatural Salon
Brandon W. Bollom &Shawn N. Mckinney 149-179 Alphonse Marie Mucha: Posters, Panels...and Comics Books?
Eric A. Holmes 180-187 Horror, Crime, and Red Dupes: The Agitative Rhetoric of Entertaining Comics
Monica Fontana 188-205 From a Figure on the Left to a Caricature of the Right: Changes in the Public Image of Lula
Hector D. Fernandez L'Hoeste 206-229 Flopi Bach: A Benevolent Misogyny?
Richard De Angelis 230-249 Of Mice and Vermin: Animals as Absent Referent in Art Spiegelman's Maus
Lyombe Eko 250-269 Beasts of No Nation: African Satirical Press "Re-Presentations" of Political Leaders in the Post-Cold War Era
Matthew T. Jones 270-286 Reflexivity in Comic Art
Rob Lendrum 287-303 Queering Super-Manhood: Superhero Masculinity, Camp and Public Relations as a Textual Framework
Hector D. Fernandez L'Hoeste 304-316 How To Face Neoliberalism and Make It as a Mexican Cartoonist: Oscar Gonzalez Loyo and the ka-Boom! Experience
[Asian Animation, Online Cartooning, and Gaming: A Symposium] edited by John A. Lent
John A. Lent 319 Introduction
Jae-Woong Kwon 320-350 New Type of Popular Culture in the Internet Age: An Analysis of the Korean Essay Cartoon
Seungmin Song 351-259 Korean Independent Animation: Its Origin and Meaning
Jia Jia 360-388 Female Subject Animated: A Case Study of Digital Online Animation in Contemporary China
Hu Tze Yue 389-403 Japanese Independent Animation: Fuyu no hi and its Exclusivity
Qi Wang 404-421 Troubled Identities at Borderland -- Fantasy about the Past and the Future in Anime
Juhanita Jiman 422-431 Malaysian Animation Industry: The History, Development, and Collective Efforts To Set Up a Global and Recognizable Animation Standard
Anthony Fung 432-448 Hong Kong as the Asian and Chinese Distributor of Pokemon
Wan-Wen Day 449-461 Being Part of Digital Hollywood: Taiwan's Online Gaming &3D Animation Industry Under the New International Division of Cultural Labor
John A. Lent 462-472 Cartooning in Reunion, with Special Reference to the Work of Serge and Appollo
Anita K. McDaniel 473-484 Dave Sim on Guys
Francisco Tadeo Juan (Dere Petrey) 485-503 The Valencia School: Pioneer of Spanish Comic Strips
Myra Partridge 504-512 Webtoonists: Making a Living Online
Sol M. Davidson 513-529 Games People Play in the Comic Strips
Annalisa Di Liddo 530-545 Transcending Comics: Crossing the Boundaries of the Medium in Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell's Snakes and Ladders
Jake Black 546-552 Flop of Steel: Why "It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman" Did Not Fly Over Broadway
John A. Lent 553-556 The Printed Word
Trina RobbinsPatric RosenkranzDavid A. Berona 557-562 Book Reviews
Bart BeatyMichael HillNick ThorelsonMichael Rhode 563-572 Exhibition Reviews
Gene Kannenberg, Jr. 573-577 Critical Closure
578 Portfolio

 

Vol. 7, No. 2, Fall 2005
[Pioneers of Comic Art Scholarship Series, Part IV]edited by John A. Lent
R. C. Harvey 3-43 It's Not My Fault Confessions of a Comics Junkie. Or, How I Became a Crazed Fanatic About Cartooning, Its History and Lore
John A. Lent 44-46 Armand Mattelart and How To Read Donald Duck
Fusami Ogi 47-67 Katayori Mitsugu: A Pioneer of Manga Studies in Japan Before and After the War
Randall W. Scott 68-77 Beginnings and Landmarks: The Comic Art Collection at the Michigan State University Libraries and My Career
Richard Langlois (Randall W. Scott) 78-88 Pioneer in the Teaching of Bande Dessinee (Comic Art and Narrative) in Canad
John A. Lent and Xu Ying 89-125 Cartooning and China’s “Cultural Revolution”
Louise C. Larsen 126-146 The Flight of the Forehead in the Third Reich: The Political Satire of Hans Bendix
Janusz Kazmierczak 147-163 Raymond Williams and Cartoons: From Churchill’s Cigar to Cultural History
Yamile Regalado Someillan 164-197 Visual Culture and the New Cuban Man: Examining a Core Force of the Cuban Revolution, 1959-1963
Claudia Sanchez and Richard I. Parker 198-224 Cultural Values in Latin American and U.S. Superhero Comics: A Text Analysis
Jerry Robinson 225-235 The Ultimate Fantasy
Neil Cohn 236-248 Un-Defining “Comics”: Separating the Cultural from the Structural in Comics”
Thierry Smolderen 249-261 Thackery and Topffer: The Weimaer Connection
Eric A. Holmes 262-272 Solidification, Hidden Guilts and “The Prude”: EC’s Agitative Rhetoric Continued
Chunhyo Kim and John A. Lent 273-282 The Inside and Outside Worlds of North Korean Animation
Chris Murray 283-310 Noble Enterprises: Strip for Me and the British Small Press
Stephen E. Kercher 311-311 Cartoons as “Weapons of Wit”: Bill Mauldin and Herbert Block Take on America’s Postwar Anti-communist Crusade
Flavio Mario De Alcantara Calazans (Kenzi Tomoa) 321-339 From the “Cricket” (Grilo) to the “Cockroach” (Barata): Visual Poetics in the Brazilian Comics (European BD + Japanese Manga and USA Underground Comix)
Sol M. Davidson 340-357 The Funnies’ Neglected Branch: Special Purpose Comics
Julia Round 358-369 Fragmented Identity: The Superhero Condition
Thomas Alan Holmes 370-374 Warren Ellis’ “Shoot” and Media Passivity
Brian Ruh 375-398 Creating “Amateur” Manga in the US: Pedagogy, Professionalism, and Authenticity
John A. Lent 395-400 The Printed Word
Craig Fischer 401-403 Book Reviews
Steven M. Bergson Marc Weidenbaum Michael Rhode Meisha Rosenberg Ana Merino 404-412 Exhibition Reviews
413 Portfolio

 

Vol. 8, No. 1, Spring 2006
Noelle P. Bradley 1 Masks That Reveal: Social Inequality in J.-J. Grandville's Les Metamorphoses du Jour (1828-1829)
Leonard Rifas 17 "Especially Dr. Hilde L. Mosse": Wertham's Research Collaborator
Carolyn Wong 45 Learning about My Grandfather
John A. Lent 71 The Richness of African Cartooning: A Secret Far Too Long
Jigal Beez 114 Winners, Cheats, and witches: East African Soccer Cartoons
John A. Lent 137 Life of a Cartoonist in one of Kenya's Worst Slums. Drawing by Rough (Rafael Opany)
Jose Alaniz 145 Caricature and Incarceration: The Case of Slava Sysoev
[Ever-Ending Battle: A Symposuim]edited by A. David Lewis
A.David Lewis 163 Ever-Ending Battle
Edward Brunner 174 Death and the Maiden: Milton Caniff's Pre-War Anti-Elegiac War Elegy
Arnold T. Blumberg 197 "The Night Gwen Stacy Died": The End of Innocence and the "Last Gasp of the Silver Age"
Abraham Kawa 212 The Universe She Died In: The Death and Lives of Gwen Stacy
Jose Alaniz 234 Death and the Superhero: The Silver Age and Beyond
Wilbur Farley 249 "The Disease Resumes Its March to Darkness": The Death of Captain Marvel and the Metastasis of Empire
William Duffy 258 Sing Muse, of the Immortal Hero: Using Epic To Understand Comic Books
Michael Niederhausen 271 Deconstructing Crisis on Infinite Earths: Grant Morrison's Animal Man, JLA: Earth 2, and Flex Mentallo
Nuh-Hoa Nguyen 283 The Rhetoric of Omission in Comic Art
Caitlin E. Pantos 301 La Donna Di Carta Guido Crepax's Valentina and the Dream of Italian Female Emancipation
Hector D. Fernandez L'Hoeste 346 Beyond Just Gender On The World of Maitena Burundarena
Ana Merino Translation by Derek Petrey 362 Variable Identities in the Mexican Comic-Strip: Don Catarino in the Stereotypical Space of the Cannibals
Frank Verano 378 Spectacular Consumption: Visuality, Production, and the Consumption of the Comics Page
Matthew T. Jones 388 Fiend on Film: Edwin S. Porter's Adaptation of Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend
Jeff McLaughlin 412 9-11-01: Truth, Justice and Comic Books
Ryan Holmberg 426 For Your Words, I Shall Rip Out Your Tongue: Shirato Sanpei and the Talking Head of Manga
Chang-de Liu 456 Negative Impact of Digital Technologies on Artists: A Case Study of Taiwanese Cartoonists and Illustrators
Michael van Dyk 466 Turkey's Soprano of Cartooning -- Selma Emiroglu-Aykan
Vicki Karaminas 498 "No Capes!" Uber Fashion and How "Luck Favors the Prepared": Constructing Contemporary Superhero Identities in American Popular Culture
Mark C. Rogers 509 Understanding Production: The Stylistic Impact of Artisan and Industrial Methods
Delphine Carron 518 Paul Auster's City of Glass: From Word to Picture
Nancy Hudson-Rodd and Sundar Ramanathaiyer 532 Cartooning the Iraq War: No Laughing Matter
Cord Scott 546 The "Good" Comics: Ising Comic Books To Teach History
John A. Lent 562 The Printed Word
David A.BeronaHarvey PekarMartha H. KennedyJessica Milner DavisMichael RhodeMarc Singer 567 Book Reviews
Christian HillRon StewartLotta FjelkegardAaron KashtanMartha H. KennedyBarbara PostemaNick ThorkelsonPhilip Sandjfer 579 Exhibition Reviews
John A. Lent 607 The Story Behind the Cartoon
608 Portfolio

 

Vol. 8, No. 2, Fall 2006
John A. Lent 1 Ediotr's Note
C Hill 6 Marjane Satrapi Interviewed, August 24, 2003
Wood-hung Lee and Yomei Shaw 34 A Textual Comparison of Japanese and Chinese Editions of Manga: Translation as Cultural Hybridization
Marco Pellitteri 56 Manga in Italy History of a Powerful Cultural Hybridization
Ron Stewart 77 An Australian Cartoonist in 19th Century Japan: Frank A. Nankivell and the Beginnings of Modern Japanese Comic Art
Amy Kiste Nyberg 98 Theorizing Comics Journalism
Stephan Packard 113 Reflections of the Cartoon
Michael Rhode 126 Harvey Pekar at the 2005 Small Press Expo
Hector D. Fernandez L'Hoeste 163 On Angels, Drugs, and Trade: Edgar Clement's Operacion Bolivar
Ozge Samanc 181 Lynda Barry's Humor: At the Juncture of Private and Public, Invitation and Dissemination, Childish and Professional
Sol M. Davidson 200 Love Affair with a Unique Medium: Big Little Books
Katrina D. Thompson 228 The Stereotype in Tanzania Comics: Swahili and the Ethnic Other
Kristin L. Matthews 248 The ABCs of Mad Magazine: Reading, Citizenship, and Cold War America
Marc Singer 269 "A Serious House on Serious Earth": Rehabilitating Arkham Asylum
Ed Ross 283 The Representation of Immigrants and Immigration in UK Political Cartoons from 1968 to 2005
Jose Alaniz 307 Speaking the "Truth" of Sex: Moore &Gebbie's Lost Girls
Frank Verano 319 Invisible Spectacles, Invisible Limits: Grant Morrison, Situationist Theory, and Real Unrealities
Clark Farmer 330 Comic Book Color and the Digital Revolution
Fang Cheng 347 What Is Humor?
Racial Identity: A Mini Symposium
Dale Jacobs 363 Ho Che Anderson Interview
Neil Shyminsky 387 Mutant Readers, Reading Mutants: Appropriation, Assimilation, and the X-Men
Matthew Diebler 406 "I;m Not One of Them Anymore": Marvel's X-Men and the Loss of Minority (Racial) Identity
William H. Foster III 414 Do We Still Have To Be Black? Comic Book Creators Discuss Racial Identity
430 Corrections
John A. Lent 432 The Printed Word
Jose AlanizLeonard Rifas 436 Book Reviews
Michael Rhode 445 Exhibition and Media Reviews
Jose AlanizFrancesco CasoloCraig FischerMichael RhodeTrina RobbinsRoger SabinRandall W. ScottNick Thorkelson 447 Exhibition Reviews
John A. Lent 497 The Story Behind the Cartoon(s)
500 Portfolio

 

Vol. 9, No. 1, Spring 2007
[Kibyoshi: The World's First Comicbook?]edited by Adam L. Kern
Adam L. Kern 3 The Kibyoshi: Japan's Eighteenth-Century Comicbook for Adults
Glynne Walley 33 Kyokutei Bakin's Buy My Candy and I'll Give you a Kite Story
Ivan Grail 61 The Truly Un-Canny Samurai: Classical Literature and Parody in the Kibyoshi
William Fleming 79 The Tao of Kibyoshi: Santo Kyoden's Zhuang-zi: The Licensed Edition
Kristin H. Williams 119 Cerisscrossed Confucianism: Images of Edo as a Virtuous Dystopia
William Burton 135 Fantastic Travel as Utopia or Dystopia in Edo Period Illustrated-Fiction
Akiko Walley With a Translation by Akiko Walley and Glynne Walley 157 Through the Looking-Glass: Reflections on Kibyoshi Illustrations in Kishida Toho's Comicbook Chronicle
Florencia Paula Levin 198 Politics Seen Through the Prism of Humor in the Argentinean Democratic Transition of 1973: Landru and Ian
Kyle D. Wegner 231 Lalo Alcaraz's "La Cucaracha" "Normalizes" chicanos
David R. Spencer 262 The Press and the Spanish American War: Political Cartoons of the Yellow Journalism Age
Jay Casey 281 The Dynamics of Quiet Heroism and Invisible Death In American Soldier Cartoons of the World Wars
Pascal Lefevre 296 The Unresolved Past: Repercussions of World War II in Belgian Comics
Karna Mustaqim 311 Mumbling Our Comics: An Overview of Indonesial Comic Books' Condition
Anne Reef 332 The Art of Darkness: Repression and Its Expression in J. M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians, Athol Fugard's Tsotsi, and Sue Coe and Holly Metz's How To Commit Suicide in South Africa
Maren Dick 353 Sneaky, Sinister, and Scapegoated: Chinese Immigration and Exclusion as Represented in The Wasp, 1877-1889
[Cartooning in Australia: Asymposium]edited by John A. Lent
John A. Lent 378 Introduction
Vane Lindesay 380 The Rise and Demise of the Australian Comic Strip
Michael Hill 411 The Graphic Expression of the Lives, Obsessions, and objections of Small Press Sick Puppies and Scat(ology) Cats: A Short Survey of Some Aspects of Australian Alternative Comics 1990-2000
Vicki Karaminas 438 Australian Gothic: Black Light Angels, Fashion, and Subcultural Style
Rolf Heimann 453 Ned Kelly -- Australian Cartoonists' Favorite Idiom
Lindsay Foyle 460 An Essay: The Life and Death of the Larrikin Image
Roman Rosenbaum 468 Australia and Symbolic Representation in the "Cartoon Controversy"
Barbara Postema 487 Draw a Thousand Words: Signification and Narration in Comics Images
Dale Jacobs 502 Beyond Visual Rhetoric: Multimodal Rhetoric and Newspaper Comic Strips
Massimo REpetti 515 African "Ligne Claire": The Comics of Francophone Africa
Jigal Beez 542 The Swahili Titanic: The Tanzanian Appropriation of a Global Tragedy
Edward Whatley 554 "In the Crooked Shadows of Wildwood Cemetery": Will Eisner's The Spirit and the Gothic Tradition
Robert S. Petersen 578 The Acoustics of Manga: Narrative Erotics and the Visual Presence of Sound
Roman Rosenbaum 591 Motomiya Hiroshi's The Conuntry Is Burning
Anna Notaro 610 "Innocence Is Life": Searching for the Post-Human Soul in Ghost in the Shell 2
Domingos Isabelinho 625 Matt Marriott: The Western with a Human Face
Alfonz Lengyel 640 Liao Bingxiong (1915-2006)
Fang Cheng 644 Long Live, Brother Bing!
Liao Bingxiong Translated by Xu ying 647 Speaking Out on Going To Make a Will
John A. LentXu Ying 650 Liao Bingxiong: "A Chinese Style Man with Universal Values"
Vesna Dovnikovic 668 Croatian Animation Today
Borivoj Dovnikovic Bordo 672 My Work in Animation
Michael J. Lecker 679 "Why Can't I Be Just Like Everyone Else?": A Queer Reading of the X-Men
Anita K. Mcdaniel 688 Negotiating Life Spaces: Has Marriage Marginalized Storm?
John A. Lent 703 The Printed Word
Michael Rhode 707 Book ReviewsJohn A. Lent's Comic Art Bibliographies: An Appreciation
K.A. Laity 710 Moomin Book One: The Complete Tove jansson
Michael Rhode 712 Exhibition Reviews
Michael Rhode 715 Enduring Outrage: Editorial Cartoons by Herblock and Cartoon America: Highlights from the Art Wood Collection of Cartoon and Caricature
A. David Lewis 722 Black and White and Read All Over: Comic Art and Artists
Pascal Lefevre 723 Le Monde de Franquin
Michael Rhode 726 Simplicissimus and the Empire 1896-1914
Trina Robbins 729 The Rejection Collection: Not in the New Yorker Cartoons
Craig FischerMichael Rhode 730 Masters of American Cartoons -- Two Reviews
Michael Rhode 738 Superheores: Good and Evil in American Comics
Jenny Robb 740 Resources: An Updating The ohio State University Cartoon Research Library Turns 30
Randall W.Scott 743 comic Art Collection at Michigan State University Libraries 2006 Report
John A. Lent 745 The Story Behind the Cartoon(s)
Cartoons byGodfrey Mwampembwafan LintaoWinfried BesslichMohamed HakemEsmail EffatXu PengfeiHabib HaddadMassoud Shojai Tabatabei,Jozef SchekRolf HeimannQi Jianhua 748 Portfolio

 

Vol. 9, No. 2, Fall 2007
John A. Lent 1 Editor's Note
[Gallery Comics: A Symposium]edited by C Hill
C Hill 6 Gallery Comics: The Beginnings
Joanna Roche 13 Gallery Comics: Contemporary Contexts
Andrei Molotiu 24 Permanent Ink: Comic Book and Comic Strip Original Art as Aesthetic Object
Mark Staff Brandl 43 Panels, Covers, and Viewers: My Mongrels of Painting, Installation, and Comics
Maurice Horn 58 Comics and Cinema: The Beginnings (1896-1913)
Mark K. McKinney 68 Georges Remi's Legacy: Between Half-Hidden History, Modern Myth, and Mass Marketing
Adam Rosenblatt 81 The Making and Remaking of El Eternauta
Roberto Elisio dos Santos 93 Humor Comics in Brazil: A Study of the Production of the Circo Editorial
Rodrigo Baeza 118 Obituary Roberto Fontanarrosa (1944-2007)
Interview with Nicoletta Fagiolo 121 Zapiro's Weapons of Mass Destruction
[Egyptian Cartooning: A Symposium]edited by John A. Lent
John A. Lent 140 Egyptian Cartooning: An Overview
Rania M.R. Saleh 187 Political Cartoons in Egypt
Abdelghani Jbara with John A. Lent 226 Using Comics in Development in the Arab World: Prospects and Impediments
Mohamed Hamdy Hamed Ahmed 243 Sarcasm in the View of the Ancient Egyptian
Jon C. Gordon 248 John Miller Baer: congressman-Cartoonist
Ann Miller 258 Postcolonial Identities
Woody Woodis 275 Caricature in French Political Cartoons
Scott R. Schoner 288 A Survey of Doughboy Humor in World War I
Julia Round 316 Visual Perspective and Narrative Voice in Comics: Redegining Literary Terminology
Martin de la Iglesia 330 An Essay Geographical Classification in Comics
Christophe L. Dony 340 Trauma, Identity and Memory: The Individual/Collective Dialectic in 9/11-related Comics
Matthew T. Jones 373 Construction of Social Memory through Strategies of Reflexivity: A Case Study in Three Texts by Art Spiegelman
Meisha Rosenberg 396 Multimodality in Phoebe Gloeckner's Diary of a Teenage Girl
Randall W. Scott 413 European Western Comics: A Kind of Round-Up
Marco Pellitteri 425 Pornography and Sinaesthesia in Manga: Multi-sensorial Reception of Eros in Japanese Comics
Herbeth L. Fondevilla 441 Contemplating the Identity of Manga in the Philippines
Sueen Noh 454 "To Be or Not to Be, That Is the Question": What Is Happening with Korean Comics, (Manhwa), Today?
Fang Cheng 478 Fang Cheng's Theories on Humor and Cartooning
David Beard with Katelyn Hoa Vo Thi-Beard 511 Silver Age in Hidden Places: The Other Orgin of Brainiac
John A. Lent 518 The Printed Word
Sol M. DavidsonPascal LefevrePhillip TroutmanDavid A. BeronaMatthew J. SmithJohn A. LentGert Meesters 525 Book Reviews
Vanessa Rane 551 Review Essay
Michael RhodeK.A. LaityRichard GrahamClare PitkethlyPhillip TroutmanDavid RobertsonMartha H. KennedyMichael HillMeisha RosenbergJose AlanizMatthias WivelVanessa RaneyRon Stewart 561 Exhibition and Media Reviews
632 Letters
635 Resources
637 Correction
638 Portfolio

 

Vol. 10, No. 1, Spring 2008
[Biff! Bam!! Crikey!!!]A Comics Conference In Scotland, 2007Compiled and edited by Christopher Murrary
Christopher Murray 3 Introduction
Section 1: Gazooks! Comics in Scotland
Matthew Jarron 9 1.1 Before The Beano -- The Prehistory of Dundee Comics
John ChalmersSandra Marrs 18 1.2 Meeting with metaphrog
Section 2: Wizard! Moore, Morrison, and Superhero Comics
Julia Round 24 2.1 London's Calling: Alternate Worlds and the city as Superhero in Contemporary British-American Comics
Shaum Manning 32 2.2 Language and Fiction in the Creation of Reality in The Invisibles
Section 3: Zoinks! Comics, Politics and Identity
Peter Hughes Jachimiak 39 3.1 " D'You Wanna be In My Gang?": Boys' Comics, Club Membership, and a "Tribal Britain"
Nicole Devarenne 48 3.1 "A Language Heroically Commensurate with His Body": nationalism, Fascism, and the Language of the Superhero Comic
Section 4: Zap! Comics and Other Media
Anna Zanfei 55 4.1 Defining Webcomics and Graphic Novels
Brian Hoyle 62 4.2 Irresponsible Pictures: Questions of Adaptation and Morality in the comic and Film Versions of Road to Perdition
Kevin Corstorphine 68 4.3 Killer7 and Comic Book Aesthetics in Contemporary Video Games
74 Contributors
John A. LentXu Ying 76 Cartooning and Wartime China: Part One -- 1931-1945
Adam Cathcart 140 Atrocities, Insults, and "Jeep Girls": Depictions of the U.S. Military in China, 1945-1949
Todd S. Munson 155 Dangerous! China and Xenophobic Comics in Contemporary Japan
Helen Yu-Rivera 174 Drawing the Line Between Racism and Political Correctness: Filipino Editorial Cartoonists Reconsider the Japanese
Ryan Holmberg 200 Let We Go: An Interview with Hiroki Otsuka
Joseph Witek 218 American Comics Criticism and the Problem of Dual Address
Robert S. Petersen 226 Metamorphosis of the Phylactery: changes in Emanata from the Medieval Times through the 18th Century
orion ussner Kidder 248 Show and Tell: Notes Towards a Theory of Metacomics
Benjamin Woo 268 EssayAn Age- Old Problem: problematics of Comic Book Historiography
Pedro Perez del Solar 280 "A Fuhrer's Day": Comics and Politics of Memory in 1980s Spain
Hector Fernandez L'Hoeste 298 Amid nation and Empire: Puerto Rico's El Antillano and Its Interactive Cuadernos
Mike Kelly 313 Ary Spiegelman and His Circle: new York City Comix and the Downtown Scene
Luc D. Guglielmi 340 The Fantastic in the Work of jean-Claude Servais
John A. Lent 352 Cartooning, Public Crises, and Conscientization: Aglobal Perspective
Matthew Blake 387 Political and Promotional Conceptions in Woody Guthrie's People's World Cartoons
Jose Alaniz 407 "Rutting in Free-Fall": Moore and Bissette/Zulli's "Act of Faith"
Janis :. Edward 120 Visualizing the Face of Domestic Terrorism in Editorial Cartoons: Transforming a Stereotype
Lindsay Foyle 433 Essay Australian Politics and "Cartoon Bias"
Hamish Ironside 438 Alan Guppy and "Stone de Croze"
Louis Gordon 452 EssayJewish Graphic Gangster
Joseph J. Darowski 461 It's A bid, It's a Plane, it's ... Synthesis: Superman, Clark Kent, and Hegel's Dialectic
R. J. Gregov 471 The Re-illustration of Comic Book Heroes
Muhammed Shahriar Haque 482 "Kee's World": Reflections of Evolving Identity
Luiu Hong YingTang Min 513 Finance Cartoons: A Way of Reviving Chinese Press Cartoons
Peter Walton 522 The "Archaic Mother" in Charles Burns' Black Hole: A Psychoanalytic Reading
Eileen Akin 535 Resource My Beloved Cartoonists: original Cartoon Art from Fred Waring's America
Zheng Huagai 543 He Was Such a Kind Person -- Eulogistic Comments on Chinese Cartoonist Wang Fuyang, 1935-2008
John A LentXu Ying 553 Editors' Remembrances of Wang Fuyang
John A. Lent 554 The Printed Word
David A. BeronaJohn A. LentMarc SingerJeff GeersMatthew J. SmithSteven M. Bergson 559 Book Reviews
Michael RhodeTrina RobbinsJose AlanizBobby Kuechenmeister 580 Exhibition Reviews
592 Letters
593 Portfolio

 

Vol. 10, No. 2, Spring 2008
John A. Lent 1 Celebrating 10 Years of Continuous Publication: Taking Stock
[Women and Cartooning: A Global Symposium] edited by John A. Lent
John A. Lent 6 Introduction
Marlene Pohle 10 17 Women Cartoonists + One
Vicki Karaminas 33 "There's a Bug in My Ink Bottle":The Graphic Art of Australian Women -- Greenberg, Graber, and Ord
Martha H. Kennedy 45 A Self-Selected Sisterhood: Women Cartoonists Represented in the Library of Congress Collections
Ana Merino 70 Feminine Territoriality: Reflections on the Impact of the Underground and Post-Underground
Trina Robbins 89 Wonder Woman: Queer Appeal
Trina Robbins 95 Here Are the Great Women Comics Artists of the United States!
Jill S. Katz 101 Women and Mainstream Comic Books
Fusami Ogi 148 Shojo Manga(Japanese Comics for Girls) in the 1970s' Japan as a Message to Women's Bodies: Interviewing Keiko Takemiya -- A Leading Artist of the Year 24 Flower Group
Fusami Ogi 170 Hana yori dango(Boys over Flowers) as a Trans-National Comics for Girls beyond Japan
Kinko Ito 186 The Touching and the Sensual in Japanese Ladies' Comics: An Interview with Asako Shiomi
Kinko Ito 199 Masako Watanabe: 50 Years of Making Girls’ and Ladies’ Comics in Japan
Sueen Noh 209 Science, Technology, and Women Represented in Korean Sci-Fi Girls' Comics
Raquel Orzuj 235 Female Cartoonists in Uruguay
Nicky Heron Brown 242 Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson, Cartoon Character or Real Life Hero? Correcting Hajdu's The Ten Cent Plague
Lisa Brooten 254 Burmese Political Cartoons and the Transnational Public Sphere in Times of Crisis
Allen Douglas andFedwa Malti-Douglas 282 From the Algerian War to the Armenian Massacres: Memory, Trauma, and Medicine in Petit Polioof Farid Fedwa Malti-Douglas Boudjellal
Asai Motofumi 308 Barefoot Gen, Japan, and I: The Hiroshima Legacy: An Interview with Nakazawa Keiji
Timothy Perper andMartha Cornog 328 " Never Said I Was a Boy": Utena, Arita Forland, and the (Non) Phallic Woman
Roman Rosenbaum 354 Mizuki Shigeru's Pacific War
Luke Arnott 380 BLAM!The Literal Architecture of Sin City
Matthias Schneider 402 un regard moderne
Seetha Srinivasan 416 Publishing on Comics and Comics Culture at University Press of Mississippi
Bi Keguan 421 Why I Research Chinese Cartoon History
Susan Honeyman 437 Transforming Segar's Progressive Everyman into Fleischer's Depression-Era Supersalesman: The Hidden Powers of Popeye's Spinach
Joel T. Terranova 451 Art of Killing -- The Literary Merits of Johnny the Homicidal Maniac
Arcadio Esquivel Mayorga 468 Graphic Humor in Costa Rica: A Cartoonist's Experience
Jorge L. Catala Carrasco 495 Costumbrismoand Cubanity in Rafael Fornes
Sol M. Davidson 519 Educational Comics: A Family Tree
Jorge Salgueiro 581 Synesthesia and Onomatopoeia in Graphic Literature
Juan Meneses 598 A Bakhtinian Approach to Two Graphic Novels: The Individual in Art Spiegelman's Mausand Chester Brown's Louis Riel
Gorg Mallia 607 Satirical Cartoons in Malta
Alan Fern 621 An Evening with Jules Feiffer
Frank Hoffmann 627 Some Thoughts on Germany and the Art of the Cartoon
Brian Swafford 632 The Death of Captain America: An Open-ended Allegorical Reading of Marvel Comics' Civil WarStoryline
Cord Scott 649 The Return of the War Comic: A Revival of Military Themes and Characters in Comic Books
Nadilson Manoel da Silva 660 Mauricio de Souza and the Development of the Market For Children in Brazilian Comics: A Turma da Monica (Monica's Gang)
Carolyn Wong 669 Huang Yao and His Cartoon, "Niu Bizi," in China, 1934-1947
Lingling Pan 694 Post-Liberation History of China's Lianhuanhua(Pictorial Books)
John A. Lent andHong-Chi Shiau 718 Seeking Inwards, Looking Outwards: Taiwanese Cartoonists' Quest To Transcend Japanese Influences
Christophe Cassiau-Haurie 737 Comic Books in the Indian Ocean: Between Openness and Isolation
Rania M.R. Saleh 746 What Inflamed the Iraq War? The Perspectives of American Cartoonists
John A. Lent 788 The Printed Word
Louis GorgonMichael Rhode 794 Book Reviews / Review Essay: Isaac Cates
Matt Wuerker
David A. Berona
Michael Rhode
Trina Robbins
Leonard Rifas
Cord Scott
Sean P. Connors
Benjamin Woo
David Robertson
Ofer Berenstein
Jose Alaniz
806 Exhibition Reviews
John A. Lent 862 The Story Behind the Cartoon
Jenny E. Robb 866 International Museum of Cartoon Art To Move to Ohio State Cartoon Research Library
Leonard Rifas 868 Letters

 

Vol. 11, No.1, Spring 2009

Czech Comics: A Symposium

José Alaniz

7

Introduction: A Czech Patchwork

Tomáš Prokůk and Renáta Skřebská

21

Ladislav Vlodek and The Globe

Tomáš Prokůk

34

Pérák and Spring Heeled Jack: From Prague Avenger to London Ghost and Back Again

Tomáš Pospiszyl

45

Bohumil Konečný: An Unwilling Comics Artist

Helena Diesning

51

Kája Saudek: The King of Czech Comics

Martha Kuhlman

63

Time Machine: Rudiš/Jaromír 99’s Wilson Main Train Station

Lisa Mangum

74

František Skála, or Deep Into the Enchanted Bohemian Woods

 

 

 

Prtricia Breccia

80

Remembrances of My Father, Alberto Breccia

Mark David Nevins

90

High Art at the Drive-In: An Interview with Robert Williams

Valérie Agosta-Ives

113

Salomon Assus (1950-1919). Humoristic Postcards as a Powerful Visual Medium Transcending Ethnic and Gender Issues in Early 1900s’ French Algeria

David Kunzle

135

Gary Larson and the World Upside Down

David Robertson

158

Scotland’s Comics Master, Ian Kennedy: An Interview

Ben Little

182

Constructing the Reader’s Perspective in V for Vendetta

David R. Spencer

203

No Laughing Matter: 19th Century Editorial Cartoons and the Business of Race

Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste

229

From Mexifornia to Newyorktitlan: East vs. West Meets the Mexican Tradition

Waldomiro Vergueiro and Roberto Elísio dos Santos

247

Crás! Comic Book: Brazilian Comics and the Publishing Industry

Derek Parker Royal

262

To Be Continued…: Serialization and Its Discontent in the Recent Comics of Gilbert Hernandez

Jigal Beez

281

Cartoons as Pop Idols: The “Sani Star Search” Contest in Tanzania

William H. Foster III

294

Langston Hughes’s “Jesse B. Simple” and Ollie Harrington’s “Bootsie”: Cartoons and Stories That Preserve the Voice of the African American Everyman

John A. Lent

307

Cartooning in Cyprus: Small Is Beautiful

Jason Tondro

320

Spenser and the Comics Critic

Roy Bearden-White

347

Closing the Gap: Examining the Invisible Sign in Graphic Narratives

Pauline Uchmanowicz

363

Graphic Novel Decoded: Towards a Poetics of Comics

Marco Pellitteri

386

Three Italian Authors Who Know the Formulas of Success: Gnone, Canepa, and Barbucci: From W.I.T.C.H. to Sky Doll, to the Fantasy Novel, and Again to the Monster Allergy Comics

José Alaniz

396

Masculinity and the Superhero in Post-Soviet Russian Comics

Travis Langley

426

Freedom versus Security: The Basic Human Dilemma from 9/11 to Marvel’s Civil War

Richard A. Becker

436

The Crisis of Confidence in Comics Adaptations: Why Comics Are So Rarely Faithfully Adapted to the Big Screen

Robert G. Weiner

457

Sequential Art and Reality: Yes, Virginia, There is a Spider-Man

John A. Lent

478

The Printed Word

 

484

Book Reviews

 

551

Exhibition Reviews

 

568

International Journal of Comic Art Index, Volumes 1-10 (1999-2008)

 

662

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Vol. 11, No.2, Fall 2009

Indian Cartooning Symposium Edited by John A. Lent

John A. Lent

3

An Illustrated History of Indian Political Cartooning

Karline McLain

26

Vivalok Comics: Celebrating All That Is Small in India

Gokul T. G.

44

G. Aravindan’s “Small Men and the Big World”: Re-Defining the “Comic” in the Strip

Shevlin Sebastian

53

Making People Laugh: Toms and K. J. Yesudasan, Premier Cartoonists in Kerala, India

 

 

 

Rodosław Bolałek

59

The Most Popular Polish Comics (1957-1989)

Paul Cheng

88

The Smartest Comic on Earth: Metafiction in Chris Ware’s Acme Novelty Library #16

Clodualdo del Mundo, Jr.

103

Lessons My Father Taught Me about Komiks

Marla Harris

119

“Sex and the City”: The Graphic Novel Series Aya as West African Comedy of Manners

Bram Draper

136

Sandino and Other Superheroes: The Function of Comic Books in Revolutionary Nicaragua

Julie A. Davis

176

Both Everyman and Other: “Dilbert” as an Exemplar of Newspaper Comics’ Simultaneous Identification and Distance

John A. Lent and Xu Ying

195

Chronicler of Most of a Century: Cartoonist Ding Cong (1916-2009)

Gregory N. Daugherty

208

“The Greatest Story Every Drawn!” Cleopatra in American Comics

Jean-Marie Bertin

231

Press Cartoons in France: A Short History

Joel Vessels

272

Vive la France, Now Who Are We? Bande Dessinée, the 16 July 1949 Law, and the Political Re-imagining of Post-World War II France

Kim Munson

283

Beyond High and Low: How Comics and Museums Learned to Co-exist

Patti Luedecke

299

Affect and the Body in Melville’s “Bartleby” and Jillian Tamakin and Mariko Tamaki’s Skim

 

322

Working Around Words: Rauf talishinsky’s Azerbaijani Web Cartoons

Benjamin Stevens

336

Drawn to Distraction: Comics Reading in Kevin Huizenga’s “Lost and Found”

Gêisa Fernandes D’Oliveira

350

From Bumpkin to Belssed – Comics and National Identity: A Brazilian Case Study

Jeff McLaughlin

364

Comic Book Artists and Writers and Philosophers

Charles Natoli

372

The Spirit Passes: The Second Coming of the Comic Strip’s Golden Age

Isaac Cates

380

“How to Draw Thinking” Panel, Small Press Expo, Rockville, MD, Oct. 14, 2006

Murray Lee Eiland

396

From Cartoon Art to Child Pornography

Connie Lam

410

Hong Kong Manhua after the Millennium

Maaheen Ahmed

421

Moebius, Gir, Giraud, Gérard: Self-Visualizations

Jamie Egolf

432

Political Commentary and Dissent in the Tapestry and the Cartoon Strip

John A. Lent

447

The Printed Word

 

455

Book Reviews

 

472

Exhibition and Media Reviews

 

515

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