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Volume 4 Issue 3
Lateral Moves and Ghostly Gay Children: Queer Spatial Metaphors in Alison Bechdel's Fun Home
Jocelyn Sakal Froese
“Bacon Tho”: Richard Watts’ Vegan Sidekick Comics as Social Media Activism
Dru Jeffries
George Pérez and the Classical Narrative Style
Marc Singer
“A Good Place Where to Be”: Un-placing Mobilities in Julie Doucet’s My New York Diary
Lorraine YorkFrom the Field
“Text messages and ghosts are a JOY”: A Conversation with Cartoonist Marnie Galloway
Shiamin Kwa
Seldes Prize Essay
4 Colorism: the Ashiness of it All
Zoë Smith
Book Reviews
Dreaming the Graphic Novel: The Novelization of Comics. By Paul Williams.
Reviewed by Shawn Gilmore
Monstrous Imaginaries: The Legacy of Romanticism in Comics. By Maheen Ahmed.
Reviewed by Alisia Chase
All New, All Different? A History of Race and the American Superhero. By
Allan W. Austin and Patrick L. Hamilton.
Reviewed by Osvaldo Oyola
History of Illustration. Edited by Susan Doyle, Jaleen Grove, and Whitney Sherman.
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Volume 4 Issue 2
The Body of the Nation: Ta-Nehisi Coates' Black Panther and the Black Literary Tradition
Eli Boonin-Vail
Drawn to Reconcile: The Queer Reparative Journey of ElfQuest
Kevin Cooley and Madeline B. Gangnes
Rethinking Racial Ontology through McDuffie’s Deathlok
Sam Cowling
“A Grotesque, Incurable Disease”: Whiteness as Illness in Gabby Schulz’s Sick
Frederik Byrn Køhlert
From the Archives
The Alain Van Passen Collection: At the Crossroads of Comics Collecting and Critique
Maaheen Ahmed
Book Reviews
Superhero Thought Experiment: Comic Book Philosophy. By Chris Gavaler and Nathaniel Goldberg.
Reviewed by Johnathan Flowers.
Representations of Islam in United States Comics, 1880-1922. By Maryanne A. Rhett.
Reviewed by A. David Lewis.
Graphic Memories of the Civil Rights Movement. By Jorge J Santos, Jr.
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Volume 4 Issue 1
The Specters of Captain America: Time and the Haunting of American Politics
Neal Curtis Neal Curtis
Watchmen and Speculating on the Future of the Humanities
J. V. Miranda, Joseph Turner
No Reclaimed Homeland: Thi Bui's Postcolonial Historiography in The Best We Could Do
Layli Maria Miron
The Blue Age of Comic Books
Adrienne Resha
Identity Temporalities and American Born Chinese
Rebecca Wanzo
Comics and Public History: The True Story of the 1934 Chatham Coloured All-Stars
Dale Jacobs, Heidi LM Jacobs
Book Reviews
Breaking the Frames: Populism and Prestige in Comics Studies by Marc Singer
Reviewed by Nhora Lucía Serrano
Serial Selves: Identity and Representation in Autobiographical Comics by Frederik Byrn Køhlert
Reviewed by Jenny Blenk
Between Pen and Pixel: Comics, Materiality, and the Book of the Future by Aaron Kashtan
Reviewed by Daniel F. Yezbick
EC Comics: Race, Shock, and Social Protest by Qiana Whitted
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Volume 3 Issue 3
Drawing Racial Lines: The Aesthetics of Franklin in Peanuts
Michelle Anne Abate
Re-Animalating Native Realities: The Funny animals and First Beings of Native Realities Press
Joshua Anderson
All-Negro Comics and the Birth of Lion Man, the First African American Superhero
Blair Davis
Format Codings in Comics – The Elusive Art of Punctuation
David Gedin
From the Archives
The Papa Mfumu’eto Papers: An Urban Vernacular Artist in Congo’s Megacity
Dan Reboussin
From the Field
YA = Young Avengers: Asserting Maturity on the Threshold of Adulthood
Osvaldo Oyola
Book Reviews
Comics and Sacred Texts: Reimagining Religion & Graphic Narratives. Edited by Assaf Gamzou and Ken Koltun-Fromm.
Reviewed by Matthew William Brake
Graphic Satire in the Soviet Union: Krokodil’s Political Cartoons. By John Etty.
Reviewed by Bianca Rowlett
The Representation of Genocide in Graphic Novels: Considering the Role of Kitsch. By Laurike in ‘t Veld.
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Volume 3 Issue 2
The Avant-Garde Aesthetic of Vojtěch Mašek
Martha Kuhlman
Anarchist Fantasies: A Cognitive Analysis Of Fantasy To Promote Anarchism And Cultural Reformulation In Therefore Repent! A Post-Rapture Graphic Novel
Mike Borkent
Worlds Will Live, Worlds Will Die: Crisis on Infinite Earths and the Anxieties and Calamities of the Comic-Book Event
Sean Guynes
Anti-Manga: Sasaki Maki, Ishiko Junzō, and Avant-Garde Comics
Ryan Holmberg
From the Archives
The Greatest Team-Up Never Told? Paul Buhle Theorizes the New Left and Underground Comix
Paul Williams
Komix Kountermedia (1969)
Paul Buhle
From the Field
“The History and Appreciation of an Art Form”: Comics Studies with M. Thomas Inge
Jeffery Klaehn
Book Reviews
The Expanding Art of Comics: Ten Modern Masterpieces. By Thierry Groensteen. Translated by Ann Miller.
Reviewed by Colin Beineke
Incorrigibles and Innocents: Constructing Childhood and Citizenship in Progressive Era Comics. By Lara Saguisag.
Reviewed by Alexander Beringer
Gender and the Superhero Narrative. Edited by Michael Goodrum, Tara Prescott, and Philip Smith.
Reviewed by Sam Langsdale
Drawn to Purpose: American Women Illustrators and Cartoonists. By Martha H. Kennedy.
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Volume 3 Issue 1
SPECIAL ISSUE: THE COUNTERPUBLICS OF UNDERGROUND COMICS
Introduction
Leah Misemer and Margaret Galvan
Serial Critique: The Counterpublic of Wimmen’s Comix
Leah Misemer
“With Apologies to The Old Masters”: Jack Jackson’s Citational
Practice and the History of Comic Book History
Joshua Abraham Kopin
Christmas Card from a Cat Dancer in Mipple City: Omaha the Cat Dancer and Midwestern Counterpublics
Aaron Kashtan
X-Rated: Childhood and the “Adults Only” World of Underground
Lara SaguisagAdjacent Genealogies, Alternate Geographies: The Outliers of Underground Comix & World War 3 Illustrated
Margaret Galvan
Book Reviews
Animal Comics: Multispecies Storyworlds in Graphic Narratives. Edited by David Herman.
Reviewed by Essi Varis
Latinx Superheroes in Mainstream Comics. By Frederick Luis Aldama.
Reviewed by Jorge Santos
Veiled Superheroes: Islam, Feminism, and Popular Culture. By Sophia Rose Arjana with Kim Fox.
Reviewed by Hussein Rashid
Alan Moore, Out from the Underground: Cartooning, Performance, and Dissent. By Maggie Gray.
Reviewed by Jeremy M. Carnes
Medievalist Comics and the American Century. By Chris Bishop.
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Volume 2 Issue 3
Hybridized Popular Literature: Fotoromanzi and Cineromanzi in Postwar Italy and France
Jan Baetens
The Phantom Fights Apartheid: New Left Ideology, Solidarity Movements and the Politics of Race
Robert Aman
Lynching Iconography: Looking in Graphic Narrative
Rachel Kunert-Graf
Demythologizing Honest Abe: Visual Representations of Emotion in Noah Van Sciver’s The Hypo
Max Bledstein
Accessible Articulations: Comics and Disability Rhetorics in Hawkeye #19
Dale Jacobs and Jay Dolmage
From the Archives: The Queer Zine Archive Project
Rachel Miller
Book Reviews
Ethics in the Gutter: Empathy and Historical Fiction in Comics. By Kate Polak.
Reviewed by Martha Kuhlman
Graphic Novels for Children and Young Adults: A Collection of Critical Essays. Edited by Michelle Ann Abate and Gwen Athene Tarbox.
Reviewed by Jan Susina
The Secret Origins of Comics Studies. Routledge. Edited by Matthew J. Smith and Randy Duncan.
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Volume 2 Issue 2
Photography as Narrative, Aesthetic, and Document in Documentary bande dessinée: Emmanuel and François Lepage’s La
Lune est blanche (2014)
Margaret C. Flinn
New Energy for Indian Comics: A Qualitative Study at Comic Con India
Mara L. Thacker
“It was a Dark and Stormy Night . . .”: Intertextual Metafiction in and About Peanuts
Roy T. Cook
What’s Diagnosis Got to Do With it?: Psychiatry, Comics and Batman: The Killing Joke
Valentino L. Zullo
Comic Thanatography: Redrawing Agency, Dialogism, and Ethics in Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?
Tanya Kam
From the Archives: Deathless Deer
Book Reviews
Captain Marvel and the Art of Nostalgia. By Brian Cremins.
Reviewed by Keith McCleary
A Theory of Narrative Drawing. By Simon Grennan.
Reviewed by Eszter Szép
Superwomen: Gender, Power, and Representation. By Carolyn Cocca.
Superman: The Persistence of an American Icon. By Ian Gordon.
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Volume 2 Issue 1
Introduction
Walt Kelly’s Bridgeport
Brian Cremins
“If She Be Worthy”: The Illusion of Change in American Superhero Comics
Zak Roman and Ryan Lizardi
Rhyming Events: Contested Narratives and “Cli-Fi” in Richard McGuire’s Here
Philip Smith
All There Is: Drawings, Diagrams, and Short Essays on Kevin Huizenga’s Ganges: The River at Night
Andrew White
From the Classroom
Comics Skool USA: Selections
Kevin Huizenga
From the Archives
The Petty-Dunn Center for Social Cartooning at Syracuse University
David L. Prince
From the Field
The Way We Get By: Cara Bean
Book Reviews
The Comics of Hergé: When the Lines Are Not So Clear. Edited by Joe Sutliff Sanders.
Reviewed by Lukas Etter
Captain Marvel and the Art of Nostalgia. By Brian Cremins.
Reviewed by Keith McCleary
Panel to the Screen: Style, American Film, and Comic Books During the Blockbuster Era. By Drew Morton.
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Volume 1 Issue 3
Overwhelmed by a Cloak of Darkness: Steve Ditko’s Dark Karma and Cosmic inner space
Zack Kruse
“Good Times are Ahead. Or Behind. Because They Sure Aren’t Here”: Garfield and Negative Space
Michelle Ann Abate
Cut-Up and Redrawn: Reading Charles Burns’s Swipe Files
Benoît Crucifix
Nobody’s Home: Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book and Its Visual Adaptations
Alison Halsall
Asexuality and Its Discontents: Making the ‘Invisible Orientation’ Visible in Comics
Nicholas E. Miller
From the Archives
The Edwina Dumm Collection
Book Reviews
What Happens When Nothing Happens: Boredom and Everyday Life in Contemporary Comics. By Greice Schneider.
Reviewed by Margaret C. Flinn
“How Come Boys Get to Keep Their Noses?”: Women and Jewish American Identity in Contemporary Graphic Memoirs. By Tahneer Oksman.
Reviewed by Margaret Galvan
Reading Lessons in Seeing: Mirrors, Masks, and Mazes in the Autobiographical Graphic Novel. By Michael A. Chaney.
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Volume 1 Issue 2
Gilded Age Cartoons: Artistic Antecedents and Descendants
Julia diLiberti
After you, my dear fake Frenchmen: Frederick Burr Opper’s Alphonse and Gaston—and Leon!
Mark McKinney
“The Man Called Lucas”: Luke Cage, Mass Incarceration, and the Stigma of Black Criminality
Tracy L. Bealer
“No time to rest, vent or mourn”: Medical Intern Narratives and Graphic Medicine
Sathyaraj Venkatesan & Anu Mary Peter
Teaching Hypercomics: Comics as Information Organization in Digital Pegagogy
Damian Duffy
On Comicity
Colin Beineke
Book Reviews
The Greatest Comic Book of All Time: Symbolic Capital and the Field of American Comic Books. By Bart Beaty and Benjamin Woo.
Reviewed by Ben Saunders
Arresting Development: Comics at the Boundaries of Literature. By Christopher Pizzino.
Reviewed by Louie Dean Valencia-García
Disaster Drawn: Visual Witness, Comics, and Documentary Form. By Hillary L. Chute.
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Volume 1 Issue 1
Introduction
Walt Kelly’s Pogo and the Politics of De/Re-racialization in Midcentury Comics
Kerry Soper
A Contract with God, The First Kingdom, and the ‘Graphic Novel’: The Will Eisner / Jack Katz Letters
Andrew J. Kunka
The Political is Personal: Dual Domesticity in Dykes to Watch Out For
Susan Kirtley
Roundtable: Comics and Methodology
Blair Davis, Bart Beaty, Scott Bukatman, Henry Jenkins, Benjamin Woo
From the Archives
Before the Underground: Jay Lynch, Art Spiegelman, Skip Williamson and the Fanzine Culture of the Early 1960s
From the Field
Comics Professionals on Comics Studies
Book Reviews
The New Mutants: Superheroes and the Radical Imagination of American Comics. By Ramzi Fawaz.
Reviewed by Marc Singer
Michael Tisserand, Krazy: George Herriman, A Life in Black and White. Reviewed by Christopher Jeansonne
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