UPDATED CFP Comic Arts Conference (12/20/2021; Anaheim 4/1-3-2022)

UPDATED DEADLINE

Call for Papers, Presentations, and Participation

Comics Arts Conference

100- to 200-word abstracts for papers, presentations, and panels taking a critical or historical perspective on comics (juxtaposed images in sequence) are being accepted for a meeting of scholars and professionals at

WonderCon

Anaheim, CA         April 1–3, 2022

We seek proposals from a broad range of disciplinary and theoretical perspectives and welcome the participation of academic and independent scholars.  We also encourage the involvement of professionals from all areas of the comics industry, including creators, editors, publishers, retailers, distributors, and journalists.

The CAC at WonderCon is presently scheduled to take place in person; however, this may change, and presenters should be prepared to adapt to a virtual format.

The CAC is designed to bring together comics scholars, professionals, critics, and historians to engage in discussion of the comics medium in a forum that includes the public.

Proposals due December 20, 2021

CAC submission form: https://forms.gle/9MQhZiML76v8bp9T7

For more information, please contact:

Dr. Kathleen McClancy

comicsartsconference@gmail.com

or see our website at http://comicsartsconference.wp.txstate.edu

The Ages of Batman: Essays on the Dark Knight (1/10/2022)

The Ages of Batman: Essays on the Dark Knight

deadline for submissions: January 10, 2022

full name / name of organization: Joseph J. Darowski

contact email: agesofsuperheroes@gmail.com

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2021/11/02/the-ages-of-batman-essays-on-the-dark-knight

The editor of The Ages of Batman: Essays on the Dark Knight is seeking abstracts for essays that could be included in the upcoming collection. The essays should examine the relationships between the DC comic book adventures of Batman and the social era when those comic books were published. Analysis may demonstrate how Batman’s comic books stories and the creators who produced the comics embrace, reflect, or critique aspects of their contemporary culture. This will be a companion volume to existing essay collections in the series that have already focused on Superman, Wonder Woman, the X-Men, the Avengers, Iron Man, Hulk, the Justice League, Flash, and Black Panther.

Potential chapters include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Contextualizing the Bat: Influences and References in Batman’s First Year of Comics
• The Early Villains: Social Fears as Rogues Gallery
• Not-So-Grim-n-Gritty: The Silly Adventures of Batman
• The Cold War Hits Gotham: Social Influences on Popular Culture
• What Masculine Heroism Means in the Vietnam Era
• A Billionaire Hero in the 1980s
• It’s...Problematic: The Cultural Moment Surrounding The Killing Joke
• Sale and Loeb’s WhoDunnIt: Batman: The Long Halloween and Literary Mysteries
• A Death in the Family: Comic Books, Death, and Fan Interaction
• Barbara Gordon’s Changing Roles
• Batman as Corporation: The Expansion of the Batfamily
• Snyder’s Court of Owls and Changing the Face of Villainy in Gotham
• Batman/Catwoman and Romance in a (N)Everchanging Continuity

Essays should focus on stories featuring Batman from his own comic book series or team series. Issues of the Justice League or other teams that have included Batman as a member would be welcome for analysis, so long as the analysis focuses primarily on Batman, as would an analysis of any DC mini-series or event storyline that included Batman as a principal character. Similarly, essays focusing on characters that are closely associated with Batman would be acceptable. Robin, Batgirl, Nightwing, the Joker, and so one could serve as topics for essays in this collection.

Essays should solely focus on comic book adventures, not media adaptations of the characters. Furthermore, essays should look at a single period of comic book history, rather than drawing comparisons between different publication eras. For example, an essay that analyzed Batman comics from the early 1980s and contextualized them with what was happening in American society would be more likely to be accepted than an essay that contrasted 2020s comic books with 1940s comic books. The completed essays should be approximately 15-20 double-spaced pages in MLA format.

Abstracts (100-500 words) and CVs should be submitted by January 10, 2022.

This will be a peer-reviewed project.

Please submit via email to Joseph Darowski, agesofsuperheroes@gmail.com.

Publisher: McFarland & Company

 

Last updated November 2, 2021

CFP Gender Fluidity in Japanese Arts and Culture (1/31/2022)

Gender Fluidity in Japanese Arts and Culture

deadline for submissions: January 31, 2022

full name / name of organization: 

Dean Conrad, PhD and Sayuri Hirano / 平野早百合, MA.

contact email: japanbook@deanconrad.com

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2021/11/09/gender-fluidity-in-japanese-arts-and-culture

Brief

Abstract proposals are being sought from Japanese and non-Japanese scholars writing in English for a book exploring androgyny, ‘cross-dressing’, drag culture, trans-gender issues, sexual identities and other forms of gender fluidity that feature in Japanese arts and culture – past and present.

These may include, but are not limited to: male performances in female roles and plays on the traditional Kabuki and Nō theatre stages; in contrast to the modern Takarazuka Review, with its all-female company – a continuation of the traditional women-only companies that formed in response to restrictive, male-only theatre spaces. Modern pop-culture often inspires the fast-changing, gender-blending fashions of Harajuku with their unique play on media themes and icons. Those icons might in-turn include the androgynous manga and anime characters that seem to have inspired a generation of young film actors and J-pop idols.

Essays need not be confined to modern forms and ‘popular’ culture. Indeed, proposals are also encouraged from scholars offering historical perspectives on older arts, crafts and traditions. This may include religious stories, ancient myths and nature-based folklore – some of which gave rise to the hermaphroditic characters that have found their way, in one form or another, into those 21st century media. To what degree have these traditions served to disrupt a rigid society?

Proposals may draw on aspects of Japanese society by including forms of ‘forbidden love’ in poetry and literature, or the linguistic misunderstandings that can arise from non-gendered titles (san, sama, &c.) in an otherwise traditionally patriarchal society. There is evidence that the gender balance in Japanese society is shifting. As a result, proposals may make refrence to the recent trend for non-gendered clothes, make-up and accessories, the proliferation of bars hosted by transexual and transvestite women and men, or the growing phenomenon of the house-husband or stay-at-home dad. Are these societal responses to gender fluidity in arts and culture, or are they themselves agents of change?

Through the interplay of arts and culture, this book aims to explore the history, richness and complexity of cross-gender representation throughout Japanese society. We are open to proposals that examine any aspect of gender fluidity as it relates to that society – and its influence elsewhere.

A note on contributors

We value perspectives from scholars working within and outwith Japan, so we welcome proposals from both. In order to ensure opportunity for all, and a wide range of view-points, our intention is to divide chapter slots as evenly as possible between Japanese and non-Japanese scholars.

Abstract and final chapter instructions

Initial abstract proposals should be around 500 words. Please send these, together with a 100-word mini biography, to: japanbook@deanconrad.com by 31st Jan. 2022.

Chapters should be 6,000-7,000 words, plus references and notes (the latter should be kept to a minimum), written in American English, using MLA style. These should be submitted by 31st Dec. 2022.

Timeline

31st January 2022:      Abstract proposal and biog. (500 + 100 words) deadline;

28th February 2022:    Decisions made and essay requests issued;

31st December 2022:   Final chapters due.

 

Please send any comments or questions – in Japanese or English – to Sayuri Hirano and Dean Conrad at: japanbook@deanconrad.com

Last updated November 10, 2021

Out Now: IJoCA's Spring/Summer 2021 Number

The latest issue of IJoCA for Spring/Summer 2021 arrived this week. It can be purchased directly from the journal's website.

Contents (reposted from the journal's blog site) are as follows:

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMIC ART
Vol. 23, No. 1 Spring/Summer 2021

In Support of Their Fathers' and Mother's Legacies: 13 Offspring of China's Prominent Cartoonists Explain

John A. Lent with Xu Ying

1

Coping with Conflict: Boxing Heroes and German Comics in the Aftermath of the First World War

William Hamilton

79

"Any Children?": "The Family Circus" and the Problems of Parenthood

Michele Ann Abate

138

"Fragging" The Afghan War: Red Blood

Jose Alaniz

168

All You Need Is Kill, Not Love -Considering the Romantic Relationship in the Manga and Film Adaptations of Hiroshi Sakurazaka's Novel

Artur Skweres

204

Jason Little Discusses The Vagina, His NSFW Webcomic

Mike Rhode

229

The Border Separating Us: Autobiographical Comics of an Australian World War I Internment Camp

Aaron Humphrey and Simon Walsh

254

Tintin and the Jews (of Contemporary Literature)

Toby Juliff

271

Within and Between the Visual Metaphoricity of Comics: A Semiotic Approach to the Mahabharata in Amar Chitra Katha

Shivani Sharma

288

Dramatizing Ontology in 18 Days: Grant Morrison's Mahabharata

and the Battle to Save Eternity!

Jeff S. Wilson

313

The Role of Fox Feature Syndicate in the Implementation of the Comics Code Authority

Ignacio Fernandez Sarasola

334

An Interview with 2021 Oscar Nominee: Icelandic Artist, Gisli Darri Halldorsson

Alexandra Bowman

Edited by Michael Rhode

374

Remembrances of Things Past: Childhood in Graphic Memoirs

Kirsten Mollegaard

385

The Social Functions and Impacts of Popular Manga in Contemporary Japan: A Case of GOLDEN KAMUY

Kinko Ito

403

Slaying the Monster: Heroic Lesbian Narratives in World's Finest

Chadwick L. Roberts

Anita K. McDaniel

421

Poems, Comics and the Spaces Between: An Examination of the Interplay between Poem and Page

Angelo Letizia

447

The Oriental Superheroes: Political Questions in G. Willow Wilson's Cairo: A Graphic Novel and Ms. Marvel

Noran Amin

458

The Maternal-Feminine and Matrixial Borderspace in Megan Kelso's ''Watergate Sue"

Alisia Grace Chase

471

Morpheus Aeternorum: Dreams, Androgyny, and Their Characteristics in Sandman (Preludes & Nocturnes), by Neil Gaiman

Felipe Rodolfo Hendriksen

492

When Le Chat Was Put Among the Pigeons

Musings by Wim Lockefeer

509

Obituary & Remembrance of Manga Historian Shimizu Isao

Ronald Stewart

513

On the Passing of Comics Scholar Tom Inge

Mike Rhode

Marc Singer

Jose Alaniz

Charles Hatfield

Joseph Witek

Vijay Shah

Joe Sutliff Sanders

Michael A. Torregrossa

Randy Duncan

Brian Cremins

John A. Lent

520

Research Prompts

John A. Lent

531

New Light on the Soon-to-Be Famous Marie Duval

A Review Essay

David Kunzie

536

Book Reviews

Hector Fernandez L'Hoeste

Stephanie Burt

John A. Lent

Jean Sebastien

Charles W. Henebry

John A. Lent

Maite U rcaregui

Michael Rhode

John A. Lent

John A. Lent

Chris York

Laura Sayre

John A. Lent

553

International Journal of Comic Art Manuscript Preparation Guide

John A. Lent and Jaehyeon Jeong

592

CFP Comics Arts Conference WonderCon (12/1/2021; Anaheim 4/1-3/2022)

Comics Arts Conference WonderCon

Source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2021/11/03/comics-arts-conference-wondercon

deadline for submissions: December 1, 2021

full name / name of organization:  Comics Arts Conference

contact email: comicsartsconference@gmail.com

The Comics Arts Conference is now accepting 100- to 200-word abstracts for papers, presentations, and panels taking a critical or historical perspective on comics (juxtaposed images in sequence) for a meeting of scholars and professionals at WonderCon, in Anaheim, CA, April 1–3, 2022.  We seek proposals from a broad range of disciplinary and theoretical perspectives and welcome the participation of academic and independent scholars.  We also encourage the involvement of professionals from all areas of the comics industry, including creators, editors, publishers, retailers, distributors, and journalists.  The CAC at WonderCon is presently scheduled to take place in person; however, this may change, and presenters should be prepared to adapt to a virtual format.  The CAC is designed to bring together comics scholars, professionals, critics, and historians to engage in discussion of the comics medium in a forum that includes the public.  Proposals are due December 1, 2021, to our online submission portal at forms.gle/9MQhZiML76v8bp9T7 or via email.  For more information, please contact Kathleen McClancy at comicsartsconference@gmail.com or see our website at comicsartsconference.wp.txstate.edu.

Last updated November 5, 2021

RIP Tom Inge

I'm sorry to have missed this sooner. I only learned the news this weekend from the PCA/ACA's "In Memoriam" page, which posted the following:

M. Thomas Inge

Pioneering popular-culture scholar Milton Thomas Inge died May 15, 2021, in Richmond, Virginia, after suffering a fall at home. He was born March 18, 1936, in Newport News, Virginia. He received his B.A. in English and Spanish from Randolph-Macon College, in Ashland, Virginia, in 1959. He received M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Vanderbilt University in 1960 and 1964.

Tom served as an Instructor of English at Vanderbilt from 1962 to 1964, then as an Assistant and later Associate Professor of American Thought and Language at Michigan State University from 1964 to 1969. He was an Associate and later Full Professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University from 1969 to 1980 and chaired the English Department from 1974 to 1980. He was Professor and Chair of the Department of English at Clemson University from 1980 to 1984, then the Robert Emory Blackwell Professor of English and Humanities at Randolph-Macon College from 1984 until his death. He was a Resident Scholar in American Studies for the United States Information Agency from 1982 to 1984 and directed the USIA Summer Institute in American Studies in 1993, 1994, and 1995.

Tom’s many books include Donald Davidson: An Essay and a Bibliography (coauthor Thomas Daniel Young, Vanderbilt University Press, 1965); George Washington Harris’s High Times and Hard Times: Sketches and Tales (edited, Vanderbilt University Press, 1967); Agrarianism in American Literature (edited, Odyssey Press, 1969); Donald Davidson (coauthor Thomas Daniel Young, Twayne Publishers, 1971); the landmark three-volume Handbook of American Popular Culture (edited, Greenwood Press, 1978-1981; 2nd ed., 1989); Concise Histories of American Popular Culture (edited, Greenwood Press, 1982); Handbook of American Popular Literature (edited, Greenwood Press, 1988); Comics as Culture (University Press of Mississippi, 1990); Faulkner, Sut, and Other Southerners: Essays in Literary History (Locust Hill Press, 1992); Perspectives on American Culture: Essays on Humor, Literature, and the Popular Arts (Locust Hill Press, 1994); Anything Can Happen in a Comic Strip (Ohio State University Libraries, University Press of Mississippi, and Randolph-Macon College, 1995); Charles M. Schulz: Conversations (edited, University Press of Mississippi, 2000); The Humor of the Old South (coedited with Edward J. Piacentino, University Press of Kentucky, 2001); The Greenwood Guide to American Popular Culture (coedited with Dennis Hall, Greenwood Press, 2002); William Faulkner (Overlook Duckworth, 2006); Literature (editor, University of North Carolina Press, 2008, volume 9 in The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture); Charles M. Schulz’s My Life with Charlie Brown (edited, University Press of Mississippi, 2010); and Will Eisner: Conversations (edited, University Press of Mississippi, 2011).

Tom published dozens of scholarly articles and book chapters. Among the journals in which he published are American Literature, American Studies International, the International Journal of Comic Art, the Journal of American Culture, the Journal of Ethnic Studies, the Journal of Popular Culture, the Journal of Popular Film and Television, the Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, PMLA, the South Atlantic Review, Studies in American Culture, and Studies in Popular Culture. In addition, Tom published articles in Studies in American Humor and edited that journal for four years. He founded the journal Resources for American Literary Study in 1971 and the book series “Studies in Popular Culture,” “Great Comic Artists,” and “Conversations with Comic Artists” for the University Press of Mississippi. He edited the book series “American Critical Archives” for Cambridge University Press. He was a founder of the American Humor Studies Association and the Southern Studies Forum of the European Association for American Studies.

The M. Thomas Inge Papers are held as part of the Comic Arts Collection at the Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries. Tom is profiled by Michael Dunne in Pioneers in Popular Culture Studies, edited by Ray B. Browne and Michael T. Marsden (Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1999).

Tom won numerous awards for his research, including the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts Award for Distinguished Scholarship (2006), the Society for the Study of Southern Literature Richard Beale Davis Award for Distinguished Lifetime Service to Southern Letters (2008), and the Popular Culture Association Lynn Bartholome Eminent Scholar Award (2018).

Tom is survived by his wife, Donária Romeiro Carvalho Inge.

My interaction with Tom was mainly as a reader of his work, at least until recently when I reached out for help with a project on Connecticut Yankee comics. He was very generous in sharing his research and supportive of my own. I regret I will never able to receive feedback on those ideas from him.

Other comics scholars have posted about Tom on the blog of the International Journal of Comics Art. A further tribute to Tom (which details his career in comics) can be found on the Daily Cartoonist site. His home university also has a post in remembrance of Tom.

Call for Responses: Comics and Medieval Studies Survey (7/1/2021)

  Please forgive the cross-posting.

Call for Responses: Comics and Medieval Studies Survey

The Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture--in an attempt to further our outreach efforts--seeks to gather some information on experiences with the comics medium and uses of that material by teachers and/or scholars of Medieval Studies.

If you're willing to share, please complete the survey at https://tinyurl.com/Medieval-Comics-Survey no later than 1 July 2021.

More information on the Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture can be found at https://medievalinpopularculture.blogspot.com/.

The Medieval Comics Project is based at https://medieval-comics-project.blogspot.com/. We also maintain a listserv, the Medieval Comics Project Discussion List. Please sign-up at https://groups.io/g/medieval-comixlist.



If you have any questions or concerns on the survey or other related matters, please reach out to us at MedievalinPopularCulture@gmail.com or Comics.Get.Medieval@gmail.com.



Michael A. Torregrossa, Founder, Blog Editor, and Listserv Moderator, and The Comics Get Medieval Sessions Organizer

IJoCA for Fall/Winter 2020

Just released this month: International Journal of Comic Art Vol. 22, No. 2.

Source: http://ijoca.blogspot.com/2021/04/new-issue-of-ijoca-is-out-22-2.html

As always, the journal can be purchased at http://www.ijoca.net/.

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMIC ART
Vol. 22, No. 2 Fall/Winter 2020


Editor's Notes
1
Survilo and Historical Trauma in Contemporary Russian Comics
Jose Alaniz
5
Tintin: From Violent Communist-Hating Conservative to Radical Peacenik, Part 2
Marty Branagan
33
An Interview with Patricia Breccia
Hector Fernandez L'Hoeste
64
"The Fez, The Harem Pants, and the Embroidered Tie: Fashion and the Politics of Orientalism
in Three Francophone Graphic Novels"
Annabelle Cone
92
Far Out of the Box: The Comics of Chile's Marcela Trujillo (Maliki)
John A. Lent with Geisa Fernandes
134
The Characteristics of Japanese Manga
Natsume Fusanosuke
Translated by Jon Holt and Teppei Fukuda
164
Ordinary Enemies: Robert Kanigher, Garth Ennis, and the Myth of the Unblemished Wehrmacht
Stephen Connor

180
Re-invention of Indian Myths in the Superhero Comic Books of Nagraj
Pritesh Chakraborty
213
Watchmen: An Exploration of Transcendence in Comics
Christine Atchison
229
The 1936-1939 Spanish Civil War and American Comics
Francisco Saez de Adana and Michel Matly
261
Comix from the Cosmos: Interview with Barbara "Willy" Mendes
Kim Munson
284
Trying Times Require Re-inventiveness: Ways of Coping of Taiwan's Ling Qun
John A. Lent
336
"Reoccurring Dreams": Music and the Elegiac Voice in John Porcellino's Perfect Example
Brian Cremins
341
The Maternal-Feminine and Matrixial Borderspace in Megan Kelso's Watergate Sue
Alisia Grace Chase
351
How Sugiura's Ninja-Boy Comics Developed after the Asia-Pacific War
Kosei Ono
365
The Pedagogy and Potential of Educational Comics
Aaron Humphrey
375
To Play or Not to Play? That Is the Question:Perspectives on Organized Youth Sports in Comic Strips
Jeffrey O. Segrave
405
An Interview with India's Ghost Animation Studio about Their Short Film "Wade"
Alexandra Bowman
424
An Expert on Arrow: Critical Fan Activism and Gail Simone's Twitter
Peter Cullen Bryan
434
Is It a Bird? Is It a Plane? It's Jack the Ripper!
Andrew Edwards
451
Habibi Worth a Thousand Words, and a Few Words Worth a Thousand Tales
Safa Al-shammary
462
In Memory of Theresa Lee Wai-chun (1943-2020)
Wendy Siuyi Wong
476
Print Is Dead; Long Live Print!: Are Digital Comics Killing the Print Comics Industry?
Kyle Eveleth
482
Comics as a Window into Disposability: Some Thoughts
Angelo J. Letizia
496
Cartoons in the Time of Corona in India
Mrinal Chatterjee
509
The Wild Career Path of Taiwan's Tsai Chih-chung: Animator, Comic Strips and Books Creator, Physicist, now Monk
John A. Lent with Xu Ying
525


Book Reviews
John A. Lent
Janis Be Breckenridge
Bryan Bove
Christopher Roman
Tony Wei Ling
John A. Lent
Lizzy Walker
Elke Defever
John A. Lent
Cord A. Scott
John A. Lent
Matthew Teutsch
A. David Lewis
John A. Lent
Aaron Ricker
John A. Lent
531


Exhibition Reviews
Chris Yogerst
Lim Cheng Tju
Chaney Jewell and Cassandra Christ
582


Portfolio
590

IJoCA for Spring/Summer 2020

Released last fall, here are the contents for the International Journal of Comic Art Vol. 22, No. 1.

Source: http://ijoca.blogspot.com/2020/10/new-issue-of-ijoca-is-out-22-1.html

Cultural Imperialism Strikes Back: A South American Symposium



Cultural Imperialism Strikes Back: A South American Symposium

Martin Alejandro Salinas and Sebastian Horacio Gago

2

One World, Many Batmen: From Cultural Imperialism to the Culture of the Empire

Martin Alejandro Salinas

10

"What Does a Few Lives Matter?'': Notes on Two Comic-book Invasions of Hector Oesterheld (1974-1977)

Sebastian Gago

Translated by Alejandra Pina Mas and Martin Salinas

43

Graphic Narratives, a Tool of Imperialism in South America?

Deconstructing American Superheroes in Brazilian and Chilean Comics (1960-1970)

Ivan Lima Gomes

63

Writing the History of Comics: The Case of. the Di Tella Biennial (Buenos Aires, "1968)

Lucas R. Berone

Translated by Mariana de Madariaga and Lucas Berone

83

Disney Academy: Donald Duck as the Western Imperialism Paradigm

Rodrigo Browne S. and Rosmery-Ann Boegeholz C.

99

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Toxic Reading Material: Techniques Used by Society and Governments to Control Comic Books

Ignacio Fernandez Sarasola

115

Book Review Essay

Hector Fernandez L'Hoeste

154



Graphic Narratives in Sikh Comics: Iconography and Religiosity as a Critical Art Historical Enquiry

of the Sikh Comics Art Form

Jasleen Kandhari

170

Tintin: From Violent, Communist-Hating Conservative to Radical Peacenik

Marty Branagan

187

Lost in Modernity: Doodling in the Digital Age

Levi Obonyo and Njoki Chege

207

Sacrificing Healing: The Loss and Resilience of Yurok Healing in Chag Lowry and Rahsan Ekedal's Soldiers Unknown

Robyn Johnson

232

This Land Is Whose Land? Voices of Belonging in Three First-Generation American Graphic Memoirs

Mirvat Mohamed and Kirsten Mellegaard

257

Representations de l'autre solitude dans quelques BD et comics canadiens dont l'histoire se passe a Montreal (1st partie)

[Representations of the Other Solitude in Select Canadian Comics and BDs Which Take Place in Montreal (Part 1)]

Chris Reyns-Chikuma

274

Representations de l'autre solitude dans quelques BD et comics canadiens dont l'histoire se passe a Montreal (2· partie)

[Representation of the Other Solitude in Some Canadian BD and Comics Which Take Place in Montreal (Part 2)]

Chris Reyns-Chikuma

311

Chinese Comic Art Museums and Centers Part One: A Personal Mission

John A. Lent

347

Chinese Comic Art Museums and Centers Part Two: The China Comics Village

Yan Chuanming, Xu Ying, John A. Lent

358

Anime and Gender Roles in Kuwaiti Islamic Culture: A Conflict of Cultural Values?

Ahmed Baroody

366

The Outdatedness of Superheroism? The Condition of the Superhero Myth: Past and Today

Michal Chudolinski

401

Hans Jaladara, Creator of Indonesia's Panji Tengkorak

Iwan Zahar and Toni Masdiono with John A. Lent

413

Ganesh TH, the Author of Si Buta dari Goa Hantu: The Most Celebrated Comics of the Indonesian Comics Golden Age

lwan Zahar and Toni Masdiono

424

Nearly 50 Years Ago

An Early Glimpse of China's Maoist Comics: A Review

David Kunzie

432

"You're a star if you can louse up 70% of the time": Sport in Jeff MacNelly's "Shoe"

Jeffrey 0. Segrave and John A. Cosgrove

439

Flexible Comics?: Sequential Images on Screen Media

Jakob F. Dittmar

460

A Transmedia Case Study: Batman - The Animated Series

Jason D. DeHart

475

Remembrances

John A. Lent

484



The Printed Word

John A. Lent

489

Book Reviews

Maite Urcarcgui

Marie Sartain

Misha Grifka Wander

John A. Lent

Edward Salo

Sam Cowling

Patrick ljima-Washburn

492

Exhibition Review Essay

Exhibitions of the 47th Angouleme International Comics Festival

Nick Nguyen

511

Exhiibition Reviews

Nick Nguyen



525