"WITH GREAT POWER THERE MUST ALSO COME -- GREAT RESPONSIBILITY!"

Stan Lee, "Spider-Man!" Amazing Fantasy No. 15 (Sept. 1962)

Wednesday, April 28, 2021

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

-----



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