Inks for Summer 2022

The latest issue of Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society, volume 6, number 2, for Summer 2022, arrived recently. It is available by subscription from the Ohio State University Press and on Project MUSE (from this link) if you're lucky enough to have access.

Here are the contents:

Inks Volume 6, Issue 2, Summer 2022

Table of Contents

Zooming in on Ben Passmore

Alexandra Chiasson

pp. 101-118

DOI: 10.1353/ink.2022.0009

Barbarella: Sexual Revolution or Editorial Revolution?

Sylvain Lesage, Margaret C. Flinn

pp. 119-141

DOI: 10.1353/ink.2022.0010

"It Was as Much Ours …": Reader Contributions to Teen Humor Fashion Comics

John A. Walsh

pp. 142-171

DOI: 10.1353/ink.2022.0011

From the Field: Why Is Manga So Interesting?

Natsume Fusanosuke, Jon Holt, Teppei Fukuda

pp. 172-180

DOI: 10.1353/ink.2022.0012

Two Chapters from Why Is Manga So Interesting: Its Expression and Grammar: (Manga wa naze omoshiroi no ka: Sono hyōgen to bunpō, 1997)

Natsume Fusanosuke, Jon Holt, Teppei Fukuda

pp. 181-198

DOI: 10.1353/ink.2022.0018

Civilized Monsters: These Savage Shores and the Colonialist Cage

Ritesh Babu

pp. 199-215

DOI: 10.1353/ink.2022.0013

Panthers, Hulks and Ironhearts: Marvel, Diversity and the 21st Century Superhero by Jeffrey A. Brown (review)

Christopher Lopez

pp. 216-219

DOI: 10.1353/ink.2022.0014

The Comics World: Comic Books, Graphic Novels, and Their Publics ed. by Benjamin Woo, and Jeremy Stoll (review)

Zachary J. A. Rondinelli

pp. 220-222

DOI: 10.1353/ink.2022.0015

Robin and the Making of American Adolescence by Lauren R. O'Connor (review)

Stephen M. Zimmerly

pp. 222-225

DOI: 10.1353/ink.2022.0016

Contributors

pp. 229-230

DOI: 10.1353/ink.2022.0017

CFP Edited Collection: BOOM! #*@&! Splat: Comics and Violence (expired)

Sorry. Yet another missed call.

Edited Collection: BOOM! #*@&! Splat: Comics and Violence
https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2018/04/11/edited-collection-boom-splat-comics-and-violence

deadline for submissions:
May 31, 2018

full name / name of organization:
Jo Davis-McElligatt, PhD & Jim Coby, PhD

contact email:
joannacdavis@gmail.com



BOOM! #*@&! Splat: Comics and Violence

In the introduction to Seduction of the Innocent, Frederic Wertham suggested that “chronic stimulation, temptation and seduction by comic books [...] are contributing factors to many children’s maladjustment” (10). Anxious that children would be forever corrupted by the content of comics, Wertham identified representations and structures of violence as among his primary objections to comics narrative: “Here is violence galore, violence in the beginning, in the middle, and at the end” (8). Though anxieties regarding representations of violence in comics have largely fallen to the wayside, thematic and symbolic visual depictions of violence remain central to the comics form. From Captain America punching his way into the American consciousness to Phoebe Gloeckner’s depictions of sexual abuse, violence is an integral aspect of the comic medium. Though scholars such as Hillary Chute, Harriet Earle, and Martin Barker have addressed specific trends and/or themes related to violence in comics, such as war, trauma, horror comics, no sustained scholarly inquiry has yet to address this issue.

Our collection, in taking an inclusive and wide-ranging approach to both violence and comics, seeks to understand how the confluence of words and images might ask readers to consider violence in ways unique to the medium. We welcome scholarship from academics of comics and other fields alike. A notable academic press has expressed enthusiastic interest in this project.

Potential avenues for exploration include:

• Form and structure elements (i.e., symbolia, jagged speech balloons, emanata)
• Receptions of violence in comics genres (e.g., horror, superhero, war, and adventure)
• Cultural production and contexts
• Cartoon and slapstick violence (e.g., Krazy Kat, Calvin and Hobbes)
• Comics and war/witness (e.g., Joe Sacco, Marjane Satrapi, Art Spiegelman)
• Physical and psychological family violence (e.g. Alison Bechdel, Craig Thompson, Will Eisner)
• Sexual violence (e.g., Phoebe Gloeckner, Justin Green)
• Superhero violence (e.g., Alan Moore, Frank Miller, Jack Kirby, Marvel/DC)
• History and violence (e.g., John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, & Nate Powell, Keiji Nakazawa, Chester Brown)
• The grotesque and/or bizarre (e.g., Daniel Clowes, Jason, Charles Burns)
• Pedagogical approaches to teaching violence in comics

Interested parties should submit bio of 150-200 words and an abstract of approximately 300-500 words to Joanna Davis-McElligatt (jcdmce@louisiana.edu) and Jim Coby (james.coby@uah.edu) by May 31. Contributors will be notified no later than July 30. Completed essay drafts (4000-5000 words) will be due December 15th, 2018.

CFP Mad Magazine collection (9/15/2015)

CFP: Book on Mad Magazine
Monday, June 8, 2015
https://networks.h-net.org/node/13784/discussions/71888/cfp-book-mad-magazine

Call for papers for a book on Mad magazine. We are looking for scholarly examinations of the magazine, its humor, its artists, its cultural and political impact, and its influence. The book is under consideration by a major university press, and will expand what was covered in a recent special issue of Studies in American Humor. Here is the link to the contents of that issue: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/studamerhumor.issue-30

Possible topics include the following:  feminist approaches; racial issues; humor types/genres/media; movie and TV parodies; recurring features, such as “Spy vs. Spy”; examinations of specific artists/writers; precursors; legacy/influence; and others.

Please send queries or proposals by September 15, 2015 to Judith Yaross Lee, the editor of Studies in American Humor:  leej@ohio.edu

Judith Yaross Lee
Ohio University
Email: leej@ohio.edu