Now Available IJoCA for Spring Summer 2023

The current issue of the International Journal of Comic Art was released last month. Please support the journal by checking out the contents list for Vol. 25, No. 1 (Spring/Summer 2023) from its blog (accessible from this link) and consider placing an order for a print or digital subscription.

Out Now: IJoCA for Fall/Winter 2022

The current issue of the International Journal of Comic Art was released last month. Please support the journal by checking out the contents list for Vol. 24, No. 2 (Fall/Winter 2022) from its blog (accessible from this link) and consider placing an order for a print or digital subscription.

New Issue of IJOCA for Spring/Summer 2022

The current issue of the International Journal of Comic Art was released last month. Please support the journal by checking out the contents list for Vol. 24, No. 1 (Spring/Summer 2022) from its blog (accessible from this link) and consider placing an order for a print or digital subscription.

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

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

IJoCA Fall/Winter 2019

The latest number of the International Journal of Comic Art is now available to subscribers and for purchase at http://www.ijoca.net/.

Full contents from the IJoCA Blog are as follows:

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMIC ART
Vol. 21, No. 2 Fall/Winter 2019
Editor's Notes
John A. Lent
1

Encrumbed by the Signifying Monkey: Con Men, Cackling Clowns, and the Exigencies of Desire in the Comics of Robert Crumb
Andrew Perry
4

Initial Investigation of Political Cartoons and Illustrations in the Anti-Extradition Bill Protest in Hong Kong
Justin, Chiu-tat Wong
47

War, Romance, and Everyday Life in Beirut's Emerging Alt-Comix Scene
Jonathan Guyer
74

Invisible, Unseeing, Alienated: Mexico and William S. Burroughs in Bernardo Fernandez's Uncle Bill
Ryan Prout
91

Underground Cartoonists Exhibit in the Soviet Union, 1990
Gilbert Shelton
115

Italian Underground, The Secret Life of ltalian Comics, 1968-1978
Simone Castaldi
123

The Intrigue Surrounding China's Ink Wash Painting Animation
John A. Lent and Xu Ying
149

Patriarchal Ideology in Kenya's Editorial Cartoons: A Cultural Studies Approach
Joseph N. Nyanoti
169

Out the Window: Illustrating the Realities of Alzheimer's in Paco Roca's Arrugas

Janis Be Breckenridge

Devyani Gupta
178

I'm Blackety Black Y'all: Conventions of the Superhero in the CW's "Black Lightning"
Haley Hulan
202

The Geek Culture in the Urban Environment: The Comics' Characters in Cranio's Graffiti
Joiio Batista Freitas Cordosa
Evandro Gabriel Izidoro Merli
Lucas Scavone
221

Portraying Social Issues: A Heuristic Study of Contemporary Cartoons in India
Mrinal Chatterjee
234

Becoming a Man: The Allure of Muscular Masculinity in Manga by Ikki Kajiwara
Noboru Tomonari
243

Generative Comics: Introduction and Analysis
Malik Nairat and Palle Dahlstedt
268

"Ao Correr da Pena"--"With a Stroke of the Pen" Drawing Vila Franca De Xira and Its People
Marlene Pohle
295

Commentary
I Have Much To Tell You: Reflections on Cartoonists Zapiro and Khalid Albaih
Louise C. Larsen
315

An Interview with M. Thomas Inge
Brian Baynes
331

My Father, Mi Gu, A Masterful Cartoonist
Zhu Yaozhou
Translated by Xu Ying
354

Japan's Country Image: Perceptions of Filipino Early Generations and Anime University Student-Viewers
Joanna Luisa B. Obispo
370

The Skull and the Elephant: The Significance of The Punisher in American Political Eras
Cord Scott
397

Remembrances
13 Major Blows to the World of Comic Art
John A. Lent
411

The Printed Word
John A. Lent
440

Book Reviews
Carlotta Vacchelli
Radmila Stetlcova
John A. Lent
Catherine E. Corder
Stephen Connor
John A. Lent
Xu Ying
444

Exhibition and Media Reviews
Edited by Mike Rhode
468

Exhibition Reviews
Mike Rhode
Mike Rhode
Carli Spina
473

Correction
496

Portfolio
497

IJoCA Spring/Summer 2019

Catching up again.

Here are the contents for the International Journal of Comic Art Vol. 21, No. 1 for Spring/Summer 2019 as posted on the IJoCA site (http://www.ijoca.net/new/sub3_past.html#vol21no1).

It is a massive issue totaling 840 pages and can be purchased from the publisher at http://www.ijoca.net/new/sub4_subscript.html. Subscriptions are also available at the same link.




Ronald Stewart 

Itō Hirobumi’s Nose: Syphilis in Early 20th Century Japanese Cartoons


Paul M. Malone 

“You Are Leaving the French Sector”: Flix’s Spirou in Berlin and the Internationalization of German Comics


Anton Kannemeyer 

As I Please: A Personal Reflection on Censorship


Annabelle Cone 

The “Bobo” (bourgeois-bohème) as Post-Modern Figure? Gentrification and Globalization in Dupuy and Berberian’s Monsieur Jean and Boboland


Tania Pérez-Cano

Graphic Testimonies of the Balsero Crisis of 1994: Narratives of Cuban Detainees at the Guantánamo Naval Base


Ana Merino 

Comics Reinventing Creativity in the Museum: Some Thoughts about the Show “Viñetas Desbordadas/Overflowing Panels”


Jon Holt 

Ishii Takashi, Beyond 1979: Ero Gekiga Godfather, GARO Inheritor, or Shōjo Manga Artist?


Daniel F. Yezbick 

Of Bears, Birds, and Barks: Animetaphoric Antagonism and Animalscéant Anxieties within Dell Funny Animal Franchise Comics


John A. Lent 

Wang Ning, Beijing Total Vision Culture Spreads Co. Ltd., and the Transnationalization of Chinese Comic Books


Alvaro Alemán and Eduardo Villacís 

Pointed Language: Reading Paola Gaviria’s Virus Tropical (2009) from the Perspective of the Visual Protocols of the Graphic Novel


Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste 

On Butterflies, Viruses, and Visas: Comics and the Perils of Diasporic Imagined Communities


Anu Sugathan 

The City and the Medium of Comics: Depiction of Urban Space in Sarnath Banerjee’s Corridor and The Barn Owl’s Wondrous Capers


Dietrich Grünewald (Translated by Christina Little)

Crossing Borders: Graphic Novels Quoting Art


Kent Worcester

That Chameleon Quality: An Interview with R. Sikoryak


Sara Dallavalle 

Popular Format and Auteur Format in Italian Comics. The Case of Magnus


Sam Cannon and Hugo Hinojosa Lobos 

Chile’s Military Dictatorship and Comics as Alternative Methods of Memorialization: Critical Approaches from Contemporary Chilean Graphic Novels


Leila Sadegh Beigi 

Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis and Embroideries: A Graphic Novelization of Sexual Revolution across Three Generations of Iranian Women


Mathieu Li-Goyette 

A Sublime in Tension Around Alexandre Fontaine Rousseau and Francis Desharnais’ Les Premiers Aviateurs


Michelle Ann Abate 

“They’re Quite Strange in the Larval Stage”: Children and Childhood in Gary Larson’s “The Far Side”


Magnus Nilsson 

Marxism Across Media: Characterization and Montage in Variety Artwork’s Capital in Manga


Debarghya Sanyal 

The Desi Archie: Selling India’s America to America’s India


Sina Shamsavari

Gay Male Porno Comics: Genre, Conventions, and Challenges


Anno Moyoco Yasuko Akiyama 

Ambitious Women in Male Manga Magazines: Sakuran and Hataraki-Man


Aimee Vincent 

“Hey Kids, Patriarchy!”: Satire and Audience on the Back Covers of Bitch Planet


Chad A. Barbour

The Fine Art of Genocide: Underground Comix and U.S. History as Horror Story


John Darowski

Superman’s Remediation of Mid-20th Century American Identity


Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste 

A Matter of Affect: Illustrated Responses to the Immigration Debacle


Bi Keguan (Edited by Bi Weimin) (Translated by Xu Ying)

Random Notes of the Editorial Office of China’s Manhua Magazine


Chu Der-Chung (Zola Zu) with John A. Lent (Translation by Xu Ying)85

The Chus: A Family Teeming with Cartoonists


Alvaro Alemán and Eduardo Villacís 

TFaith in Comics: Ex-voto Religious Offerings and Comic Art


Barbara Zocal Da Silva 

Translated Hispano-American Comics in Brazil


Conversation with Jan Ziolkowski and Ariana Chaivaranon 

An Afternoon with R. O. Blechman


John Gardner 

Kennedy Conspiracy Comics: ¡en Español!


Michela Canepari 

The Myth of Frankensteinfrom Mary Shelley to Gris Grimly: Some Intersemiotic and Ideological Issues


The Best We Could Do: A Mini-Symposium

Isabelle Martin 

The Role of Water in the Construction of Refugee Subjectivity in Thi Bui’s The Best We Could Do


Debarghya Sanyal 

A Burden of Tales: Memories, Trauma, and Narratorial Legacies in The Best We Could Do and Munnu


Francesca Lyn 

The Fragmentary Body: Traumatic Configurations in Autobiographical Comics by Women of Color


A. David Lewis 

A Graphic Medicine Prescription


Pioneers in Comics Scholarship

Kosei Ono 

My Life with American Comics: How It Started


Shefali Elizabeth Mathew 

Nature of Reality in the Graphic: “Calvin and Hobbes”


Introduced by Jochen Garcke 

The Mindset of a Professional Exhibition Curator


Remembrances

Licia Citti 

One Life, Many Loves: Dario Mogno’s Passion for Cinematography, Publishing, Comics, and Cuba


John A. Lent 

The Printed Word


Shawn Gilmore; David Kunzle 

Review Essays


Jean-Paul Gabilliet 

Exhibition Review Essay


Rachel Kunert-Graf; Stephen Connor; Kirsten Møllegaard; John A. Lent; Maite Urcaregui

Book Reviews


Carli Spina 

Exhibition and Media Reviews (edited by Mike Rhode)


Correction

IJoCA Fall-Winter 2018

The latest number of the International Journal of Comic Art arrived recently. Full contents list for Volume 20, No. 2 follows from their blog at http://ijoca.blogspot.com/2019/03/international-journal-of-comic-art-20-2.html. (Do also see their site to subscribe.)

A 20-Year Harvest of Comic Art Scholarship: International Journal of Comic Art-1999-2018
John A. Lent
l
A Symposium on Political Cartoons
Edited by John A. Lent
Six in a Row? That Has to Be Some Kind of Record!
Rob Rogers
44
The Editorial Cartoon's Fading Impact - The State of Play in Australia at the Federal Election of 2016 and Beyond
Haydon Manning and Robert Phiddian
57
The New Wave of Investigative Cartooning in South Korea
John A. Lent
90
Drawing Chinese Political Cartoons in Japan: Blessing in Disguise or Trade-off?
Benjamin Wai-ming Ng
110
The Politics of Underground Comix and the Environmental Crisis
Leonard Rifas
128
Mark Knight vs Serena Williams - Crossing the Line: Offensive and Controversial Cartoons in the 21st Century - "The View from Australia" - Part Two
Richard Scully
151
Morgan Chua (1949-2018) and Political Cartooning in Singapore
Lim Cheng Tju
177
Cartooning Poverty: Are Cartoonists Helping Sustainable Development in Egypt?
Sara S. Elmaghraby
181
"Hippies" and Pacifism in Igor Kolgarev's Militariisk Comics
Jose Alaniz
192
Discovering Tom Browne and His Postcards
Milind Ranade
207
Beyond the Printed Page: Dementia, Graphic Medicine, and Digital Comics
Jeffrey SJ Kirchoff
222
Reading Between the Lines: Drawing on the Horrors of Disappearance in "Un asesino anda suelto"
Janis Breckenridge and Maia Watkins
235
A Chat with Izar Lunacek of Slovenia
Mike Rhode
256

A Brief History of Slovenian Comics
Izar Lunacek
261
Currier & Ives's Darktown Series: Recovering White Social Capital through Violent Satire
Melanie Hernandez
268
Superhero Sentimentalism. Analyzing the Social Media Nostalgia for the First Wave of American Comics in Poland
Tomasz Zaglewski
290
Navigating Jimmy Corrigan: Time, Space, and Puzzles, Including Pagination
Jean Braithwaite
312
A Cartoonist Chronicler of Cartoonists' Confabs
Marlene Pohle
342
March Graphic Novel: "American History Lives Again"
William H. Foster III
360
Malice, Metaphysics, and Mengele - Holocaust Motifs and the Renunciation of Evil in EC Horror Comics
Steve Danziger
373
Bishie Man or Woman, It Matters Not: Grotesque Resistance to Heteronormative Love
in Yu Wo's 1/2 Prince
Robyn Johnson
399
Liminality and Meta-fiction in Comics: The Ayotzinapa Case by Augusto Mora
Citlaly Aguilar Campos
443
The V Mask in Translation: From Commercial to Subversive Systems
Joilo Batista Freitas Cardoso and Caio Mattos Moreira Cardoso
464
Intersections of Sex and Violence in Preacher
Ken Junior Lipenga
478
Crime News: Blaming Comic Books for Crimes Committed During the "Golden Age"
Ignacio Fernandez Sarasola
493
Behind the Scenes of the "War in Comics" Exhibit: An Interview with Canada's Andrew Loman and Irene Velentzas
J.T.H. Connor
518
Art Toy as Anatomical Sketch
Paola Moreno Izaguirre
525
Legendary Hollywood Designer Syd Mead's Important Contributions to Landmark Anime
Northrop Davis
536
Charles M. Schulz: Cartoons Without Peanuts
Barry Pearl

542

Reminiscences
John A. Lent
561
The Printed Word
John A. Lent
571
A Review Essay
David Kunzie
574


Book Reviews
Kirsten Mollegaard
Dominick Grace
Mike Rhode
Varsha Singh
Jose Alaniz
590


Exhibition and Media Reviews
Edited by Mike Rhode
Mike Rhode
Dana Jeri Maier
Carli Spinn
Emily Lauer
613

IJoCA for Fall/Winter 2017

One more issue to catch up on:

Here are rhe contents for the Fall/Winter 2017 number of IJoCA. Again, the listing is reproduced from the journal's blog at http://ijoca.blogspot.com/2018/03/international-journal-of-comic-art-vol.html.

International Journal of Comic Art Vol. 19, No. 2 Fall/Winter 2017
Editor's Notes
John A. Lent
1

Applying the Lasso of Truth to The Secret History of Wonder Woman by Jill Lepore
Nicky Wheeler-Nicholson
8

Of Politics and Presidents in William Moulton Marston's Wonder Woman
Trina Robbins
46

Saudi Arabia's Role in Advancing Comics
Afra S. Alshiban
51

Re-imagining the Ku Klux Klan in Chinese Media through the 1950s
Patrick Nash
78

The Film Noir's Aesthetics in a Graphic Novel: The Case of Angelus Hostis (2012)
Wladimir Chavez Vaca
97

In the Past the Devil Has Won: Analysis of Seishi Kishimoto's Satan and Savior in 0-Parts Hunter
Robyn Johnson
124

Comics in an Unexpected Place: Mongolia
Dan Erdenebal
148

The History of Gay Male Comics in the United States from Before Stonewall to the 21st Century
Sina Shamsavari
163

Drawing Memories. The "Comics for Identity" Project in Argentina as an Ethical and Aesthetical Challenge
Pablo Turnes
202

Scalpels and Pens:
Tools of Brazilian Surgeon/Cartoonist Ronaldo Cunha Dias
John A. Lent
213

Women in Cartoons -- Liang Baibo and the Visual Representations of Women in Modern Sketch
Martina Caschera
224

By the Power of Lailies: History and Evolution of Women Characters in Bangladeshi Comics
Tahseen Salman Choudhury
253

A Tribute to Trizophrenia: Sport in Jef Mallett's Comic Strip "Frazz"
Jeffrey 0. Segrave
John A. Cosgrove
269

Wang Zimei and Sun Zhijun: Cartoonists Hidden in Chinese History
John A. Lent and Xu Ying
286

Peak TV and Anime: Why It Matters
Northrop Davis
311

Modular, Proportional, Patterning: Representation of Zhang Guangyu's Ornamental Style in His Comics
Hongyan Sun
341

History and Popular Memory. Alternative Chronicle of Mexico City in the Comics of Gabriel Vargas
Laura Nallely Hernandez Nieto
Ivan Facundo Rubinstein
357

Art and Avarice: Tracing Careers in the Indian Comics World
Jeremy Stoll
372

A Turkish Comic Strip: "Abdtilcanbaz"
Tolga Erkan
381

Pang Bangben: "This Old Man Can Do All Kinds of Art"
John A. Lent and Xu Ying
403

Major Lazer: Animation in Electronic Music as a Transmedia Resource
Citlaly Aguilar Campos
415

First Lesson of the Sea, Always Bring a Spare Pencil: Analyzing Navy Culture through Cold War Cartoons
Patrick Shank
428

Sequence Side of Cergam: A Case Study of "Kraman" by Teguh Santosa
Toni Masdiono and lwan Zahar
466

The Printed Word
John A. Lent
475

Book Reviews
John A. Lent
Janis Breckenridge
Mel Gibson
Michael Rhode
483

Exhibition and Media Reviews
Edited by Michael Rhode
493

IJoA Spring/Summer 2017

Catching up...

Here are the contents of the Spring/Summer 2017 issue of IJoCA. Listing reproduced from the IJoCA blog at http://ijoca.blogspot.com/2017/09/international-journal-of-comic-art-19-1.html.

International Journal of Comic Art
Vol. 19, No. 1 Spring/Summer 2017


Freedom To Cartoon: An Endangered Concept
A Symposium
Edited by John A. Lent
1

Global Infringements on the "Right to Cartoon": A Research Guide
John A. Lent
4

From Socialism to Dictatorship: Editorial Ideologies in Chilean Science Fiction and Adventure Comics
Camila Gutierrez Fuentes
71

La Figura del Presidente Salvador Allende.Caricatura Politica e Imagenes Fatldicas
Jorge Montealegre I.
87

Control over Comic Books in Spain during the Franco Dictatorship (1939-1975)
Ignacio Fernandez Sarasola
95

Early Censorship of Comics in Brazil and Spain and Their Use as an Educational Resource as an Escape
Cristiana de Almeida Fernandes, Vera Lucia dos Santos Nojima, Ana Cristina dos Santos Malfacini, and Maria da Conceicao Vinciprova Fonseca
130

Two Life Times and 15 Years: A Cuban Prisoner's Coping Through Cartoons
John A. Lent
159

American Infection: The Swedish Debate over Comic Books, 1952-1957
Ulf Jonas Bjork
177

Seduced Innocence: The Dutch Debate about Comics in the 1940s and 1950s
Rik Sanders (Translated by Melchior Deekman)
190

Pioneers in Comic Art Scholarship
"Acquire the Widest Possible Comics Culture": Au Interview with Thierry Groensteen
John A. Lent
205

Pioneers in Comic Art Scholarship
The Multi-Varied, 50-Year Career of a Fan-Researcher of Comic Art
Fred Patten
219

Gutter Ghosts and Panel Phantasms: Horror, Haunting, and Metacomics
Lin Young
243

World War II in French Collective Memory: The Relevance of Alternate History Comics.
An Analysis of the Wunderwaffen Saga
Simon Desplanque
270

Genre Hybridity as the Scheme of the Comics Industry
Jaehyeon Jeong
290

On the Pastoral Imaginary of a Latin American Social Democracy: Costa Rica's El Sabanero
Hector Fernandez L'Hoeste
309

Between Fine and Comic Art. On the Arab Page: Much Connects Art and Comics in Egypt and the Wider Middle East
Jonathan Guyer
334

"Art Is My Blood": A Short Interview with Nora Abdullah, Pioneer Female Malay Comic Artist
Lim Cheng Tju
345

Comics Theory for the Ages: Text and Image Relations in Medieval Manuscripts
Jesse D. Hurlbut
353

Examining Film Engagement Through the Visual Language of Comics
R. Brad Yarhouse
384

Hemispheric Latinx Identities and Transmedial Imaginaries: A Conversation with Frederick Luis Aldama
Janis Breckenridge
405

In Search of the Missing Puzzle Pieces: A Study of Jimmy Liao's Public Art Installations in Taiwan
Hong-Chi Shiau and Hsiang-wen Hsiao
413

Far from the Maddening Crowd: Guy Delisle as Cultural Reporter
Kenan Kocak
428

Portrayal of Massacre: A Comparative Study between Works of Joe Sacco, Art Spiegelman, and Fumiyo Kono
Sara Owj
479

Toriko's Database World
Bryan Hikari Hartzheim
499

Beyond Images and Gags: Comic Rhetoric in "Luann"
Veronica Anzaldua
525

Happy Ike, The Pink Kid and the American Presence in Early British Comics
Michael Connerty
538

The Swedish Phantom: Sweden's Domestication of an American Comic Book Hero
Ulf Jonas Bjork
547

Start Spreading the News: Marvel and New York City
Barry Pearl
562

Honore Daumier: Caricature and the Conception/Reception of "Fine Art"
Jasmin Cyril
575

China's Cartooning in the War of Resistance against the Japanese Invasion
Zola Zu
586

Belgian bande dessinee and the American West
Annabelle Cone
595

The Printed Word
John A. Lent
620

Book Reviews
M. Thomas Inge
David Lewis
John A. Lent
Lim Cheng Tju
Janis Breckenridge
Benoit Crucifix
Christopher Lee Proctor II
Michael J. Dittman
Leslie Gailloud
627

Exhibition and Media Reviews
Edited by Michael Rhode
Maite Urcaregui
Pascal Lefevre
Keith Friedlander
647

Portfolio
655

IJoCA for Spring/Summer 2018

Another massive issue for the latest number of the International Journal of Comics Art. Contents list from http://ijoca.blogspot.com/2018/08/international-journal-of-comic-art-201.html. The issue includes a section on "Transnational Graphic Narratives" and a selection of open topic pieces, including a tribute to the late Tom Roberts, UConn's long-time resident comics expert.

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMIC ART
Vol. 20, No. 1 Spring/Summer 2018


Transnational Graphic Narratives
Edited by Daniel Stein, Lukas Etter, and Michael Chaney
1
Transnational Graphic Narrative
A Special Symposium
Daniel Stein, Lukas Etter, Michael A. Chaney
4
Sound Symbolic Words in Translation
Subir Dey and Prasad Bokil
17
Misreading with the President: Re-reading the Covers of John Lewis's March
Michael A. Chaney
25
Transnational Graphic Narratives from Down Under
Astrid Boger
43
The Inventibility of Other Audiences: Thoughts on the Popular Ideology of Fiction in Transnational
Comic Books, on the Occasion of Captain Marvel #1
Stephan Packard
65
Domesticating Manga? Japanese Comics and Transnational Publishing
Casey Brienza
81
Kawaii Snow White and an Umbrella Called "Dornroschen": Manga Adaptations of Grimms' Fairy Tales
Franca Feil

98
Narratives and Identity: A Case Study on Malaysian Autobiographical Comics
Suraya Md Nasir
118
Transnational Banlieue Bande Dessinee in the 21st Century: An Introduction
Jocelyn Wright
139
Cartooning Resistance: Irony and Authentication in Zerocalcare's Kobane Calling
Johannes C. P. Schmid
153
Barbara Stok's Graphic Biography Vincent: A Transnational Campaign
Tobias J, Yu-Kiener
170
Transatlantic Exchanges and Cultural Constructs: Vertigo Comics and the British Invasion
Isabelle Licari-Guillaume
189
Alcatena's Malon: National Identity and Cultural Work in the American Comics Industry
Amadeo Gandolfo and Pablo Turnes
204
From the Post-revolutionary Mexico to the American Way of Life: Analyzing Los Superlocos by Gabriel Vargas
Laura Nallely Hernandez Nieto
229
Supa Strikas: Transnational Afropolitan Superheroes
Pfunzo Sidogi
242
Josy Ajiboye: The Reluctant Cartoonist and Social Commentaries in Postcolonial Nigeria
Ganiyu Akinloye Jimoh
255
Of Maus and Gen: Author Avatars in Nonfiction Comics
Moritz Fink
267
Political Cartoonists and Censorship in Sri Lanka
Annemari de Silva
297
Grendel's Mother in Fascist Italy: Beowulf in a Catholic Youth Publication
Susan Signe Morrison
331
"Games Are More Fun When There's No Real Point": Bizarre Sports in Comic Strips
Jeffrey O. Segrave and John A. Cosgrove
349
The Australian Political Cartoon - An Historiographical Overview
Richard Scully and Robert Phiddian
367
Reimaging South Africa's Colonial History: Jan van Riebeeck as a Vampire in the Rebirth Graphic Novel
Estelle A. Muller
384
Drawing (Dis)ability Panel by Panel: A Literature Review of (Dis)ability, Comics, and Graphic Narratives
Alexandra L. Berglund
401
Oracle of the Invisible: Rape in The Killing Joke
Christopher Maverick
418
The Clothes (Re)Maketh the Woman: Sartorial Empowerment in Contemporary Bolivian Comics
Marcela Murillo Lafuente
430
Curious His Entire Life: Remembering Tom Roberts
Charles Hatfield, Stephen R. Bissette, Brian Cremins, and Gene Kannenberg, Jr.
453
A Forgotten Link in the History of the Chinese Newspaper Political Cartoon: The Cartoon Album of The World of E-king Yen
Kin Wai Chu
470
Sobriety Blows: Whiskey, Trauma, and Coping in Netflix' "Jessica Jones"
Janis Breckenridge
489
The American Sense of Humor
M. Thomas Inge
505
Wrinkles, Furrows, and Laughter Lines: Paco Roca in Conversation at the Lakes International Comic Art Festival
Ryan Prout and Roberto Bartual
510
Visual and Verbal Representations in Mat Som: Lat and Multiculturalism
Thusha Rani Rajendra
524
Veiling and Unveiling in Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis
Julie Kaiser
538
The CRNI as an Antidote to the Perils of Cartooning: An Interview with Robert "Bro" Russell
John A. Lent
554
Ha-Flum and Other Sounds of Enjoyment: How Giongo and Gitaigo Shift from Entertainment
to Lived Experience in Insufficient Direction
Kay K. Clopton
563
"Will the Real Dr. Psycho Please Stand Up?" Finding the Origins of Wonder Woman's Golden Age Characters
Ruth McClelland-Nugent
575
Negotiating Documentation in Comics
Ofer Ashkenazi and Jakob Dittmar
587
Manga's Christian Other in Naoki Urasawa's 20th Century Boys and Suu Minazuki's Judas
Daniel D. Clark
598
The Next Generation of Comics Scholars
The Girl, the Man, and the Maus: Holocaust Narratives in Controversial Media
Lauren Elyse Chivington
615The Printed Word
John A. Lent
649
Book Reviews
Alisia G. Chase
653
Exhibition and Media Reviews
Edited by Michael Rhode
Nick Nguyen
Lim Cheng Tju
Canan Marasligil
656
Reminiscences [Mort Walker]
680

IJoCA Fall/Winter 2016

The latest issue of the International Journal of Comic Art arrived recently. The Fall/Winter 2016 number (Vol. 18, No. 2) comes in at over 550 pages.

The complete contents can be accessed from the journal's blog at http://ijoca.blogspot.com/2017/02/international-journal-of-comic-art-18-2.html.

IJoCA Spring/Summer 2015

Catching up. The contents for the International Journal of Comic Art 17.1 are now accessible from the journal's website at http://www.ijoca.com/new/sub3_past.html#vol17no1.

IJoCA 18.1

The latest number of the International Journal of Comic Art (volume 18, number 1 for Spring/Summer 206) arrived this past week. Contents can be found at the journal blog: http://ijoca.blogspot.com/2016/09/international-journal-of-comic-art-18-1.html. Subscriptions are offered at the main journal site: http://www.ijoca.com/.

IJoCA Fall/Winter 2015

The latest number of the International Journal of Comic Art is now available. Vol. 17, No. 2 of the journal comes in at 663 pages. Full contents can be found at the journal's blog at http://ijoca.blogspot.com/2016/02/international-journal-of-comic-art-vol.html.

IJoCA for Fall/Winter 2014 First Notice

The latest issue of the International Journal of Comic Art was received this week. Volume 16, number 2 (for Fall/Winter 2014) includes 686 pages of scholarship and art. Full contents will be posted when they are made available. Subscription information can be found at http://ijoca.com/new/sub4_subscript.html. Issues are $45 per volume.

Contents IJoCA Spring 2014

Mike Rhode has posted the contents to IJoCA 16.1 at the journal's blog. Details at http://ijoca.blogspot.com/2014/06/international-journal-of-comic-art.html.

IJoCA Spring 2014 Out Now

The latest number of the International Journal of Comic Art, 16.1 for Spring 2014, arrived earlier this month coming in at a hefty 590 pages. Full contents to be posted as soon as they are made available.

IJoCa Spring 2013 Contents

As promised a while ago, here are the contents for the Spring number of IJoCA:

Vol. 15, No. 1, 2013

504 pages / 24 Articles

John A. Lent	1	Editor’s Note
Mark McKinney	2	Les mésaventures de M. Bêton by Léonce Petit: Reflexivity and Satire in an Early French Comic Book Inspired by Rodolphe Töpffer
Lara Saguisag	35	The “Secret Tracts” of the Child’s Mind: Theorizing Childhood in Early 20th Century Fantasy Strips
Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste	68	Súper Cholita and Bolivian Comics: In Search of Cultural and Political Hegemony
Ryan Prout	84	Mapping Neuro-diverse Alterity in “Social and Sensitive” Comics from Spain
Iwan Gunawan	100	Multiculturalism in Indonesian Comics
Uri Fink	127	Comics in Israel -- A Brief History
Amy Bright	146	Evaluating Text and Image Ratios  in Contemporary Young Adult Literature
Muliyadi Mahamood	163	Pioneers in Comic Art Scholarship Cartoon and Comics Scholarship in Malaysia: A Personal Experience
Scott Hales	197	“Operation Replica?!!”: Captain America in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Tsugumi Okabe	230	From Sherlock Holmes to “Heisei” Holmes: Counter Orientalism and Post Modern Parody in Gosho Aoyama’s Detective Conan Manga Series
Michael Rhode	251	Ann Telnaes at the 2011 Small Press Expo
Jakob F. Dittmar	270	Comics and History: Myth-making in Nazi references
Keegan Lannon	287	Visualizing Words: The Function of Words in Comics
Muhamad Azhar Abdullah	306	The Development of Malaysia Comic Art
Richard Scully	323	The Lion and the Unicorn -- William Gladstone and Benjamin Disraeli through William Empson’s Looking-Glass
Anita K. McDaniel	338	Obama-man: The Fanboy Ideograph for “Hope and Change”
Sebastian Weinert	354	Funny Education? Cartoons and Illustrated Stories as Media of Health Instruction in Weimar Germany
Jeremy Stoll	363	A Creator’s History of the Comics Medium in India
Sylvain Rheault	383	Japanese Culture in Franco-Belgian Bande Dessinée
Jon LaCure	395	CLAMP, the Magic Knights, and Art Nouveau
Jade Hidle	408	Remembering in Red and Yellow: History, Memory, and Second-Generation Vietnamese American Identity in GB Tran’s VIETNAMERICA
Anna Wiederhold	419	The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation: Making Meaning in the (Gutter) Spaces between Word, Image, and Ideology
Fauzi Naeim bin Mohamed	435	The Aesthetics of Oppression in Joe Sacco’s Footnotes in Gaza
Eric A. Holmes	450	The Horror and Humor of Entertaining Comics
John Baird	456	Evaluating Math Concept Learning Using Comics
John A. Lent	469	The Printed Word
Dale E. Seeds, John A. Lent	472	Book Reviews
Edited by Michael Rhode, David Robertson, Michael Rhode	480	Exhibition and Media Reviews
	489	Portfolio