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Wednesday, February 15, 2012

International Journal of Comic Art 13: 2 table of contents

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International Journal of Comic Art contents

Vol. 13, No. 2, Fall 2011

 

Women's Manga beyond Japan

Contemporary Comics as Cultural Crossroads in Asia

edited by

Fusami Ogi, Cheng Tju Lim, Jaqueline Berndt

"Women's Manga Beyond Japan:

Contemporary Comics as Cultural Crossroads in Asia"

Fusami Ogi

003

 

Yes, There Are Women Cartoonists:

Snippets from Those I Have Interviewed

John A. Lent

007

 

Inspiring Women: 40 Years' Transformation

of Shôjo Manga and Women's Voices

Fusami Ogi

032

 

Envisioning Alternative Communities

through a Popular Medium:

Speculative Imagination in Hagio Moto's Girls' Comics

CJ (Shige) Suzuki

057

 

"Silent Music": Desiring-machine and Femininity

in Some Music-themed Comics

Ming Hung Alex Tu

075

 

Historical Shojo Manga: On Women's Alleged Dislike

Fujimoto Yukari

Translated by Jaqueline Berndt

087

Functions and Possibilities of Female "Essay Manga":

Resistance, Negotiation, and Pleasure

Akiko Sugawa-Shimada

103

 

Crossing Double Borders:

Korean Female Amateur Comics Artists

in the Globalization of Japanese Dojin Culture

Kim Hyojin

116

 

So, How Was Your Day?

The Emergence of Graphic Diary

and Female Artists in Indonesia

Dwinita Larasati

134

 

Why Thai Girls' Manga Are Not "Shojo Manga":

Japanese Discourse and the Reality of Globalization

Mashima Tojirakarn

143

 

Manga in Malaysia:

An Approach to Its Current Hybridity

through the Career of the Shojo Mangaka Kaoru

Gan Sheuo Hui

164

 

Women "Using Manga to Tell Local Stories":

A Workshop on the "Glocality"

of Manga in Southeast Asia

Angela Moreno Acosta

179

 

Afterwords

Lim Cheng Tju

198

My Life in Cartoons

Richard Samuel West

200

 

The Contested Frontier:

Western Comics and Australian Identity, 1945-1960

Kevin Patrick

219

 

Ryan Walker, American Radical:

A Date with History from the Bottom Up

David Spencer

244

 

The State of Comics Scholarship:

Comics Studies and Disciplinarity

Gregory Steirer

263

 

"Where the Joke Comes From": Comical Potential

of Comics in the Works of Tadeusz Baranowski

Hubert Kowalewski

286

 

Transnationalism and Hegemony

amid a Very Uneven Modernity:

On Arandú, El Principe de la Selva, and the Dynamics

of the Mexican Comics Industry

Héctor Fernández L'Hoeste

313

 

Fetuses in the Sewer:

A Comparative Study of Classic 1960s Manga

by Tatsumi Yoshihiro and Tsuge Yoshiharu

Tom Gill

325

 

The Colonial Beginnings of Autobiography

in French Comics

Mark McKinney

344

Censorship and Super Bodies:

The Creative Odyssey of Margaret Harrison

Kim Munson

369

 

"Those Guys Give Me the Creeps":

Grant Morrison's Doom Patrol and Satire

in the Shared-Narrative Universe

Tom Miller

393

 

The Hero and the Apocalypse

in Watchmen and Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 8

Melissa Olson

417

Graphic Narrative and Global Ground:

A Symposium

 

edited by

Tracy Lassiter, Stefan Buchenberger, Guiherme Pereira

with assistance of

Lea Pao

 

Introduction: "Graphic Narrative and Global Ground"

Tracy Lassiter

432

 

Disembodiment of Our Physical Bodies

and Embodiment of Urban Space

in Oshii Mamoru's Animations

Hiroko Terai

437

 

Freeze-Frame: The Vagaries of Textual Analysis,

the Intentions of Art Spiegelman,

and the Ascendancy of Nobrow Art

Peter Swirski

448

Sequential Art between Language and Textuality

Angelo Piepoli

458

 

The Implicit Narrator in Comics:

Transformations of Free Indirect Discourse

in Two Graphic Adaptations of Madame Bovary

Kai Mikkonen

473

 

Metafiction: The Graphic Novel Embedded

in Laura Esquivel's Multimedia Novel The Law of Love

Tracy Lassiter

488

 

Narrating the Cities in Comics:

The Case of Bologna

Barbara Grüning

499

 

In Search of New Caledonian Comic Books:

The Image of New Caledonian Society,

the Growth of Cultural Consciousness,

and the Movement towards Citizenship

Sonja Faessler

518

 

Tex, Lone Wolf and Cub, and Preacher:

Justice Wanders through Three Countries

Guilherme Choovanski

529

 

Comic Book Super Villains and the Loss of Humanity

Stefan Buchenberger

539

 

Mr. Punch versus the Kaiser, 1892-1898:

Flashpoints of a Complex Relationship

Richard Scully

553

 

Sequential Art between Language and Textuality

Angelo Piepoli

458

 

The Implicit Narrator in Comics:

Transformations of Free Indirect Discourse

in Two Graphic Adaptations of Madame Bovary

Kai Mikkonen

473

 

Metafiction: The Graphic Novel Embedded

in Laura Esquivel's Multimedia Novel The Law of Love

Tracy Lassiter

488

 

Narrating the Cities in Comics:

The Case of Bologna

Barbara Grüning

499

 

In Search of New Caledonian Comic Books:

The Image of New Caledonian Society,

the Growth of Cultural Consciousness,

and the Movement towards Citizenship

Sonja Faessler

518

 

Tex, Lone Wolf and Cub, and Preacher:

Justice Wanders through Three Countries

Guilherme Choovanski

529

 

Comic Book Super Villains and the Loss of Humanity

Stefan Buchenberger

539

 

Mr. Punch versus the Kaiser, 1892-1898:

Flashpoints of a Complex Relationship

Richard Scully

553

 

Vinegar not Vitriol: The Picture-Politics

of Sir Francis Carruthers Gould (1844–1925)

Mark Bryant

579

 

Between Photography and Drawing:

The Documentary Comics as Translation of the City

Felipe Muanis

599

 

"A Sojourner Amongst Us":

Charles Wirgman and the Japan Punch

Todd S. Munson

614

 

Visual Transgressions and Queer Representations

in Gaiman's A Game of You

Daniel King

627

 

Sympathetic Geography:

Tropes of the Cityscape in Chris Ware's

Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth

John D. Schwetman

642

 

Reminiscences

John A. Lent

659

 

It Is an Honor To Be the Wife of Francisco V. Coching

(Dean of Pilipino Illustrators)

Filomena Coching

660

 

Hugo C. Yonzon, Jr.

Hugo Yonzon III

668

 

India's Abu Abraham: A Private View

Ayisha Abraham

674

 

Osamu Tezuka:

His Life, Works, and Contributions

to the History of Modern Japanese Comics

Kinko Ito

679

 

Sailor Moon and Art Deco

Jon LaCure

700

 

The Next Generation of Comics Scholarship

Sex and Power in "Absent Friends": An Essay

Shayla Monroe

714

 

An Exploratory Study

The Effect of Age on Comic Narrative Creation

John Baird and Dana Newborn

725

 

The Printed Word

John A. Lent

739

 

Exhibition and Media Reviews

edited by Michael Rhode

Doug Singsen

744

 

A Response and an Observation

Lim Cheng Tju

749