News about the premier academic journal devoted to all aspects of cartooning and comics -- the International Journal of Comic Art (ISSN 1531-6793) published and edited by John Lent.

Thursday, June 19, 2014

International Journal of Comic Art Spring 2014 issue out now


International Journal of Comic Art Vol. 16, No. 1, Spring 2014

Guest Editorial
The Books Are Selling Just Fine, Thank You, or Scholarship and the Permissions Problem
Joseph Thomas
1
Comics Scholarship: Its Delayed Birth, Stunted Growth, and  Drive to Maturity
John A. Lent
9
Towards a Global History of the Political Cartoon: Challenges and Opportunities
Richard Scully
29
Chica moderna o mujer tradiconal? Intersections of Modernity and Tradition in Gabriel Vargas' La Familia Burron
Brittany Tullis
48
Comics Don't Need to Be Literature with a Capital L: An Interview with Leah Moore and John Reppion
Jeffery Klaehn
74
Atomic Horror: Entertaining Comics and "One World or None"
Eric A. Holmes
90
The Misshitsu Trial: Thinking Obscenity with Japanese Comics
Patrick W. Galbraith
125
Representation through Anti-Representation: Showing the Unspeakable in Stassen's Déogratias
Anna Howell
147
"You Can't Deny the Uncomfortable Truths": Carol Tyler and Her Frank Autobiographical Comics
John A. Lent
163
Semiotics of Filipino Komiks-to-Film Adaptation: Decoding Lapu-Lapu (1954)
Joyce L. Arriola
177
The Emergence of Black Cartoon Animators in South Africa: A Spotlight on the Work of Mdu Ntuli
Pfunzo Sidogi
208
Voices from the Margins:
The Place of Wilderness in Watchmen
Aaron A. Cloyd
223
Doomed Hybrids: Three Cases of Fatal Mixing 
in the War Comics of Tezuka Osamu
Ben Whaley
244
Allied, Japanese, and Chinese Propaganda: Cartoon Leaflets During World War II
John A. Lent
258
Women Cartoonists and Illustrators  Draw Covers for American Magazines: Case Studies from The Library of Congress's Prints & Photographs Division
Martha H. Kennedy
302
The Art of Splicing: Autofiction in Words and Images
Maaheen Ahmed
322
R for Reason Gone Rampant? The Intricate Interplay between Madness and Rationality in the Graphic Novel V for Vendetta
Marco R. S. Post
339
Writing History, Day by Day, From My Point of View: The Philosophy of Sudanese Cartoonist Khalid Albaih
Mark Anderson
367
Classical Categories, Prototypes,  and the Graphic Novel
Achim Hescher
384
"Let's part before we become mushy": Femininity and Female Antagonists in Will Eisner's "The Spirit"
David Hayes
402
I Voted Only for the Head Too: Visual Satire and Democratic Governance in Africa
Jimoh, Ganiyu Akinloye
431
Text and Images: Varying Sizes of Word Balloons in Comics
Gary Dufner and Joo Kim
445
From Boom to Bubble and Bust: Comical Economics in Aleix Saló's Troika Trilogy
Ryan Prout
458
Comics for the Blind and for the Seeing
Jakob F. Dittmar
477
Kampong (Village) Boy Lat and Icons of Malaysian Nationhood
Nasya Bahfen, Zainurul Rahman, and Juliette Peers
487
The Next Generation of Comics Scholarship 
Sandman and Greek Mythology  in The Song of Orpheus
Daniela Marino
500
Japanese Honorifics Including Openings, Closings, and Terms of Address in a Japanese Animation Film: Using Authentic Texts in Second Language Teaching and Learning
Cherie Hess
515
"Topolino canta Napoli" : Mickey Mouse as Testimonial of Piedigrotta Festival
Armando Rotondi
532
Personal Remembrances
John A. Lent and Xu Ying 
540
Bi Keguan in My Eyes
Wang Dejuan
Translated by Xu Ying
542
The Printed Word
John A. Lent
550
Book Reviews
553
Exhibition and Media Reviews
Edited by Michael Rhode
566
<Portfolio> 
The Clever Cartoons of Ross Thomson
568