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

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The Clever Cartoons of Ross Thomson

568