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International Journal of Comic Art Vol. 27, No. 1 Spring/Summer 2025 Table of Contents

International Journal of Comic Art  Vol. 27, No. 1 Spring/Summer 2025

Editor’s Notes

John A. Lent

1-4

Chiquinho and Buster Brown: Comic Strips and Globalization in the Early 20th Century

Ian Gordon and Beatriz Sequeira de Carvalho

5-42

A Career In Cartoons: A Personal Recollection by Brian Walker

43-82

“My Red Library”: A Štěpánka Jislová Interview

José Alaniz

83-102

19th-Century American Comic Strips: A Guide to Resources and Publications

Alex Beringer

103-140

Matsumoto Leiji and the Musical Biography

Ramie Tateishi

141-172

The Long Haul of Stripschrift: Not the First, but the World’s Oldest Comics Information Magazine

Rik Sanders

173-191

Stripschrift, the World’s Oldest Magazine about Comics: An Interview with Editor-in-Chief Rik Sanders

John A. Lent

192-195

My Press Freedom Lecture in the Netherlands: Highlighting the Role of Editorial Cartooning and Satire in Democracy

Ann Telnaes

196-199

“When You Erase Human Beings, It Starts To Get Weird”: A Jakub Woynarowski Interview

José Alaniz

200-217

Appalachia Comics Project’s Islands in the Sky: An Interview with Andrew Aydin on the Book, the Kickstarter, and His Other Projects

Mike Rhode

218-237

Speaking Up Sometimes Makes a Difference: Sounds of Enjoyment in She Loves to Cook, She Loves to Eat

Kay K. Clopton

238-268

The Catalogue Raisonné of Will Eisner’s World War II Posters

Warren Bernard

269-301

Blackboards of Letters & Lines: On Chalk Talking and the Birth of the American Comic Strip

Mathieu Li-Goyette

302-322

Dieselpunk in China? Anachronism, Speculation, and Political Anxieties in Republican Cartoons and Comics

Felicity Yin

323-340

Sir Francis Carruthers Gould: The Gentle Knight of “Picture Politics”

Mark Bryant

341-344

Sport in Bill Amend’s “FoxTrot”: Family, Fantasy, and Failure

Jeffrey O. Segrave and John A. Cosgrove

345=363

“My Running Is Drawing”: A Peter Kuper Interview

José Alaniz

364-373

Framing Gender Through Cartoons: A Dialogue with Mona Abd Elsalam

Smitha Bhandare Kamat

374-378

Shifting Ambitions: The Female Protagonist in Matsuda Naoko’s Juhan Shuttai

Yasuko Akiyama

379-395

Existence, Authenticity, and Bad Faith in Ms. Marvel

Troy Michael Bordun

396-410

Comic Book Superheroes Are No Modern Mythology, But They Are in a Vital Way Ancient Greek

Jeremy Barris

411-436

Climate Activism and a Comic Book: Holler… and the Mountain Valley Pipeline: Interview with Denali Sai Nalamalapu

Cassy Lee

437-447

Thoughts as a Creator and as a Fan: Points of View from the Other Side of the Convention Table

Liam Webb

448-497

Remembrances: Nezih Danyal, 1945-2025 and Pang Bangben, 1935-2025

John A. Lent

498-500

Research Prompt: Magazine Cartoonists and Advertising

Michael Rhode

501

The World of Comic News: Spain

Ignacio Fernández Sarasola

502-508

“David Kunzle Page” on Töpfferiana Website for Early Comics

Michel Kempeneers

509-515

Book Reviews

James J. Donahue. Indigenous Comics and Graphic Novels: Studies in Genre, by Jean Sébastien, p.516-517

Eike Exner. Manga: A New History of Japanese Comics, by John A. Lent, p.518-519

Barbara Chamberlin, Kom Kunyosying, and Julia Round, eds. Horror and Comics, Elizabeth Brown, Cody Parish, p.520-522

Caitlin McGurk. Tell Me a Story Where The Bad Girl Wins: The Life and Art of Barbara Shermund, by Alex Dueben, p.523-524

Douglas Brode, ed. Analyzing the Marvel Universe. Critical Essays on the Comics and Film Adaptations, by Cecilia Garrison, p.525-528

Michelle Bumatay. On Black Bandes Dessinées and Transcolonial Power, by John A. Lent, p.529-530

Thomas Paul Thesen. Chinese Animation. Volume 1: Religion, Philosophy and Aesthetics, by John A. Lent, p.531-532

Kees de Groot, ed. Comics, Culture, and Religion: Faith Imagined, by Dominick Grace, p.533-534

Brandon R. Grafius and John W. Morehead, eds. Horror Comics and Religion: Essays Framing the Monstrous and the Divine, by Philip Smith, p.535-538

Graphic Novel Reviews

Štěpánka Jislová, translated by Martha Kuhlman. Heartcore, by José Alaniz, p.539-553

Wilfrid Lupano and Stéphane Fert. Surrounded: America’s First School for Black Girls, 1832, by John Craig, p.554-556

Mikaël. Harlem, by Matthew Teutsch, p.557-559

Enchanted Lion Books, by Liz Brown, p.560-564

Loo Hui Phang and Hugues Micol. Erased: An Actor of Color’s Journey Through the Heyday of Hollywood, by Matthew Teutsch, p.565-567

Joanna Rubin Dranger. Remember Us to Life. A Graphic Memoir, by Ishita Sehgal, p.568-569

Luke C. Jackson (w), Kelly Jackson (w), and Maya Graham (a). The Brownout Murders, by Cord A. Scott, p.570-571

Briana Loewinsohn. Raised by Ghosts, by Cassy Lee, p.572-576

Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal; translated by Edward Gauvin. They Shot the Piano Player: The Graphic Novel, by Elk Paauw, p.577-579

Dave Cowen and Gabriel Wexler. Should We Buy a Gun?, by Cord A. Scott, p.580.

Gregory Maguire, adapted and illustrated by Scott Hampton. Wicked: The Graphic Novel Part I, by Julian Lawrence, p.581-589

Louie Joyce (w, a). Godzilla: Skate or Die!, by Cord A. Scott, p.590-591

Chris Howry (w), Matt Frank (a), and Jeff Zornow (a). Godzilla Library Collection Vol. 4, by Cord A. Scott, p.592.

Kit Anderson. Second Shift, by Maite Urcaregui, p.593-595

Arvind Ethan David, Ilias Kyriazis, and Cris Peter. Raymond Chandler’s Trouble Is My Business, by Charles Henebry, p.596-599

Paul Cornell and Rachael Smith. Who Killed Nessie?, by Daniel Peretti, p.600-606

Exhibition Reviews

The Ninth Art at the Centre Georges Pompidou: A Review of Comics 1964-2024, by Mark David Nevins, p.607-619

“Lucca Comics & Games 2024”, by Bart Beaty and Rebecca Sullivan, p.620-627

Emil Ferris: My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Book Two, by Laurie Anne Agnese, p.628-633

The 15th National Comic Art Exhibition of China, by Xu Ying, p.634-639

“Peter Kuper’s Insectopolis: A Natural History”, by José Alaniz, p.640-647

“Background” Exhibition, by José Alaniz, p.648-654

“Commemorating the Centenary Birthday of Mr. Ying Tao—Ying Tao’s Cartoon Exhibition”, by Xu Ying with John A. Lent, p.655-661

“Tove Jansson: Paradise”, by Bart Beaty and Rebecca Sullivan, p.662-667

“Tove Jansson and the Moomins: The Door Is Always Open”, by Carli Spina, p.668-674

Documentary Review

“A Savage Art: The Life and Cartoons of Pat Oliphant,” by Peter Kuper, p.675-679

Portfolio. António (António Moreira Antunes) 680-688

Back cover. Timothy Buchanan of Cook Islands

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