John's wife, Xu Ying, provided this to me tonight, writing, "This is the one Dr. Lent proofed and edited by himself ... in 2025."
Dr. John A. Lent, born September 8, 1936, taught journalism and mass communication from 1960 to 2011 in universities across the United States (West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Pennsylvania); in the Philippines in 1964-1965, where he initiated the first journalism courses at De La Salle College; in Malaysia, from 1972-1974, as founder and director of, and lecturer in, the nation's inaugural academic program at Universiti Sains Malaysia; in Canada, in 2000, as holder of the first Rogers Distinguished Professorship at the University of Western Ontario; in China, since 2005, as doctoral supervisor in the School of Animation at Communication University of China, and in Malaysia and China, where he has held visiting professor posts at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Shanghai University, Jilin Animation Institute, Nanjing University of Finance and Economics, Qingdao Film Academy, among others. He is professor emeritus at Temple University.
Professor Lent's graduate students hold university and other professional posts worldwide, in South Korea, Japan, China, Taiwan, Thailand, Malaysia, Turkey, Lebanon, India, Yemen, Kenya, etc. Although they hail from different countries and regions, they have one thing in common: Professor Lent is the person they respect the most. He not only teaches them how to do research and study, but more importantly, how to be a good person. Throughout his teaching career, Professor Lent has changed the lives of many students and helped countless students be employed and promoted. However, no matter how many people have benefited from him, he has always been so simple and humble.
Dr. Lent's educational background includes a PhD in mass communication from the University of Iowa (1972), a bachelor's degree (1958) and a master's degree (1960) in journalism from Ohio University. He has studied for extended periods at Syracuse University, Guadalajara Summer School in Mexico, University of Oslo, and Sofia University in Tokyo, Japan. As an advisor to various educational and governmental organizations, he also served as a judge and chair of juries for international comics and animation competitions held in the United States, South Korea, Cuba, Slovakia, Brazil, Ukraine, Mexico, Serbia, Cyprus, Italy, Poland, Iran, Canada, Thailand, and China. He has given hundreds of speeches and lectures to various academic groups and colleges and universities in at least 72 countries around the world, been the editor of book series with Westview, Hampton, and Palgrave presses, author of many book chapters and about 800 plus articles.
Dr. Lent has written and edited more than 90 books, some of which have won awards, such as the Pat and Ray Browne Popular Culture Book Award, IIAS Art Award, Broadcast Industry Conference Awards, Southwest Popular Culture Association Best Book Award, three Eisner Award nominations, etc. His most recent books include, Comics Art of the Caribbean, Asian Political Cartoons, Comics Art of China (with Xu Ying), Asian Comics, Cartooning in Latin America, Cartooning in Africa, Animation in Asia and the Pacific, and 10 volumes of Global Comic Art Bibliography. His works have been the first books published on topics such as: Asian broadcasting, Asian newspapers, Asian film industry, Asian popular culture, Asian animation, Asian comics, Caribbean mass communications, Caribbean popular culture, Caribbean comics art, and Oceania comics art. His works cover many other areas, such as the division of labor in media and international labor studies, transnational communication, women and mass communication, the world video industry and so on.
Professor Lent has interviewed many hundreds of animators and cartoonists in more than 50 countries on five continents, and has collected many valuable first-hand research materials. Over the years, many of the artist friends he interviewed have passed away, and he has written many memorial articles. His interview materials have become a rare historical record. He has been interviewing Chinese cartoonists and animators since the 1990s [with Xu Ying since 2000] and has made many famous master friends, such as Liao Bingxiong, Te Wei, Zhang Ding, and Mai Fei, who were active in the anti-Japanese Salvation Cartoon Propaganda Brigade in the 1930s; Hua Junwu, Ding Cong, Chen Huiling, Jiang Yousheng, and Han Shangyi, who fought with comics during the War of Resistance against Japanese aggression and the War of Liberation in the 1930s and 1940s; cartoonists and animators active at the time of the founding of the People's Republic of China: Fang Cheng, Wang Fuyang, He Wei, Bi Keguan, Huang Yuanlin, Zhu Genhua, Chen Yuli, Li Qing 'ai, Zhang Songlin, Zhan Tong, Qian Yunda, Chang Guangxi, Yan Dingxian, Lin Wenxiao, Ma Kexuan, Qu Jianfang, Hu Jinqing, Chen Jianyu, Hu Yihong, Cao Xiaohui, and the young and middle-aged cartoonists Zheng Xinyao, Xu Pengfei, Zheng Huagai, Xia Dachuan, and so on. Fortunately, Mr. Lent has introduced Chinese animation masters and their masterpieces to the world through his articles. He has published many articles in journals that he founded, published, and edited (International Journal of Comic Art and Asian Cinema), introducing the history of Chinese animation, the Wan brothers, the leading figure of New China's animation, Te Wei, the golden age of Chinese animation, as well as a comprehensive account of Chinese female cartoonists, comics from the "Cultural Revolution," the War of Resistance against Japanese aggression, Chinese peasant comics and the "Frog Comics Group," Chinese workers' comics, and the comics edition of Workers' Daily.
He has given speeches at many international conferences introducing Chinese cartoonists and Chinese comics. In October 2005, he invited the renowned cartoonist, Fang Cheng, to the United States to give lectures and introduce Chinese comics and their works at the International Comics Art Festival in Washington, D.C. and two universities in Philadelphia, and in 2006, Fang Cheng went to Singapore and Malaysia to participate in comic week events hosted by Mr. Lent. In October 2010, at a symposium in Washington, D.C., to commemorate Chinese cartoonist, Ding Cong, Mr. Lent made an important speech based on his interviews with him. He was not only passionate about the promotion of Chinese culture, but also spared no effort.
In addition, Professor John A. Lent is actively involved in various academic activities around the world that initiate or enhance the level of professional research. In addtion of the International Journal of Comic Art, founded in 1998, and Asian Cinema, started in 1994, he founded the Malaysia/Singapore/Brunei Studies Group in 1976 and its periodical Berita in 1975, which he published/edited for 26 years; co-founded and served as managing editor of WittyWorld International Cartoon Magazine from 1987 to 2001; co-founded and chaired Asian Cinema Studies Society, from 1994-2011; founded and chaired the Asian Popular Culture section of the Popular Culture Association (PCA), from 1996 to present; founded and chaired the Comic Art Working Group of the International Association of Media and Communication Research, 1984-2016, and is one of the longest-serving members of the board of Cartoonists Rights Network International. He was the co-organizers of three International Silver Fly Animation Week events in Lviv, Ukraine and Florence, Italy; co-founder and co-chair of the Asian Youth Animation and Comic Contest in Guiyang, China, 2007-2017,and chairman and co-founder of the Asia-Pacific Animation and Comics Association; he served as a judge for the Pulitzer Prize for political cartoons two consecutive terms, 2007-2008.
Professor Lent has been rewarded for his service with awards from Colombia (Calicomix "Diplome de Humor"), Cyprus (Golden Olive Humor Service Award), Peru (Premio "SIMEON"), Spain (Premio John Buscema Amar el Comic), Singapore (AMIC Asian Communication Award), and China (AYACC Award); a festschrift; books dedicated to him published in India and the U.S.; sections in books and periodicals detailing his career (in Netherlands, Bangladesh, U.S., Hong Kong); the Lynn Bartholome Eminent Scholar Award; and prizes in his name with the Popular Culture Association Comics Section, the International Comics Art Forum, and Malaysia/Singapore/Brunei Studies Group.
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