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.

Monday, April 10, 2017

On sale now: The Lent Comic Art Classification System

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The Lent Comic Art Classification System

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A worldwide classification system of comic art, including comic books, comic strips, animation, caricature, political & editorial cartoons, and gag cartoons based on John A. Lent's pioneering bibliographic work. Created in honor of Lent's 80th birthday.

For Lent's 70th birthday, a group of comics scholars got together and did a parody of his  International Journal of Comic Art -

Interplanetary Journal of Comic Art: A Festschrift in Honor of John Lent

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Wednesday, February 22, 2017

IJOCA 18-2 correction in Richard Thompson article

Richard Thompson actually passed away on July 27, 2016 and not July 28 as was incorrectly stated in "Remembering Richard Thompson (1957-2016)." The author regrets the error and apologizes to IJOCA's readers.

Mike Rhode
the author