Vol. 13, No. 2, Fall 2011
Women's Manga beyond Japan
Contemporary Comics as Cultural Crossroads in Asia
edited by
Fusami Ogi, Cheng Tju Lim, Jaqueline Berndt
"Women's Manga Beyond Japan:
Contemporary Comics as Cultural Crossroads in Asia"
Fusami Ogi
003
Yes, There Are Women Cartoonists:
Snippets from Those I Have Interviewed
John A. Lent
007
Inspiring Women: 40 Years' Transformation
of Shôjo Manga and Women's Voices
Fusami Ogi
032
Envisioning Alternative Communities
through a Popular Medium:
Speculative Imagination in Hagio Moto's Girls' Comics
CJ (Shige) Suzuki
057
"Silent Music": Desiring-machine and Femininity
in Some Music-themed Comics
Ming Hung Alex Tu
075
Historical Shojo Manga: On Women's Alleged Dislike
Fujimoto Yukari
Translated by Jaqueline Berndt
087
Functions and Possibilities of Female "Essay Manga":
Resistance, Negotiation, and Pleasure
Akiko Sugawa-Shimada
103
Crossing Double Borders:
Korean Female Amateur Comics Artists
in the Globalization of Japanese Dojin Culture
Kim Hyojin
116
So, How Was Your Day?
The Emergence of Graphic Diary
and Female Artists in Indonesia
Dwinita Larasati
134
Why Thai Girls' Manga Are Not "Shojo Manga":
Japanese Discourse and the Reality of Globalization
Mashima Tojirakarn
143
Manga in Malaysia:
An Approach to Its Current Hybridity
through the Career of the Shojo Mangaka Kaoru
Gan Sheuo Hui
164
Women "Using Manga to Tell Local Stories":
A Workshop on the "Glocality"
of Manga in Southeast Asia
Angela Moreno Acosta
179
Afterwords
Lim Cheng Tju
198
My Life in Cartoons
Richard Samuel West
200
The Contested Frontier:
Western Comics and Australian Identity, 1945-1960
Kevin Patrick
219
Ryan Walker, American Radical:
A Date with History from the Bottom Up
David Spencer
244
The State of Comics Scholarship:
Comics Studies and Disciplinarity
Gregory Steirer
263
"Where the Joke Comes From": Comical Potential
of Comics in the Works of Tadeusz Baranowski
Hubert Kowalewski
286
Transnationalism and Hegemony
amid a Very Uneven Modernity:
On Arandú, El Principe de la Selva, and the Dynamics
of the Mexican Comics Industry
Héctor Fernández L'Hoeste
313
Fetuses in the Sewer:
A Comparative Study of Classic 1960s Manga
by Tatsumi Yoshihiro and Tsuge Yoshiharu
Tom Gill
325
The Colonial Beginnings of Autobiography
in French Comics
Mark McKinney
344
Censorship and Super Bodies:
The Creative Odyssey of Margaret Harrison
Kim Munson
369
"Those Guys Give Me the Creeps":
Grant Morrison's Doom Patrol and Satire
in the Shared-Narrative Universe
Tom Miller
393
The Hero and the Apocalypse
in Watchmen and Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 8
Melissa Olson
417
Graphic Narrative and Global Ground:
A Symposium
edited by
Tracy Lassiter, Stefan Buchenberger, Guiherme Pereira
with assistance of
Lea Pao
Introduction: "Graphic Narrative and Global Ground"
Tracy Lassiter
432
Disembodiment of Our Physical Bodies
and Embodiment of Urban Space
in Oshii Mamoru's Animations
Hiroko Terai
437
Freeze-Frame: The Vagaries of Textual Analysis,
the Intentions of Art Spiegelman,
and the Ascendancy of Nobrow Art
Peter Swirski
448
Sequential Art between Language and Textuality
Angelo Piepoli
458
The Implicit Narrator in Comics:
Transformations of Free Indirect Discourse
in Two Graphic Adaptations of Madame Bovary
Kai Mikkonen
473
Metafiction: The Graphic Novel Embedded
in Laura Esquivel's Multimedia Novel The Law of Love
Tracy Lassiter
488
Narrating the Cities in Comics:
The Case of Bologna
Barbara Grüning
499
In Search of New Caledonian Comic Books:
The Image of New Caledonian Society,
the Growth of Cultural Consciousness,
and the Movement towards Citizenship
Sonja Faessler
518
Tex, Lone Wolf and Cub, and Preacher:
Justice Wanders through Three Countries
Guilherme Choovanski
529
Comic Book Super Villains and the Loss of Humanity
Stefan Buchenberger
539
Mr. Punch versus the Kaiser, 1892-1898:
Flashpoints of a Complex Relationship
Richard Scully
553
Sequential Art between Language and Textuality
Angelo Piepoli
458
The Implicit Narrator in Comics:
Transformations of Free Indirect Discourse
in Two Graphic Adaptations of Madame Bovary
Kai Mikkonen
473
Metafiction: The Graphic Novel Embedded
in Laura Esquivel's Multimedia Novel The Law of Love
Tracy Lassiter
488
Narrating the Cities in Comics:
The Case of Bologna
Barbara Grüning
499
In Search of New Caledonian Comic Books:
The Image of New Caledonian Society,
the Growth of Cultural Consciousness,
and the Movement towards Citizenship
Sonja Faessler
518
Tex, Lone Wolf and Cub, and Preacher:
Justice Wanders through Three Countries
Guilherme Choovanski
529
Comic Book Super Villains and the Loss of Humanity
Stefan Buchenberger
539
Mr. Punch versus the Kaiser, 1892-1898:
Flashpoints of a Complex Relationship
Richard Scully
553
Vinegar not Vitriol: The Picture-Politics
of Sir Francis Carruthers Gould (1844–1925)
Mark Bryant
579
Between Photography and Drawing:
The Documentary Comics as Translation of the City
Felipe Muanis
599
"A Sojourner Amongst Us":
Charles Wirgman and the Japan Punch
Todd S. Munson
614
Visual Transgressions and Queer Representations
in Gaiman's A Game of You
Daniel King
627
Sympathetic Geography:
Tropes of the Cityscape in Chris Ware's
Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth
John D. Schwetman
642
Reminiscences
John A. Lent
659
It Is an Honor To Be the Wife of Francisco V. Coching
(Dean of Pilipino Illustrators)
Filomena Coching
660
Hugo C. Yonzon, Jr.
Hugo Yonzon III
668
India's Abu Abraham: A Private View
Ayisha Abraham
674
Osamu Tezuka:
His Life, Works, and Contributions
to the History of Modern Japanese Comics
Kinko Ito
679
Sailor Moon and Art Deco
Jon LaCure
700
The Next Generation of Comics Scholarship
Sex and Power in "Absent Friends": An Essay
Shayla Monroe
714
An Exploratory Study
The Effect of Age on Comic Narrative Creation
John Baird and Dana Newborn
725
The Printed Word
John A. Lent
739
Exhibition and Media Reviews
edited by Michael Rhode
Doug Singsen
744
A Response and an Observation
Lim Cheng Tju
749
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