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Friday, July 17, 2015

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMIC ART 17:1 (Spring 2015) Table of Contents

The new 675-page issue is out now. Available for order at http://www.ijoca.com

Visual Language: Neil Cohn and Kent Worcester in Conversation
Neil Cohn and Kent Worcester
1
From lcono-Iinguistic Unity to Semiotic Continuity: An Alternative Description of Semiotic Repertoire of Comics
Hubert Kowalewski
24
Origins and Definitions: Arguments for a Non-Essentialist Approach
Hannah Miodrag
45
Comic Composition; or When Kierkegaard and Cartoon Art Took to the Streets
Louise C. Larsen
57
The Archive as Comic: Aleksandar Zograf's "Polovni svet" and Post-Yugoslav Serbia
Paul Morton
74
Terry Hirst: The Renowned Trailblazer Editorial Cartoonist and Comics Author in Kenya
Msanii Kimani wa Wanjiru
90
The Waking Life of Winsor McCay: Social Commentary in A Pilgrim 's Progress by Mr. Bunion
Kirsten A. McKinney
117
An Australian Comic Breakthrough:Craig San Roque's The Long Weekend in Alice Springs. Adapted and drawn by Joshua Santospirito
Richard Scully and Joshua Santospirito
131
The 19th Oddity of Yunnan: Propaganda and Memory in Li Kunwu and Philippe Otie's Graphic Novel A Chinese Life
Nick Stember
149
Into the Present, by Way of a Non-Existent Past: Breccia, Trillo, and Alvar Mayor
Hector Fernandez L'Hoeste
181
Daumier's Deadline: Expedited Expressiveness and Franco-Belgian Cartooning
David Allan Duncan
197
Avant-Garde Abirached
Mark McKinney
210
The Self-named "Fool-in-chief": Cameroon's Hard-hitting Cartoonist, Nyemb Popoli
John A. Lent
246
Landscapes of Trauma in Grenier and Austini's Rwanda 1994
Jennifer Anderson Bliss
257
Against a "Tradition of the New": Architectural Criticism in Chip Kidd and Dave Taylor's Batman: Death by Design (2012)
Gorana Tolja
272
Bob Staake: "I don't Like the term cartoonist at all ... "
Michael Rhode
287
Leading British Politicians in The Times' and The Guardian's Cartoons 2010-2013
Monika Nowicka and Janusz Kazmierczak
299
Crossing the Line: Offensive and Controversial Cartoons in the 21st-Century -- "The View from Australia"
Richard Scully
336
UNMAD and Bangladeshi Cartooning: A Socio-Cultural Journey with a Bitter Sense of Humor
Mehedi Haque
358
The Mediated Appeal of Kawaii "Cute" Mascot Characters in Japanese Consumer Culture: A Case of Kumamon
Michael L. Maynard
367
Malay Pendekar: Silat Warrior in the Malaysia Graphic Novel
Muhamad Azhar Abdullah
395
Pioneers in Comic Art Scholarship
Oscar Steimberg and the Origins of Comics Studies in Argentina
John A. Lent and Pablo Turnes
405
German Comics after Unification: The Politics of Anke Feuchtenberger's Feminist Aesthetics
Elizabeth Nijdam
417
Comics Exhibitions in Contemporary France: Diversity and Symbolic Ambivalence
Jean-Matthieu Meon
446
The Gradual Nationalization of Comic Strips in Brazilian Newspapers
Paulo Ramos
465
Matt Wuerker on the Cartoonists Rights Network International
Michael Rhode
478
From Corporate to Collaborative Comics in India
Jeremy Stoll
483
Comics and Journalism: Witnessing the World with Pen and Paper
Joost Pollmann
500
Bandas Orientales: Una Experiencia de Historieta Historica Digital en el Marco Del Plan Ceibal
Maria Victoria Saibene Lopez
505
Comicvoice: Theory and Application
John Baird
517
Considering the Perception of Time and Sequential Images in Digital Comics
Davey Sams
540
Teaching Graphic Novels and Manga at the University
Marc Wolterbeek
557
Measuring the Impact of Free Comic Book Day in Singapore
Philip Smith
569
The Motif of the Wound in Attack on Titan
Asuka Yamazaki
583
Personal Remembrances: Interviews with Seven Recently-Deceased Giants in Cartooning and Animation
John A. Lent
598
Vins: Chronicler of Life and Times
Mrinal Chatterjee and Triambak Sharma
631
The Printed Word
John A. Lent
634
Book Reviews
Kirsten M0llegaard
Philip Smith
Andrew Lesk
John A. Lent
639
Exhibition and Media Reviews
Edited by Michael Rhode
David Robertson
Nick Nguyen
Michael Hill
649

Thursday, July 16, 2015

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Table of contents will be posted here tomorrow.