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Wednesday, September 6, 2023

Table of Contents for Vol. 25, No. 1 Spring/Summer 2023


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IJOCA Vol. 25, No. 1 Spring/Summer 2023

Comics and Propaganda: World War II

Ester Hotová

1

The Modern Imaginaire in Cao Hanmei’s The Golden Lotus

Xiutang Li

53

Chatting with 1/6: A Graphic Novel Writer Alan Jenkins about Insurrections and Threats to Democracy

Mike Rhode

89

In Favor of Happy Endings: An Interview with Bane Kerac

Darko Macan

113

Japanese Jesus: The Humanity of Jesus in Hikaru Nakamura’s Saint Young Men

Daniel D. Clark

168

Cartooning the Inverse Zoo: The Forgotten Comic Art of Kurt Wiese

Aaron Humphrey

197

“Here Is a Man Who Would Not Take It”: The Contemporary Revival of the Newspaper Comic Strip

The Outbursts of Everett True 1905-1927

Richard A. Voeltz

218

“Do I Really Need Color in This Story?” An Interview with Reinhard Kleist

Mark David Nevins

246

Sabaibukei: Critiquing Capitalism in the Death Game Genre

Joseph Christopher Schaub

262

“What’s Funny about AIDS?”: How Howard Cruse’s “Wendel” Confronted a Crisis

Cassia Hayward-Fitch

280

War, Gender, and Diaspora in Clément Baloup’s Memoires de Viet Kieu

Mattia Arioli

300

The Boom of Female Comics in the 21st Century in Brazil

Daniela dos Santos Domingues Marino

Natania Aparecida da Silva Nogueira

319

Flash Gordon, Blake and Mortimer’s American Uncle Chapter #1: What Is a Superhero?

Éric Dubois

341

Cartoonist Ambassador of Hope: Nigar Nazar of Pakistan

John A. Lent

360

Texas Jack Kent: A Comic Storyteller in San Antonio

Paul V. Allen

371

Basohmics: Reviving Basohli Art Through Modern Indian Comics 

Aditi Magotra and Varsha Singh

384

Sanctioned Satire: Political Cartoons from China Daily

Linn A. Christiansen

407

A Chat with Chad Bilyeu of Amsterdam

Mike Rhode

433

The Duality of Manga in the Work of Tsukioka Yoshitoshi

Freya Terryn

461

“The Rebirth of Angus Og”

Laurence Grove

489

Karimata 1890: Silent Comic with Nusantara Concept

Iwan Zahar

494

Maurice Horn: a Memorial

Kim A. Munson

504

An Essay

From Material to Meaning: Implications of Challenges to Young Adult Graphic Novels

Jason DeHart

510

Not All Heroes Need Museums: Brussels’ Marc Sleen Museum Closes

Wim Lockefeer

521

Quadrinhopédia, a Brazilian Comics Biographical Dictionary Database

Lucio Luiz

527

Demystifying The U Ray, the Better to Rewrite the Origin Myth of “Blake and Mortimer”

Éric Dubois

530

Lianhe Zaobao’s 100th Anniversary Cartoon Exhibition and the Role of Comics in Asia in 2023

Lim Cheng Tju

538

Book Reviews

Michel Matly. El cómic sobre la guerra civil, by Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste, p. 542.

Chesya Burke. Hero Me Not: The Containment of the Most Powerful Black, Female Superhero, by Stephanie Burt, p. 561.

Miguel Ferguson and Anne Timmons. Brigadistas! Am American Anti-Fascist in the Spanish Civil War, by Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste, p. 566.

John. A. Lent. Asian Political Cartoons, by Matt Wuerker, p. 579.

Michelle Ann Abate. Blockheads, Beagles, and Sweet Babboos: New

Perspectives on Charles M. Schulz’s “Peanuts,” by Chris York, p. 581.

Edward Sorel. Profusely Illustrated, A Memoir, by John A. Lent, p. 584.

Simon Grennan, Roger Sabin, and Julian Waite. Marie Duval: Maverick Victorian Cartoonist, by Lizzy Walker, p. 588.

Simon Appleford. Drawing Liberalism: Herblock’s Political Cartoons in Postwar America, by Christina M. Knopf, p. 593.

Jimmy Kugler and Michael Kugler. Into the Jungle! A Boy’s Comic Strip History of World War II, by James Willetts, p. 597.

Heike Bauer, Andrea Greenbaum, and Sarah Lightman, eds. Jewish Women in Comics: Bodies and Borders, by John A. Lent, p. 600.

António Antunes. Angeli: 50 anos de humor, Bárbara Reis, José António Lima, and António Antunes. Cartoons do ano 2022, by John A. Lent, p. 602.

Michael Rhode and John A. Lent. Comics Research Bibliography 2022 E-book Edition, by Michael Rhode, p. 605.

Michael Rhode. The Wonder of Sound and Vision: Film, TV & Other Media Adaptations of Comics (2022 Edition), by Michael Rhode, p. 607.

Michael Rhode. Public Radio and Voice of America on Comics & Cartoons: A Bibliography (2023 Edition), by Michael Rhode, p. 608.

Compleating Cul de Sac 2nd Edition Available in Print by Michael Rhode, p. 609.

Exhibition Reviews

Laurie Anne Agnese

Michael Rhode

612

Letters to the Editor

626

Portfolio

Michael Hill

630

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