Editor’s Notes
John A. Lent
1-4
Chiquinho and Buster Brown: Comic Strips and Globalization in the Early 20th Century
Ian Gordon and Beatriz Sequeira de Carvalho
5-42
A Career In Cartoons: A Personal Recollection by Brian Walker
43-82
“My Red Library”: A Štěpánka Jislová Interview
José Alaniz
83-102
19th-Century American Comic Strips: A Guide to Resources and Publications
Alex Beringer
103-140
Matsumoto Leiji and the Musical Biography
Ramie Tateishi
141-172
The Long Haul of Stripschrift: Not the First, but the World’s Oldest Comics Information Magazine
Rik Sanders
173-191
Stripschrift, the World’s Oldest Magazine about Comics: An Interview with Editor-in-Chief Rik Sanders
John A. Lent
192-195
My Press Freedom Lecture in the Netherlands: Highlighting the Role of Editorial Cartooning and Satire in Democracy
Ann Telnaes
196-199
“When You Erase Human Beings, It Starts To Get Weird”: A Jakub Woynarowski Interview
José Alaniz
200-217
Appalachia Comics Project’s Islands in the Sky: An Interview with Andrew Aydin on the Book, the Kickstarter, and His Other Projects
Mike Rhode
218-237
Speaking Up Sometimes Makes a Difference: Sounds of Enjoyment in She Loves to Cook, She Loves to Eat
Kay K. Clopton
238-268
The Catalogue Raisonné of Will Eisner’s World War II Posters
Warren Bernard
269-301
Blackboards of Letters & Lines: On Chalk Talking and the Birth of the American Comic Strip
Mathieu Li-Goyette
302-322
Dieselpunk in China? Anachronism, Speculation, and Political Anxieties in Republican Cartoons and Comics
Felicity Yin
323-340
Sir Francis Carruthers Gould: The Gentle Knight of “Picture Politics”
Mark Bryant
341-344
Sport in Bill Amend’s “FoxTrot”: Family, Fantasy, and Failure
Jeffrey O. Segrave and John A. Cosgrove
345=363
“My Running Is Drawing”: A Peter Kuper Interview
José Alaniz
364-373
Framing Gender Through Cartoons: A Dialogue with Mona Abd Elsalam
Smitha Bhandare Kamat
374-378
Shifting Ambitions: The Female Protagonist in Matsuda Naoko’s Juhan Shuttai
Yasuko Akiyama
379-395
Existence, Authenticity, and Bad Faith in Ms. Marvel
Troy Michael Bordun
396-410
Comic Book Superheroes Are No Modern Mythology, But They Are in a Vital Way Ancient Greek
Jeremy Barris
411-436
Climate Activism and a Comic Book: Holler… and the Mountain Valley Pipeline: Interview with Denali Sai Nalamalapu
Cassy Lee
437-447
Thoughts as a Creator and as a Fan: Points of View from the Other Side of the Convention Table
Liam Webb
448-497
Remembrances: Nezih Danyal, 1945-2025 and Pang Bangben, 1935-2025
John A. Lent
498-500
Research Prompt: Magazine Cartoonists and Advertising
Michael Rhode
501
The World of Comic News: Spain
Ignacio Fernández Sarasola
502-508
“David Kunzle Page” on Töpfferiana Website for Early Comics
Michel Kempeneers
509-515
Book Reviews
James J. Donahue. Indigenous Comics and Graphic Novels: Studies in Genre, by Jean Sébastien, p.516-517
Eike Exner. Manga: A New History of Japanese Comics, by John A. Lent, p.518-519
Barbara Chamberlin, Kom Kunyosying, and Julia Round, eds. Horror and Comics, Elizabeth Brown, Cody Parish, p.520-522
Caitlin McGurk. Tell Me a Story Where The Bad Girl Wins: The Life and Art of Barbara Shermund, by Alex Dueben, p.523-524
Douglas Brode, ed. Analyzing the Marvel Universe. Critical Essays on the Comics and Film Adaptations, by Cecilia Garrison, p.525-528
Michelle Bumatay. On Black Bandes Dessinées and Transcolonial Power, by John A. Lent, p.529-530
Thomas Paul Thesen. Chinese Animation. Volume 1: Religion, Philosophy and Aesthetics, by John A. Lent, p.531-532
Kees de Groot, ed. Comics, Culture, and Religion: Faith Imagined, by Dominick Grace, p.533-534
Brandon R. Grafius and John W. Morehead, eds. Horror Comics and Religion: Essays Framing the Monstrous and the Divine, by Philip Smith, p.535-538
Graphic Novel Reviews
Štěpánka Jislová, translated by Martha Kuhlman. Heartcore, by José Alaniz, p.539-553
Wilfrid Lupano and Stéphane Fert. Surrounded: America’s First School for Black Girls, 1832, by John Craig, p.554-556
Mikaël. Harlem, by Matthew Teutsch, p.557-559
Enchanted Lion Books, by Liz Brown, p.560-564
Loo Hui Phang and Hugues Micol. Erased: An Actor of Color’s Journey Through the Heyday of Hollywood, by Matthew Teutsch, p.565-567
Joanna Rubin Dranger. Remember Us to Life. A Graphic Memoir, by Ishita Sehgal, p.568-569
Luke C. Jackson (w), Kelly Jackson (w), and Maya Graham (a). The Brownout Murders, by Cord A. Scott, p.570-571
Briana Loewinsohn. Raised by Ghosts, by Cassy Lee, p.572-576
Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal; translated by Edward Gauvin. They Shot the Piano Player: The Graphic Novel, by Elk Paauw, p.577-579
Dave Cowen and Gabriel Wexler. Should We Buy a Gun?, by Cord A. Scott, p.580.
Gregory Maguire, adapted and illustrated by Scott Hampton. Wicked: The Graphic Novel Part I, by Julian Lawrence, p.581-589
Louie Joyce (w, a). Godzilla: Skate or Die!, by Cord A. Scott, p.590-591
Chris Howry (w), Matt Frank (a), and Jeff Zornow (a). Godzilla Library Collection Vol. 4, by Cord A. Scott, p.592.
Kit Anderson. Second Shift, by Maite Urcaregui, p.593-595
Arvind Ethan David, Ilias Kyriazis, and Cris Peter. Raymond Chandler’s Trouble Is My Business, by Charles Henebry, p.596-599
Paul Cornell and Rachael Smith. Who Killed Nessie?, by Daniel Peretti, p.600-606
Exhibition Reviews
The Ninth Art at the Centre Georges Pompidou: A Review of Comics 1964-2024, by Mark David Nevins, p.607-619
“Lucca Comics & Games 2024”, by Bart Beaty and Rebecca Sullivan, p.620-627
Emil Ferris: My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Book Two, by Laurie Anne Agnese, p.628-633
The 15th National Comic Art Exhibition of China, by Xu Ying, p.634-639
“Peter Kuper’s Insectopolis: A Natural History”, by José Alaniz, p.640-647
“Background” Exhibition, by José Alaniz, p.648-654
“Commemorating the Centenary Birthday of Mr. Ying Tao—Ying Tao’s Cartoon Exhibition”, by Xu Ying with John A. Lent, p.655-661
“Tove Jansson: Paradise”, by Bart Beaty and Rebecca Sullivan, p.662-667
“Tove Jansson and the Moomins: The Door Is Always Open”, by Carli Spina, p.668-674
Documentary Review
“A Savage Art: The Life and Cartoons of Pat Oliphant,” by Peter Kuper, p.675-679
Portfolio. António (António Moreira Antunes) 680-688
Back cover. Timothy Buchanan of Cook Islands
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