Articles from and news about the premier and longest-running 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.

Tuesday, February 24, 2026

IGJOCA fanzine for John A. Lent online now

Thanks to everyone who contributed. John got it today and was laughing when he called me about it. 


Here's our AI-generated (literally but heavily edited) Table of Contents.

Page. Title - Author/Artist

1. Cover - Matt Wuerker
2. A Visual Representation of the Esteemed Dr. John A. Lent... - Lizzy Walker
3. The financial, economic, scientific, and technological implications of Scrooge McDuck's Twenty-Four Carat Moon - Mike Rhode
4. Re-thinking comics for reading in microgravity - Maaheen Ahmed
4. 'I Still Have Some Vegetables and Some Styrofoam Left!': Food Processing as Cosmic Jouissance in Secret Wars II - José Alaniz
5. John Lent is really Hari Seldon! - ct lim (Magnifico Giganticus)
6. The Consequences of AI for Comic Strips - David Beard
7, Feminism and Fishnets: The Accidental Legacy of Black Canary - Matt Morrison
7. Spirals at the Edge of the Milky Way: New Intergalactic Perspectives on Junji Ito's Uzumaki - Lizzy Walker
8. Superpowers or Natural Abilities?: A Comparison of Superhero Abilities on Earth and Planet X - Lizzy Walker
8. "What this country needs is a strong bibliographer!" - Mike Rhode, modifying Jefferson Machamer*
9. My Academic Hero: Summary of the Colloquium of Comics Scholars... - Troy Michael Bordun
10. Semiotic Non-Verbal Conventions During States of Unplanned Disassembly
In Early Katzenjammer Kids "advertisement" - Miron Mercury
10. Comics Research Bibliography: Our 479th Edition "advertisement" - Mike Rhode, modifying Stout*
11 "Happily Ever After": Veterans and Demobilization in Post-Disney War XC War Comics Stephen Connor
12. Anecdotally Overheard - Mark C. Rogers
12. Must Devour More Comics! - Marc C. Rogers with Mike Rhode on Photoshop
12. Tomb of the Unpublished Scholar "advertisement" - Miron Mercury
13. The Incredible Lent! -  José Alaniz
13. Letters - Ian Gordon
14. Whose Lent Is It Anway: Comics, Poetry, and Close-Reading - Bart Beaty
14. J. Lent - Matt Wuerker
15. Controlling Climate Change on Earth: Visionary Ideas from the Suske en Wiske Story The Cloud Eaters - Gert Meesters
16. Peer Review -  Mike Rhode, modifying  James Montgomery Flagg*
16. John Lent, Jedi - Thony Loui
16. Mars Needs Political Cartoonists - Julian Lawrence
17. Subject: Chrononautical Embedding: Temporal Paradox in Comic Art Historiography. Exhibit 1 - Charles Hatfield
18. "Even a Large Language Model Can Cry": New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence... - Marc Singer
18. FTL Travel and the PPS Scholar -Gene Kannenberg, Jr.
19. Baumgarten's Gnomes Join Batman at Summit of Scarcity... - Arthur van Kruining
21. His powers are like the POWER OF TEN - Leonard Rifas



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