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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IJOCA Vol. 24, No. 1 Spring/Summer 2022

Editor’s Notes
John A. Lent
1
Ishinomori Shōtarō: Teaching the Art of the Manga Panel
Ramie Tateishi
8
More or Less Hearing: Representations of Deafness in Marvel Comics
S. Leigh Ann Cowan
35
Satire in the Wake of “Woke”: A South African’s Woes
Compiled by John A. Lent
82
Comics as Resources of Meaning in a Prevention Campaign for Covid-19 in Mexico: Susana Distancia and Escuadrón de la salud [Health Squad]
Citlaly Aguilar Campos
107
Kaiser, King, and Caricature: Franz Joseph in British Cartoons, 1848-1916
Richard Scully and Mathew Paterson
126
“Who Is This Gallant Girl of Greatness?” A Chat with Brian Biggs about My Hero
Mike Rhode
159
Vilma Vargas, Female Political Cartoonist: A Rarity in South America
John A. Lent with Geisa Fernandes
182
The Names and the Nameless -- People Who Make Up the City: A Reading of Harsho Mohan Chattoraj’s
Kolkata Kaleidoscope
Abinsha Joseph and Smita Jha
207
“Not on Your Tintype”: The Emperor of Japan as Depicted by William Gropper
Paul Bevan
223
Poetry Comics as Artifact: The Visual Poetics of Sprawl
Felix Cheong
245
Cliff Dwellers in Hogan’s Alley: R. F. Outcault and the Ashcan School
Michelle Ann Abate
255
Pride, Pain, and Punishment: Cacofonix as a Model of Resilience in The Adventures of Asterix
Lisa Mansfield, Jessica Stanhope, and Philip Weinstein
287
Metafiction and Ecuadorian Graphic Novel: The Case of El ejército de los tiburones martillo (2019)
by Fabián Patinho
Alvaro Alemán and Eduardo Villacís
310
Qahera: The Webcomic, Not the City: Reception and Popularity
Hayat Bedaiwi
327
Discussing The Art of Living with Grant Snider
Mike Rhode
340
It’s Like You’re There: Experiencing Sounds, Giongo, and Gitaigo in Skull-face Bookseller Honda-san
Kay K. Clopton
368
An Essay
We Are Nothing
Michel Matly
385
Early Chinese Portrayals in Western Political Cartoons from the Mid-19th Century
Harry Jiandang Tan
399
Unique Beijing Comics Coffee House and Its First Exhibition: A Picture Story and Mini-Catalogue
Xu Ying
434
Mobility of Monstrous Mermaids in Manga
Patrick Ijima-Washburn
448
Similarities and Differences Between Mexican Friki Culture and Geek Culture in the United States
Nadiezhda Palestina Camacho Quiroz
480
Comic Art Academic Monograph Publishers
compiled by Mike Rhode
499
Maia Kobabe in Conversation: Banned Books, Queer Stories, and Gender Queer: A Memoir
Kathleen Breitenbach
510
Contemporary Rebellion in Tsutsui Testuya’s Yokokuhan
Motoko Tanaka
533
The Manhua Specialized Press in China: 40 Years of Reform and Opening Up
Laetitia Rapuzzi
549
Introducing SG Cartoon Resource Hub, a New Site for Exploring Singapore Cartooning
CT Lim
576
Anime as Witnessing--“Violet Evergarden” and the Trauma of Memory
Barbara Greene
579
Goodbye, Bob (and thanks for all your words about pictures!): A Far Too Brief Appreciation of the Life and Times of Robert C. Harvey, Comics’ Premiere Pundit
Daniel F. Yezbick
597
Defining the Graphic Novel
Jakob Dittmar
608
An Essay
Odd Taxi, Animal Farm, and Satirical Distance
Brent Allison
623
Long Answers to Simple Questions: An Interview with Ben Hatke
Jason DeHart
631
Meet Sergio Peçanha, Washington Post Visual Essayist
Mike Rhode
638
A Chat with Ted Anderson: “I Work in My Head”
Mike Rhode
645

Book Reviews
Superheroes and Excess, an Oxymoron: A Review Essay - Eric Berlatsky
653
Jeremy Dauber. American Comics: A History, by Charles Henebry and Lee Williams, p.661.
Catriona MacLeod. Invisible Presence: The Representation of Women in French-Language Comics, by María Márquez López, p.662.
Nancy Pedri. A Concise Dictionary of Comics, by John A. Lent, p.666
Felix Cheong and Eko. In the Year of the Virus, Felix Cheong and Arif Rafhan. Sprawl: A Graphic Novel, by Cheng Tju Lim, p.668.
Rich Johnson. The Amazing Spider-Man: Web-Slinger, Hero, Icon, by Chris York, p.670.
Damien MacDonald. Anatomy of Comics: Famous Originals of Narrative Art, by Cord A. Scott, p.672.
Katherine Kelp-Stebbins. How Comics Travel, by Kenneth Oravetz, p.676.
Terence McSweeney. Black Panther: Interrogating a Cultural Phenomenon, by Jason D. DeHart, p.678.
Mark McKinney. Postcolonialism and Migration in French Comics, by Elke Defever, p.680.
Jim Lee and Paul Mounts. The Uncanny X-Men Trading Cards: The Complete Series, by Cord A. Scott, p.682.
Norah Lucía Serrano, ed. Immigrants and Comics: Graphic Spaces of Remembrance, Transaction, and Mimesis, by Elke Defever, p.687.

Exhibition Reviews
A Review Essay
Chicago: Center of the Comics Universe, by José Alaniz, p.691.
A Review Essay
Good Humor, Bitter Irony, by Tony Wei Ling, p.709.
Festival report
European Comics Festivals Return to Angoulême and Haarlem, by
Barbara Postema, p.717.
A Review Essay
Fumetto Opens Up Again in 2022, But Underwhelms, by Wim
Lockefeer, p.731.
A Review Essay
Curator’s Notes on “Icons of American Animation,” the Exhibition,
by Robert Lemieux, p.740
Curator’s Notes on “Jim Morin: Drawing and Painting,” An Exhibition of Political Cartoon Drawings and Landscape Paintings, by Martha H. Kennedy, p.751.
R. Crumb, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, and Sophie Crumb: Sauve qui peut! (Run for Your Life), by Gerald Heng, p.753.
“Painting with Light: Festival of International Films on Art.” National Gallery Singapore. July 1, 2022. Suenne Megan Tan, executive director, by John A. Lent, p.764.