New issue of International Journal of Comic Art out now

International Journal of Comic Art

Vol. 14, No. 1, Spring 2012

 

Comic Strips:

An International Symposium

edited by

John A. Lent

Until Death Do Them Apart:

Gender Relations in the Brazilian Comic Strip "Radicci"

Ediliane de Oliveira Boff

3

 

Funny Papers, Unfunny Wars:

A Comparison of Three Armed Conflicts

as Depicted in "Doonesbury"

Michael Freund

17

 

Sanmao and Tokai:

Popular Street Urchins of Asian Comic Strips

John A. Lent

35

 

Lessons Learned: Milton Caniff's "Dickie Dare"

Sean P. Connors

51

 

Schulz, "Peanuts," and Metafiction

Roy T Cook

66

 

Stories of an Invisible War:

Comics and the Peruvian "Internal Conflict" (1980-2000)

Pedro Pérez del Solar

93

 

Graphic Tales of Cancer

Michael Rhode and JTH Connor

112

Ancient Egyptian Parodic Ostraca and "Comics"

Jennifer Babcock

157

 

The Picture Story Principle

Dietrich Grünewald

171

 

"A Groovy, Different Kind of Lay":

Sex, Disability, and Amputee Love

José  Alaniz

198

 

Tibetan Mysticism and

the Development of Golden Age Superheroes

Peter Sandmark

216

 

Expanding Female Manga Market:

Shungiku Uchida and the Emergence

of the Autobiographical Essay

Kotaro Nakagaki

236

 

Strength and the Supernatural:

Navigating Liminal Zones in

the Herakles Tradition and Alan Moore's Tom Strong

Hannah Means-Shannon

251

 

Reminiscences

John A. Lent

267

 

Saseo Ono in His Nichiyo Hochi Days

Kosei Ono

268

 

Recalling Ah Da

Xu Chang (Charles)

Translated by Xu Ying

283

Memory of the Past

Wang Yiqian

Translated by Xu Ying

292

 

Recalling My Father Bit by Bit in His Daily Life

Sheng Dalong

Translated by Xu Ying

305

 

Recalling My Father -- Zhan Tong

Zhan Yong

Translated by Xu Ying

321

 

Farewell to My Father

He Ting

Translated by Xu Ying

332

The Man Without Fear, a Time of Fear:

A Review of Countercultural Themes

in the First 100 Issues of Daredevil

Bill Schulte

339

 

"What Can We Ever Have to Fear From a Blind Man?!!" or Spoiled (Secret) Identities: Disability, Daredevil and Passing

Jose Alaniz

360

 

Journalistic Comic Art of Pakistan:

Coverage of the Kerry Lugar Bill 2009

Amna Ashraf and Naveed Iqbal Chaudhry

376

 

The Comic Book in Brazil:

The Consolidation of a Publishing Format

Roberto Elísio dos Santos and

Waldomiro Vergueiro

391

 

Comics in the Life of the Young Adult Reader:

Understanding the Experience

of Reading Comics in Contemporary Society

Lucia Cedeira Serantes

407

 

Tomáš Kucerovský Interview

Jose Alaniz

419

 

Lost in Translation --

The Translations of

Wilhelm Busch's Illustrated Stories in Brazil

Gerson Luís Pomari

432

 

"I Love the Mayhem More Than the Love:

Homosocial Masculinity in Sgt. Fury and

His Howling Commandos

Justin Raymond

463

 

An Auteur Theory: Pro and Con

 

The Auteur Theory of Comics

Arlen Schumer

474

 

Jack Kirby Makes an Auteur Detour

Barry Pearl

485

 

Quan Yingsheng and

the Blending of Traditional Chinese Painting

with Comic Books

John A. Lent and Xu Ying

492

 

Myth and the Superhero:

Personal Choice in Batman, Arkham Asylum:

A Serious House on Serious Earth

Leslie J. Anderson

507

 

A Puppet´s Life

Kawamoto Kihachiro

Translated by Hiroko Takada Amick and Linda C. Ehrlich

525

 

The Battles of Herbie, Willie and Joe:

The Depiction of the Allied Soldier in World War II

through Comic Illustration

Cord Scott

530

 

"A Man Has Risen":

Hard Bodies, Reaganism, and The Dark Knight Returns

Richard Iadonisi

543

 

An Interview with

Malaysia's Political Cartoonist Zunar

Lim Cheng Tju

554

 

The Printed Word

John A. Lent

562

 

A Review Essay

La composition de la bande dessinée.

Renaud Chavanne (PLG: Montrouge 2010)

Review and interview by Pedro Moura

566

Book Reviews

Murray Lee Eiland

Simon Wigzell

Pascal Lefèvre

John A. Lent

595

 

Exhibition and Media Reviews

Edited by Michael Rhode

Nick Thorkelson

Michael Dittman

José Alaniz

Nicolas Pilla

604

 

He Wei (1934-2012)

John A. Lent and Xu Ying

623

 

Portfolio

626

CFP: Mix 2012: A Comics Symposium, Marathon and Exhibition

UPDATE: We've extended the deadline for the CFP to July 6. We've posted the revised call on this webpage: http://www.ccad.edu/events-2012/mix2012

Mix 2012: A Comics Symposium, Marathon and Exhibition

Call for Papers, and Roundtable and Workshop Proposals 

Keynote Speaker: Theme: Symposium Dates: Proposal Deadline:

Chris Ware Epic Narratives October 4 – 6, 2012 June 4, 2012

Columbus College of Art & Design's Mix 2012 is comprised of three events: a symposium, a comics marathon (a student competition), and a comics exhibition. 
This call invites proposals for papers, workshops and roundtables for the Comics Symposium, a celebration of and investigation into the art of the comic book, the graphic novel, and other book-length forms of sequential art narrative, featuring keynote guest Chris Ware, author of Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth. Consistent with the work of its keynote speaker, the Comics Symposium will be a two-day event for papers, workshops and roundtables, built around the theme "Epic Narratives".  Details on the panel topics are below.  Some of these panels will also connect to the hands-on workshops and discussion roundtables that follow them.
Designed to bring together a variety of perspectives in an open and welcoming environment, the College encourages submissions from artists, writers, educators, publishers, students, curators, and critics.  As a proposal for a paper, workshop or roundtable is being reviewed, consideration will be given to this diverse population.  Note that special consideration is also given to proposals which emphasize cross-disciplinary approaches and/or formats, and to roundtables or workshop proposals that connect the symposium theme and its panels to hands-on practice.
Proposals for papers for the following panels are welcome:

• The Epic Ordinary: Contemporary Life and the Epic Narrative in Comics

Contemporary comics regularly feature mundane subjects, characters, and plots that tend to emphasize routines of work, domesticity and leisure, and the dissatisfaction, boredom, and anxiety that come with contemporary life. However, through the art form's unique language of image and word, these same comics sometimes reach for and achieve an epic scope and/or tone. Works as diverse as Harvey Pekar's series American Splendor and Chris Ware's Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth challenge our understanding of what "epic" means. This panel will consider the dialogue between form and content, and examine how comics find the extraordinary in the ordinary. Panel Chair: Robert Loss

• Extraordinary Epics: Reshaping History and Myth in Contemporary Comics

Modern visions of heroism and adventure remain important elements of mainstream and small-press comics, frequently drawing on history and myth for inspiration and reconsideration. At times these works explicitly and implicitly use the characters and structures handed down from the epic poem. This panel will examine the literary tradition of epic forms and its non-traditional uses by contemporary comic artists. In what ways do comics encourage us to reconsider the past? How influential is the serial publication format of many, if not most, comics? Is heroism an outdated idea? Panel Chair: Craig Fischer

• Dimensions of Gender: Depictions of Sex, Sexuality and Gender in Comics

This interdisciplinary panel explores the various ways that sex, sexuality and gender are depicted in graphic narrative and design. Comics and graphic novels do not shy from sex, but what of its depictions of "typical" body type, gender identity and sexuality? The comic art form is in a unique position to shape a generation's ideals and often mark inter-generational changes in these ideas within our society. From words and deeds, to lines and colors, this panel explores the multiple dimensions that create the gender and the sexual identities of comic figures. This panel offers many roads of inquiry. Panel Chair: Jon Racster

• Sustainability or Apocalypse? Imagining the Future Through Comics

The future is a frequent topic in comics, be it the dystopian visions of Frank Miller's Give Me Liberty, Akira by Katsuhiro Otomo; or the science-fiction of Flash Gordon, Moebius' The Airtight Garage and Alan Moore's Tomorrow Stories, among many others. Ideas, hopes, and fears about the future are traditions of the comic book genre dating to its earliest incarnations. What can comics tell us about the way we perceive the future today? This session will explore the explicit and implicit arguments about the possibility of a sustainable future, and why comics—like much popular art—so often depict a grim Earth ravaged by ecological disaster. Is this simply a matter of the need for conflict in narrative, or does it reflect uncertainty, pessimism, and even naiveté about the power of science and technology? What are the alternatives? Panel Chair: Kim Landsbergen
Proposals for workshops that are linked to the panels listed above are welcome. Proposal topics for additional panels and roundtables could include:

• Historical, Cultural and Ethnic Perspectives and Subjects in Comics
• Form and Style Considerations in Comics
• Images of Violence: Realism, Morality, Exploitation
• Digital Comics and the Technology of Making and Distributing Comics
• Depictions of 'Other' in Comics
• Curating Challenges
• Gender & Sexuality Representations
• Manga and Anime
• Comics and Memoir

Please read these instructions and additional guidelines before submitting:

• Submit one proposal as one electronic document containing the following information:
• a 200-word maximum abstract or description of the paper, workshop or roundtable to be presented
• a copy of the presenter's CV or resume

Important Notes:

Applicants may submit only one (1) proposal

Applicants must not include additional media files

Group proposals must include CV/resume information for all participants

• All sessions will have access to a projection screen and digital projector which can be run from an available desktop computer or a personal laptop. Any other audio-visual needs must be noted in the proposal and are subject to CCAD approval.
• If individual participation in the symposium must be limited to a certain time or day, it should be indicated in the proposal.  CCAD cannot guarantee that the symposium schedule will be able to accommodate individual scheduling limitations. 
• Those selected to contribute to a panel or other symposium event will have their registration fees waived; however, no additional funding will be provided. Papers must be presented in person.
• Applicants will be notified by July 2, 2012 of their proposal's status.
• The schedule will be finalized in August 2012.

If you have read the above and agree to these terms, submit your proposal to:  MixComicsSymposium@ccad.edu
Questions should be directed to: Robert Loss, Programming Chair, rloss@ccad.edu
Mission Statement: 
Columbus College of Art & Design prepares tomorrow's creative leaders for professional careers. With a history of commitment to fundamentals and quality, CCAD advances a distinct, challenging, and inclusive learning culture that supports individual development in art, design, and the humanities.
About the College and the City:
Columbus College of Art & Design is located in downtown Columbus, Ohio in a thriving, up-tempo environment. Numerous hotels are within close proximity by cab, rental car or public transportation. Specific parking lots on the CCAD campus will be reserved for symposium participants. Columbus is served by Port Columbus International Airport, roughly 15 minutes from campus and the downtown area. Nearby attractions include the Columbus Museum of Art (across the street from CCAD), the Thurber House, the Ohio Statehouse, the Short North gallery district, and the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum at The Ohio State University.

International Journal of Comic Art 13: 2 table of contents

The current issue has shipped and subscribers should have received it by now.

 

International Journal of Comic Art contents

Vol. 13, No. 2, Fall 2011

 

Women's Manga beyond Japan

Contemporary Comics as Cultural Crossroads in Asia

edited by

Fusami Ogi, Cheng Tju Lim, Jaqueline Berndt

"Women's Manga Beyond Japan:

Contemporary Comics as Cultural Crossroads in Asia"

Fusami Ogi

003

 

Yes, There Are Women Cartoonists:

Snippets from Those I Have Interviewed

John A. Lent

007

 

Inspiring Women: 40 Years' Transformation

of Shôjo Manga and Women's Voices

Fusami Ogi

032

 

Envisioning Alternative Communities

through a Popular Medium:

Speculative Imagination in Hagio Moto's Girls' Comics

CJ (Shige) Suzuki

057

 

"Silent Music": Desiring-machine and Femininity

in Some Music-themed Comics

Ming Hung Alex Tu

075

 

Historical Shojo Manga: On Women's Alleged Dislike

Fujimoto Yukari

Translated by Jaqueline Berndt

087

Functions and Possibilities of Female "Essay Manga":

Resistance, Negotiation, and Pleasure

Akiko Sugawa-Shimada

103

 

Crossing Double Borders:

Korean Female Amateur Comics Artists

in the Globalization of Japanese Dojin Culture

Kim Hyojin

116

 

So, How Was Your Day?

The Emergence of Graphic Diary

and Female Artists in Indonesia

Dwinita Larasati

134

 

Why Thai Girls' Manga Are Not "Shojo Manga":

Japanese Discourse and the Reality of Globalization

Mashima Tojirakarn

143

 

Manga in Malaysia:

An Approach to Its Current Hybridity

through the Career of the Shojo Mangaka Kaoru

Gan Sheuo Hui

164

 

Women "Using Manga to Tell Local Stories":

A Workshop on the "Glocality"

of Manga in Southeast Asia

Angela Moreno Acosta

179

 

Afterwords

Lim Cheng Tju

198

My Life in Cartoons

Richard Samuel West

200

 

The Contested Frontier:

Western Comics and Australian Identity, 1945-1960

Kevin Patrick

219

 

Ryan Walker, American Radical:

A Date with History from the Bottom Up

David Spencer

244

 

The State of Comics Scholarship:

Comics Studies and Disciplinarity

Gregory Steirer

263

 

"Where the Joke Comes From": Comical Potential

of Comics in the Works of Tadeusz Baranowski

Hubert Kowalewski

286

 

Transnationalism and Hegemony

amid a Very Uneven Modernity:

On Arandú, El Principe de la Selva, and the Dynamics

of the Mexican Comics Industry

Héctor Fernández L'Hoeste

313

 

Fetuses in the Sewer:

A Comparative Study of Classic 1960s Manga

by Tatsumi Yoshihiro and Tsuge Yoshiharu

Tom Gill

325

 

The Colonial Beginnings of Autobiography

in French Comics

Mark McKinney

344

Censorship and Super Bodies:

The Creative Odyssey of Margaret Harrison

Kim Munson

369

 

"Those Guys Give Me the Creeps":

Grant Morrison's Doom Patrol and Satire

in the Shared-Narrative Universe

Tom Miller

393

 

The Hero and the Apocalypse

in Watchmen and Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 8

Melissa Olson

417

Graphic Narrative and Global Ground:

A Symposium

 

edited by

Tracy Lassiter, Stefan Buchenberger, Guiherme Pereira

with assistance of

Lea Pao

 

Introduction: "Graphic Narrative and Global Ground"

Tracy Lassiter

432

 

Disembodiment of Our Physical Bodies

and Embodiment of Urban Space

in Oshii Mamoru's Animations

Hiroko Terai

437

 

Freeze-Frame: The Vagaries of Textual Analysis,

the Intentions of Art Spiegelman,

and the Ascendancy of Nobrow Art

Peter Swirski

448

Sequential Art between Language and Textuality

Angelo Piepoli

458

 

The Implicit Narrator in Comics:

Transformations of Free Indirect Discourse

in Two Graphic Adaptations of Madame Bovary

Kai Mikkonen

473

 

Metafiction: The Graphic Novel Embedded

in Laura Esquivel's Multimedia Novel The Law of Love

Tracy Lassiter

488

 

Narrating the Cities in Comics:

The Case of Bologna

Barbara Grüning

499

 

In Search of New Caledonian Comic Books:

The Image of New Caledonian Society,

the Growth of Cultural Consciousness,

and the Movement towards Citizenship

Sonja Faessler

518

 

Tex, Lone Wolf and Cub, and Preacher:

Justice Wanders through Three Countries

Guilherme Choovanski

529

 

Comic Book Super Villains and the Loss of Humanity

Stefan Buchenberger

539

 

Mr. Punch versus the Kaiser, 1892-1898:

Flashpoints of a Complex Relationship

Richard Scully

553

 

Sequential Art between Language and Textuality

Angelo Piepoli

458

 

The Implicit Narrator in Comics:

Transformations of Free Indirect Discourse

in Two Graphic Adaptations of Madame Bovary

Kai Mikkonen

473

 

Metafiction: The Graphic Novel Embedded

in Laura Esquivel's Multimedia Novel The Law of Love

Tracy Lassiter

488

 

Narrating the Cities in Comics:

The Case of Bologna

Barbara Grüning

499

 

In Search of New Caledonian Comic Books:

The Image of New Caledonian Society,

the Growth of Cultural Consciousness,

and the Movement towards Citizenship

Sonja Faessler

518

 

Tex, Lone Wolf and Cub, and Preacher:

Justice Wanders through Three Countries

Guilherme Choovanski

529

 

Comic Book Super Villains and the Loss of Humanity

Stefan Buchenberger

539

 

Mr. Punch versus the Kaiser, 1892-1898:

Flashpoints of a Complex Relationship

Richard Scully

553

 

Vinegar not Vitriol: The Picture-Politics

of Sir Francis Carruthers Gould (1844–1925)

Mark Bryant

579

 

Between Photography and Drawing:

The Documentary Comics as Translation of the City

Felipe Muanis

599

 

"A Sojourner Amongst Us":

Charles Wirgman and the Japan Punch

Todd S. Munson

614

 

Visual Transgressions and Queer Representations

in Gaiman's A Game of You

Daniel King

627

 

Sympathetic Geography:

Tropes of the Cityscape in Chris Ware's

Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth

John D. Schwetman

642

 

Reminiscences

John A. Lent

659

 

It Is an Honor To Be the Wife of Francisco V. Coching

(Dean of Pilipino Illustrators)

Filomena Coching

660

 

Hugo C. Yonzon, Jr.

Hugo Yonzon III

668

 

India's Abu Abraham: A Private View

Ayisha Abraham

674

 

Osamu Tezuka:

His Life, Works, and Contributions

to the History of Modern Japanese Comics

Kinko Ito

679

 

Sailor Moon and Art Deco

Jon LaCure

700

 

The Next Generation of Comics Scholarship

Sex and Power in "Absent Friends": An Essay

Shayla Monroe

714

 

An Exploratory Study

The Effect of Age on Comic Narrative Creation

John Baird and Dana Newborn

725

 

The Printed Word

John A. Lent

739

 

Exhibition and Media Reviews

edited by Michael Rhode

Doug Singsen

744

 

A Response and an Observation

Lim Cheng Tju

749