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Volume 10, Number 2 (2019)

What You See Is What You Get: Visualizing Hypocrisy in Umezu Kazuo’s Manga Cat-Eyed Boy by Jon Holt
>“must we all remain helpless?”: Superman vs. the Nuclear Threat in the Late Cold War by Rui Lopes
Historical Avant-Garde: How Marcia Williams Recreates Shakespeare’s Theater in the Comics Medium by Russell McConnell
Global Attention in Reading Comics: Eye-movement Indications of Interplay between Narrative Content and Layout by Kai Mikkonen and Olli Philippe Lautenbacher
Beyond Words: The Visual Demands of Joe Sacco’s Safe Area Goražde by Nicholas Wirtz
>“Only the Winner is Allowed to Live”: The Concept of Cannibalism in Attack on Titan by Asuka Yamazaki
>Editorial Note for Book Reviews by Anastasia Ulanowicz
Review of The Evolution of the Costumed Avenger: The 4,000 Year History of the Superhero by Jaquelin Elliott
Review of The 10 Cent War: Comic Books, Propaganda, and World War II by Megan Fowler
Review of Palookaville: Seth and the Art of Graphic Autobiography by Chase Machado
Review of Chris Ware: Conversations by Christopher Smith

Volume 10, Number 1 (2018)

100 Years of Blossoming: A Generic History of Comics in Turkey by Ali Benice
The Creation of the Comic Strip as an Audiovisual Stage in the New York Journal 1896-1900 by Eike Exner
Readerly Transference: Psychoanalysis Via Comics in Alison Bechdel's Are You My Mother? by Audrey Farley
"It's Sad, But Not Crazy"—Memory as Construction/Performance in Graphic Memoirs by Jennifer Daniels Klug
Comics and Narratological Perspective: (Witnessing) Bias in Direct Experience by Rachel Kunert-Graf
Bodies in Saga by Daniel Pinti
Scarred Dragon—Historical Trauma Narratives in the Graphic Novels of Li Kunwu and Gene Luen Yang by Nicolas Schillinger
Framing Super-Vision: Panoptic Vision and Controlling Frames in Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' Watchmen by Matthew Schmalzer
Feelings in the Gutter: Opportunities for Emotional Engagement in Comics by Will Simpson
Review of Articulating the Action Figure: Essays on Toys and Their Messages by Kevin Cooley
Review of Panel to the Screen: Style, American Film, and Comic Books During the Blockbuster Era by Christopher Lopez
Review of Captain Marvel and the Art of Nostalgia by Danielle Reid

Editorial Note for New Creative Reviews
Review of E.X.O.: The Legend of Wale Williams Part Two by Fiona Farnsworth
Review of Drawing the Line: Indian Women Fight Back! by Kodi Maier
Review of Chernobyl: The Zone by Anastasia Ulanowicz

Volume 9, Number 3 (2018)

"Submission is Faith in the Strength of Others": Synthesizing Male and Female Aspects of War in Azzarello and Chiang's Wonder Woman by Houman Sadri
"How Can 'Is' Be Wrong": Queer Reading Strategies and Identification in Fun Home by Robert Hutton
Burke in the Gutter: Dramatistic Criticism of Comics by A. Cheree Carlson
Winter Soldiers and Sunshine Patriots: World War II and the Cold War in Captain America by Kathleen McClancy
Between Movement and Reading: Reconceptualizing the Dynamic Picture Plane in Modernist Comics and Painting by Paul Atkinson
Comics, Materiality, and the Limits of Media Combinations by Kieron Brown
"You are Een the House of Sanjak!": Terry and the Pirates, the First Lesbian Character in U.S. Comics, and the Roots of Wonder Woman by Michelle Ann Abate
Review of Sovereignty and Superheroes by Victoria Addis
Review of Postcolonial Comics: Texts, Events, Identities by Eric Berlatsky
Review of Comics: A Global History, 1968 to the Present by Catherine Corder
Review of Transmedial Narratology and Contemporary Media Culture by Fiona Farnsworth
Review of Superwomen: Gender, Power, and Representation by Carlos Acosta Ponce
Review of Debating Truth: The Barcelona Disputation of 1263, A Graphic History by Danielle Reid
Review of Humans and Paragons by Tom E. Simmons

Volume 9, Number 2 (2017)

Mixing Visual Media in Comics by Nancy Pedri
Biographies of Famous Painters in Comics: What Becomes of the Paintings? by Thierry Groensteen
Mixed Visual Media from the Standpoint of the Reader/Spectator by Pascal Lefèvre
Don't Pray for Paris: Drawing in Post-Charlie Hebdo Graphic Novels by Bart Beaty
Drawing Photo Novels by Jan Baetens
Photography and the Layering of Perspective in Graphic Memoir by Nancy Pedri
Seeing the Sensation: Sketch-Journaling and the Embodiment of Mental Illness in Autographics by Irene Velentzas
Scrapbooking Caravaggio's Medusa, Reconfiguring Blake: What It Is, One! Hundred! Demons! and Lynda Barry's Feminist Intervention in the (Male) Artistic Canon by Olga Michael
80-'89: Comics' Greatest Decade by Ho Che Anderson
Review of The Comics of Joe Sacco by Charles Acheson
Review of The Blacker the Ink by Eric Berlatsky
Review of Transforming Anthony Trollope by Catherine Corder
Review of Twelve-Cent Archie by Christopher Haynes
Review of The New Mutants by Ashley Manchester
Review of The Comic Book Film Adaptation by Erica McCrystal
Review of Beyond Bombshells by Molly Scanlon

Volume 9, Number 1 (2017)

The Allegorical X-Men: Emblems, Comics, and the Allegorical Potential of Text/Image Hybrid Genres by Sarah Briest
Maxime Miranda in Minimis: Swarm Consciousness in Miyazaki's Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind by Adnan Mahmutovic and Denise Nunes
Sex Magic, Kabbalah, and Feminist Imagination in Alan Moore's Promethea by Aaron Ricker
Comics and Trauma: A Postmortem and a New Inquiry by Christopher Pizzino
Networking Multivalence Trauma through Holonymic Representation in David B.'s Epileptic by Charles Acheson
Asterix's Journey to Find Oil: Environmental Traumics by Donna Axel and Roberta Spivak
Textual Recall: The Art of Braiding in 'La casa del sol naciente' and El arte de volar by Janis Breckenridge and Jenna Stanley
"I had not dared to remember": Trauma and Historical Memory in Recent Spanish Comics by Sarah Harris
Representing Unrepresentability: Manu Larcenet's La Ligne de Front and the Quest to Document the 'Spirit' of War by Birte Wege
Review of The World of Shaft by Leila Estes
Review of Miyazaki's Animism Abroad: The Reception of Japanese Religious Themes by American and German Audiences by Michael Hale
Review of The Superhero Costume: Identity and Disguise in Fact and Fiction by Christopher Maverick
Review of Bending Steel: Modernity and the American Superhero by Liam Nolan
Review of The Dark Night Returns: The Contemporary Resurgence of Crime Comics by Derek Parker Royal

Volume 8, Number 4 (2016)

The Rhetorical Invention of Comics: A Selection of Rodolphe Töpffer's Late Reflections on Composing Image-Text Narratives by Sergio C. Figueiredo
Chris Ware's Building Stories as Deleuzian Fabulation, or How and Why to Read Comics Affectively by Vincent Haddad
Pictures at a Remove: Seth's Drawn Photographs by Daniel Marrone
Review of Representing Multiculturalism in Comics and Graphic Novels by Dominic Davies
Review of William Schoell's The Horror Comics by Jaquelin Elliott
Review of Seth: Conversations by Catherine Kasper
Review of American Comic Book Chronicles: The 1970s by Derek Parker Royal
Review of Graphic Details by Stephen Tabachnick

Volume 8, Number 3 (2016)

God A Stinks – Synesthesia in the Maya Afterlife by Amy Giroux
A conversation with Canadian illustrator, animation designer and comic book artist/writer Paul Rivoche by Jeffery Klaehn
Trauma, Memory, and Imagination in Paul Hornschemeier's Mother, Come Home by Mitchell C. Lilly
Ambulatory Identities: Montijo's Revision of Chicano/a Hybridity in Pablo's Inferno by Jorge Santos
Review of The French Comics Theory Reader by Eric L. Berlatsky
Review of Ed vs. Yummy Fur:
Or, What Happens When a Serial Comic Becomes a Graphic Novel by Christopher M. Cox
Review of Gothic in Comics and Graphic Novels by Jaquelin Elliott
Review of Soul of the Dark Knight: Batman as Mythic Figure in Comics and Film by Megan Fowler
Review of The Visual Language of Comics:
Introduction to the Structure and Cognition of Sequential Images by A. David Lewis
Review of Considering Watchmen: Poetics, Property, Politics by Mitch Murray

Volume 8, Number 2 (2015)

Grant Morrison

Which Side are You On? The Worlds of Grant Morrison by Francesco-Alessio Ursini, Adnan Mahmutovic and Frank Bramlett
Roundtable Transcript by Francesco-Alessio Ursini, Adnan Mahmutovic, and Frank Bramlett (Issue Editors), Kate Roddy, Keith Scott, Darragh Greene, Nick Galante, Tommi Kakko, David Coughlan, and Roy Cook
Roundtable Video
Morrison, Magic, and Visualizing the Word:
Text as Image in Vimanarama by Roy T. Cook
A Rubble of Fragments:
Disintegration into Panels in Grant Morrison's Comics by Clare Pitkethly
No Guru, No Method, No Teacher:
"Grant Morrison" and GrantMorrison^TM by Keith Scott
"Here Comes Tomorrow":
The Ethics of Utopianism in Grant Morrison's New X-Men by Darragh Greene
Eternal Superteens and Mutant Spermatozoa:
Grant Morrison and the Comic as Porneau by Kate Roddy
World of My Own:
Joe the Barbarian and the Cathartic Power of Fantasy by Nick Galante
Ecce Animot
Or, The Animal Man That Therefore I Am by Adnan Mahmutovic, David Coughlan, and Stephen Blake Ervin
Making and Breaking the Superhero Quotidian:
How All-Star Superman Embodies and Revises the Everyday by Frank Bramlett
"The Image Rules the World":
Focalization, Hallucinations and Metalepsis in The Invisibles by Tommi Kakko and Mervi Miettinen
Language and Thought in The Invisibles by Francesco-Alessio Ursini
Book Review of The Superhero Reader by Eric L. Berlatsky
Book Review: The Ages of the Avengers: Essays on the Earth's Mightiest Heroes in Changing Times by Peter Han
Review of Comics and Narration by Melissa Loucks
Review of Southeast Asian Cartoon Art: Histories, Trends and Problems by Jeremy Stoll

Volume 8, Number 1 (2015)

General Issue with "Monsters in the Margins" Forum

A Note from the Editors by Terry Harpold and Anastasia Ulanowicz
Constructing Guy Delisle's Shenzhen and Deng Xiaoping's Shenzhen:
Graphic Novel and Urban Space by Michelle E. Bloom
Invisible Spaces for the "Impossible" State:
National Identity and the Production of Space in Joe Sacco's Palestine by Cristina Delgado-García
The Epistemology of the Phone Booth:
The Superheroic Identity and Queer Theory in Batwoman: Elegy by Andréa Gilroy
Introduction to the "Monsters in the Margins" Forum by Katherine Shaeffer and Spencer Chalifour
From Humbaba to the Wild Things:
The Monster Archetype That is Forever With Us by John Cech
Guest Artist Illustration: Monster Picnic by Jonathan Case
Two Lunatics:
Sanity and Insanity in The Killing Joke by Eric Doise
Obama Zombies and Rhetorical (Dis)Identifications in an Era of Dog Whistle Politics and Political Polarization by Laurie Gries
Erotic Grotesque Redemption:
Transgressive Sexuality and the Search for Salvation in Katsuya Terada's The Monkey King Volume 1 by Caleb Simmons
Chick Tracts, Monstrosity, and Pornography by Anastasia Ulanowicz
Review of Redrawing French Empire in Comics by Anne Cirella-Urrutia
Review of Black Comics: Politics of Race and Representation by Francesca Lyn
Review of Jose Alaniz's Death, Disability, and the Superhero: The Silver Age and Beyond by Ashley Manchester
Playing at the Margins:
A Review of Transnational Perspectives on Graphic Narratives by Kate Polak
Review of Comics and Language: Reimagining Critical Discourse on the Form by Molly J. Scanlon

Volume 7, Number 4 (2014)

A Comic of Her Own: Women Writing, Reading and Embodying through Comics

Edited by Jeffrey A. Brown and Melissa Loucks

A Comic of Her Own: Women Writing, Reading and Embodying through Comics by Jeffrey A. Brown and Melissa Loucks
Does 21st Century Feminist Fiction Challenge or Uphold Conventional Notions of the Family? A Critique of A Mercy and Fun Home by Monalesia Earle
Evolving Sub-Texts in the Visual Exploitation of the Female Form: Good Girl and Bad Girl Comic Art Pre- and Post-Second Wave Feminism by Christopher J. Hayton
Re-booting Barbara Gordon: Oracle, Batgirl, and Feminist Disability Theories by Carolyn Cocca
Bound and Dreaming: Female Empowerment through Sado-Masochistic Fantasy in Guido Crepax's Valentina by Cara Takakjian
Zombies vs. Superheroes: Resurrecting Gender Formulas in The Walking Dead and The Fantastic Four by Chris Gavaler
"How Can I Refuse You, Mother Box?!" Abjection and Objectification of Motherhood in Jack Kirby's Fourth World by Annamarie O'Brien
Making Serious Subjects Lighter: Trauma in the Adolescent Autographic by Michael Kersulov
Review of Jeet Heer's In Love with Art: Françoise Mouly's Adventures in Comics with Art Spiegelman by Charles Acheson
Review of Comics and the Senses: A Multisensory Approach to Comics and Graphic Novels by Brian Bates
Review of The Lost Art of Ah Pook Is Here: Images From The Graphic Novel by Sergio Figueiredo
Review of From Comic Strips to Graphic Novels: Contributions to the Theory and History of Graphic Narrative by Orion Ussner Kidder
Review of Animating the Unconscious: Desire, Sexuality and Animation by Robin Alex McDonald

Volume 7, Number 3 (2014)

Comics and Post-Secondary Pedagogy

Edited by James Bucky Carter and Najwa Al-Tabaa

TEACHING! POW! COMICS! BAM!: Pedagogical Approaches to Comics in Post-Secondary Classrooms by Najwa Al-Tabaa
Comics Poetry: Praxis and Pedagogy by Tamryn Bennett and Guillermo Batiz
Creating Graphic Nonfiction in the Postsecondary English Classroom to Develop Multimodal Literacies by Emily A. Wierszewski
Webcomics, Multimodality, and Information Literacy by Dale Jacobs
Library 1100: Information Literacy, Sequential Art, and Introduction to Library Research by Robert G. Weiner and Carrye Kay Syma
Comics as a Design Ecosystem: A Case for Comics in Design Education by Erik A. Evensen
Too Much Reading: Teaching Liberal Arts Comic Courses In A Studio College by Diana Green
Toward a History of the Black Superhero: Review of Super Black: American Pop Culture and Black Superheroes by Ezra Claverie
Review of Teaching Comics and Graphic Narratives: Essays on Theory, Strategy and Practice by Oriana Gatta
Gosh! by Terry Harpold
Review of Crossing Boundaries in Graphic Narrative by Will Moore
Review of Studying Comics and Graphic Novels by Derek Parker Royal
Comics Scholarship Joins Broader Discussions about Popular Culture, Region and Race: Review of Comics and the U.S. South by Kerry Soper
Review of From Comic Strips to Graphic Novels by Jeff Thoss
Michael Phillips's Vision of William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: A Review Essay by Walton Wood

Volume 7, Number 2 (Fall 2013)

Fascism and Mass Culture in Howard Chaykin's Blackhawk by Brannon Costello
Breaking Quarantine: Image, Text, and Disease in Black Hole, Epileptic, and Our Cancer Year by Bruce Dadey
Mourning and Melancholia in Alison Bechdel's Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Rachel Dean-Ruzicka
George McManus and Irish America by Charles Fanning
The Abyss Gazes Also: The Self-Referential Cynicism of Watchmen by Matthew Levy and Heather Mathews
Review of Beautiful Fighting Girl by Kathryn Hemmann
Review of Projections: Comics and the History of Twenty-First Century Storytelling by Aaron Kashtan
Review of Bart Beaty's Comics Versus Art by Cameron Kunzelman
Review of Unpopular Culture by Tim Lanzendörfer
Review of Critical Survey of Graphic Novels: Independent and Underground Classics by John Rodzvilla
Review of War, Politics, and Superheroes: Ethics and Propaganda in Comics and Film by James E. Siburt
Review of Critical Approaches to Comics: Theories and Methods by Jeremy Stoll
Subtle Coercion or Painfully Obvious Jokes? A Note on Fredrik Stomberg's Comic Art Propaganda: A Graphic History by Lia Yoka

Volume 7, Number 1 (Summer 2013)

The Worlds of the Hernandez Brothers

Edited by Derek Parker Royal and Christopher González

The Worlds of the Hernandez Brothers by Derek Parker Royal
Autoclastic Icons: Bloodletting and Burning in Gilbert Hernandez's Palomar by Christopher Pizzino
Gilbert Hernandez as a Rhetor by F. Vance Neill
Picturing the Transnational in Palomar:
Gilbert Hernandez and the Comics of the Borderlands by Jennifer Glaser
Comics as Remediation:
Gilbert Hernandez's Human Diastrophism by Jesse Molesworth
Mood, Mystery, and Demystification in Gilbert Hernandez's
Twentieth-First-Century NeoNoir Stand-Alones by Frederick Luis Aldama
Turf, Tags, and Territory:
Spatiality in Jaime Hernandez's "Vida Loca: The Death of Speedy Ortiz" by Christopher González
Review of Recent Books from Gilbert Hernandez by Derek Parker Royal
Review of Love and Rockets New Stories, No 5 by James Bucky Carter
Review of God and Science: Return of the Ti-Girls by Andrew J. Kunka
Review of The Art of Jamie Hernandez by Patrick L. Hamilton
The Hernandez Brothers: A Selected Bibliography by Derek Parker Royal

Volume 6, Number 3 (Winter 2013)

Shakespeare and Visual Rhetoric

Editors' Introduction by Katherine Shaeffer and Richard Burt
Visual Statements in Shakespearean Adaptations: Illustrating Romeo and Juliet for Children by Cara Byrne
"To dignify some old costumed claptrap": Shakespearean Allusion and the Status of Text in the DC Comics of Grant Morrison by Brandon Christopher
Shakespeare Manga: Early- or Post-modern? by Svenn-Arve Myklebost
Interface Rhetoric in Shakespearean Comics: A Study of the Effect of Interface on the Construction of Shakespeare's Plays by F. Vance Neill
The Tempest: Pastoral Romance or Colonial Critique? by Margaret Roper
"These are not our Father's words!": Kill Shakespeare's Defense of the Meta-Text by Jason Tondro
Review of The Metamorphoses of Tintin by Andréa Gilroy
Review of Bradford W. Wright's Comic Book Nation by Jeremiah Massengale
The Toils of a Clowes: A Review of Daniel Clowes: Conversations by Shauna Osborn
Review of Dante's Divine Comedy by Seymour Chwast by Nicholas A. Theisen

Volume 6, Number 2 (Spring 2012)

ImageNext: Visions Past and Future

Editor's Introduction by Katherine Shaeffer
Monitoring the Past: DC Comics' Crisis on Infinite Earths and the Narrativization of Comic Book History by Andrew J. Friedenthal
The Military Vanguard for Desegregation: Civil Rights Era War Comics and Racial Integration by Christopher J. Hayton and David L. Albright
The Parts That Got Left Out oF the Donald Duck Book, or: How Karl Marx Prevailed Over Carl Barks by David Kunzle
Urban America in the Newspaper Comic Strips of the Nineteenth Century: Introducing the Yellow Kid by Christina Meyer
Illustration: Greetings from Florida, the Sunshine State by John Porcellino
Reading from Within the Panel by David Steiling
Review of Arguing Comics: Literary Masters on a Popular Medium by Eric L. Berlatsky
Review of The Best American Comics Criticism by Eric L. Berlatsky
Review of Laurence Grove's Comics in French: The European Bande Dessinée in Context by Alice Claire Burrows
Review of Suspended Animation: Children's Picture Books and the Fairy Tale of Modernity by Caroline Campbell
Review of Selected BD Scholarship by Anne Cirella-Urrutia
Review of The Dragon and the Dazzle by Martin de la Iglesia
Review of Drawn and Dangerous: Italian Comics of the 1970s and 1980s by
Review of Graven Images by Paul Petrovic
Review of Do the Gods Wear Capes?: Spirituality, Fantasy, and Superheroes. by Greg Steirer

Volume 6, Number 1 (Fall 2011)

Fidelity and Period Aesthetics in Comics Adaptation by Matthew Bolton
The Violence Museum: Aesthetic Wounds from Popeye to We3 by Jonathan Gaboury
Two Texts on "Comics" from China, ca. 1932: "In Defense of 'Comic Strips'" by Lu Xun and "Comic Strip Novels" by Mao Dun by Sean Macdonald
When Photographs Aren't Quite Enough: Reflections on Photography and Cartooning in Le Photographe by Nancy Pedri
Review of Charles M. Schulz's My Life With Charlie Brown by Eric L. Berlatsky
Review of History and Politics in French-Language Comics and Graphic Novels by Anne Cirella-Urrutia
Surveying the Field: Recent Scholarship on Superheroines by Megan Condis
Review of Caped Crusaders 101: Composition through Comic Books by Michael Dean
Book Art: a review of Art of McSweeney's by Zara Dinnen
Review of Theodor SEUSS Geisel by Donald E. Pease by Rebekah Fitzsimmons
Review of Drawing France: French Comics and the Republic by Andréa L. Gilroy
Review of José Alaniz' Komiks: Comic Art in Russia by Alison Mandaville
Review of Teaching Visual Literacy by Clinton L. Robison
Review of Toni Johnson-Woods' MANGA by Caleb Simmons
Review of Animators Unearthed: A Guide to the Best of Contemporary Animation by Walton Wood

Volume 5, Number 4 (Spring 2011)

Alan Moore and Adaptation

Editors' Introduction: Alan Moore and Adaptation by Rex Krueger and Katherine Shaeffer
"Her Guardiner": Alan Moore's Swamp Thing as the Green Man by Colin Beineke
The Saga of the Swamp Thing: Feminism and Race on the Comic Book Stand by Megan A.Condis
Interplay Amidst the Strangeness and the Charm: Under-language and the Attenuation of Meaning in the Film Adaptation of Watchmen by Vyshali Manivannan
The Culturally Constituted Gaze: Fetishizing the Feminine from Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons's Watchmen to Zack Snyder's Watchmen by Paul Petrovic
A Man of Steel (by any other name):
Adaptation and Continuity in Alan Moore's "Superman" by Jack Teiwes
Review of Annalisa Di Liddo's Alan Moore: Comics as Performance, Fiction as Scalpel by Eric L. Berlatsky
Review of Mechademia 4: War/Time by Ellen Grabiner
Comics OR Philosophy? A Review of Comics as Philosophy (2005) by Mervi Miettinen
Review of Art Spiegelman: Conversations by Laura Perna
Review of Of Comics and Men: A Cultural History of American Comic Books by Matthew Pustz
Review of The Anime Machine by Caleb Simmons
Review of Graphic Women: Life Narrative and Contemporary Comics by Anastasia Ulanowicz

Volume 5, Number 3 (Fall 2010)

Convergences: Comics, Culture and Globalization

Editors' Introduction Introduction: Convergences: Comics Culture and Globalizatioon by Tania Darlington and Aaron Kashtan
Imagining a Multiplicity of Visual Rhetorical Traditions: Comics Lessons from Rhetoric Histories by Franny Howes
Mullahs to Donkeys: Cartooning in Azerbaijan by Alison Mandaville
Native Noir: Genre and the Politics of Indigenous Representation in Recent American Comics by Derek Parker Royal
"Surrounded by Stillness and Quiet": Translation, Transparency, and Genre in Jason's Jernvognen by Joel Simundich
Alan Moore, "Secondary Literacy," and the Modernism of the Graphic Novel by Phillip E. Wegner
Review of Time Frames: Japanese Cinema and the Unfolding of History by Andréa L. Gilroy
"SPLAT! CRACK!": Review of Secret Identity: The Fetish Art of Superman's Co-Creator Joe Shuster by Terry Harpold
Review of The Power of Comics by Rex Krueger
Review of Isadora Duncan: A Graphic Biography by Philip Nel
Review of Looking for Calvin and Hobbes by Laura Perna
Review of Teaching the Graphic Novel by Sarah N. Petrovic
Review of Walter Benjamin's Archive: Images, Texts, Signs by Anastasia Ulanowicz

Volume 5, Number 2 (Spring 2010)

Anime and Utopia

Introduction: Anime's Coming Communities by Phillip E. Wegner
Contested Utopias: Ghost in the Shell, Cognitive Mapping, and the Desire for Communism by Matthew Stoddard
The City Ascends: Laputa: Castle in the Sky as Critical Ecotopia by Anthony Lioi
"An Unfinished Project that was Also a Missed Opportunity": Utopia and Alternate History in Hayao Miyazaki's My Neighbor Totoro by Phillip E. Wegner
Possessed by and of: Up against Seeing: Princess Mononoke by John Leavey
Digital Love: A Review of Cinephilia in the Age of Digital Reproduction: Film, Pleasure and Digital Culture, Vol.1 by Megan Condis
Review of Otaku: Japan's Database Animals by Tania Darlington
Review of God of Comics: Osamu Tezuka and the Creation of Post-World War II Manga by Tof Eklund

Volume 5, Number 1 (Winter 2010)

Graphic Whiteness and the Lessons of Chris Ware's Jimmy Corrigan by Juda Bennett and Cassandra Jackson
Watchmen: The Graphic Novel as Trauma Fiction by Brandy Ball Blake
The Confluence of Heroism, Sissyhood, and Camp in The Rawhide Kid: Slap Leather by Frank Bramlett
"To the Stables, Robin": Regenerating the Frontier in Frank Miller's Batman: The Dark Knight Returns by Theo Finigan
Breaking the Frame: Political Acts of Body in the Televised Dark Knight by DT Kofoed
"Mosaic Thresholds": Manifesting the Collection and Production of Comics in the works of Chris Ware by Aaron Mauro
The Beautiful Ambiguity of Blankets: Comics Representation and Religious Art by Benjamin Stevens
"Now you will pay a dreadful penalty!": A Review of I Shall Destroy All the Civilized Planets! and You Shall Die by Your Own Evil Creation! by Fletcher Hanks by Terry Harpold

Volume 4, Number 3 (Summer 2009)

ImageSexT: Intersections of Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Editor's Introductionby Lyndsay Brown and Tof Eklund
The Queering of Haruhi Fujioka: Cross-Dressing, Camp and Commoner Culture in Ouran High School Host Club by Tania Darlington
I for Integrity: (Inter)Subjectivities and Sidekicks in Alan Moore's V for Vendetta and Frank Miller's Batman: The Dark Knight Returns by Jordana Greenblatt
Our Minds in the Gutters: Sexuality, History, and Reader Responsibility in George O'Connor's Graphic Novel Journey into Mohawk Country by Melissa L. Mellon
Spectral Memory, Sexuality and Inversion: An Arthrological Study of Alison Bechdel's Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Adrielle Mitchell
"Gimme Gimme This, Gimme Gimme That": Confused Sexualities and Genres in Cooper and Mayerson's Horror Hospital Unplugged by James Newlin
The Joy of Plex: Erotic Arthrology, Tromplographic Intercourse, and "Interspecies Romances" in Howard Chaykin's American Flagg! by Daniel F. Yezbick
Review of Jim Ottoviani and Dylan Meconis' Wire Mothers: Harry Harlow and the Science of Love by Star Hoffman

Volume 4, Number 2 (Winter 2008)

Gotham (K)Nights: Utopianism, American Mythology, and Frank Miller’s Bat(-topia) by Graham J. Murphy
Abstraction, Trauma, and the Orphan in Brian Michael Bendis and David Mack's Daredevil: Wake Up by Rex Krueger
Race, Space, and New Right Editorial Cartoons in the United States by Patrick Lynn Rivers
Reading Peanuts: the Secular and the Sacred by Stephen J. Lind
Review of Reading Network Fiction by David Ciccoricco by Hanli Geyser
Spaniards and Queers and Comics: Oh My!" A Review of Queer Transitions in Contemporary Spanish Culture by Gema Perez-Sanchez by Ellen Gil-Gomez
Review of Shake Girl by Katherine Shaeffer
Review of Jessica Abel and Matt Madden's Drawing Words and Writing Pictures by Tof Eklund
From the Margins of the Margin: Seeing Educational Comics by Joseph Witek
On the difficulty of characterizing what educational comics are about by John Van Hook
Educational Comics: A Family Tree by Sol Davidson

Volume 4, Number 1 (Summer 2008)

The Comics Work of Neil Gaiman

Introduction Philip Sandifer and Tof Eklund
Fairy and Faerie: Uses of the Victorian in Neil Gaiman's and Charles Vess's Stardust Meredith Collins
Through Every Mirror in the World: Lacan's Mirror Stage as Mutual Reference in the Works of Neil Gaiman and Tori Amos S. Alexander Reed
Incomensurable Ontologies and the Return of the Witness in Neil Gaiman's 1602 James R. Fleming
Get Gaiman?: PolyMorpheus Perversity in Works by and about Neil Gaiman Clay Smith
Phantom Towers: Crypto-towers Haunting Dave McKean's Cages and Mirrormask Matthew Feltman
'Being' Decentered in Sandman: History, Dreams, Gender, and the 'Prince of Metaphor and Allusion' Rodney Sharkey
'Tales Worked in Blood and Bone:' Words and Images as Scalpel and Suture in Graphic Narratives Jon Saklofske
The Sandman as Neomedieval Text Zuleyha Cetiner-Oktem
Review of Sandman Papers: An Exploration of the Sandman Mythology , ed. Joe Sanders Aaron Kashtan

Volume 3, Number 3 (Summer 2007)

Comics and Childhood

Introduction, Cathlena Martin & Charles Hatfield
Learning from the Sequence: The Use of Comics in Instruction Gorg Mallia
Riddles of Engagement: Narrative Play in the Children's Media and Comic Art of George Carlson Daniel Yezbick
The Many Sides of Hank: Modifications, Adjustments, and Adaptations of Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Cari Keebaugh
Crossovers and Changeovers: Reading Lynn Johnston through Margaret Mahy Sam Hester
When Real Things Happen to Imaginary Tigers Philip Sandifer
Imagetext in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time James Bucky Carter
Opening-Up Aesop's Fables: Heteroglossia in Slade & Toni Morrison and Pascal Lemaître's 'The Ant or the Grasshopper?' Veronique Bragard
Baby-Boom Children and Harvey Comics After the Code: A Neighborhood of Little Girls and Boys Kathy Merlock Jackson and Mark D. Arnold
ImageSexT: A Roundtable on Lost Girls Philip Sandifer, Moderator
- Down the Rabbit Hole Kenneth Kidd
- A Magical Realism of the Fuck Tof Eklund
- A Review and a Response Charles Hatfield
- History, Pornography, and Lost Girls Meredith Collins
"Four Conceptions of the Page," from Case, planche, récit: lire la bande dessinée Benoît Peeters, translated by Jesse Cohn
Translator's Commentary on Peeters, "Four Conceptions of the Page" Jesse Cohn
Review of Aesthetic Approaches to Children's Literature: An Introduction, by Maria Nikolajeva Joseph Thomas
Review of Moomin: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip. Vol. 1 Philip Nel
Review of The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana Thomas Stewart

Volume 3, Number 2 (Winter 2007)

"William Blake and Visual Culture"

Introduction Roger Whitson
Minute Particulars and Quantum Atoms: The Invisible, the Indivisible, and the Visualizable in William Blake and in Niels Bohr Arkady Plotnitsky
Wordsworth Illustrates Blake ("All light is mute amid the gloom") Nelson Hilton
William Blake and the Novel Space of Revolution Ron Broglio
Blake's Lines: Seven Digressions Through Time and Space Esther Leslie
Panelling Parallax: The Fearful Symmetry of Alan Moore and William Blake Roger Whitson
Re-Visioning William Blake's The Four Zoas Donald Ault
William Blake: On the Infinite Plane Matthew Ritchie
Engraving the Void and Sketching Parallel Worlds: An Interview with Bryan Talbot Roger Whitson interviews Bryan Talbot
Tygers of Wrath John Coulthart
Mr. Blake's Company Joel Priddy

Volume 3, Number 1 (Summer 2006)

Reading the Illustrations of Jules Verne's Voyages extraordinaires: The Example of Le Superbe Orénoque by Terry Harpold
The Exotic Other Scripted: Identity and Metamorphosis in David Mack's Kabuki by Jim Casey and Stefan Hall
Desire without closure in Jaime Hernandez' Love and Rockets by Esther Saxey
Architectural Grounding in Miller's Elektra: Temporality and Spatiality in the Graphic Novel by Renée Tobe
Imagining Terrorists before Sept. 11: Marvel's GI Joe Comic Books, 1982-1994 by Christopher Norlund
Yorick, Don't Be A Hero: Productive Motion in Y: the Last Man by Lyndsay Brown
Review of Drawn to Extremes: The Use and Abuse of Editorial Cartoons by Chris Lamb by Michael Mayne
Review of Action Chicks: New Images of Tough Women in Popular Culture ed. Sherrie A. Inness by Ione Damasco
Review of The Gospel According to Superheroes: Religion and Popular Culture ed. B.J. Oropeza by James Fleming
Review of Fredric Wertham and the Critique of Mass Culture by Bart Beaty by Tof Eklund
Review of Black Superheroes, Milestone Comics, and Their Fans by Jeffrey A. Brown by Lelac Almagor
Review of Lost Girls by Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie by Philip Sandifer
Notes on Contributors

Volume 2, Number 2 (Winter 2006)

Welcome by Stephanie Boluk
Theological Compatibilism & Animation: Vessel of Wrath by Nathan Gilder
Beyond the Balloon: Sound Effects and Background Text in Lynn Johnston's For Better or For Worse by Suzanne Covey
Ecofeminist Themes in Paolo Eleuteri Serpieri's Morbus Gravis by Matthew Jones
The Tides of History: Alan Moore's Historiographic Vision by Sean Carney
Gothic Oedipus: subjectivity and Capitalism in Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins by Mark Fisher
Review of Superman on the Couch: What Superheroes Really Tell Us about Ourselves and Our Society by James R. Fleming
Review of Raeburn's Chris Ware by Emma Tinker
"Old Comics and Current Technology Combine to Form New Hybrids", Review of 40 Years of The Amazing Spider-Man and 44 Years of Fantastic Four by James Bucky Carter
"2005 Comic-Con Shines a Light on Eisner: A Look at Two Documentaries and a Tribute" Review of: 2005 International Comic-Con in San Diego by Vanessa Raney
Notes on Contributors

Volume 2, Number 1 (Summer 2005)

Welcome by Zach Whalen
Memoriam for Bruce Hamilton by Donald Ault
Paraliterary Immersion and the Puzzleform: An Essay in Social Restitution? by Alvaro Aleman
Gendered Visions of Graphic Fiction: Adrian Tomine's Summer Blonde by Bianca Isaki
Pound’s Poetry as IMAGE TEXT by James McDougall
“I, too, was a Teenage Marvel Zombie.” Review of Editor Sean Howe's Give our Regards to the Atomsmashers!: Writers on Comics by Travis Fristoe
Review of Geoff Klock's How to Read Superhero Comics and Why by James R. Fleming
Review of: Charles Burns’ Black Hole by Vanessa Raney
Notes on Contributors

Volume 1, Number 2 (Winter 2005)

Preludium: Crumb, Barks, and Noomin: Re-Considering the Aesthetics of Underground Comics by Donald Ault.
Memoriam for Will Eisner by Charles Hatfield.
Still asking, "Are We Having Fun Yet?" by Bill Griffith.
Wimmin and Comix by Diane Noomin.
Comics on the Main Street of Culture by Eddie Campbell.
London Khorographic by Julian Wolfreys.
Alan Moore and the Graphic Novel: Confronting the Fourth Dimension by Bucky Carter and Mark Bernard.
Webcomics: The Influence and Continuation of the Comix Revolution by Sean Fenty, Trena Houp, and Laurie Taylor.
Review of Comic Strips and Consumer Culture, 1890-1945. By Ian Gordon. by Joshua Paddison.
Review of Leaving Springfield: The Simpsons and the Possibility of Oppositional Culture. Ed. John Alberti. by Cathlena Martin.
Review of Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer. by Sudha Shastri.
Review of The Rubber Frame: Essays in Culture and Comics. Ed. D.B. Dowd and M. Todd Hignite. by Tof Eklund.
Notes on Contributors

Volume 1 Number 1 (Spring 2004)

Welcome by Donald Ault.
Presentation by Will Eisner.
Presentation by Daniel Clowes, Terry Zwigoff, and Isaac Cates.
Q & A with Dan Clowes and Terry Zwigoff.
Presentation by Joe Sacco.
Presentation by Robert Williams.
Presentation by Kim Deitch.
The Presence of the Artist: Kim Deitch’s Boulevard of Broken Dreams vis-à-vis the Animated Cartoon by Charles Hatfield.
Imagetext, or, Why Art Spiegelman Doesn't Draw Comics by Joseph Witek.
Jewish Fathers and Sons in Spiegelman's Maus and Roth's Patrimony by Andrew Gordon.
Racial Imagery, Racism, Individualism, and Underground Comix by Leonard Rifas.
Compromised Divisions: Thresholds in Comic Books and Video Games by Laurie N. Taylor.
David Boring: Loose Threads and Five Card Nancy by Isaac Cates.
Imagetextuality: “Cutting Up” Again, Part III by Donald Ault.
Notes on Contributors

Exhibits

This is an online companion to an exhibit held by the University of Florida Library. The exhibit, "'Help Is On The Way!' Comic Books and Superheroes in Special Collections," features comics selected from the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature. The focus is mainly on popular superheroes/comic books that appeared in DC comics published during the so-called "Silver Age" (roughly from the late 50s through the early 70s).

Our online collection features scans of images in this collection, including covers and page content, organized by title.