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Friday, August 03, 2012

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

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