By Lauren Chivington “There is not one but many silences, and they are an integral part of the strategies that underlie and permeate discourse” –…
By Carla Calargé and Alexandra Gueydan-Turek This article looks at the third volume of Barrack Rima’s Beirut. The Trilogy (Plan BEY) and Ma très grande…
By Holly May Treadwell [Comics] can illustrate action-packed snapshots of popular society, and in these snapshots, one can study a minute and pristine microcosmic universe. …
By Alan Ali Saeed Christin, Pierre and Verdier, Sébastien. ORWELL. Translated by Edward Gauvin. (With special contributions from André Juillard, Olivier Balez, Manu Larcenet, Blutch,…
By Brandon Murakami Pard, Chantale. Anime Clubs for Public Libraries: A Practical Guide for Librarians. Rowman & Littlefield, 2020. Chantale Pard is no stranger to…
By Ryan Kerr More Critical Approaches to Comics: Theories and Methods, edited by Matthew J. Smith, et al., Routledge, 2019. In the introduction to their…
By Sourav Chatterjee Williams, Paul. Dreaming the Graphic Novel: The Novelization of Comics. Rutgers University Press, 2020. Wait, what?! There were graphic novels in the…
Carla Calargé Carla Calargé is Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Florida Atlantic University (USA). She works with French-speaking Arab cultural production and…
Surangama Datta, University of Bristol In ‘Breaking Out’, a 1970 feminist rewriting of popular female comic characters, Little Lulu storms out of the boys’ club…
Brandon Murakami, University of Florida Perhaps unsurprising to anyone familiar with the shōnen genre (a “marketing demographic” that was aimed at boys aged roughly 10-18…