By Andrew Gordon It’s an old joke: A Jewish boy comes home from school and tells his mother he’s been given a role in the school…
By Isaac Cates The following is a transcript of Dr. Cates’ presentation which appeared as part of a panel discussion that took place on February 20,…
By Laurie Taylor Introduction Comics occupy a precarious position in media studies both because they prove difficult to analyze and because of their cultural subordination as…
By Donald Ault The failure of representation produces rather than disrupts identity. That missing part which representation, in failing to inscribe, cuts off is the…
Donald Ault He is the author of Visionary Physics: Blake’s Response to Newton (1974) and Narrative Unbound: Re-Visioning William Blake’s The Four Zoas (1987), co-editor of Critical Paths: Blake and…
The next issue of ImageTexT is already in the works and will be available in late summer or early fall 2004. In this issue, we will have…
By Donald Ault Note: The following is extracted, expanded, and revised from essays originally appearing in What’s Up Underground, 1996, 33-36 and Occident #1 (second Series), 1973, 86-87) The “auteur” theory, originally…
By Charles Hatfield Will Eisner, dean of American comic book artists and father of the contemporary graphic novel, died on Monday, January 3, of complications resulting…
By Eddie Campbell Editor’s Note: The following text is a transcript of Eddie Campbell’s talk at the 2002 UF Comics Conference. Images referred to by Mr. Campbell have…
By Diane Noomin Editor’s Note: The following text is a transcript of Diane Noomin’s presentation at the 2003 UF Comics Conference. In some cases, scans have…