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…
By Bill Griffith Editor’s Note: The following text is a transcript of Bill Griffith’s talk at the 2003 UF Comics Conference. Where possible, we have included the…
By Julian Wolfreys Panel I. Epigraphs …in cities, as in Love, there is no standing still…and just because we none of us know how many treasures…
by Mark Bernard and James Bucky Carter Though comic books and graphic novels are earning more serious academic consideration than ever, in relation to one of…
By The UF Visual Rhetoric Research Group: Sean Fenty, Trena Houp and Laurie Taylor Underground Comix and Webcomics: An Introduction The Underground Comix movement that began…
By Joshua Paddison Gordon, Ian. Comic Strips and Consumer Culture, 1890-1945. Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1998. Jim Davis’s “Garfield”—along with Charles Schulz’s “Peanuts,” the most…
By Cathlena Martin Alberti, John, Ed. Leaving Springfield: The Simpsons and the Possibility of Oppositional Culture. Detroit: Wayne State U P, 2004. While ImageTexT is an interdisciplinary journal…