By Ali Benice Turkey has a long and complex history of publishing comics, though most Turkish natives are unaware of the industry. Even academic research…
By Eike Exner This article examines the origins of the form of graphic narrative that Thierry Smolderen in The Origins of Comics refers to as “an audiovisual…
By Audrey Farley Alison Bechdel’s 2012 graphic memoir Are You My Mother? depicts a lesbian protagonist who earnestly desires self-knowledge, but who is crippled by self-criticism and by…
By Jennifer Daniels Klug When my brother and I sat down to outline the structure of a memoir project about the deaths of our parents, it…
By Rachel Kunert-Graf “Characteristic for the novel as a genre is not the image of a man in his own right, but precisely the image of a…
By Daniel Pinti Since its first appearance in 2012, writer Brian K. Vaughan’s and artist Fiona Staples’s ongoing comic book series, Saga, has garnered critical praise, numerous…
By Nicolas Schillinger China is a dragon covered with scars, stigmata of another time, haunting memories of murderous cuts. —Foreword to Scars1 While strolling through a flea…
By Matthew Schmalzer In Understanding Comics Scott McCloud makes a distinction: “To define comics, we must first do a little aesthetic surgery and separate form from content” (5).…
By Will Simpson Narratives, both fictional and non-fictional, clearly are related to and affect the emotional states and responses of those who engage with them. However,…
By Kevin Cooley Alexandratos, Jonathan, ed. Articulating the Action Figure: Essays on Toys and Their Messages. McFarland, 2017. Bernard Loomis, the Vice President of the Kenner toy company…