By Jon Holt In his manga Cat-Eyed Boy (Nekome Kozō, 1967-9 and 1976), Umezu Kazuo (1936- ) often uses his titular punky half-feline, half-human character less as a…
By Rui Lopes In March 1985, a comic book hit the stands with a cover that featured the iconic hero Superman as the sole survivor of…
By Russell McConnell Scholars of Shakespearean adaptation overwhelmingly tend to celebrate and encourage radical modes of adaptation that transform Shakespearean drama to suit modern interests and…
By Kai Mikkonen and Olli Philippe Lautenbacher Introduction It is a widely accepted notion in research on comics that variation in page layout, i.e. the spatial…
By Nicholas Wirtz At the intersection of New Journalism’s argumentative subjectivity, comics’ lingering baggage of cultural devaluation, and nonfiction comics’ lack of traditionally recognized evidence, Joe…
By Asuka Yamazaki The popular Japanese comic Attack on Titan is written and illustrated by Hajime Isayama, and has appeared serially in the monthly comic magazine Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine…
By Anastasia Ulanowicz The production of any scholarly journal is an arduous and often thankless task: each issue represents hours, days, and months of labor expended…
By Kevin Cooley Reinders, Eric. The Moral Narratives of Hayao Miyazaki. McFarland, 2016. Eric Reinders’ The Moral Narratives of Hayao Miyazaki is almost what it sounds like and not at…
By Jacquelin Elliott Nevins, Jess. The Evolution of the Costumed Avenger: The 4,000 Year History of the Superhero. Praeger, 2017. A sprawling and truly ambitious project, Jess Nevins’ The…
By Megan Fowler Goodnow, Trischa and James J. Kimble, eds. The 10 Cent War: Comic Books, Propaganda, and World War II. The University Press of Mississippi, 2017. The…