By Zach Whalen, Managing Editor and Webmaster It has been over a year since Dr. Ault approached me about helping out with ImageTexT, and looking back, we’ve…
By Donald Ault This issue is dedicated to the memory of pioneering comics historian Bruce Hamilton (1932 – 2005), without whose efforts much of comics scholarship…
By Alvaro Alemán Imashi, imashi. Asha pangacunata charin mana yura can, shimita mana harin rimanlla huillanlla, lumutapish charin mana uihua can, imashi. Chaimi can libru What…
By Bianca Isaki Adrian Tomine’s graphic story collection, Summer Blonde (SB hereafter) traces the urban landscape of the young middle class in the modern San Francisco Bay Area. What…
By James McDougall “The age demanded an image” –Ezra Pound “H. S. Mauberly” If one literally flips through Ezra Pound’s The Cantos—by that I mean bends the…
By Travis Fristoe Howe, Sean, Ed. Give our Regards to the Atomsmashers!: Writers on Comics. New York, NY: Pantheon, 2004. Given the undying popularity of superhero comics,…
By James R. Fleming Klock, Geoff. How to Read Superhero Comics and Why. New York and London: Continuum, 2002. In How to Read Superhero Comics and Why, Geoff Klock…
By Vanessa Raney Burns, Charles. Black Hole. Nos. 1-12. Seattle, WA: Fantagraphic Books, 1995-2005. Charles Burns’ twelve-volume comics serial Black Hole is difficult to summarize, if only because it visually…
Alvaro Alemán Alvaro Alemán is a literature professor in Quito, Ecuador. His research interests are in Literary History, the Ecuadorian poet Jorge Carrera Andrade, popular…