Convergences: Comics, Culture and Globalization By Tania Darlington and Aaron Kashtan As the market for Japanese and Korean comics explodes throughout the west, and as films…
By Franny Howes 1. Introduction In the academic field from which I study comics, rhetoric and composition, we have a foundational narrative that we call “the…
1 By Alison Mandaville In Azerbaijan there is a saying about the material power of words: “The tip of a pen [is as] the power…
By Derek Parker Royal1 The past several years have seen a significant number of studies on the cultural intersections of comics and American ethnicity. These…
By Joel Simundich Norwegian cartoonist John Arne Saeterov, or “Jason,” is arguably the most Westernized artist in the international comics market. In saying this I submit…
By Phillip E. Wegner Whether articulated as potentially genuine beings who can be looked at from any side or as more limited, two-dimensional visual figures, comic…
By Andréa L. Gilroy Nygren, Scott. Time Frames: Japanese Cinema and the Unfolding of History. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2007. Print. In his ambitious 2007…
By Terry Harpold Yoe, Craig. Secret Identity: The Fetish Art of Superman’s Co-creator Joe Shuster. New York: Abrams ComicArts, 2009. Print. The rise and fall and rise…
By Philip Nel Jones, Sabrina. Isadora Duncan: A Graphic Biography. Foreword by Lori Belilove. New York: Hill and Wang, 2008. Print. What should you include? What should…
By Rex Krueger Duncan, Randy and Matthew J. Smith. The Power of Comics: History, Form, and Culture. New York, NY; London, UK: Continuum, 2009. Print. It is…