By Matthew Bolton The most basic formal feature of comics is the simultaneous presentation of verbal and iconographic language: words and pictures. This will be a…
By Jonathan Gaboury I. The Secret Frederic Wertham’s campaign against comic books occupies a niche literary genre, which we might call “don’t run with scissors” conservative…
Translation and Introduction By Sean Macdonald Introduction and Commentary1 Without sounding preciously contradictory, I would like to preface this discussion of Lu Xun’s (Zhou Shuren, 1881-1936)…
By Nancy Pedri Introduction: Multimodality in Comics Graphic narratives tell their stories in words and images. Essentially a multimodal medium built on the “simultaneous mobilization of…
By Susan Stan In 1996, Jeffrey Garrett noted in his introduction to The Best Children’s Books in the World that the term “international literature” was “a figment, as…
By Walton Wood My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic premiered on 10 October 2010 on The Hub network, a joint venture between Discovery Communications and Hasbro, Inc.…
By Eric L. Berlatsky Schulz, Charles M. My Life With Charlie Brown. Ed. M. Thomas Inge. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2010. Print. It has now…
By Anne Cirella-Urrutia McKinney, Mark, ed. History and Politics in French-Language Comics and Graphic Novels. Jackson, MS: The University Press of Mississippi, 2008. Print. McKinney’s anthology is…
By Megan Condis Madrid, Mike. The Supergirls: Fashion, Feminism, Fantasy, and the History of Comic Book Heroines. Minneapolis, MN: Exterminating Angel Press, 2009. Print. Robbins, Trina. The Great…
By Michael Dean Kahan, Jeffrey and Stanley Stewart. Caped Crusaders 101: Composition through Comic Books. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 2006. Print. Jeffrey Kahan and Stanley Stewart’s…