By Katherine Shaeffer This issue was built out of the “ImageNext: Visions Past and Future” Comics Conference1, which was held on the University of Florida campus…
By Andrew J. Friedenthal In 1985, DC Comics reached its fiftieth anniversary of publishing comic books.1 To celebrate this landmark event in comics publishing history, the company…
By Christopher J. Hayton and David L. Albright Keep asking me, no matter how long On the war in Viet Nam, I sing this song I…
By David Kunzle Editor’s Note: David Kunzle, who was one of the guest speakers at the 2010 ImageNext Conference on Comics and Graphic Novels, has graciously…
By Christina Meyer Meeting the Yellow Kid—”Hully Gee” In the mid-1890s a comic figure named Mickey Dugan, an Irish-American street kid1 living in “the polyglot world of…
Guest Artist John Porcellino Artist John Porcellino was brought as a guest to the “ImageNext: Visions Past and Future” conference by the Alachua County Public Libraries,…
By David Steiling This is a brief report on a series of experiments conducted from 2009 through 2011 in the making of comics for immersive media.…
By Eric L. Berlatsky Heer, Jeet and Kent Worcester, eds. Arguing Comics: Literary Masters on a Popular Medium. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2004. Print. In 2009,…
By Eric L. Berlatsky Schwartz, Ben, ed. The Best American Comics Criticism. Seattle, WA: Fantagraphics Books, 2010. Print. Ben Schwartz’s 2010 collection of The Best American Comics Criticism is…
By Alice Claire Burrows Grove, Laurence. Comics in French: The European Bande Dessinée in Context. New York, NY; Oxford, UK: Berghahn Books, 2010. Print. Laurence Grove’s book Comics…