By Terry Harpold and Anastasia Ulanowicz In 2004 Donald Ault welcomed readers to the first issue of ImageTexT, describing the new journal as the product of nearly…
By Michelle E. Bloom1 Introduction The trio of French Canadian Guy Delisle’s autobiographical travelogues based on his experiences in Asia contributes to the currently prominent nonfictional…
By Cristina Delgado-García Joe Sacco’s first comics on the Israel-Palestine conflict appeared as nine issues in 1993 and were later published in a single volume in…
By Andréa Gilroy In the spring of 2006, DC Comics announced their so-called “Trinity”—Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman—would disappear from comics for a year. In a…
By Katherine Shaeffer and Spencer Chalifour For years monsters have invaded our hearts and minds, and right now, they have us surrounded. In today’s popular culture,…
By John Cech The modern age of monsters—at least for children, their parents and caregivers, and those who have been called the “defenders of make-believe”—dawned…
By Jonathan Case Guest Artist Jonathan Case Artist Jonathan Case appeared as a guest at the “Monsters in the Margins” UF Conference on Comics and Graphic…
By Eric Doise “Strictly speaking, we do not know what we are laughing about.” —Sigmund Freud1 In 2008, Christopher Nolan’s highly anticipated The Dark Knight hit theaters.…
By Laurie Gries1 When it comes to playing out contemporary anxieties in imagetextual form, zombies have become a resilient and reliable figure in popular culture. As…
By Caleb Simmons INTRODUCTION When Dark Horse released Katsuya Terada’s The Monkey King Volume 1 (henceforth The Monkey King) in English in 2005, it was immediately recognized by many…