By Brian Olszewski More than a foundational text for the Batman mythos, 1988’s Batman: The Killing Joke continues to inspire peer-reviewed responses as well as…
By Christopher Younie Wei Dong Chen’s 2012 comic series Adventures from China: Monkey King1 helps bring Wu Ch’êng-ên’s sixteenth-century novel Journey to the West2 out…
By Jake Zawlacki Abstract: The practice of the homage cover dates back to the very beginnings of the superhero genre, beginning as early as Action…
By Chester Scoville Adolescence is both the most ephemeral of life stages and the most enduring—ephemeral because it is both brief and provisional, enduring because…
By Matthew Holder I think comics are at their best when they are provocative, and their outlaw nature is what I want to seek out…
By Michelle Ann Abate The importance of Richard Felton Outcault to the development of newspaper comics in the United States is well established. On February…
By Benjamin Fraser Abstract Produced over some twenty years and published as a single edition in 2019, the complete Clyde Fans saga is a rich…
By Kristy Beers Fägersten, Anna Nordenstam, and Margareta Wallin Wictorin, Introduction Swedish comics artist Liv Strömquist debuted in 2005 with Hundra procent fett (“One hundred…
By Alexandra Lampp Berglund An image of Wonder Woman evokes, just as her title alludes, wonder. She stands at six feet tall and wields a…
By José Alaniz For Angela Likina (1982-2016) What does the appearance of all these peripheral sexualities signify? Is the fact that they could appear in…