By Donald Ault, General Editor Welcome to the first issue of ImageTexT: Interdisciplinary Comics Studies. This publishing project has gone through many transformations and mutations over the…
By Donald Ault Note: The following is extracted, expanded, and revised from essays originally appearing in What’s Up Underground, 1996, 33-36 and Occident #1 (second Series), 1973, 86-87) The “auteur” theory, originally…
By Zach Whalen, Managing Editor and Webmaster It has been over a year since Dr. Ault approached me about helping out with ImageTexT, and looking back, we’ve…
By Stephanie Boluk, Managing Editor The success and growth of our journal, now two years old, is linked to the increasing institutionalization of comics scholarship within…
By Anastasia Ulanowicz, Zack Shaw, and Ayanni C. H. Cooper It would certainly not be an overstatement to say that 2020 ranks as one of…
By Brandon Murakami As a graduate student in an English PhD program, it’s not surprising that I teach undergraduate courses which often involve a writing…
By Roger Whitson, Guest Editor Two hundred and fifty years after William Blake’s birth, his work continues to have a very strong visual resonance. Artists and…
By Cathlena Martin As Charles Hatfield’s “Introduction” observes, comics are still largely understood by the general public, journalists, and critics as a medium directed toward a…
By Charles Hatfield Comics and childhood: the pairing of the two seems inevitable, yet remains, somehow, both contentious and under-examined. Notwithstanding a barrowful of contrary evidence…
By Elizabeth Sandifer, Moderator Pornographies are the enchanted parklands where the most secret and vulnerable of our many selves can play. They…oh, your cunt. So warm…They…