By Elizabeth Sandifer and Tof Eklund The question of introducing a special issue on Neil Gaiman seems almost incidental. Gaiman is one of those comics creators, along with…
By Lyndsay Brown and Tof Eklund Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe topful Of…
By Phillip E. Wegner Tricksters or fakes, assistants or ‘toons, they are the exemplars of the coming community. Giorgio Agamben, The Coming Community In this special issue…
Convergences: Comics, Culture and Globalization By Tania Darlington and Aaron Kashtan As the market for Japanese and Korean comics explodes throughout the west, and as films…
By Rex Krueger and Katherine Shaeffer Throughout his career, Alan Moore has shown both a penchant and a skill for reweaving the elements of earlier texts…
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 Katherine Shaeffer and Richard Burt In one sense, Shakespeare’s monumental reputation makes defending a ‘Shakespeare Special Issue’ of ImageTexT superfluous. Shakespeare is not just a core component…
By Derek Parker Royal By almost any account, the work of the Hernandez brothers1—Mario, Gilbert, and Jaime—stands as one of the most celebrated in contemporary American…
By Najwa Al-Tabaa The emergence of formal comics studies in literary and visual arts-related fields has resulted in an upsurge of comics being taught in the…
By Jeffrey A. Brown and Melissa Loucks The comics industry has typically been characterized as a masculine domain. The association of comic books with the dominant…