International Comic Arts Forum Comics Scholarship Bibliography January 2019 to December 2019
What follows is a list of English-language comics scholarship published in 2019. Comics studies is a rapidly expanding interdisciplinary field, and this resource is intended to highlight the recent work in comics studies produced by scholars working in diverse departments, fields, and institutions. The bibliography is organized in two sections: one for monographs and edited collections, and another for peer-reviewed journal articles and essays from scholarly anthologies not primarily devoted to comics.
We compiled these citations by examining several comics-focused academic book publishers and journals and by issuing a call through various online platforms for comics scholars to submit citations. Because we relied heavily on self-reporting it is not comprehensive. Rather, it provides an overview of current work in the field and a place for scholars to search for connections, parallels, and affinities to their own work. For scholars looking to expand their inquiries with a searchable database focused on comics, the Bonn Online Bibliography of Comics Researchis an eminently useful resource, and scholars may wish to consult the MLA International Bibliography, Art Full Text, and other such more general databases. If your work was left out of this edition of the list, please submit a citation to ICAFbib@gmail.com in the most recent MLA format and we will include it in the next update.
Monographs and Edited Collections
Aarons, Victoria. Holocaust Graphic Narratives: Generation, Trauma, and Memory. Rutgers University Press, 2019. Abate, Michelle Ann. Funny Girls: Guffaws, Guts, and Gender in Classic American Comics. University Press of Mississippi, 2019. Ahmed, Maheen. Monstrous Imaginaries: The Legacy of Romanticism in Comics. University Press of Mississippi, 2020. Austin, Allan W., and Patrick L. Hamilton. All New, All Different? A History of Race and the American Superhero. University of Texas Press, 2019. Baetens, Jan. The Film Photonovel: A Cultural History of Forgotten Adaptations. University of Texas Press, 2019. Brown, Matthew J., Randy Duncan, and Matthew J. Smith, editors. More Critical Approaches to Comics: Theories and Methods. Routledge, 2020. Introduction -- Matthew J. Brown, Randy Duncan, and Matthew J. Smith Critical Theory: Celebrating the Rich, Individualistic Superhero -- Matthew P. McAllister and Joe Cruz Postcolonial Theory: Writing and Drawing Back (and Beyond) in Pappa in Afrika and Pappa in Doubt -- Christophe Dony Critical Race Theory: Applying Critical Race Theory to Black Panther: World of Wakanda -- Phillip Lamarr Cunningham Queer Theory: Queer Comics Queering Continuity: The Unstoppable Wasp and the Fight for a Queer Future -- Valentino L. Zullo Disability Studies: Disrupting Representation, Representing Disruption -- Krista Quesenberry Critical Geography: Brotherman and Big City: A Commentary on Superhero Geography -- Julian C. Chambliss Utopianism: The Utopia Conundrum in Matt Hawkins and Raffaele Ienco’s Symmetry -- Graham J. Murphy New Criticism: Ordered Disorder in Jaime Hernandez’ “Flies on the Ceiling” -- Rocco Versaci Psychoanalytic Criticism: Visual Pathology as a Means of Constructing Identity: Narrating Illness in David Small’s Stitches -- Evita Lykou Autographics: Autographics and Miriam Katin’s We Are on Our Own and Letting It Go -- Andrew J. Kunka Linguistics: Comics Conversations as Data in Swedish Comic Strips -- Kristy Beers Fägersten Philosophical Aesthetics: Comics and/as Philosophical Aesthetics -- Aaron Meskin and Roy T. Cook Burkean Dramatistic Analysis: An Echo of Diversity: Dramatistic Analysis of Comics -- A. Cheree Carlson Adaptation: From Mason & Dixon by Pynchon to Miller & Pynchon by Maurer -- David Coughlan Transmedia Storytelling: Hyperdiegesis, Narrative Braiding, and Memory in Star Wars Comics -- William Proctor Parasocial Relationship Analysis: “Like Losing a Friend”: Fans’ Emotional Distress After the Loss of a Parasocial Relationship -- Randy Duncan Historiography: Incorporating Comic Books into Historical Analysis: Historiographical Cross-Reference and Wonder Woman -- Adam Sherif Bakhtinian Dialogics: Comics Dialogics: Seeing Voices in The Vision -- Daniel Pinti Scientific Humanities: The Scientific Origins of Wonder Woman -- Matthew J. Brown
Burke, Liam, Ian Gordon, and Angela Ndalianis, editors. The Superhero Symbol: Media, Culture, and Politics. Rutgers University Press, 2019. Introduction: “Everlasting” Symbols: Unmasking superheroes and their shifting symbolic function -- Liam Burke “What Else Can You Do with Them?” Superheroes and the Civic Imagination -- Henry Jenkins “America Is a Piece of Trash”: Captain America, Patriotism, Nationalism, and Fascism -- Neal Curtis “This Land Is Mine!” Understanding the Function of Supervillains -- Jason Bainbridge An Interview with Comics Artist, Writer, and “Herstorian” Trina Robbins -- Liam Burke The Secret Commercial Identity of Superheroes: Protecting the Superhero Symbol -- Mitchell Adams Siegel and Shuster as Brand Name -- Ian Gordon Practicing Superhuman Law: Creative License, Industrial Identity, and Spider-Man’s Homecoming -- Tara Lomax The Sound of the Cinematic Superhero -- Dan Golding An Interview with Former President of DC Entertainment Diane Nelson -- Liam Burke Arkham Knave: The Joker in Game Design -- Steven Conway Being Super, Becoming Heroes: Dialogic Superhero Narratives in Cosplay Collectives -- Claire Langsford From Pages to Pavements: A Criminological Comparison between Depictions of Crime Control in Superhero Narratives and “Real-Life” Superhero Activity -- Vladislav Iouchkov and John McGuire An Interview with Dark Knight: A True Batman Story Writer Paul Dini -- Liam Burke Captain America, National Narratives, and the Queer Subversion of the Retcon -- Naja Later Apes, Angels, and Super Patriots: The Irish in Superhero Comics -- Liam Burke Missing in Action: The Late Development of the German-Speaking Superhero -- Paul M. Malone Chinese Milk for Iron Men: Superhero Coproductions and Technological Anxiety -- Shan Mu Zhao Age of the Atoman: Australian Superhero Comics and Cold War Modernity -- Kevin Patrick An Interview with Cleverman Creator Ryan Griffen and Star Hunter Page-Lochard -- Liam Burke
Carper, Steve. Robots in American Popular Culture. McFarland, 2019. Darowski, Joseph J., editor. The Ages of the Flash: Essays on the Fastest Man Alive. McFarland, 2019. Politically Incorrect Humor: Examining the Three Dimwits Through a Disability Studies Lens – Cathy Leogrande The Birth of the Silver Age Flash: Reasons and Influences – Liam T. Webb “I’m covering the story! Wait here for me”: The Two-Career Couple in the Pages of The Flash – Charles W. Henebry Barry Allen’s Social Awakening in the 1970s – Peter W. Y. Lee From Riches to Rags: The Rise and Fall of Wally West – Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns Wrestling with Legacy: How “The Return of Barry Allen” Shaped DC Superheroes in the 1990s – Tom Shapira Flash Back to the Future: Mark Waid’s Counter-Narrative to the Superhero Dark Age – John Darowski Impulsive Students, Speedster Teachers and Education in the 1990s – Daniel J. Bergman An Impulsive Teen from the Future: Imagining Youth, Virtual Reality and the Digital Future at the Turn of the Millennium – Louie Dean Valencia-García Restraining Deconstruction: Geoff Johns’ Reframing of The Flash – Christian Jimenez Profiling the Rogues: Seeking Criminal Intent in The Flash of Geoff Johns – Matthew J. Smith and Tod W. Burke Minds in the Gutter: The Persistence of Vision and the New 52 – Sara K. Ellis Davies, Dominic. Urban Comics: Infrastructure and the Global City in Contemporary Graphic Narratives. Routledge, 2019. Davies, Paul Fisher. Comics as Communication: A Functional Approach. Palgrave, 2019. Earle, Monalesia. Writing Queer Women of Color: Representation and Misdirection in Contemporary Fiction and Graphic Narratives. McFarland, 2019. Etty, John. Graphic Satire in the Soviet Union: Krokodil’s Political Cartoons. University Press of Mississippi, 2019. Field, Christopher B., Keegan Lannon, Michael David MacBride, and Christopher C. Douglas, editors. “I’m Just a Comic Book Boy”: Essays on the Intersection of Comics and Punk. McFarland, 2019. Introduction -- Christopher B. Field, Keegan Lannon, Michael David MacBride, and Christopher C. Douglas One Man Artistic Corps: Jack Kirby’s OMAC as Punk Precursor -- Christopher B. Field Captain America: All-American Punk -- Jill Dahlman No Future: John Constantine, Hellblazer and the ‘70s Punk Rocker in the 21st Century -- Spencer Chalifour “I Hate It Here”: Spider Jerusalem as Punk Anti-Hero -- Jodie Childers 24-Hour Murder People: The Punk Iconography in Grant Morrison’s The Invisibles -- Keegan Lannon Anarchy at the Alamo: The Creation of a 21st Century American Punk-Western in Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon’s Preacher -- Russell Weber Aspiring Revolutionaries and “Petty” Conflicts: The Penis in the Punk Movement and Binky Brown -- Michael David MacBride Reinventing a Carnivalesque Public Sphere: (Re)imagining and (Re)drawing Madrid in the Long 1970s -- Louie Dean Valencia-García Drawing Istanbul’s Asshole: Turkish Punk Comics -- Can Yalçinkaya Bōsōzoku Motorcycle Gangs, the Bubble Economy and Psychic Children: Reaffirming Giri Through Ōtomo Katsuhiro’s Akira (1988) -- Christopher C. Douglas Schoolgirls and Sukeban: Representations of Punk Women in Contemporary Japanese Manga -- Alice Vernon Punk Bodies and the “Do It Yourself” Philosophy -- Francesco-Alessio Ursini
Fraser, Benjamin. The Art of Pere Joan: Space, Landscapes, and Comics Form. University of Texas Press, 2019. Fraser, Benjamin. Visible Cities, Global Comics: Urban Images and Spatial Form. University Press of Mississippi, 2019. Freeman, Matthew. The World of The Walking Dead. Routledge, 2019. Friedenthal, Andrew. The World of DC Comics. Routledge, 2019. Gavaler, Chris, and Nathaniel Goldberg. Superhero Thought Experiments: Comic Book Philosophy. University of Iowa Press, 2019. Giddens, Thomas. On Comics and Legal Aesthetics: Multimodality and the Haunted Mask of Knowing. Routledge, 2019. Goodrum, Michael, Tara Prescott, and Philip Smith, editors. Gender and the Superhero Narrative. University Press of Mississippi, 2019. “Yeah, I think There Is Still Hope”: Youth, Ethnicity, Faith, Feminism, and Fandom in Ms. Marvel – Mel Gibson Intersectional Feminism in Bitch Planet: Moving Comics, Fandom, and Activism beyond the Page – Maite Urcaregui “I Was Never the Hero that You Wanted Me to Be”: Feminism and Resistance to Militarism in Marvel’s Jessica Jones – Samira Nadkarni The Queen of Burlesque: The Subtle (as a Hammer) Satire of Bomb Queen – Christina M. Knopf “Curiouser and Curiouser”: Revisiting “The Woman Question” in Batwoman: Elegy – Lisa K. Perdigao Rule 63: Genderswapping in Female Superhero Cosplay – Christopher McGunnigle Faces of Abjectivity: The Uncanny Mystique and Transsexuality – Dorian L. Alexander From Princess to Protagonist: Redesigning the Video Game Superhero – Vanessa Hemovich The Evolution of Female Readership: Letter Columns in Superhero Comics – Tim Hanley The Gwenaissance: Gwen Stacy and the Progression of Women in Comics – Gabriel Gianola and Janine Coleman Grant, Barry Keith, and Scott Henderson, editors. Comics and Pop Culture: Adaptation from Panel to Frame. University of Texas Press, 2019. Introduction -- Barry Keith Grant and Scott Henderson The Crossroads of Infinity, or Universum Incognitum -- Scott Bukatman From Adaptation to Extension: A History of Comics Adapting Films, 1974-2015 -- Blair Davis Take the Movie Home! How the Comic Book Tie-In Anticipated Transmedia Production -- Liam Burke Manga, Anime, Adaptation: Economic Strategies, Aesthetic Specifications, Social Issues -- Chris Reyns-Chikuma Genre and Superhero Cinema -- Aaron Taylor Destroying the Rainbow Bridge: Representations of Heterosexuality in Marvel Superhero Narratives -- Miriam Kent Mutatis Mutandis: Constructing Fidelity in the Comic Book Film Adaptation -- Jason Rothery and Benjamin Woo “We Roller Coaster Through …”: Screenwriting, Narrative Economy, and the Inscription of the Haptic in Tentpole Comic Book Movies -- Julian Hoxter Adaption and Seriality: Comic Book to Television Series Adaptations -- Sherryl Vint Felix in- and out of- Space -- J.P. Telotte A Comic Book Life/Style: World Building in American Splendor -- Matt Yockey The Extraordinary Career of Modesty Blaise -- James Chapman Authenticity and Judge Dredd on Film -- J. Mark Percival CGI as Adaptation Strategy: Can a Digitally Constructed Spider-Man Do Whatever a Hand-Drawn Spider-Man Can? -- James C. Taylor Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Texts: Adaptation, Form, and Transmedia Co-Creation -- John Bodner Transmedia Adaptation and Writing in the Margins: A Graphic Expansion of George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead -- Aviva Briefel Agency and Intertextuality: Tank Girl, Subcultural Aesthetics, and the Strong Female Protagonist -- Scott Henderson Black Panther: Aspiration, Identification, and Appropriation -- Jeffrey A. Brown
Hague, Ian, Ian Horton, and Nina Mickwitz, editors. Contexts of Violence in Comics. Routledge, 2019. Introduction – Ian Hague, Ian Horton, and Nina Mickwitz Doing Justice to the Past through the Representation of Violence: Three and Ancient Sparta – Lynn Fotheringham Comics Do Not Forget: Historical Memory and Experiences of the Spanish Civil War and Early Francoism – Enrique del Rey Cabero Legacies of War: Remembering Prisoner of War Experiences in French Comics about the Second World War – Claire Gorrara "I think we’re maybe more or less safe here": Violence and Solidarity during the Lebanese Civil War in Zeina Abirached’s A Game for Swallows – Mihaela Precup In a Growing Violent Temper: The Swedish Comic Market during World War II – Michael F. Scholz Will Eisner and the Art of War: Educational Comics in the American Defence Industry -- Malin Bergström Bringing the War Back Home: Reflecting Violence in Brian Wood’s DMZ -- Jörn Ahrens Infrastructural Violence: Urbicide, Public Space, and Postwar Reconstruction in Recent Lebanese Graphic Memoirs – Dominic Davies The Lives of Others: Figuring Grievability and Justice in Contemporary Comics and Graphic Novels – Golnar Nabizadeh Scales of Violence, Scales of Justice, and Nate Powell’s Any Empire – Alex Link Oink: The Story of a Dangerously Funny Comic – David Huxley Hanna, Erin. Only at Comic-Con: Hollywood, Fans, and the Limits of Exclusivity. Rutgers University Press, 2019. Haworth, Kevin. The Comics of Rutu Modan: War, Love, and Secrets. University Press of Mississippi, 2019. Hill, Crag, editor. Teaching Comics Through Multiple Lenses. Routledge, 2019. Introduction: The Growing Relevance of Comics – Crag Hill Designing Meaning: A Multimodal Perspective on Comics Reading – Sean P. Connors Multimodal Forms: Examining Text, Image, and Visual Literacy in Daniel Handler’s Why We Broke Up and Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief – Amy Bright Illustrating Youth: A Critical Examination of the Artful Depictions of Adolescent Characters in Comics – Mark A. Lewis Just Like Us? LGBTQ Characters in Mainstream Comics – A. Scott Henderson Telling the Untellable: Comics and Language of Mental Illness – Sarah Thaller Christian Forgiveness in Gene Luen Yang’s Animal Crackers and Eternal Smile: A Thematic Analysis – Jacob Stratman Poverty Lines: Visual Depictions of Poverty and Social Class Realities in Comics – Fred Johnson and Janine J. Darragh Can Superhero Comics Defeat Racism? Black Superheroes “Torn between Sci-Fi Fantasy and Cultural Reality” – P. L. Thomas Teaching Native American Comics with Post-Colonial Theory – Lisa Schade Eckert in ‘t Veld, Laurike. The Representation of Genocide in Graphic Novels: Considering the Role of Kitsch. Palgrave, 2019. Irving, Christopher, editor. Larry Hama: Conversations. University Press of Mississippi, 2019. Kidman, Shawna. Comic Books Incorporated: How the Business of Comics Became the Business of Hollywood. University of California Press, 2019. Kirchoff, Jeffrey SJ, and Mike P. Cook, editors. Perspectives on Digital Comics: Theoretical, Critical and Pedagogical Essays. McFarland, 2019. Introduction: Digital Comics—Savior or Destroyer of a Medium? -- Jeffrey SJ Kirchoff and Mike P. Cook Experiencing the Infinite: An Introduction to Digital Comics Phenomenology Through Marvel Infinite Comics -- Jayson Quearry Considering ComiXology’s Guided View -- Jeffrey SJ Kirchoff Re-Theorizing the Infinite Canvas: A Space for Comics and Rhetorical Theories -- Rich Shivener Documentary Webcomics: Mediality and Contexts -- Johannes C.P. Schmid It Came from the Woods (Most Strange Things Do): Emily Carroll’s Through the Woods and Interactive Internet Reading -- Eden Lee Lackner Death’s “Friend Hug”: Analyzing the Personification of Death in Three Webcomics -- Karis Jones MAUS (W)HOLES: Reflections on (and in) the Digitization of Art Spiegelman’s Maus -- John Logie When Funding Is the Issue That Prevents an Issue: Are Digital Comics the Logical Platform of Production in a South African Context? -- Ray Whitcher Digital Comics in Francophone Countries: Never Too Late to Be Creative -- Chris Reyns-Chikuma and Jean Sébastien Upwards and Backwards: Blurred Perspectives on Digital Comics as Mentor Texts -- Teri Holbrook, Melanie Hundley and Bill Holbrook Using Digital Comics to Support Information Literacy: 21st Century Research Skills and Authentic Composing -- Mike P. Cook and Luke Rodesiler Afterword: Losing My Edge -- Drew Morton Køhlert, Frederik Byrn. Serial Selves: Identity and Representation in Autobiographical Comics. Rutgers University Press, 2019. Kunzle, David. Cham:The Best Comic Strips and Graphic Novelettes, 1839-1862. University Press of Mississippi, 2019. Lee, Peter W. Y., editor. Peanuts and American Culture: Essays on Charles M. Schulz’s Iconic Comic Strip. McFarland, 2019. Introduction: Not a Peanut Gallery – Peter W. Y. Lee “Good grief, I thought it was the fallout”: Charlie Brown and the Long ’50s -- Cliff Starkey Two Different Worlds: Adults, Children and Their Relationship -- Olaf Meuther Listening to Charlie Brown: Musicians and Music Making as Cold War Era Critique --Tom Zlabinger To Hell with Franklin: Spilling Ink on the Color Line -- Peter W.Y. Lee Be a Good Spaceman, Charlie Brown: Charles M. Schulz and the Space Race -- Peter W.Y. Lee Little Girls with Big Voices: How Charles Schulz’s Girl Characters Challenge the Patriarchy in Which They Are Trapped -- Erin C. Callahan “The Doctor Is IN”: Gender, Space and Power in Lucy’s Psychiatric Booth -- Catherine W. Zipf No Room for Normality: Shermy and Postwar Childhood -- Peter W.Y. Lee Cold War Snoopy, or, Do Beagles Dream of Electric Bunnies? -- Jessica K. Brandt Mickwitz, Nina, Ian Horton, and Ian Hague, editors. Representing Acts of Violence in Comics. Routledge, 2019. Introduction – Nina Mickwitz, Ian Horton, and Ian Hague Picturing National and Personal Acts of Violence: Modes of Depiction in Barefoot Gen – John Miers Bloody Murder in the Bible: Graphic Representations of the "First Murder" in Biblical Comics – Zanne Domoney-Lyttle A Balancing Act: Didactic Spectacle in Jack Jackson’s "Nits Make Lice" – and Slow Death Comix – Laurike in ‘t Veld Seeing (in) Red: "Thick" Violence in Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas’s Red: A Haida Manga – Laura A. Pearson Embodied Reading and Performing Vulnerability in Joe Sacco’s The Great War -- Eszter Szép "Boiled or fried, Dennis?" Violence, play and narrative in “Dennis the Menace and Gnasher” – Christopher J. Thompson Humour as a Strategy in Communicating Sexual and Domestic Abuse of Women in Comics – Nicola Streeten The Risks of Representation: Making Gender and Violence Visible in The Ballad of Halo Jones – Maggie Gray Unmaking the Apocalypse: Pain, Violence, Torture, and Weaponizing the Black, Female Body – Joseph Willis Killgrave, the Purple Man – Jamie Brassett and Richard Reynolds Nabizadeh, Golnar. Representation and Memory in Graphic Novels. Routledge, 2019. Ogi, Fusami, Rebecca Suter, Kazumi Nagaike, and John A. Lent, editors. Women’s Manga in Asia and Beyond: Uniting Different Cultures and Identities. Palgrave, 2019. Japanese Homoerotic Manga in Taiwan: Same-Sex Love and Utopian Imagination – Fran Martin Hailing the Subject: Visual Progression and Queer Reading in Nananan’s Blue – Monica Chiu Queering Democracy Activism and Online Obcenities: Hong Kong Women’s Boys’ Love Protest – Katrien Jacobs Pleasurable Interplay in the 2.5-Dimensional World: Women’s Cosplay Performances in Singapore and the Philippines – Akiko Sugawa-Shimada Fudanshi (“Rotten Boys”) in Asia: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Male Readings of BL and Concepts of Masculinity – Kazume Nagaike Writing Boys’ Love Comics in the Philippines – Scott WuMing How Women’s Manga Has Performed the Image of ASIAs, Globally and Locally – Fusami Ogi Saving the World with Tiny Little Boxes – Ace Vitangcol Environmental and Cultural Influences on an Artist – FSC (Foo Swee Chin) Re-centering Australia in the Shōjo Imagination – Rebecca Suter Manga in Australia – Madeleine Rosca Manga and Shakespeare – Yukari Yoshihara Yoko Tsuno and Franco-Belgian Girl Readers of Bande Dessinée – Jessica Bauwens Matsumoto Katsuji: Modern Tomboys and Early Shōjo Manga – Ryan Holmberg Chinese Women Cartoonists: A Brief, Generational Perspective – John A. Lent and Xu Ying Fifty Years of Popularity of Theresa Lee Wai-chun and Her Comic, 13-Dot Cartoon: Identities of Women in Hong Kong – Wendy Siuyi Wong A Conversation with Theresa Lee, the Creator of Miss 13 Dots – Connie Lam (et al.) Witness to a Transition: The Manga of Kyoko Okazaki and the Feminine Self in the Shift toward “Flat Culture” in Japanese Consumer Society – Takeshi Hamano Reviving the Power of Storytelling: Post-3/11 Online “Amateur” Manga – Shige (CJ) Suzuki Comics-Prose: Evolving Manga in the Twenty-First Century – Queenie Chan Manga in Hong Kong – Stella So Oksman, Tahneed, and Seamus O’Malley, editors. The Comics of Julie Doucet and Gabrielle Bell: A Place inside Yourself. University Press of Mississippi, 2019. Introduction: A Shared Space -- Tahneer Oksman From Julie Doucet to Gabrielle Bell: Feminist Genealogies of Comics Anthologies -- Margaret Galvan My Most Secret Boredom: (Dis)affective Narrative in Julie Doucet’s “A Day in Julie Doucet’s Life” and Hergé’s “Adventures with Tintin: The Broken Ear” -- Jessica Stark Julie Doucet’s “Monkey and the Living Dead” as Subliminal Autobiography -- Natalie Pendergast Ghost Cats and the Specter of Self: Telling Trauma in the Works of Gabrielle Bell -- Sarah Hildebrand A Very Dirty Word: Cuteness as Affective Strategy in the Comics of Julie Doucet -- Sarah Richardson Drawn to Life: The Diary as Method and Politics in the Comics Art of Gabrielle Bell and Julie Doucet -- Kylie Cardell “At This Point I Become Real”: Experimental Autobiography in Julie Doucet and Michel Gondry’s Comics/Video Hybrid My New New York Diary - - Frederik Byrn Køhlert “Everyone Looks through Peepholes”: Voyeurism in The Voyeurs --Seamus O’Malley “A Good Life: The Julie Doucet Interview” -- Dan Nadel “’The Starting Point’: An Interview with Julie Doucet -- Annie Mok “Sometimes in Reality You Kick the Football: A Conversation with Gabrielle Bell” -- James Yeh “Gabrielle Bell” -- Aaron Cometbus “A Talk with Gabrielle Bell” -- Annie Mok Peaslee, Robert Moses, and Robert G. Weiner, editors. The Supervillain Reader. University Press of Mississippi, 2019. Foreword: Building a Better Bad Guy – Stephen Graham Jones Introduction: It’s All about the Villain! – Robert G. Weiner, Robert Moses Peaslee, and Duncan Prettyman Dividing Lines: A Brief Taxonomy of Moral Identity – A. G. Holdier The Bat, the Cat … and the Eagle? Irene Adler as Inspiration for Catwoman – Richard D. Heldenfels The Kingpin: A “Princely” Villain for Social and Political Change – Ryan Litsey Comics Codes and Parameters for Villain Construction in Sequential Art – Robert G. Weiner and the Comics Magazine Association of America Art Imitates Life: Nixon as Villain in the Pages of Captain America – Richard Hall Making America Great Again, You Foolsssss: Neoliberal Snake Charmers in Marvel’s G. I. Joe: A Real American Hero – J. Richard Stevens The Outing of Superman; or, How I Learned to Love Bizarro as a Trans Monster – Dan Vena A Darker Truth Underneath: Bucky Barnes and Captain America – Naja Later Where Did Superman’s White Hat Go? Villainy and Heroism in Superman: Red Son – W. D. Phillips From Perfect Hero to Murderous Villain: A Comparative Analysis between the Fallen God Heroes of Irredeemable and Injustice: Gods Among Us – Matthew McEniry Distortions of Supervillainy, Radical Interiority, and Victimhood in Sam Keith’s The Maxx – Tiffany Hong Afterword: Gloriously Flawed Saviors – Randy Duncan Picariello, Damien K., editor. Politics in Gotham: The Batman Universe and Political Thought. Palgrave MacMillan, 2019. Introduction: “I Don’t Want Batman as President” -- Damien K. Picariello Justice Unmasked -- Alan I. Baily The Dark Knight: Toward a Democratic Tragedy -- Steven Johnston The Heroism of Sober Expectations -- Damien K. Picariello Deconstructing Batman’s Legitimacy: The Radical Political Critique of Christopher Nolan’s Batman Cycle -- William J Berger Batman the Noble Dog: The Cost of Spiritedness for the Individual and Society -- Ian J. Drake and Matthew B. Lloyd The Dark Prince of the Republic: Machiavelli, Batman, and Gotham City -- Anthony Petros Spanakos The Lion, the Fox, and the Bat: The Animal Nature of Machiavelli’s The Prince and Batman -- Daniel V. Goff Criminal Justice in Gotham: The Role of the Dark Knight -- Mark D. White The Retributive Knight -- Mohamad Al-Hakim Politics as “the Product of Everything You Fear”: Scarecrow as Phobia Entrepreneur -- Christina M. Knopf #FAKENEWS in Gotham City -- Salvatore James Russo Batgirls and the Politics of Feminism in Gotham -- Carolyn Cocca Dawn of Justice: Revisioning, Accountability, and Batman in the Twenty-first Century -- Aidan Diamond Rhett, Maryanne A. Representations of Islam in United States Comics, 1880-1922. Bloomsbury, 2019. Round, Julia. Gothic for Girls: Misty and British Comics. University Press of Mississippi, 2019. Sacks, Jason, Eric Hoffman, and Dominick Grace, editors. Steve Gerber: Conversations. University Press of Mississippi, 2019. Santos, Jorge J. Graphic Memories of the Civil Rights Movement: Reframing History in Comics. University of Texas Press, 2019. Seelow, David D., editor. Lessons Drawn: Essays on the Pedagogy of Comics and Graphic Novels. McFarland, 2019. Foreword -- James Sturm Introduction: Enjoyment and Learning -- David D. Seelow Teaching the Mythic with Pop Culture and Graphic Novels -- Christina Angel Your Brain on Comics: The Graphic Novel in the College Classroom -- Carly L. Cate and Marck L. Beggs Comics and the City: Writing and the New American Student -- Stafford Gregoire Viewing Comics as Education Through Art -- Kerry Freedman Death in Ancient Philosophy and the Sandman Series: A Case Study in Inquiry-Based Learning -- Gerol Petruzella Reading Right to Left: Manga in the Classroom, at Fan Conventions and Online -- Derek McGrath Saving the World One Class at a Time: Teaching Superhero Comics -- David D. Seelow Interlude: The Infrastructure of Learning Building Institutions: Comics Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, a North American Case Study -- Leah Misemer Comics Studies at the University of Dundee: A Transatlantic Case Study -- Chris Murray Comics in the Community: Opportunities for Creativity and Collaboration in Community-Based Settings -- Michael Bitz Reading and Writing Comics and Graphic Novels: Collaborative Best Practices Between School Librarians and Teachers -- Karen W. Gavigan Using Comics Storytelling to Engage Innovation and Transform Education: The “Writing with Pictures” Case -- Lida Tsene Beyond Hair Bows and Cleavage: Helping Women Draw Their Iconic Selves -- Jessica Baldanzi Teaching Comics from Constraints: Oubapo and Other Experiments in Form, Style and Technique -- Chris Reyns-Chikuma ComicCrafting: Approaches for Working with Technology and Creating Comics in the Classroom -- Keith McCleary Technology and Comics Art: An Interview with Dave Gibbons -- Phillip Vaughan Choose the Format of Your Destructor: Design Choices for Comic Creators in Print and Digital Media -- Daniel Merlin Goodbrey Conclusion: Learning In and Around Education -- David D. Seelow Serantes, Lucia Cedeira. Young People, Comics and Reading: Exploring a Complex Reading Experience. Cambridge University Press, 2019. Sommers, Joseph Michael, and Kyle Eveleth, editors. The Artistry of Neil Gaiman: Finding Light in the Shadows. University Press of Mississippi, 2019. Introduction: Lux in Tenebris: Finding the Light in the Darkness and the Child in the Adult -- Joseph Michael Sommers and Kyle Eveleth Perspective, Empathy, and Activism: Neil Gaiman’s The View from the Cheap Seats -- Tara Prescott Comics Grammar in Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean’s Picture Book Collaborations -- Krystal Howard Dreaming the Universe: The Sandman: Overture, Creation Myths, and the Ultimate Observer -- Kristine Larsen Neil Gaiman and the Multifarious Approach to the Superhero -- Darren Harris-Fain At the Edge of the Barely Perceptible: Temporality and Masculinity in Mr. Punch and Violent Cases -- Christopher D. Kilgore “Evil Witch! I’m Not Scared!”: Monstrous Visualizations of the Other Mother in Multimodal Adaptations of Neil Gaiman’s Coraline -- Justin Wigard Between Mimesis and Fantasy: Binaries and Boundaries in The Books of Magic -- Andrew Eichel Inverted Spaces: Rising from the London Below and the Dark Lands in Neverwhere and MirrorMask -- Züleyha Çetiner-Öktem The Shadow or the Self: The Construction of Neil Gaiman on Social Media -- Lanette Cadle Damsels in Deep Rest No More: The Coalescence of Light and Dark in Blueberry Girl, The Wolves in the Walls, and The Sleeper and the Spindle -- Danielle Russell Liminality and the Gothic Sublime of The Sandman -- Erica McCrystal Queering Space in Neil Gaiman’s Illustrated Works -- Renata Lucena Dalmaso and Thayse Madella Weaving New Dreams from Old Cloth: Conceptual Blending and Hybrid Identities in Neil Gaiman’s Fairy-Tale Retellings -- Anna Katrina Gutierrez Coda: “A Walking Shadow”: Life as a Reader and Author of Neil Gaiman -- Joe Sutliff Sanders A Short Conversation with Neil Gaiman on Comics -- Joseph Michael Sommers The Art of Adaptation: An Interview with P. Craig Russell -- Kyle Eveleth and Joseph Michael Sommers Still, Julie M., and Zara T. Wilkinson, editors. Buffy to Batgirl: Essays on Female Power, Evolving Femininity and Gender Roles in Science Fiction and Fantasy. McFarland, 2019. The Evolution of Lois Lane: Reflections on Women in Society -- Sandra Eckard Utell, Janine, editor. The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In. University Press of Mississippi, 2020. Introduction: Serializing the Self in the Space between Life and Art -- Janine Utell The Hospitable Aesthetics of Alison Bechdel -- Vanessa Lauber “Girlie Man, Manly Girl, It’s All the Same to Me”: How Dykes to Watch Out For Shifted Gender and Comix -- Anne N. Thalheimer Disseminating Queer Theory: Dykes to Watch Out For and the Transmission of Theoretical Thought -- Katherine Parker-Hay Bechdel’s Men and Masculinity: Gay Pedant and Lesbian Man -- Judith Kegan Gardiner Mo Van Pelt: Dykes to Watch Out For and Peanuts -- Michelle Ann Abate Dancing with Memory in Fun Home -- Alissa S. Bourbonnais “It Both Is and Isn’t My Life”: Biography, Adaptation, and Emotion in Fun Home, the Musical -- Leah Anderst Generational Trauma and the Crisis of Aprés-Coup in Alison Bechdel’s Graphic Memoirs -- Natalja Chestopalova The Experimental Interiors of Alison Bechdel’s Are You My Mother? -- Yetta Howard Inchoate Kinship: Psychoanalytic Narrative and Queer Relationality in Are You My Mother? -- Tyler Bradway Decolonizing Rural Space in Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home -- Katie Hogan Fun Home and Are You My Mother? As Autobiography: Queer Orientations and Politics of Location -- Katherine Kelp-Stebbins Inside the Archives of Fun Home -- Susan R. Van Dyne Servants to What Cause: Illustrating Queer Movement Culture through Grassroots Periodicals -- Margaret Galvan Framing Community from Inside Out: The Information Worlds of Dykes to Watch Out For - - Don L. Lathan and Jonathan M. Hollister Walton, Michael. The Horror Comic Never Dies: A Grisly History. McFarland, 2019.
Whitted, Qiana. EC Comics: Race, Shock and Social Protest. Rutgers University Press, 2019.
Zimmerly, Stephen M. The Sidekick Comes of Age: How Young Adult Literature Is Shifting the Sidekick Paradigm. Lexington Books, 2019.
Articles and Essays
The citations in this section include peer-reviewed journal articles and essays from scholarly anthologies not primarily devoted to comics.
Abate, Michelle Ann. “‘A Gorgeous Waste’: Solitude in Calvin and Hobbes.” Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, vol. 10, no. 5–6, Nov. 2019, pp. 488–504. doi: 10.1080/21504857.2018.1523204. ---. “Drawing Racial Lines: The Aesthetics of Franklin in Peanuts.” Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society, vol. 3, no. 3, Fall 2019, pp. 227-48. Aggleton, Jen. “Defining Digital Comics: A British Library Perspective.” Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, vol. 10, no. 4, July 2019, pp. 393–409. doi: 10.1080/21504857.2018.1503189. Aguilar Campos, Citlaly. “Liminality and Meta-fiction in Comics: The Ayotzinapa Case by Augusto Mora.” International Journal of Comic Art, vol. 20, no. 2, Fall/Winter 2018, pp. 443-63. Ahmed, Maaheen. “Instrumentalising Media Memories: The Second World War According to Achtung Zelig!” European Comic Art, vol. 12, no. 1, June 2019, pp. 1–20. doi: 10.3167/eca.2019.120102. Alaniz, José. “‘Hippies’ and Pacifism in Igor Kolgarev’s Militariisk Comics.” International Journal of Comic Art, vol. 20, no. 2, Fall/Winter 2018, pp. 192-206 Anderson, Joshua T. “Re-Animalating Native Realities: The Funny Animals and Indigenous First Beings of Native Realities Press.” Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society, vol. 3, no. 3, Fall 2019, pp. 249-72. Antola, Laura. “Strategies of Adaptation in the Finnish Publications of Marvel’s Superhero Comics.” The Journal of Popular Culture, vol. 52, no. 3, 2019, pp. 703–24. Wiley Online Library, doi: 10.1111/jpcu.12799. Arffman, Päivi. “Comics from the Underground: Publishing Revolutionary Comic Books in the 1960s and Early 1970s.” The Journal of Popular Culture, vol. 52, no. 1, 2019, pp. 169–98. Wiley Online Library, doi: 10.1111/jpcu.12763. Austin, Hailey J. “‘That Old Black Magic’: Noir and Music in Juan Díaz Canales and Juanjo Guarnido’s Blacksad.” The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship, vol. 9, no. 1, July 2019, p. 12. doi: 10.16995/cg.156. Bechdel, Alison. “Why Comics? A Question.” PMLA, vol. 134, no. 3, May 2019, pp. 569–571. doi: 10.1632/pmla.2019.134.3.569. Benatti, Francesca. “Superhero Comics and the Digital Communications Circuit: A Case Study of Strong Female Protagonist.” Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, vol. 10, no. 3, May 2019, pp. 306–19. doi: 10.1080/21504857.2018.1485720. Bladow, Kyle. “Framing Storytelling: Indigenous Graphic Narratives.” The Journal of Popular Culture, vol. 52, no. 1, 2019, pp. 35–52. Wiley Online Library, doi: 10.1111/jpcu.12757. Blin-Rolland, Armelle. “Tu Te Décolonises”: Comics Re-Framings of the Breton Liberation Front (FLB). July 2019, doi: 10.1386/stic.10.1.73_1. Borkent, Mike. “Anarchist Fantasies: A Cognitive Analysis of Fantasy to Promote Anarchism and Cultural Reformulation in Therefore Repent! A Post-Rapture Graphic Novel.” Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society, vol. 3, no. 2, Oct. 2019, pp. 147–70. doi: 10.1353/ink.2019.0013. Braithwaite, Jean. “Navigating Jimmy Corrigan: Time, Space, and Puzzles, Including Pagination.” International Journal of Comic Art, vol. 20, no. 2, Fall/Winter 2018, pp. 312-41 Breckenridge, Janis and Maia Watkins. “Reading Between the Lines: Drawing on the Horrors of Disappearance in ‘Un asesino anda suelto.’” International Journal of Comic Art, vol. 20, no. 2, Fall/Winter 2018, pp. 235-55. Buhle, Paul. “Komix Kountermedia (1969).” Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society, vol. 3, no. 2, Oct. 2019, pp. 199–204. doi: 10.1353/ink.2019.0016. Bumatay, Michelle. “African Bande Dessinée Festivals & Competitions: Participation, Patronage, and Performance.” Research in African Literatures, vol. 50, no. 2, 2019, pp. 35-48. Burt, Stephanie. “Why Not More Comics?” PMLA, vol. 134, no. 3, May 2019, pp. 572–578. doi: 10.1632/pmla.2019.134.3.572. Chattopadhyay, Dhiman. “Can Comic Books Influence Consumer Awareness and Attitude towards Rape Victims and Perpetrators in India? The Case of Priya’s Shakti.” Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, vol. 10, no. 1, Jan. 2019, pp. 28–46. doi: 10.1080/21504857.2017.1412992. Chute, Hillary. “Drawing Is a Way of Thinking.” PMLA, vol. 134, no. 3, May 2019, pp. 629-37. doi: 10.1632/pmla.2019.134.3.629. Clark, Catherine, and Jennifer Jacobs Henderson. “Oh, My God! I CAN FLY!’: Female Agency in Marvel’s Runaways.” Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, vol. 10, no. 2, Mar. 2019, pp. 210–27. doi: 10.1080/21504857.2018.1437053. Claverie, Ezra. “Folklore, Fakelore, Scholars, and Shills: Superheroes as ‘Myth.’” The Journal of Popular Culture, vol. 52, no. 5, 2019, pp. 976–98. Wiley Online Library, doi: 10.1111/jpcu.12840. Cohn, Neil, et al. “The Cultural Pages of Comics: Cross-Cultural Variation in Page Layouts.” Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, vol. 10, no. 1, Jan. 2019, pp. 67–86. doi: 10.1080/21504857.2017.1413667. Colom-Montero, Guillem. Mass Tourism as Cultural Trauma: An Analysis of the Majorcan Comics Els Darrers Dies de Imperi Mallorquí (2014) and Un Infern a Mallorca (La Decadència de Imperi Mallorquí) (2018). Studies in Comics, Vol. 10, No. 1, July 2019, doi: 10.1386/stic.10.1.49_1. Connor, J.T.H. “Behind the Scenes of the ‘War in Comics’ Exhibit: An Interview with Canada’s Andrew Loman and Irene Velentza.” .” International Journal of Comic Art, vol. 20, no. 2, Fall/Winter 2018, pp. 518-24. Cressman, Jodi. “Company, Counterbalance, and Closure in Ellen Forney’s Marbles.” Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, vol. 10, no. 2, Mar. 2019, pp. 259–72. doi: 10.1080/21504857.2018.1480506. Danziger, Steve. “Malice, Metaphysics, and Mengele -- Holocaust Motifs and the Renunciation of Evil in EC Horror Comic.” International Journal of Comic Art, vol. 20, no. 2, Fall/Winter 2018, pp. 373-98. Davies, Paul Fisher. “New Choices of the Comics Creator.” The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship, vol. 9, no. 1, Feb. 2019, p. 3. doi: 10.16995/cg.153. Davis, Blair. “All-Negro Comics and the Birth of Lion Man, the First African American Superhero.” Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society, vol. 3, no. 3, Fall 2019, pp. 273-97. Davis, Northrop. “Legendary Hollywood Designer Syd Mead’s Important Contributions to Landmark Anime.” International Journal of Comic Art, vol. 20, no. 2, Fall/Winter 2018, pp. 536-541. del Rey Cabero, Enrique. “Beyond Linearity: Holistic, Multidirectional, Multilinear and Translinear Reading in Comics.” The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship, vol. 9, no. 1, Mar. 2019, p. 5. doi: 10.16995/cg.137. Diffrient, David Scott. “Contemporary Comic Books and Hollywood Noir: Remediating Cinematic Style and Cultural Memory in The Fade Out.” Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, vol. 10, no. 3, May 2019, pp. 342–67. doi: 10.1080/21504857.2018.1493521. Dodds, Nick. “The Practice of Authentication: Adapting Pilgrimage from Nenthead into a Graphic Memoir.” The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship, vol. 9, no. 1, Aug. 2019, p. 14. doi: 10.16995/cg.154. Elias, Amy J. “Context Rocks!” PMLA, vol. 134, no. 3, May 2019, pp. 579–587. doi: 10.1632/pmla.2019.134.3.579 Elmaghraby, Sara S. “Cartooning Poverty: Are Cartoonists Helping Sustainable Development in Egypt?” International Journal of Comic Art, vol. 20, no. 2, Fall/Winter 2018, pp. 181-191. Fawaz, Ramzi. “A Queer Sequence: Comics as a Disruptive Medium.” PMLA, vol. 134, no. 3, May 2019, pp. 588–594. doi: 10.1632/pmla.2019.134.3.588 Fernández Sarasola, Ignacio. “Crime News: Blaming Comic Books for Crimes Committed During the ‘Golden Age.’” International Journal of Comic Art, vol. 20, no. 2, Fall/Winter 2018, pp. 493-517. Forsdick, Charles. “Bande dessinée and the Penal Imagery: Graphic Constructions of Carceral Archipielago.” European Comic Art, vol. 12, no. 2, September 2019, pp.1-6. Foster III, William H. “March Graphic Novel: ‘American History Lives Again.’” International Journal of Comic Art, vol. 20, no. 2, Fall/Winter 2018, pp. 360-371. Freitas Cardoso, João Batista and Caio Mattos Moreira Cardoso. “The V Mask in Translation: From Commercial to Subversive Systems.” International Journal of Comic Art, vol. 20, no. 2, Fall/Winter 2018, pp. 464-77. Galaver, Chris. “Three of a Perfect Pair: Picture, Text, and Image-Text Narrators.” Image & Narrative. 3 April 2019. http://www.imageandnarrative.be/index.php/imagenarrative/article/view/2076. Galvan, Margaret. “Adjacent Genealogies, Alternate Geographies: The Outliers of Underground Comix & World War 3 Illustrated.” Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society, vol. 3, no. 1, June 2019, pp. 92–113. doi: 10.1353/ink.2019.0005. Galvan, Margaret, and Leah Misemer. “Introduction: The Counterpublics of Underground Comics.” Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society, vol. 3, no. 1, June 2019, pp. 1–5. doi: 10.1353/ink.2019.0000. Gamache, Geneviève. “A Transcultural Comic Series Caught between Nationalism and Globalisation.” Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, vol. 10, no. 3, May 2019, pp. 293–305. doi: 10.1080/21504857.2018.1485719. Gandolfo, Amadeo, and Pablo Turnes. “Fresh Off the Boat and Off to the Presses.” European Comic Art, vol. 12, no. 2, September 2019, pp. 45-76. Gardener, Jared. “A Nice Neighborhood.” PMLA, vol. 134, no. 3, May 2019, pp. 595–600. doi: 10.1632/pmla.2019.134.3.595 Gauthier, Tim. “Negotiating Community in the Interregnum: Zombies and Others in Robert Kirkman’s the Walking Dead.” Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, vol. 10, no. 5–6, Nov. 2019, pp. 543–61. doi: 10.1080/21504857.2018.1530272. Gedin, David. “Format Codings in Comics—The Elusive Art of Punctuation.” Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society, vol. 3, no. 3, Fall 2019, pp. 298-314. Grant, Pat. “The Board and the Body: Material Constraints and Style in Graphic Narrative.” The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship, vol. 9, no. 1, Feb. 2019, p. 4. doi: 10.16995/cg.145. Graziosi, Marco. “Edward Lear.” European Comic Art, vol. 12, no. 2, September 2019, pp. 17-44. Grove, Laurence. "Scotland, the Cradle of Comics." PMLA, vol. 134 no. 3, May 2019, pp. 60-113, doi: 10.1632/pmla.2019.134.3.60. Guynes, Sean. “Worlds Will Live, Worlds Will Die: Crisis on Infinite Earths and the Anxieties and Calamities of the Comic-Book Event.” Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society, vol. 3, no. 2, Oct. 2019, pp. 171–90. doi: 10.1353/ink.2019.0014. Hagan, Robert J. “Touch Me/Don’t Touch Me: Representations of Female Archetypes in Ann Nocenti’s Daredevil.” The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship, vol. 9, no. 1, May 2019, pp. 9. doi: 10.16995/cg.148. Hernandez, Melanie. “Currier & Ives’s Darktown Series: Recovering White Social Capital through Violent Satire.” International Journal of Comic Art, vol. 20, no. 2, Fall/Winter 2018, pp. 268-89. Hoberek, Andrew. “Building and Unbuilding a Comics Canon.” PMLA, vol. 134, no. 3, May 2019, pp. 614-619. doi: 10.1632/pmla.2019.134.3.614 Holt, Jon. What You See Is What You Get: Visualizing Hypocrisy in Umezu Kazuo’s Manga Cat-Eyed Boy. ImageText, vol. 10, no. 2, 2019. http://imagetext.english.ufl.edu/archives/v10_2/holt/. Hornsby, Ian. “…Comic Books, Möbius Strips, Philosophy And….” The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship, vol. 9, no. 1, Apr. 2019, pp. 7. doi: 10.16995/cg.151. Hosein, Safiyya. “The ‘Worlding’ of the Muslim Superheroine: An Analysis of Ms. Marvel’s Kamala Khan.” The Popular Culture Studies Journal, vol. 7, no. 2, Oct. 2019, pp. 56–69. Humphrey, Paul. “Yo Soy Groot”: Afro-Caribbean Religions and Transnational Identity in the Comic Metropolis. July 2019, doi: 10.1386/stic.10.1.115_1. Johnson, Robyn. “Bishie Man or Woman, It Matters Not: Grotesque Resistance to Heteronormative Love in Yu Wo’s ½ Prince.” International Journal of Comic Art, vol. 20, no. 2, Fall/Winter 2018, pp. 399-42. Kashtan, Aaron. “Christmas Card from a Cat Dancer in Mipple City: Omaha the Cat Dancer and Midwestern Counterpublics.” Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society, vol. 3, no. 1, June 2019, pp. 48–69. doi: 10.1353/ink.2019.0003. Kavaloski, Joshua. “Discordant Discourses: History and Journalism in the Graphic Novels of Joe Sacco.” Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, vol. 10, no. 1, Jan. 2019, pp. 122–39. doi: 10.1080/21504857.2018.1431801. Kirchoff, Jeffrey SJ. “Beyond the Printed Page: Dementia, Graphic Medicine, and Digital Comics.” International Journal of Comic Art, vol. 20, no. 2, Fall/Winter 2018, pp. 222-34. Klaehn, Jeffery. An Interview with Arthur Ranson. July 2019, Studies in Comics, vol. 10, no. 1, July 2019, pp. 145-56. doi: 10.1386/stic.10.1.145_7. ---. “An Interview with Comic Book Writer Jeff Parker.” Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, vol. 10, no. 2, Mar. 2019, pp. 273–84. doi: 10.1080/21504857.2018.1481121. ---. “‘The History and Appreciation of an Art Form’: Talking Comics Studies with M. Thomas Inge.” Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society, vol. 3, no. 2, Oct. 2019, pp. 205–12. doi: 10.1353/ink.2019.0017. Kopin, Joshua Abraham. “‘With Apologies to The Old Masters’: Jack Jackson’s Citational Practice and the History of Comic Book History.” Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society, vol. 3, no. 1, June 2019, pp. 27–47. doi: 10.1353/ink.2019.0002. Kottas, Lisa, and Martin Schwarzenbacher. “The Comic at the Crossroads: The Semiotics of ‘Voodoo Storytelling’ in The Hole: Consumer Culture Vol. 1.” The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship, vol. 9, no. 1, Aug. 2019, p. 13. doi: 10.16995/cg.150. Kuhlman, Martha. “The Avant-Garde Aesthetic of Vojtěch Mašek.” Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society, vol. 3, no. 2, Oct. 2019, pp. 133–46. doi: 10.1353/ink.2019.0012. Labarre, Nicolas. “Reading the 2016 US Presidential Election through Transmetropolitan.” Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, vol. 10, no. 4, July 2019, pp. 432–44. doi: 10.1080/21504857.2018.1503190. Leishman, David. “Drawing National Boundaries in Barr’s Ba-Bru Comic Strip Advertising.” European Comic Art, vol. 12, no. 1, June 2019, pp. 65–87. doi: 10.3167/eca.2019.120105. Lent, John A. “A 20-Year Harvest of Comic Art Scholarship: International Journal of Comic Art--1999-2018.” International Journal of Comic Art, vol. 20, no. 2, Fall/Winter 2018, pp. 1-43. ---. “The New Wave of Investigative Cartooning in South Korea.” International Journal of Comic Art, vol. 20, no. 2, Fall/Winter 2018, pp. 90-109. Levay, Matthew. “Repetition, Recapitulation, Routine: Dick Tracy and the Temporality of Daily Newspaper Comics.” Journal of Modern Periodical Studies, vol. 9, no. 1, June 2018, pp. 101-122. Lipenga, Ken Junior. “Intersections of Sex and Violence in Preacher.” International Journal of Comic Art, vol. 20, no. 2, Fall/Winter 2018, pp. 478-491. ---. “The New Normal: Enfreakment in Saga.” The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship, vol. 9, no. 1, Feb. 2019, p. 2. doi: 10.16995/cg.161. Lopes, Rui. “‘Must We All Remain Helpless?’: Superman vs. the Nuclear Threat in the Late Cold War.” ImageText, vol. 10, no. 2, 2019. http://imagetext.english.ufl.edu/archives/v10_2/lopes/. Lunaček, Izar. “A Brief History of Slovenian Comics.” International Journal of Comic Art, vol. 20, no. 2, Fall/Winter 2018, pp. 261-67. Manning, Haydon and Robert Phiddian. “The Editorial Cartoon’s Fading Impact -- The State of Play in Australia at the Federal Election of 2016 and Beyond.” International Journal of Comic Art, vol. 20, no. 2, Fall/Winter 2018, pp. 57-89. Manouach, Ilan. “Peanuts Minus Schulz: Distributed Labor as a Compositional Practice.” The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship, vol. 9, no. 1, Sept. 2019, p. 16. doi: 10.16995/cg.139. McConnell, Russell. “Historical Avant-Garde: How Marcia Williams Recreates Shakespeare’s Theater in the Comics Medium.” ImageText, vol. 10, no. 2, 2019. http://imagetext.english.ufl.edu/archives/v10_2/mcconnell/. Accessed 13 Nov. 2019. McGovern, Melanie, and Martin Paul Eve. “Information Labour and Shame in Farmer and Chevli’s Abortion Eve.” The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship, vol. 9, no. 1, Apr. 2019, p. 6. doi: 10.16995/cg.158. McPhail, Sean A. “Fall-Out and the German People: The Political Climate in Pausewang’s Novel Die Wolke (1987) and Anike Hage’s Manga Adaptation (2013).” European Comic Art, vol. 12, no. 1, June 2019, pp. 41–64. doi: 10.3167/eca.2019.120104. Mikkonen, Kai and Olli Philippe Lautenbache. “Global Attention in Reading Comics: Eye-movement Indications of Interplay between Narrative Content and Layout.” ImageText, vol. 10, no. 2, 2019. http://www.english.ufl.edu/imagetext/archives/v10_2/mikkonen/. Miranda-Barreiro, David. Invoking the Past in Graphic Biographies: The Life, Death and Ghostly Return of Alexandre Bóveda. July 2019, doi: 10.1386/stic.10.1.27_1. Misemer, Leah. “A Historical Approach to Webcomics: Digital Authorship in the Early 2000s.” The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship, vol. 9, no. 1, June 2019, p. 10. doi: 10.16995/cg.162. ---. “Serial Critique: The Counterpublic of Wimmen’s Comix.” Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society, vol. 3, no. 1, June 2019, pp. 6–26. doi: 10.1353/ink.2019.0001. Moreno Izaguirre, Paola. “Art Toy as Anatomical Sketch.” International Journal of Comic Art, vol. 20, no. 2, Fall/Winter 2018, pp. 525-35. Morgan, David. “Looking Awry at Georgian Caricature: Lacan and the Satirists.” European Comic Art, vol. 12, no. 1, June 2019, pp. 88–110. doi: 10.3167/eca.2019.120106. Murel, Jacob. “An Interview with Julia Kaye.” Studies in Comics, vol. 10, no. 1, July 2019, pp. 135-43, doi: 10.1386/stic.10.1.135_7. Ng, Benjamin Wai-ming. “Drawing Chinese Political Cartoons in Japan: Blessing in Disguise or Trade-off?” International Journal of Comic Art, vol. 20, no. 2, Fall/Winter 2018, pp. 110-127. Nijdam, Elizabeth. “How Comics Remember.” Image & Narrative. no. 1, Apr. 2019. http://www.imageandnarrative.be/index.php/imagenarrative/article/view/2079. Nilsson, Magnus. “Working-Class Comics? Proletarian Self-Reflexiveness in Mats Källblad’s Graphic Novel Hundra År i Samma Klass.” Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, vol. 10, no. 3, May 2019, pp. 368–80. doi: 10.1080/21504857.2018.1500383. Nordenstam, Anna, and Margareta Wallin Wictorin. “Women’s Liberation: Swedish Feminist Comics and Cartoons from the 1970s and the 1980s.” European Comic Art, vol. 12, no. 2, September 2019, pp.77-105. O’Connor, Lauren. “Inseparation of Powers: DC Comics, Flex Mentallo, and the Necessity of Adolescence.” Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, vol. 10, no. 2, Mar. 2019, pp. 244–58. doi: 10.1080/21504857.2018.1480501. Oyola, Osvaldo. “YA=Young Avengers: Asserting Maturity on the Threshold of Adulthood.” Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society, vol. 3, no. 3, Fall 2019, pp. 330-42. Pearl, Barry. “Charles M. Schulz: Cartoons Without Peanuts.” International Journal of Comic Art, vol. 20, no. 2, Fall/Winter 2018, pp. 542-60. Peppard, Anna F. “The Power of the Marvel(Ous) Image: Reading Excess in the Styles of Todd McFarlane, Jim Lee, and Rob Liefeld.” Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, vol. 10, no. 3, May 2019, pp. 320–41. doi: 10.1080/21504857.2018.1493520. Pesses, Michael W. “‘You Gotta Be One of the Good Guys, Son’: Mobilities of Foucauldian Ethics and Freedom in Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon’s Preacher.” Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, vol. 10, no. 4, July 2019, pp. 445–58. doi: 10.1080/21504857.2018.1503188. Pettitt, Joanne. “Remembering the Holocaust in American Superhero Comics.” Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, vol. 10, no. 1, Jan. 2019, pp. 155–66. doi: 10.1080/21504857.2018.1431800. Pickering, Tony. “Diabetes Year One. Drawing My Pathography: Comics, Poetry and the Medical Self.” The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship, vol. 9, no. 1, May 2019, p. 8. doi: 10.16995/cg.147. Pohle, Marlene. “A Cartoonist Chronicler of Cartoonists’ Confabs.” International Journal of Comic Art, vol. 20, no. 2, Fall/Winter 2018, pp. 342-59. Posada, Tim. “Afrofuturism, Power, and Marvel Comics’s Black Panther.” The Journal of Popular Culture, vol. 52, no. 3, 2019, pp. 625–44. doi: 10.1111/jpcu.12805. Ranade, Milind. “Discovering Tom Browne and His Postcards.” International Journal of Comic Art, vol. 20, no. 2, Fall/Winter 2018, pp. 207-21. Reboussin, Dan. “The Papa Mfumu’eto Papers: An Urban Vernacular Artist in Congo’s Megacity”. Inks: The Journal of the Comic Studies Society, vol. 3, no. 3, Fall 2019, pp. 315-29 Reingold, Matt. “American Jews Explore Israel: Jewish and Israel Identity Exploration with Harvey Pekar and Sarah Glidden.” Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, vol. 10, no. 5–6, Nov. 2019, pp. 525–42. doi: 10.1080/21504857.2018.1532920. ---. “Bridging the Divide through Graphic Novels: Teaching Non-Jews’ Holocaust Narratives to Jewish Students.” SANE Journal: Sequential Art Narrative in Education, vol. 2, no. 4, Sept. 2019, https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/sane/vol2/iss4/3. Rhode, Mike. “A Chat with Izar Lunaček of Slovenia.” International Journal of Comic Art, vol. 20, no. 2, Fall/Winter 2018, pp. 256-60. Rice, Mary, and Ashley Dallacqua. “Teaching Visual Literacies: The Case of The Great American Dust Bowl.” SANE Journal: Sequential Art Narrative in Education, vol. 2, no. 4, Jan. 2019, https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/sane/vol2/iss4/1. Rifas, Leonard. “The Politics of Underground Comix and the Environmental Crisis.” International Journal of Comic Art, vol. 20, no. 2, Fall/Winter 2018, pp. 128-150. Roan, Jeanette. “Tasting Is Knowing: The Aesthetics and Politics of Disgust in John Layman’s and Rob Guillory’s Chew.” Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, vol. 10, no. 1, Jan. 2019, pp. 167–83. doi: 10.1080/21504857.2017.1403336. Robertson, Wes. “Scripted Voices: Script’s Role in Creating Japanese Manga Dialogue.” Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, vol. 10, no. 1, Jan. 2019, pp. 87–105. doi: 10.1080/21504857.2018.1431799. Rogers, Rob. “Six in a Row? That Has to Be Some Kind of Record!” International Journal of Comic Art, vol. 20, no. 2, Fall/Winter 2018, pp. 44-56. Rondinelli, Zachary J.A. “’C’Mon. Sell Me Another One’: Simulation, Sacrifice, and Symbolic Revolution in King and Gerads’ Mister Miracle.” Tba: Journal of Art, Media, and Visual Culture, vol. 1, no. 1, 2019, pp. 72-85. 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