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Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics

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• Sylvain Rheault: A surge of Indigenous graphic novels
• Anthony N. Castle: Who took the comi’cuts? Whatever happened to Ginger Meggs?
• Miren Junkal Guevara Llaguno: Chester Brown´s Bible in Mary Wept Over the Feet of Jesus
• Catherine Appleton: The theory-practice interplay in creating a graphic memoir about the trauma of forced migration
• Christopher S. Markle: The new Australian: an observation of inexperienced and outsider views in Perth comics
• David Lewkowich: Traumatic loss and productive impasse in comics: Visual metaphors of depression and melancholia in Jillian and Mariko Tamaki’s This One Summer
• Shilpa Shirishkumar Tanna, Geetha Bakilapadavu: Revealing Layers: Sarnath Banerjee’s The Barn Owl’s Wondrous Capers
• Kindall Fredricks: ‘Meeting beneath faraway rivers:’ Examining the impact of graphic medicine through the aids memorial quilt and 7 Miles a Second
• Daniel Marrone: Towards jouissance: Pleasure and frustration in the work of Patrick Kyle
• Neal Curtis: Superheroes and the mythic imagination: Order, agency and politics
• E. Dawson Varughese: ‘Drawing thoughts together’: Indian artists’ reflections on the post-millennial Indian graphic narratives scene

ImageText 11.2 (2019-2020)

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• Michelle Ann Abate: The Far Side of Comeeks: Gary Larson, Lynda Barry, and Ugliness
• Irenae A. Aigbedion: Graphic Accounts of Violence: Visualizing Slavery in American Comics
• Willi Barthold: The Swordsman as the Artist: Aesthetics of Fragmentation in Eiichirō Oda’s One Piece and 21st Century Cultural Hybridity
• Chamara Moore: Have We Cleared the Intersection Yet?: Black Women in Comic Film Adaptations
• Matt Reingold: The Heritage Broker and the Cultural Mediator: Navigating the Past and the Present in Liana Finck’s A Bintel Brief: Love and Longing in Old New York
• Juha Virtanen: ‘What face … will the bogeyman of this dark century wear?’ Politicizing a Contemporary Joker Juha Virtanen

IJOCA: International Journal of ComicArt 21.1 (2019)

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• Ronald Stewart: Itō Hirobumi’s Nose: Syphilis in Early 20th Century Japanese Cartoons
• Paul M. Malone: “You Are Leaving the French Sector”: Flix’s Spirou in Berlin and the Internationalization of German Comics
• Anton Kannemeyer: As I Please: A Personal Reflection on Censorship
• Annabelle Cone: The “Bobo” (bourgeois-bohème) as Post-Modern Figure? Gentrification and Globalization in Dupuy and Berberian’s Monsieur Jean and Boboland
• Tania Pérez-Cano: Graphic Testimonies of the Balsero Crisis of 1994: Narratives of Cuban Detainees at the Guantánamo Naval Base
• Ana Merino: Comics Reinventing Creativity in the Museum: Some Thoughts about the Show “Viñetas Desbordadas/Overflowing Panels”
• Jon Holt: Ishii Takashi, Beyond 1979: Ero Gekiga Godfather, GARO Inheritor, or Shōjo Manga Artist?
• Daniel F. Yezbick: Of Bears, Birds, and Barks: Animetaphoric Antagonism and Animalscéant Anxieties within Dell Funny Animal Franchise Comics
• John A. Lent: Wang Ning, Beijing Total Vision Culture Spreads Co. Ltd., and the Transnationalization of Chinese Comic Books
• Alvaro Alemán, Eduardo Villacís: Pointed Language: Reading Paola Gaviria’s Virus Tropical (2009) from the Perspective of the Visual Protocols of the Graphic Novel
• Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste: On Butterflies, Viruses, and Visas: Comics and the Perils of Diasporic Imagined Communities
• Anu Sugathan: The City and the Medium of Comics: Depiction of Urban Space in Sarnath Banerjee’s Corridor and The Barn Owl’s Wondrous Capers
• ComFor member Dietrich Grünewald: Crossing Borders: Graphic Novels Quoting Art (transl.: Christina Little)
• Kent Worcester: That Chameleon Quality: An Interview with R. Sikoryak
• Sara Dallavalle: Popular Format and Auteur Format in Italian Comics. The Case of Magnus
• Sam Cannon, Hugo Hinojosa Lobos: Chile’s Military Dictatorship and Comics as Alternative Methods of Memorialization: Critical Approaches from Contemporary Chilean Graphic Novels
• Leila Sadegh Beigi: Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis and Embroideries: A Graphic Novelization of Sexual Revolution across Three Generations of Iranian Women
• Mathieu Li-Goyette: A Sublime in Tension Around Alexandre Fontaine Rousseau and Francis Desharnais’ Les Premiers Aviateurs
• Michelle Ann Abate: “They’re Quite Strange in the Larval Stage”: Children and Childhood in Gary Larson’s “The Far Side”
• Magnus Nilsson: Marxism Across Media: Characterization and Montage in Variety Artwork’s Capital in Manga
• Debarghya Sanyal: The Desi Archie: Selling India’s America to America’s India
• Sina Shamsavari: Gay Male Porno Comics: Genre, Conventions, and Challenges
• Anno Moyoco Yasuko Akiyama: Ambitious Women in Male Manga Magazines: Sakuran and Hataraki-Man
• Aimee Vincent: “Hey Kids, Patriarchy!”: Satire and Audience on the Back Covers of Bitch Planet
• Chad A. Barbour: The Fine Art of Genocide: Underground Comix and U.S. History as Horror Story
• John Darowski: Superman’s Remediation of Mid-20th Century American Identity
• Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste: A Matter of Affect: Illustrated Responses to the Immigration Debacle
• Bi Keguan: Random Notes of the Editorial Office of China’s Manhua Magazine (ed.: Bi Weimin, transl..: Xu Ying)
• Chu Der-Chung (Zola Zu) with John A. Lent: The Chus: A Family Teeming with Cartoonists (transl. Xu Ying)
• Alvaro Alemán, Eduardo Villacís: Faith in Comics: Ex-voto Religious Offerings and Comic Art
• Barbara Zocal Da Silva: Translated Hispano-American Comics in Brazil
• Conversation with Jan Ziolkowski and Ariana Chaivaranon: An Afternoon with R. O. Blechman
• John Gardner: Kennedy Conspiracy Comics: ¡en Español!
• Michela Canepari:The Myth of Frankenstein from Mary Shelley to Gris Grimly: Some Intersemiotic and Ideological Issues

Section: The Best We Could Do: A Mini-Symposium

• Isabelle Martin: The Role of Water in the Construction of Refugee Subjectivity in Thi Bui’s The Best We Could Do
• Debarghya Sanyal: A Burden of Tales: Memories, Trauma, and Narratorial Legacies in The Best We Could Do and Munnu
• Francesca Lyn: The Fragmentary Body: Traumatic Configurations in Autobiographical Comics by Women of Color
• A. David Lewis: A Graphic Medicine Prescription

Section: Pioneers in Comics Scholarship

• Kosei Ono: My Life with American Comics: How It Started
• Shefali Elizabeth Mathew: Nature of Reality in the Graphic: “Calvin and Hobbes”