417 pages / 22 Articles / Portfolio: 6 pieces
Biography of Authors

Vol. 7, No. 2, Fall 2005
[Pioneers of Comic Art Scholarship Series, Part IV]
edited by John A. Lent
R. C. Harvey
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It’s Not My Fault Confessions of a Comics Junkie. Or, How I Became a Crazed Fanatic About Cartooning, Its History and Lore
John A. Lent
44
Armand Mattelart and How To Read Donald Duck
Fusami Ogi
47
Katayori Mitsugu: A Pioneer of Manga Studies in Japan Before and After the War
Randall W. Scott
68
Beginnings and Landmarks: The Comic Art Collection at the Michigan State University Libraries and My Career
Richard Langlois
(Randall W. Scott)
78
Pioneer in the Teaching of Bande Dessinée (Comic Art and Narrative) in Canada
John A. Lent and Xu Ying
89
Cartooning and China’s “Cultural Revolution”
Louise C. Larsen
126
The Flight of the Forehead in the Third Reich: The Political Satire of Hans Bendix
Janusz Kazmierczak
147
Raymond Williams and Cartoons: From Churchill’s Cigar to Cultural History
Yamile Regalado Someillan
164
Visual Culture and the New Cuban Man: Examining a Core Force of the Cuban Revolution, 1959-1963
Claudia Sánchez and
Richard I. Parker
198
Cultural Values in Latin American and U.S. Superhero Comics: A Text Analysis
Jerry Robinson
225
The Ultimate Fantasy
Neil Cohn
236
Un-Defining “Comics”: Separating the Cultural from the Structural in Comics”
Thierry Smolderen
249
Thackery and Töpffer: The Weimar Connection
Eric A. Holmes
262
Solidification, Hidden Guilts and “The Prude”: EC’s Agitative Rhetoric Continued
Chunhyo Kim and
John A. Lent
273
The Inside and Outside Worlds of North Korean Animation
Chris Murray
283
Noble Enterprises: Strip for Me and the British Small Press
Stephen E. Kercher
311
Cartoons as “Weapons of Wit”: Bill Mauldin and Herbert Block Take on America’s Postwar Anti-communist Crusade
Flávio Mario de Alcantara Calazans (Kenji Toma)
321
From the “Cricket” (Grilo) to the “Cockroach” (Barata): Visual Poetics in the Brazilian Comics (European BD + Japanese Manga and USA Underground Comix)
Sol M. Davidson
340
The Funnies’ Neglected Branch: Special Purpose Comics
Julia Round
358
Fragmented Identity: The Superhero Condition
Thomas Alan Holmes
370
Warren Ellis’ “Shoot” and Media Passivity
Brian Ruh
375
Creating “Amateur” Manga in the US: Pedagogy, Professionalism, and Authenticity
John A. Lent
395
The Printed Word
Craig Fischer
401
Book Review
Steven M. Bergson
Marc Weidenbaum
Michael Rhode
Meisha Rosenberg
Ana Merino
404
Exhibition Reviews
413
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