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Abad,
Ernesto Jorge
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a music instructor, is currently finishing his diploma in Spanish and Classical Guitar, activity that he combines with an MA in Psychopedagogy. He is a keen comics lecturer and collector, belonging to some aficionado groups. He has performed in some concerts and draws vignettes himself. |
| -Cels Piñol: The Comics Fan and The Author (5:2) | |
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Abad,
Gabriel E.
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his brother, is part-time lecturer at the Department of English, French, and German Philology at the Universidad de Malagá (Spain), and coordinator of the university's Modern Languages Center. He is currently working on a Ph.D. dissertation on Aldous Huxley, and has published several articles, conference papers, and entries in works such as The Encyclopedia of Life Writing and The Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies. |
| -Cels Piñol: The Comics Fan and The Author (5:2) | |
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Accorsi,
Andrés
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-Argentine Comics (3:2) |
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Alaniz,
José
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is pursuing a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at the University of California at Berkeley, specializing in late/post-Soviet literature and culture. |
| -Towards
a History of a 'Stalled' Medium: Comics in Russia (1:2) -Introduction or, Why I Call Them Komiks (7:1) |
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Alary,
Viviane
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is a member of the Centre de Recherche sur la Péninsule Ibérique à l'Epoque Contemporaine (CRLMC) at the University of Clermont-Ferrand in France. Her dissertation (1994) explored the expression of femininity in the comic strip and studied the emergence of a mixed subject in the comics of the 1980s in Spain. She is the editor of a reference volume on Spanish comics and is involved in the study of the trans-aesthetic relations of a group of graphic humorists and comics scriptwriters |
| -Briefness in Spanish Comics: A Few Landmarks (5:2) | |
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Alejo,
Miguel A.
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is founder and correspondent of numerous fanzines in Spain. He has also served as host of a radio program dedicated to the coverage of the Spanish comic book scene. An organizer of the Salón del Cómic de Granada, he is head of the weekly section on comics for the newsdaily Ideal in Granada. He is also in charge of the comics section for a popular Spanish portal. Alejo has published various books on comics, as well as a short story collection. |
| -Chumy Chúmez: The Works of José María González Castrillo (5:2) | |
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Allen,
Jeremy
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is currently researching his Ph.D. on online comics, "Superman in Cyberspace," on an Australian Postgraduate Award Scholarship in the Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building at the University of Technology, Sydney. He also tutors Design Theory and Design research subjects and has lectured on the Internet, comics, and the music industry. |
| -A Virtual Revolution: Australian Comic Creators and the Web (3:1) | |
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Ault,
Donald
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-In the Trenches, Taking the Heat: Confessions of a Comics Professor (5:2) |
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Barker,
Martin
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is now Professor of Film and Television Studies at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, after working for 29 years at Bristol Polytechnic/University of West of England (Bristol) and briefly at the University of Sussex. He is the author of eleven books on various aspects of cultural and media studies, including (recently) From Antz To Titanic: Reinventing Film Analysis (London: Pluto Press, 2000). He is currently researching film and theatre audiences, and planning a major study of the effectiveness of film education materials produced for young people. |
| -Kicked into the Gutters: or, "My Dad Doesn't Read Comics, He Studies Them." (4:1) | |
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Barrero,
Manuel
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has degrees in biology and computer science from the Universidad de Sevilla and the Universidad Hispalense, respectively. He has authored various books on comics, among them, Barry Windsor-Smith. La Mirada Infinita (Planeta-DeAgostini, 2000) and 101 Comics para Recordar (El Boletín, 1997). With Alan Moore, he co-authored El Señor del Tiempo (Editorial Global, 1996). As a comics professional, he contributes to Planeta-De Agostini. His current research involves his doctoral dissertaion, which focuses on the history of the Andalusian comics. |
| -The Evolution of Children's Comics in Spain (5:2) | |
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Beaty,
Bart
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is the coordinator of the Film Studies program at the University of Calgary. He completed his Ph.D. at McGill University, where he wrote his dissertation on the place of Fredric Wertham within the history of communications studies. He is currently editing (with Dr. Mark Nevins) the International Encyclopedia of Comics (Routledge). He regularly contributes articles on European comics to The Comics Journal. He can be reached at beaty@ucalgary.ca |
| -Featuring
Stories by the World's Greatest Authors: Classics Illustrated and
the "Middlebrow Problem" in the Postwar Era (1:1) -Fredric Wertham Faces His Critics: Contextualizing the Postwar Comics Debate (3:2) -The Contemporary Field of European Comics: The Example of Lewis Trondheim (5:2) |
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Beez,
Jigal
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is an anthropologist who has studied, worked, and done research in Tanzania and Uganda. He has published on various aspects of East Africa, including comics. Since 2000 he is member of the collaborative research program "Local Agency in Africa in the Context of Global Influences" at the University of Bayreuth, Germany. |
| -They
Are Crazy These Swahili: Komredi Kipepe in the Footsteps of Asterix;
Globalization in East African Comics (5:1) -Katuni Za Miujuza: Fantastic Comics from East Africa (6:1) |
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Berger,
Arthur Asa
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is professor of Broadcast and Electronic Communication Arts at San Francisco State University, where he has taught since 1965. He is the author of numerous articles and books on media and popular culture. Berger is married and has two children. His wife Phyllis Berger teaches philosophy at Diablo Valley College. |
| -Is This the Kind of Thing That Serious Academics Do? (4:1) | |
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Beronä
, David A.
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is assistant professor at the University of New Hampshire and head of Library Systems. He has published articles on woodcut novels and wordless comics in International Journal of Comic Art, INKS: Cartoon and Comic Art Studies, The Comics Journal, Matrix: A Review for Printers and Bibliophiles, Print Quarterly, Antiquarian Book Monthly, Biblio: The Magazine for Collectors of Books, Manuscripts, and Ephemera, AB Bookman. Visit his website at: <http://pubpages.unh.edu/~dberona> |
| -Breaking
Taboos: Sexuality in the Work of Will Eisner and the Early Wordless Novels
(1:1) -Pumping Iron: Male Stereotypes in Delisle's Albert et les Autres (6:1) |
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Bertin,
Jean-Marie
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is a collector of worldwide cartoon books whose D.D.S. thesis was about Teeth and Dentists through Graphic Humor (Nantes, 1980). He was documentalist for a dictionary of 5,000 Cartoonists and Some Papers in France from Daumier to Nowadays (Paris, 1996). |
| -Thoughts and Views on Raymond Peynet, French Artist and Universal Poet (3:1) | |
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Blackbeard,
Bill
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-The Four Color Paper Trail: A Look Back (5:2) |
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Blackmore,
Tim
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is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. He teaches, reads, and writes about war, science fiction, and popular culture. All the rest of his time and hard earned money he puts into comics. |
| -What a Picnic! Swamp Ecology in Walt Kelly's Pogo (3:1) | |
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Bottorff,
Jr., Ray
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-Rhode, Michael and Bottorff, Jr., Ray are both board members of the GCD, members of the comics-indexing APA-I, and serve as associate editors for Jerry Bails' Who's Who in 29th Century American Comic Books database. Bottorff is in charge of promotions for the GCD. Rhode is a co-author of the online Comics Research Bibliography and also writes on comics. He is on IJOCA's editorial board. |
| -The Grand Comics Database (GCD): An Evolving Research Tool (3:1) | |
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Boyask,
Ruth
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is a Ph.D. student at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, with research interests in art, education, and material culture. |
| -Reading Community in Funtime Comics: A New Zealand Narrative (2:2) | |
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Calazans,
Flávio Mario de Alcantara |
a designer of comic books, received his Ph.D. from University of São Paulo. He is the author of books on Briazilian comics, founder and chair of the first work group on comics in a Brazilian scientific congress (INTERCOM), and former executive director of AQC (Association of Designers of Comics). |
| -From the “Cricket” (Grilo) to the “Cockroach” (Barata): Visual Poetics in the Brazilian Comics (European BD + Japanese Manga and USA Underground Comix) (7:2) | |
| Carpenter, Stanford W. | is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Anthropology at Rice University, researcher at the Friends Research Institute and associate at the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage at the Smithsonian Institution. He is working on a doctoral dissertation that is tentatively titled, "Imagining Identity: The Work of Creating Images of Race Gender and Ethnicity in Comic Books." |
| -The
Tarzan vs. Predator Comic Book Mini-Series: An Ethnographic Analysis (1:2) -Alex Simmons and the African-American Soldier of Fortune Known as Blackjack: A Case Study in Independent Comic Book Publishing (4:1) |
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Caswell,
Lucy Shelton
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is curator of The Ohio State University Cartoon Research Library and a professor holding a joint appointment in University Libraries and the School of Journalism and Communication. She is the curator of more than fifty cartoon-related exhibition and has authored two books and numerous scholarly articles. |
| -Resources for Scholars at The Ohio State University Cartoon Research Library (3:1) | |
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Cathcart,
Adam
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is a Ph.D. candidate in East Asian history at Ohio University, Athens. He is grateful to the Center for Research Libraries in Chicago, for permission to reproduce in this article images from the library's Hunter Collection of mass education materials. |
| Cruel Resurrection: Chinese Comics and the Korean War (6:1) | |
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Cerrada,
Juan García
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is the director, Graphic Humor Program of the General Foundation of the University of Alcalá |
| -The Graphic Humor Program of the General Foundation of the University of Alcala (5:2) | |
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Çeviker,
Turgut
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is the pre-eminent historian of Turkish cartooning and has authored many books on the topic. He edits Güldiken. |
| -The City and Housing in Turkish Cartoons (1:2) | |
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Chaney,
Michael A.
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is pursuing a Ph.D. at Indiana, Bloomington. His dissertation investigates the origins of the split between popular and elite discourses in American literature. He is also an avid comic collector and an award winning fine artist who has worked on public murals alongside Marty Egeland, the artist who first penciled the current reinvention of the Aquaman character. |
| -The Dismantling Evolution of Heroes: Aquaman's Amputation (1:2) | |
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Neil
Cohn
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has
written extensively about the structure of the comics medium, and has lectured
in the U.S. and Europe. His book with Thom Hartmann, We the People: A
Call To Take Back America, addresses the influence of corporations on
American government. Currently, he is writing a book about the cognition
underlying the understanding of the comic medium. His work can be found
at |
| -Un-Defining “Comics”: Separating the Cultural from the Structural in Comics” (7:2) | |
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Cremins,
Brian
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received his BA in English and Creative Writing from Dartmouth College in 1995 and his MA in English from the University of Connecticut in 1997. He is currently writing his Ph.D. dissertation, "'A World of Secret Affinities': Oscar Micheaux, His Novels, and the Frontiers of American Popular Fiction, 1913-1947," in the English Department at the University of Connecticut. |
| -"Why
have you allowed me to see you without your mask?": Captain America
#133 and the Great American (Protest) Novel (4:1) -"I Asked for Water (She Gave Me Gasoline)": Tim Truman's Scout and Social Satire in the Independent Comics of the 1980s (5:2) |
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Cuccolini,
Giulio C.
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started writing on cartooning 1972. Since then he has made extensive research on comics, cartoons, and illustrated popular press and produced countless essays and articles on these subjects. He has also contributed to Hogan's Alley and to the revised edition of Horn's The World Encyclopedia of Comics and The World Encyclopedia of Cartoons. |
| -In Search of Lost Time or Time Regained (4:1) | |
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Cuklanz,
Lisa M.
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is Associate Professor of Communication at Boston College. She has published articles in journals including Critical Studies in Mass Communication, Communication Quarterly, Women's Studies in Communication and Communication Studies, and is author of Rape on Trial: How the Mass Media Construct Legal Reform and Social Change (UPenn Press 1996) and Rape on Prime Time: Television, Masculinity, and Sexual Violence (UPenn Press 2000). |
| -The Emerging Image of the Modern Woman in Hong Kong Comics of the 1960s & 1970s (2:2) | |
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Davidson,
Sol M.
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is credited as being the first person to do his Ph.D. dissertation on the comics, “Culture & the Comic Strips,” NYU 1959. His career dealing with large organizations has provided a pragmatic background for his work as a collector and critic of special purpose comics. He began in the training department of the Beneficial Finance System, moved up to training director, then became director of operations for Dial Financial (now Wells Fargo), and later, assistant to the president of Northwestern Bell Telephone Co. before forming his own management consulting company, Davidson, Wyatt & Associates, with scores of clients ranging from General Motors and the Bell Telephone System to academic institutions, public school systems, community colleges, and medical universities. |
| -Culture
& the Comic Strips (5:2) -The Funnies’ Neglected Branch: Special Purpose Comics (7:2) |
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Silva, Nadilson Manoel
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wrote his doctoral dissertation on Viz at the University of Westminster, London. He has returned to his native Brazil. |
| -Brazilian
Adult Comics: The Age of Market (1:1) -Viz Comic: Carnival and Commercialization (4:1) |
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la Cruz, Caridad Blanco
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(Havana, 1961) graduated in 1984 with a major in Art History from the Havana University. Her bachelor thesis was entitled "The Comic Art in Cuba During the 20th Century." She works as a researcher at the Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales in Cuba. She also works as critic and curator of contemporary Cuban art exhibitions. Currently she is preparing her Master's thesis on humor in Cuban plastic arts. |
| -The
Engineering of Humor (1:2) -Always the Other One: Salomón (2:1) -Ares, an Undomesticated Humorist (3:2) |
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Solar, Pedro Pérez
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was born in Lima, Peru. He received his Ph.D. in Romance Languages from Princeton University with a dissertation about Spanish comics of the 1980s and is currently lecturer in the Department of Romance Studies at Cornell University. He is working on a book on Spanish comics and on a study of Peruvian graphic arts at the beginning of 20th Century. |
| -Old Fashions for New Times: El Desencanto in Spanish Comics (5:2) | |
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de
Moya, Alvaro
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-Pioneering in Brazilian Quadrinhos, as a Cartoonist and Researcher (4:1) |
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Dergachov,
Oleg
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is a multi-talented cartoonist, artist, lithographer, printer, sculptor, and writer. His works have been exhibited worldwide, as well as in his homeland of Ukraine. |
| -Leonid
Tishkov's Dabloids: Russian Myth in Comics (2:1) -Rosta Windows: As a Phenomenon of Russian Revolutionary Comic Strips (4:1) |
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Desai,
Chetan
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recently quit the London School of Oriental and African Studies. He is currently pursuing a career in I.T. consultancy. |
| -The Krishna Conspiracy (5:1) | |
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Douglas,
Allen
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is Professor of History and West European Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington. |
| -Islamic
"Classics Illustrated": Regendering Medieval Philosophy in a Modern Tunisian
Strip (1:2) -Tardi and Daeninckx: Comic Strips, Detective Novels, and World War I (5:1) |
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Duncan,
Randy
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is Professor of Communication at Henderson State University. He is co-founder of the Comic Arts Conference. |
| -The Weaver's Art: An Examination of Comic Book "Writing" (4:1) | |
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Duus,
Peter
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Bonsall Professor of History at Stanford University, has written and edited several books on Japanese imperialism, most recently The Abacus and the Sword: The Japanese Penetration of Korea, 1895-1910 (1995) and The Japanese Wartime Empire, 1937-1945 (1996) (with Ramon H. Myers and Mark R. Peattie). His interest in the history of the Japanese political cartoon has its origins in an unfulfilled childhood ambition to become a professional cartoonist. |
| -The Marumaru Chinbun and the Origins of the Japanese Political Cartoon (1:1) | |
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Ehrlich,
David
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is an award-winning independent animator and Visiting Professor of Film and Television Studies at Dartmouth College. He was Vice-President of ASIFA, The International Animated Film Association, from 1991 to 1997, and has been chosen Honorary President of the forthcoming Ottawa International Animation Festival in October, 2002. |
| -Growing up with Dinosaurs: An Interview with Steve Bissette (4:1) | |
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Eisner,
Will
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has been an influential force in comic art for about 65 years, as a cartoonist and as a teacher and writer about comic art. |
| -Comics and Electronics (4:1) | |
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Ellis,
Allen
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-Comic Art in Scholarly Writing: A Citation Guide (1:1) |
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Fisher,
Craig
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is an assistant professor in the English Department at Appalachian State University. He is a past member of the Executive Committee of the Society for Cinema Studies and previous assistant editor of Cinema Journal. His articles have appeared in The Velvet Light Trap, Spectator, the National Women's Studies Association Journal, and the anthology, Enfant Terrible: Jerry Lewis in American Film. |
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-Fantastic
Fascism? Jack Kirby, Nazi Aesthetics, and Klaus Theweleit's Male Fantasies
(5:1)
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Foster
III, William H.
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is an associate professor of English and Communication at Naugatuck Valley Community College, and a published poet, essayist and playwright. |
| -Interview
with Bertram Fitzgerald: The Life and Times of Fast Willie Jackson
(1976-1977) (3:1) -The Image of Blacks (African Americans) in Underground Comix: New Liberal Agenda or Same Racist Stereotypes? (4:2) |
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Frahm,
Ole
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-Weird Signs: Aesthetics of Comics as Parody (2:1) |
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Fuchs,
Wolfgang J.
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-The Story of an "Anatomy" That Gave Recognition to Comics as a Mass Medium (4:1) |
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Furtwangler,
Tom
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-Stories Without Words: A Bibliography with Annotations (2:2) |
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Gage,
Chris
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-Can You Dig It? The World of Fast Willie Jackson (3:1) |
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Gibson,
Mel
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is a lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Sunderland and was winner of the 2000 Inge Award for Comics Scholarship. She is also a visiting lecturer in Childhood Studies at the University of Northumbria. In addition, Gibson is a consultant for organizations developing comics collections for adults and children and contributed to Graphic Account (1993) Birmingham: YLG, a collection on that theme. |
| -Reading
as Rebellion: The Case of the Girls' Comic in Britain (2:2) -"Wham! Bam! The X-Men Are Here": The British Broadsheet Press and the X-Men Film and Comic (3:2) -"You Can't Read Them, They're for Boys!" British Girls, American Superhero Comics and Identity (5:1) |
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Gil-Egui,
Gisela
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is a doctoral student in the Mass Media & Communication Department in Temple University. She graduated as a journalist in Venezuela, where she worked as staff writer for two major newspapers and as a contributor of several magazines. She moved to the Untied States in 1996. Her research interests are telecommunications policy, Latin American media, and communication theory. |
| -Venezuela's Alonso and the Art of Leaving It All to Art (3:2) | |
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Goldweber,
David E.
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has published essays on William Blake, Lord Byron, R. Crumb, and Star Trek. He teaches English in the San Francisco Bay Area. His article on Neil Gaiman's Mr. Punch appeared in the Spring/Summer 1999 issue of the IJOCA. |
| -Mr.
Punch, Dangerous Savior (1:1) -The Function of Dreams and Stories in The Sandman (3:1) |
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Greenwood,
Linda
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-A Framework for Studying Comic Art (1:1) |
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Groensteen,
Thierry
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-Gustave Doré's Comics (2:2) |
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Haller,
Beth A.
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Ph.D., is Assistant Professor in the Department of Mass Communication & Communication Studies, Towson University. She has conducted research on the topic of news media images of people with disabilities and disability issues since 1990. Her research has been published in Mass Comm Review, Journal of Magazine and New Media Research, Journal of Popular Film and Television, Disability Studies Quarterly, Research in Social Science and Disability, New Jersey Journal of Communication, and Journalism History. |
| -"Off Me Head": Cartoons from English Newspapers Concerning the Glenn Hoddle Affair (3:1) | |
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Hansen,
Bert
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is associate professor of history at Baruch College of the City University of New York. He teaches American history and the history of medicine. He has publications in history of science and medicine, medieval studies, and gay history. Much of his recent research has been on the role of graphic arts from the Civil War to the present in creating the widely dispersed popular images of health care and biomedical research that have come to be generally shared among the general public. |
| -True-Adventure Comic Books and American Popular Culture in the 1940s: An Annotated Research Bibliography of the Medical Heroes (6:1) | |
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Harvey,
Robert C.
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Ph.D.
(in English literature), is a cartoonist and comics historian whose books
run the gamut of the medium. His most recent book for the University Press
is Milton Caniff Conversations, a collection of two dozen interviews
conducted with Caniff over the years of his career, starting in 1937 and
ending in the 1980s. Harvey has contributed numerous cartoonists’ biographies
to Oxford University Press’s American National Biography (both online and
in print), and has written over 150 short biographies of cartoonists for
A Gallery of Rogues: Cartoonists’ Self-caricatures (Ohio State University,
Cartoon Research Library, 1998). He recently finished ghosting an autobiography
for Murphy Anderson, a noted comic book artist, and he’s mulling over a
book about Ham Fisher (“Joe Palooka”) and Al Capp (“Li’l Abner”). Harvey
was associate editor for comic strips of Inks, a scholarly journal about
the arts of cartooning. He also curated a comic art exhibition for the Frye
Art Museum (September-November 1998) and assembled a book from the show,
Children of the Yellow Kid: The Evolution of the American Comic Strip
(University of Washington Press, 1998). He publishes regularly in Cartoonist
PROfiles, the profession’s most venerable publication, and in The
Comics Journal and Comic Book Marketplace, and occasionally in
Hogan’s Alley and The Comics Buyer’s Guide. He also conducts
an online magazine at |
| -It’s Not My Fault Confessions of a Comics Junkie. Or, How I Became a Crazed Fanatic About Cartooning, Its History and Lore (7:2) | |
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Hegerfors,
Sture
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-Sture Hegerfors and Swedish Comics Scholarship (5:1) |
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Hill,
Christian
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is completing a Master's in illustration at California State University, Fullerton. He is also a comic artist and a steering committee member of the National Association of Comic Art Educators. |
| -Narrative Aesthetics of Time and Space in the Comics Series, Broussaille, by Frank and Bom (6:1) | |
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Hill,
Michael
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is a lecturer in visual communication at the University of Technology, Sydney, where he teaches narrative sequencing for print and screen design. He is also a graphic artist who exhibits at the Silicon Pulp Animation Gallery in Sydney and partner in Graber Hill, publisher of the comic Black Light Angels. |
| -Outside Influence / Local Color: The Australian Small Press (2:1) | |
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Holmes,
Eric A.
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Eric Holmes holds a Master’s Degree in communication studies from the University of South Dakota. His scholastic interests include Entertaining Comics, the Anti-Comic Book movement of the 1950s, and costumed crimefighters such as Batman and The Punisher. He can be reached at holmesea@hotmail.com. |
| -Solidification, Hidden Guilts and “The Prude”: EC’s Agitative Rhetoric Continued (7:2) | |
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Holmes,
Thomas Alan
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an associate professor in East Tennessee State University’s English Department, has been a long-time participant in comics scholarship panels. Combining his interest in popular culture and literary studies, he and a colleague are collecting a volume of essays that address country music’s contributions to the American literary canon. |
| -Warren Ellis’ “Shoot” and Media Passivity (7:2) | |
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Horn,
Maurice
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compiled the first English-language encyclopedias on cartoons and comics worldwide (both revised, updated recently) and wrote other books and hundreds of articles. He was among the first serious comics researchers. (see IJOCA, 4:1, pp.6-22). |
| -American
Comic Strips and Silent Serials: A Parallel (2:1) -How It All Began, Or Present at the Creation (4:1) -The Lady, or the Dragon? (4:2) |
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Horn,
Pierre L.
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is professor emeritus of French at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, where he also held the Brage Golding Distinguished Professorship of Research. In addition to writing extensively on French literature and civilization, he has contributed numerous entries to The World Encyclopedia of Comics, The World Encyclopedia of Cartoons, the three-volume series "Contemporary Graphic Artists," and 100 years of American Newspaper Comics. |
| -American Graffiti -- French Style: Three Comic Strip Artists Look at Pre-War America (3:1) | |
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Hyun,
Daiwon
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has played an important role in digital content policymaking in Korea as a chief advisor for the Ministry of Information and Communication. For the last two years, he has participated in the establishment of the Korean Digital Content Promotion Action Plan as a committee member and later a chair of the Digital Content Division of Koran IT New Growth Engines. He received his Ph.D. from Temple University. He is an associate dean of the Graduate School of Mass Communications At Sogang University, Seoul. He has published on digital content policymaking and entertainment industry economics. |
| -Promoting the Digital Content Industry in Korea, Focusing on Exporting Animation (6:1) | |
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Inge,
M. Thomas
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is Blackwell Professor of English and Humanities at Randolph-Macon College and co-editor of the four-volume Greenwood Guide to American Popular Culture. |
| -Comic
Strips: A Bibliographic Essay (3:1) -Comic Books, A Bibliographic Essay (3:2) -Portrait of the Professor as a Failed Cartoonist (5:1) -William Faulkner and the Graphic Novel (5:1) |
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Ito,
Kinko
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graduated from Nanzan University in Nagoya, Japan. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. in sociology from Ohio State University. She is an associate professor of sociology at University of Arkansas at Little Rock. |
| -Japanese Ladies' Comics as Agents of Socialization: The Lessons They Teach (5:2) | |
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Janks,
Hilary
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is an associate professor in the School of Literature and Language Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. She has published widely in the area of critical literacy and critical language awareness. |
| -Changing Stories: The Making and Analysis of a Critical Literacy Romance Comic (3:2) | |
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Kail,
Wendy
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is the archivist for Tudor Place Historic House and Garden in Georgetown, Washington, D.C.. She worked extensively on Tudor Place's exhibit C.K. Berryman: The Gentleman Cartoonist. |
| -Clifford K. Berryman: Drawing The Line (4:2) | |
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Kannenberg,
Jr., Gene
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is a Ph.D. candidate in the English Department at the University of Connecticut. He is a member of the International Comic Arts Festival's Executive Committee and a moderator of the Comics Scholars' Discussion List. His writing also appears semi-regularly in The Comics Journal. <http://gator.dt.uh.edu/~kannenbg/> |
| -Proving "Silas" an Artist: Winsor McCay's Formal Experiments in Comics and Animation (1:1) | |
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Kazmierczak,
Janusz
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holds the position of an adiunkt (assistant professor with a doctorate) at the School of English, Department of Polish-British and Polish-American Cultural Relations, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland. In his publications, he has combined research into the image of Britain and the U.S. in Poland, cultural theory, and propaganda and persuasion. He is a member of the Polish Associations for the Study of English, the Polish Association for American Studies, and the American Culture Association. |
| -Raymond Williams and Cartoons: From Churchill’s Cigar to Cultural History (7:2) | |
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Kennedy,
Martha H.
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is curatorial assistant in the Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress. |
| -Early Creative Responses to 9-11 by Comic Artists: Panelists Share Personal Experiences (5:1) | |
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Kercher,
Stephen E.
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is an assistant professor of history at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, where he teaches 20th Century U.S. history and is co-director of the Northeast Wisconsin Teachers’ Academy for the Study of History. In 2000, he was a Swann Fellow for Caricature and Cartoon at the Library of Congress. |
| -Cartoons as “Weapons of Wit”: Bill Mauldin and Herbert Block Take on America’s Postwar Anti-communist Crusade (7:2) | |
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Kidson,
Mike
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has been studying the history of comics for 15 years, contributing numerous analytical articles concerning the medium to British magazines and trade papers. |
| -William Hogarth: Printing Techniques and Comics (1:1) | |
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Kim,
Chunhyo
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received her MA at Temple University. She has worked for years as a journalist in Seoul. |
| -The Inside and Outside Worlds of North Korean Animation (7:2 with Lent, John) | |
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Kunzle,
David
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-Kunzle
and the Comic Strip (5:1) -Review Essay (5:2) |
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Kwon,
Jae-Woong
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is workng on a Ph.D. in communication at Temple University. He is production editor of both International Journal of Comic Art and Asian Cinema. |
| -Korean Cartoonists' Reactions to Bush's "Axis of Evil" (4:2) | |
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Laity,
K. A.
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is completing a Ph.D. in Medieval Studies at the University of Connecticut, and writes on many facets of popular culture, including comics, horror, Gothic, and religion. Her work has appeared in Indy, Quadrado, Magistra, Circle, Weird Times, The Seeker Journal, Millennium, The Beltane Papers, and at Comicstore.com. |
| -Construction of a "Female Hero": Iconography in Les aventures extraordinaires d'Adèle Blanc-Sec (4:1) | |
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Langlois,
Richard
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-Pioneer in the Teaching of Bande Dessinée (Comic Art and Narrative) in Canada (7:2) |
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Larson,
Louise C.
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is an art historian, MA, who specializes in museum studies and cartoon art. She has registered extensive collections of cartoons, arranged exhibitions on the art form and is currently writing books on, respectively, Hans Bendix and Valdemar Andersen, two of the best-known Danish cartoonists in the 20th Century. She was co-founder of the Museum of Danish Cartoon Art, The Royal Library in Copenhagen. |
| -The Flight of the Forehead in the Third Reich: The Political Satire of Hans Bendix (7:2) | |
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Lees,
Tim
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is a Research Assistant in the School of Education, University of Manchester, UK. He is a writer and comic researcher. |
| -"Off Me Head": Cartoons from English Newspapers Concerning the Glenn Hoddle Affair (3:1) | |
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Lefèvre,
Pascal
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is a doctoral student at the Belgian university of Leuven. He works part-time as a scientific adviser at the Belgian Centre for Comic Strip Art in Brussels and he teaches about comics at two Art Schools (in Brussels and Antwerp). He wrote several articles and books on comics. |
| -Recovering Sensuality in Comic Theory (1:1) | |
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Lent,
John A.
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has written extensively on comic art, especially concerning Asia. His latest books are Pulp Demons and Themes and Issues in Asian Cartooning. |
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Notes: Finally, an International Journal for Comic Art (1:1) -A Framework for Studying Comic Art (1:1) -The Horrors of Cartooning in Slim's Algeria (1:1) -Editor's Note (1:2) -Poland's Malgorzata Tabaka, Drawer of Lyrical Satirical Cartoons (1:2) -Editor's Note (2:1) -East European Cartooning: Differences over Time and Space (2:1) -Editor's Note (3:1) -Comic Art: Some Global Issues (3:1) -How to Withstand War, the Rastko Ciric Way (3:1) -Latin American Comic Art: An Overview (3:2) -Editor's Note (4:1) -There at the Beginning: Early Days of Comics Scholarship -- Introduction (4:1) -Almost Left at the Gate: An Arrhythmic Career in Comics Scholarship (4:1) -New Zealand -- Exporter of Mainstream Cartoonists, Haven for Alternative Comics (4:1) -Fear [of] and Loafing [with] Ralph Steadman in Turkey (4:2) -Larry Alcala and the Depiction of Filipinos As They Are (4:2) -Editor's Note (5:1) -Cartooning in Malaysia and Singapore: The Same, but Different (5:1) -Editor's Note (5:2) -Chinese Women Cartoonists: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (5:2) -Tootin' Our Own Horn (5:2) -India's Amar Chitra Katha: "Fictionalized" History or the Real Story? (6:1) -Armand Mattelart and How To Read Donald Duck (7:2) -Cartooning and China’s “Cultural Revolution” (7:2, with Xu, Ying) --The Inside and Outside Worlds of North Korean Animation (7:2 with Chunhyo, Kim) |
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is associate professor of French at Bowling Green State University, where he teaches contemporary French and Belgian literature and comic art. He has co-authored the literary anthology Littérature Française, Tome 2 (Harcourt/Brace:1997) and has published articles in various journals on Proust, Le Clézio , and Hergé. He is currently working on editing a collection of essays on the Representation of Otherness in Herge's Comics. |
| -Absent-Mindedness, Mustaches, and the Cold War: The Image of Science in Hergé's Professor Calculus and Franquin's Count of Champignac (4:1) | |
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Lewis,
A. David
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is a graduate of both Brandeis University and Georgetown University, with an M.A. in English Literature, and has lectured across the continent on the subject of comics and literature. In addition to IJOCA, his scholarly writing has also been featured at such online essay sites as NinthArt.com and The Gaiman Archive. Lewis is also the creator/writer of Mortal Coils, a dark suspense pseudo-anthology comic series, for Red Eye Press as well as scriptwriter for its Valentine action title. |
| -Kingdom
Code (4:1) -One for the Ages: Barbara Gordon and the (Il-)Logic of Comic Book Age-Dating (5:2) |
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Lewis,
Barbara Jo,
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is an Assistant Professor in Television/Radio at Brooklyn College of The City University of New York. Her doctoral dissertation examined film and literature presentations of the cyborg. Currently she is co-editing a book that explores mediated identities, both mythic and religious. |
| -Cyborg Might: Conceptions of Power in Comic Book Art (2:1) | |
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L'Hoeste,
Héctor D. Fernández
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teaches Latin American culture at Georgia State University. His publications include Narrativas de Representación Urbana, as well as articles on Latin American cinema, literature, media theory, and comic art. |
| -Resurrecting
the Nation Through the Eyes of a Native: The Case of Turey el Taíno
(4:2) -The Mystery of Kalimán, el Hombre Increíble: Race and Identity in Mexican Comics (5:1) -Vladdo, Aleida, and the Politics of Gender in War-Torn Colombia (6:1) |
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Lim,
Cheng Tju
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is a junior college history teacher and is currently researching on the history of Chinese cartoons in Singapore. His articles on cartooning have appeared in Southeast Asian Journal of Social Science, Teaching and Learning and Journal of Popular Culture. |
| -"Sister Art" -- A Short History of Chinese Cartoons and Woodcuts in Singapore (3:1) | |
| Live Action Cartoonists | Ashwal,
Gary (executive director, video artist) has been creating original multimedia
performances in the Chicago-area for the past four years. Notable works
include the video/music/performance piece "poetc." for which he received
a grant from the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in the Arts and a
solo-performance "This So-called Revolution Biz; the Notes of James Simon
Kunen." Production design credits include "How Does It Feel?" (music video,
NiteSkool Productions) and "Jackson" (film, Studio 22), and most recently
"Metaphysik" (music video, Optik Label Records, also album cover design).
Brommel, Andrew (ensemble, sound designer) is a composer and musician for his band, Open 24 Hours, with which he has recorded two full-length albums. He has also been performing as a solo artist around the Twin Cities area for the last two years. Onoda, Natsu (artistic director, writer / director) has worked internationally as a playwright / director, performance artist, and set designer. Her favorite directing credits include "I Am Not a Cartoonist" and "SCIENCE FICTION" with Live Action Cartoonists and "Kwaidan" at Yale Cabaret (New Haven, CT). Recent set design credits include "Romeo and Juliet" at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, "The Mineola Twins" at American Theatre Company (Chicago), "Loss of Breath" at Theatre X (Milwaukee, WI), and "Burnt Rice" at Eslite (Taipei, Taiwan). She was recently seen performing "Dreaming Iraq," a piece that protests US's possible military action in Iraq, at Chicago's Stockyards Theatre Women's Performance Festival. Natsu is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Performance Studies, Northwestern University, writing a dissertation on the early works of Osamu Tezuka. Thomas, Alex (ensemble, cartoonist)'s daily comic strip, "Bottom of the Food Chain" (The Daily Northwestern), has recently received national attention as the recipient of John Locher Memorial Award (Association of American Editorial Cartoonists, 2002). Alex's other awards include Mark of Excellence Award (First Place, Society of Professional Journalists, 2000); Excellence in Illinois College Newspapers (Illinois College Press Association, 2001); Columbia University National Gold Circle Awards (First Place, The Columbia Scholastic Press Association, 2002). As an illustrator, Alex has worked with American Red Cross, Aphasia and Neurolinguistic Research Laboratory at Northwestern University, and Northwestern Journal of International Affairs. His illustration can be seen in a medical brochure Asthma Basics, widely distributed in Chicagoland hospitals. Alex's film credits include storyboarding for short films "Jackson" (Studio 22) and "To Your Seats!," and animation for Northwestern Student Television (NSTV). Zwergel, Eberhard (advisor, chemical scientist) is a lecturer-demonstrator in the Department of Chemistry at Northwestern University. His annual "Halloween Shows" feature continuous scientific demonstrations, choreographed dance numbers, and live musical accompaniment. Eberhard has recently appeared in Chicago Magazine and Fox News, performing his explosions. |
| -Have Markers, Will Travel: Live-Action Cartoonists in the Age of Multimedia Performances and Online Comics (5:1) | |
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Lombard, Matthew
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-A Framework for Studying Comic Art (1:1) |
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Lordan,
Edward
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is an assistant professor of public relations at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA. He wrote his dissertation about the use of graphics to present quantitative data in media news articles. |
| -Laughing at the Glass Ceiling in The Wall Street Journal Cartoons (2:2) | |