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Ma,
Sheng-mei
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is Associate Professor of English at Michigan State University, specializing in Asian American/Asian Diaspora studies and genocide studies. His book Immigrant Subjectivities in Asian American and Asian Diaspora Literatures (1998), is published by the State University of New York Press. The Deathly Embrace: Orientalism and Asian American Identity (University of Minnesota Press, 2000), is completed under the auspices of the Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship for 1997-1998. |
| -The Nine Lives of Blackhawk's Oriental: Chop, Chop, Wu Cheng, and Weng Chan (3:1) | |
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Magnussen,
Anne
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received her Ph.D. from the University of Copenhagen. She is assistant professor at the Institute of History and Civilization at the University of Southern Denmark, Odense. She co-authored Comics and Culture. Analytical and Theoretical Approaches to Comics (Museum Tusculanum Press, 2000) and has published articles on Fernando de Felipe, Miguelanxo Prado, and C.S. Peirce. Her research centers on semiotics, comics, and history. |
| -Spanish Comics and Family (5:2) | |
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Mahamood,
Muliyadi
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is an associate professor of art history in the Liberal Studies Department, Faculty of Art and Design, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam, Malaysia. In 1990 he was the founding president of PEKARTUN, the Malaysian Cartoonists' Association. He received his Ph.D. in Cartoon Studies from the University of Kent, Canterbury, UK in 1997. |
| -An
Overview of Malaysian Contemporary Cartoons (5:1) -Japanese Style in Malaysian Comics and Cartoons (5:2) |
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Malti-Douglas,
Fedwa
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is The Martha C. Kraft Professor of Humanities in the College of Arts and Sciences, Professor of Gender Studies and Comparative Literature, and Adjunct Professor of Law at the Indiana University School of Law. Their joint work on comics includes Arab Comics: Politics of an Emerging Mass Culture (1994), numerous articles on comic strips including "An Arab Girl Draws Trouble," in Girls, Boys, Books, Toys: Gender in Children's Literature and Culture, eds. Beverly Lyon Clark and Margaret R. Higonnet (1999). Recent separate publications include: Allen Douglas, War, Memory, and the Politics of Humor: The Canard Enchaîné and World War I (2002) and by Fedwa Malti-Douglas, The Starr Report Disrobed (2000), nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. |
| -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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Marechal,
Beatrice
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is a Ph.D. candidate at the EHESS in Paris, France. She holds an MA degree in Japanese Culture and Language from the National University of Tsukuba, Japan and has studied Japanese language, Art History and Linguistics in France. She currently lives in Tokyo. Her research is on Japanese comics, pop culture, and transnational cultural influences and has published and lectured on these topics in Japan, France, and the United States. |
| -"The Singular Stories of the Terashima Neighborhood": A Japanese Autobiographical Comic (3:2) | |
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Mason,
Andy
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is a cartoonist and comics publisher, and a director of Artworks Publishing in Durban. As a part-time MA student at the Centre for Culture and Media Studies at the University of Natal in Durban, he is currently researching comic strip publishing in South Africa. He is acting co-ordinator of the Africa Ink Cartoonists Working Group. |
| -Africa Ink: Cartoonists Working Group, Towards an Association of African Cartoonists: Report of an International Workshop on Cartoon Journalism and Democratisation in Southern Africa (3:1) | |
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Matton,
Annette
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is a Ph.D. student at Exeter University, England, where she is researching the representation of the Vietnam War in American comic books and aims to be completed by September 2000. She also teaches an undergraduate course in US American writing. |
| -Reader Responses to Doug Murray's The 'Nam (2:1) | |
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Matzner,
Andrew
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is a recent graduate of the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He holds two Masters Degrees, one in Classical Studies, the other in Anthropology. His research interests include the study of gender and sexuality in Southeast Asia, and he is currency in the process of writing a book about Thai thansgenderism. |
| -Not a Pretty Picture: Images of Married Life in Thai Comic Books (2:1) | |
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Maupoint,
Micheline
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is a DPhil student in the Humaities Graduate Centre at the University of Sussex, England, researching on contemporary political cartoons in France. |
| -Plantu: The Editorial in Caricatures: An Analysis of the Role and the Impact of Plantu's Political Cartoons in the French Daily Newspaper, Le Monde (4:2) | |
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Maynard,
Michael L.
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is an associate professor of advertising at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA., whose research includes mass media analysis, the relationship between mass communication and culture as well as textual and semiotic analyses of television and print advertising in Japan (4:2) |
| -Laughing
at the Glass Ceiling in The Wall Street Journal Cartoons (2:2) -Friendly Fantasies in Japanese Advertising: Persuading Japanese Teens through Cartoonish Art (4:2) |
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McQuillan,
Libbie
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is a Ph.D. student at the University of Glasgow working on post 1960 Franco-Belge BD. She would like to thank the Students Award Agency Scotland for funding her trip to ICAF, of which this paper is the result, and Drs. L. Grove and C. Forsdick for their encouragement and help. |
| -Between the Sheets at Pilote: 1968-1973 (2:1) | |
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Medubi,
Oyin
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-Leadership Stereotypes and Lexical Choices: An Example of Nigerian Cartoons (2:1) |
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Mejía
G., Perucho
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is a photographer, cartoonist, full professor at the Fine Arts and Santiago de Cali universities, and editor of Tercer Milenio Comics Group in Santiago de Cali. He is the author of Semiótica del Comic and a number of articles on cartoons, comic art, and mass media. |
| -Comic Art in Colombia: A Short Historical Journey (3:2) | |
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Merino,
Ana
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is assistant professor of Spanish at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina, where she teaches Hispanic Cultural Studies and Literature. She has published a scholarly work on comics titled El Cómic Hispánico (Cátedra, 2003) and four books of poetry. She has won the Adonais and Fray Luis de León awards for poetry. She is also a member of the executive committee for the International Comics Art Festival. Her articles on comics -- now numbering over 40 -- have appeared in Leer, DDLV, The Comics Journal, International Journal of Comic Art, and Hispanic Issues. She has served as curator for two comics exhibitions, one in the U.S., titled "Comics Release," and another in Spain for La Semana Negra dedicated to Fantagraphics. |
| -Inodoro
Pereyra, A "Gaucho" in the Pampa of Paper and Ink: Folkloric and Literary
Intertextuality and its Reformulations in Argentinean Comics (2:1) -Oesterheld, the Literary Voice of Argentine Comics (3:2) -Gary Groth and Kim Thompson: Interviews with the Heart of the Alternative Comics Industry (5:1) -Spanish Comics: A Symposium, Introduction (5:2) |
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Miller,
Jeffrey
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is associate professor of communication at Utica College of Syracuse University. He is a member of the executive committee of the International Comic Arts Festival. |
| -Comics
Narrative as Striptease (4:1) -A Response to Kobayashi Yoshinori's On Taiwan (6:1) |
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Mogno,
Dario
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has been working as motivational researcher for 12 years and as director of magazines and book series of a publishing house managed by himself for another 20. Interested fro many years in comic art, he has recently devoted his attention to the Cuban comics, on which he has written and organized historical exhibitions. |
| -Parallel Lives: Comics and Animated Cartoons in Cuba From Beginning to Present (3:2) | |
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Murray,
Christopher
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is a Ph.D. student and tutorial assistant at Dundee University, Scotland. His research interests include comics, animation, art history, and critical theory, and his thesis explores the relationship between superhero comics and propaganda during World War II. He teaches at the English Department and sits on the committee of the Scottish Word and Image Group, which organizes annual conferences and occasional seminars on word and image related topics. |
| -Superman
vs Imago: Superheroes, Lacan, and Mediated Identity (4:2) -My Mouth Is Quiet, but My Mind Is Noisy: The Work of John Watson (5:2) -Noble Enterprises: Strip for Me and the British Small Press (7:2) |
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Mutarelli,
Lucimar Ribeiro
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is a high school teacher and a graduate student in the School of Communications and Arts, University of São Paulo, Brazil, where she is now preparing a thesis about Lourenço Mutarelli's comics. She is married to the artist. |
| -Forging a Sustainable Comics Industry: A Case Study on Graphic Novels as a Viable Format for Developing Countries, Based on the Work of a Brazilian Artist (4:2) | |
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Nevins,
Mark David
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is an aficionado of comics from around the world who lives in Greenwich Village and Harlem (New York City), and West Hollywood (Los Angeles). In "real life" he is an executive with an international management consulting firm. Nevins took his Ph.D. in Literature from Harvard University, and taught at the graduate and undergraduate level for several years. He is "New York Correspondent" for the Swiss comics periodical STRAPAZIN, and for the last six years has served on the executive committee of the International Comics Arts Conference (ICAF). |
| -"New
Voices in Comics" 1998: A Roundtable (1:2) -"New Voices in Comics III" (ICAF 2000) (3:2) -"Drawing from Life": An Interview with Joe Sacco (4:2) |
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Ng,
Wai-ming
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is an associate professor of Japanese Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, teaching and researching Japanese popular culture and Sino-Japanese cultural relations. His recent research has been on Japanese elements in Hong Kong popular culture. |
| -A
Comparative Study of Japanese Comics in Southeast Asia and East Asia (2:1) -Japanese Elements in Hong Kong Comics: History, Art, and Industry (5:2) |
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Nguyen,
Nhu-Hoa
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is a doctoral candidate in semiology at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), Canada. Her research interests include Peircean pragmatism, French American comics, and contemporary graphic narratives. |
| -The
Rhetoric of Parody in Clair Brétecher's Le Destin de Monique
(3:2) -Social Criticism in a Singular Mode of Expression: The Art of New Realist Cartoonist Chantal Montellier (5:1) |
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Nieuwendijk,
Peter
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is secretary of Federation of European Cartoonists Organisations, which he helped found. He is also a Dutch painter and cartoonist. |
| -Several Ways of Making a Cartoon (with 26 Examples) (3:1) | |
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Noh,
Sueen
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is a doctoral student in the Mass Media and Communication program at Temple University, working with John A. Lent. She is particularly interested in exploring the intersection of gender and cultural identity in Korean and Japanese girls' comics. Her website is http://moongsil.com |
| -The Gendered Comics Market in Korea: An Overview of Korean Girls' Comics, Soonjung Manhwa (6:1) | |
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Nordin,
Kenneth D.
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is an associate professor of Communications Arts at Benedictine University. A former staff writer for The Christian Science Monitor, he has written extensively on journalism history and newspaper comic art. |
| -The
Editorial Comic Art of Clay Bennett (5:1) -Cartoonist Dick Locher in Retrospect: His Life and Work (5:2) |
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Nyamnjoh,
Francis B.
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studied for his Ph.D. in the Netherlands, concentrating on comic art. He is the Cameroon editor of International Journal of Comic Art. |
| -Press
Cartoons and Politics in Cameroon (1:2) -Zapiro and South African Political Cartooning (2:2) |
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Obonyo,
Levi
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is finishing a Ph.D. dissertation on Kenyan cartooning at Temple University under the supervision of Prof. John A. Lent. He previously taught in the Communication Department, Daystar University, and worked in the media industry in Kenya. |
| -Cartoonists in Kenya: Past, Present, and Future (6:1) | |
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Ogi,
Fusami
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is associate professor at Chikushi Jogakuen University, Japan. She graduated with a Ph.D. in English (Comparative Studies, State University of New York at Stony Brook) in 2001. Her dissertation title is "Reading, Writing, and Female Subjectivity: Gender in Japanese Comics (Manga) for Girls (Shoujo)." Ogi has written a number of chapters in books, articles, and conference papers on shoujo manga. |
| -Beyond
Shoujo, Blending Gender: Subverting the Homogendered World in Shoujo
Manga (Japanese Comics for Girls) (3:2) -Shimizu Isao: A Pioneer in Japanese Comics (Manga) Scholarship (5:2) -Katayori Mitsugu: A Pioneer of Manga Studies in Japan Before and After the War (7:2) |
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Onoda,
Natsu
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is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Performance Studies at Northwestern University, currently working on a dissertation dealing with manga as a site of inter-art discourse in postwar Japan. She holds a certificate in Scenic Painting from Yale School of Drama, and her performance/ set design credits include Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, American Theatre Company (Chicago), Chicago Cultural Center, Theatre X (Milwaukee, WI), Yale Cabaret (New Haven, CT), and Eslite (Taipei, Taiwan). She is the artistic director of a performance group "The Live Action Cartoonists," dedicated to original performances that combine large-scale, live-action cartooning with other media such as film, music, science experiments, robotics, live-action carpentry, and welding. |
| -Drag
Prince in Spotlight: Theatrical Cross-Dressing in Osamu Tezuka's Early
Shojo Manga (4:2) -Tezuka Osamu and the Star System (5:1) |
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Ostrom,
Richard
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is professor of political science, California State University, Chico. He can be reached at rostrom@csuchico.edu |
| -Bali's
Transition from a Traditional to a Modern Society: Some Op-Art Warnings
about the Trade-offs (4:2) -The Changed Function of Political Cartoonists in Indonesia: From Challenging a Repressive Regime to Promoting Democratic Reforms (5:1) |
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Packalén,
Leif
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has a background of being an NGO activist, a development cooperation administrator, and foreign service officer. He has lived in Africa (Nigeria, Sudan, Tanzania, and Zambia) altogether for 10 years. He now works as a freelance cartoonist and campaign comics trainer and is chair, World Comics Finland. |
| -Comics in the Development of Africa (1:1) | |
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Park,
Jongmin
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is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication at the Pusan National University in Pusan, Korea. His research interests include professional standard in public relations and Internet effectiveness and ethics in advertising. |
| -The Presidential Candidates in Political Cartoons: A Reflection of Cultural Differences between the United States and Korea (2:2) | |
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Parker, Richard
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Richard Parker is associate professor in the Department of Educational Psychology at Texas A&M University-College Station. He is interested in program evaluation, single-case research, reading for at-risk students, and Spanish and Maya literacy projects for Latin America. He is running curriculum-development projects in Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua. |
| -Cultural Values in Latin American and U.S. Superhero Comics: A Text Analysis (7:2, with Sánchez, Claudia) | |
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Patanella,
Daniel
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is a doctoral candidate in the Applied Developmental Psychology program at Fordham University and an adjunct lecturer at Lehman College. His chief research interests are computerized assessments, the development of scientific reasoning skills in children and adolescents, and the history of psychology. He would like to thank Antonia Levi for her helpful comments regarding earlier drafts of this paper. |
| -The Persuasive Techniques and Psychological Validity of Seduction of the Innocent (1:2) | |
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Pollmann,
Joost
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writes about comic art for the daily newspaper De Volkskrant, for the annual anthology Stripjaar and for the literary magazine Tirade. Also, he has organized three editions of the comic convention Stripdagen Haarlem ('94, '96, and '98) and is currently working on three exhibitions (Papieren Drama's, about comics & theatre; Van Bulletje tot Wentelteefje - about the history of Dutch comics; and Tante Leny Exposeert Weer - about underground comics in 1970s). |
| -An
Art of the Real: About the Adulthood of Contemporary Comics (1:2) -Shaping Sounds in Comics (3:1) |
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Pons,
Alvaro
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is a professor at the Universidad de Valencia (Spain). Since the early 1990s, he has contributed more than a hundred articles to various Spanish journals dedicated to the theory of comics, such as El Maquinista, EMM, Nemo, Volumen, 9° Arte, Cartelera Turia, and La Guía del Cómic. He has participated actively in Las Jornadas del Cómic at the Universidad de Alicante (Unicómic) and has co-authored and co-edited various theoretical volumes on comics, such as Neil Gaiman, Tejedor de Sueños, Jack Kirby, Los Cómics Marvel, and Alan Moore, published by Global. |
| -Between Avant-garde and Commerciality: The Dichotomy of New Alternative Publishing Companies in Spain (5:2) | |
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Prager,
Brad
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is an assistant professor in the Department of German and Russian at the University of Missouri, Columbia. He has published in New German Critique, Art History, Seminar, Literature / Film Quarterly, The Quarterly Review of Film and Video, and the Stanford Literature Review. |
| -Modernism in the Contemporary Graphic Novel: Chris Ware and the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (5:1) | |
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Prassel,
Igor
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is a Masters degree student at the Ljubljana Faculty for Graduate Social Sciences Studies, specializing in the comparison of authorship in comics and film during the historical evolution of both media. He is one of the editors at Stripburger, hosts a radio show about comics, and writes freelance articles about comics and animation. |
| -Slovenian Comics (1:2) | |
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Prokupek,
Tomás
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is an editor-in-chief of the magazine AARGH!, a scriptwriter, and an occasional draftsman. His articles about comics were published in many Czech periodicals and his comics were published also in Poland, Slovenia, and Italy. |
| -Czech Comics (5:2) | |
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Provencher,
Ron
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is professor emeritus, Northern Illinois University, where he helped develop a strong Southeast Asian Studies program and founded Crossroads. He has written extensively on Malaysian comic art. |
| -Remembering "The Chief," Rejab Had: Cartoonist, Story Teller, Teacher, and Philosopher (5:1) | |
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Puch,
Daniel
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a Uruguayan cartoonist, now works in graphic design in New Jersey. |
| -Cartooning in Uruguay: Not Yet the White Flag (3:2) | |
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Ralph,
Sue
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is Senior Lecturer in Education and the Mass Media, School of Education, University of Manchester, UK. She has pursued research on disability representation and the media since 1989. Her research has been published in Journal of the Multi-Handicapped Person, Disability, Handicap and Society, Research in Social Science and Disability, Australian Disability Review, Disability Studies Quarterly, and British Journal of Special Education. |
| -"Off Me Head": Cartoons from English Newspapers Concerning the Glenn Hoddle Affair (3:1) | |
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Rhode,
Michael G.
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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 20th 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
Commercialization of Comics: A Broad Historical Overview (1:2) -Stories Without Words: A Bibliography with Annotations (2:2) -The Grand Comics Database (GCD): An Evolving Research Tool (3:1) |
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Rifas,
Leonard
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is founder and sole proprietor of EduComics, a one-man educational comic book company. His most recent comics work is "The Big Picture: Visualizing the Global Economy," published in connection with the protests against the World Trade Organization in Seattle, November 1999. |
| -Cold War Comics (2:1) | |
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Robbins,
Trina
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was one of the earliest women's alternate commix authors. She has written books on women cartoonists, superheroines, and Nell Brinkley. |
| -How
I Became a Herstorian (4:1) -No Man Is My Master: American Romane Comics of the 1970s and the Women's Liberation Movement (4:1) |
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Robinson,
Jerry
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-The Ultimate Fantasy (7:2) |
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Rogers,
Mark C.
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is an Assistant Professor of Communication at Walsh University in Canton, Ohio. He wrote his dissertation about the comic book industry. |
| -Licensing
Farming and the American Comic Book Industry (1:2) -Ideology in Four Colours: British Cultural Studies Do Comics (3:1) |
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Round,
Julia
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is a Ph.D. student in the English Literature Department at Bristol University, England, researching the launch and first decade of the DC Vertigo imprint. Her dissertation discusses how changes within the authorship, reading practices, and criticism of contemporary American comics can alert us to more general questions raised by the inclusion of popular culture in literature. |
| -Fragmented Identity: The Superhero Condition (7:2) | |
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Rubenstein,
Anne
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is on the faculty at Allegheny College, Meadville, PA. She has written on Mexican comics in a number of places, including a Bad Language, Naked Ladies, and Other Threats to the Nation, published in 1998. |
| -Mexican Magazine Censors Versus the United States Marines: A Case Study of Transnational Reception (1:2) | |
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Rubovszky,
Kálmán
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hab. of literature, communication and film. He is the head of the Department of Cultural Studies and Adult Education. He is Co-director of doctoral program of Formal and Nonformal Education at the Debrecen University (Hungary). His books about comics: Apropó, comics (1988); A képregény (Comics) (1989), Books for Children and Young People: A Medium (1998). |
| -The Hungarian Comic Strip at the Turn of the Millennium (2:2) | |
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Ruh,
Brian
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is the author of Stray Dog of Anime: The Films of Mamoru Oshii (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), is on the editorial board of the forthcoming Mechademia: A Journal for Anime, Manga and the Fan Arts, and runs the Website AnimeResearch.com. He studies Japanese film, comics, and animation and is currently working on his Ph.D. in the Department of Communication and Culture at Indiana University. |
| -Creating “Amateur” Manga in the US: Pedagogy, Professionalism, and Authenticity (7:2) | |
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Sanders,
Rik
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is an editor of the comics information magazine Stripschrift. |
| -The Changing of Dutch Comics: Some Pluses and Minuses (4:2) | |
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Sánchez,
Claudia
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Claudia Sanchez is assistant professor and principal investigator on Bilingual/ESL grants at Texas Woman’s University. Her areas of interest are bilingual/ESL methodologies, Spanish/English early literacy and bi-literacy, cross-culture issues in education, and Spanish oral proficiency development. |
| -Cultural Values in Latin American and U.S. Superhero Comics: A Text Analysis (7:2, with Parker, Richard) | |
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Scott,
Randall W.
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-Beginnings and Landmarks: The Comic Art Collection at the Michigan State University Libraries and My Career (7:2) |
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Shamoon,
Deborah
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is a Ph.D. candidate in modern Japanese literature and film at the University of California, Berkeley. The topic of her dissertation is the teenage girl in Japanese literature, film, TV, and comics. An oral version of this paper was presented at the International Comic Arts Festival in Bethesda, September 2002. |
| -Focalization and Narrative Voice in the Novels and Comics of Uchida Shungiku (5:1) | |
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Shariff,
Patricia Watson
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is a lecturer in the School of Literature and Language Studies at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. Her teaching and research interests are in the area of language policy, literacy education, online learning, and the applications of digital media in the humanities. |
| -Changing Stories: The Making and Analysis of a Critical Literacy Romance Comic (3:2) | |
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Shiau,
Hong-Chi
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received his Ph.D. from Temple University. His doctoral dissertation examined the interplay of global political and economic forces affecting the development of the Taiwanese animation industry. He is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication and Theater Art, University of Wisconsin, Washington College. |
| -American Imported Animation in Taiwan: A Case Study of South Park (4:2) | |
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Shim
Sung Wook
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is a doctoral student in the College of Journalism and Communications in the University of Florida. His research interests include Internet, media planning and political advertising. An earlier version of this paper was presented at international communication division in AEJMC convention, San Francisco, August 1999. |
| -The Presidential Cnadidates in Political Cartoons: A Reflection of Cultural Differences between the United States and Korea (2:2) | |
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Singer,
Marc
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is an assistant professor of English in the Department of Languages, Literature, and Philosophy at Tennessee State University. He also sits on the executive committee of ICAF, the International Comic Arts Festival. His articles have appeared in JNT: Journal of Narrative Theory, African American Review, and the International Journal of Comic Art, where he regularly reviews academic books about comics. |
| -Invisible
Order: Comics, Time and Narrative (1:2) -Unwrapping The Birth Caul: Word, Performance, and Image in the Comics Text (6:1) |
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Smolderen,
Thierry
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has
been teaching at the Ecole Superieure de l’Image (Angoulême) since 1994.
He has written numerous articles and essays on the comic strip medium
and its history in the French publications 9e Art, Art Press, Les Cahiers
de la Bande Dessinee, etc. Also an author, he has written scripts
for nearly 40 albums, some of which have been translated into a dozen
languages. His McCay bio-fiction (with J-P. Bramanti) was short-listed
for the Best Album Award in Angoulême in 2002. He is also the co-founder
of the Coconino World Platform (www.coconino-world.com) and its satellite
websites which include <www.topffer.com> |
| -Thackery and Töpffer: The Weimar Connection (7:2) | |
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Sohet,
Philippe
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is Professor of Communications at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM), Canada. He is the author of Entretiens avec Edmond Baudoin (Mosquito 2001), and co-signed Mine de Rien, Essai sur la Violence Symbolique (Albert Saint-Martin 1982, with J.P. Desaulniers), Andreas, Une Monographie (Mosquito 1997, with Y. Lacroix), L'ambition Narrative (XYZ, 1999, with Y. Lacroix). He has participated in various collective publications in communications and published on aspects of culture in different media (advertising, TV news, graphic novels, serials, etc.) |
| -Figures
and Representation of the Fantastic in Andrea's Work (3:2) -Social Criticism in a Singular Mode of Expression: The Art of New Realist Cartoonist Chantal Montellier (5:1) |
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Someillan,
Yamile Regalado |
is a Ph.D. candidate in the History Department at the University of Maryland, College Park. This paper was presented at the 2004 Latin American Studies Association (LASA) conference. It is a distilled sample of Regalado Someillan’s dissertation study to be completed by Spring 2006, “Cuba’s Cartooned Revolution: Tracing the Transformation of Political Culture through Cuban Revolutionary Imagery, 1959-1963.” |
| -Visual Culture and the New Cuban Man: Examining a Core Force of the Cuban Revolution, 1959-1963 (7:2) | |
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Somers,
Jr., Paul P.
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is Professor of American Thought and Language at Michigan State University. He has published articles and book chapters on American literature and American humor, including editorial cartooning, and a book on southwestern humorist Johnson J. Hooper. His fiction and satire have appeared in Harper's and various literary magazines, as well as National Lampoon, to which he was a contributing editor. He is the author of Editorial Cartooning and Caricature, a reference book published by Greenwood Press in 1988. |
| -Krauts Hinaus: Graphic Stereotypes of German-Americans Before and During World War I (2:2) | |
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Soper,
Kerry
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| -Gentrifying the Alternatives or Alternifying the Mainstream? Consolidation, Incorporation, and the State of Comic Strip Satire in Alternative Weeklies, 1985-2000 (3:2) | |
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Spencer,
David R.
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has carried out much research on Canadian political cartooning which has been published in numerous monographs and articles. He holds the Rogers distinguished chair at University of Western Ontario. |
| -Double
Vision: The Victorian Bi-cultural World of Henri Julien (2:2) -The Trojan Horse: Free Trade, the Americans, and Canadian Political Cartoonists, 1849-1879 (6:1) |
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Ströberg,
Fredrik
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is the chairman of the Swedish comics society "Seriefrämjandet" (started in 1968), one of the editors of the Swedish magazine Bild & Bubbla (Picture & Bubble), which is the world's second oldest magazine about comics, the author of several boos about comics, regular writer about comics in the Swedish press, and the organizer behind the Swedish School for Comic Artists. His book, Seriernegern will be published in English by Fantagraphics in July. |
| -Swedish Comics and Comics in Sweden (5:1) | |
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Taffet,
Jeffrey F.
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is an assistant professor of history in the Department of Humanities at the United States Merchant Marine Academy, Kings Point, NY. He earned his Ph.D. at Georgetown University in the history of United States international relations. His research projects focus on the role of economic aid programs in US-Chilean relations during the 1960s, and he is also interested in the connection between cultural expression and political ideology. |
| -Selling the Alliances: US Propaganda vs. Chilean Editorial Cartoons during the 1960s (6:1) | |
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Thalheimer,
Anne N.
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is a dissertation fellow at the University of Delaware, writing on gender, violence, and heteroideology in 20th century lesbian commix. She completed a thesis on Watchmen and Sandman for her Master's degree in English (University of Delaware, 1997), and holds a B.A. in Literary Studies (1994) and an AA in Liberal Arts (1993), both from Simon's Rock College of Bard. |
| -Terrorists, Bitches, and Dykes: Late 20th Century Lesbian Comix (2:1) | |
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Titus,
Jordan
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is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. She has published on advertising media imagery. This is her first venture into the comics arena. |
| -Gnashing of Teeth: The Vagina Dentata Motif in "Bad Girl" Comics (2:2) | |
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Tomii,
Reiko
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is an independent art historian specializing in postwar Japanese and Western art. Active also as curator, translator, editor, and writer, she most recently curated the exhibition "Sighting: Three Japanese Artists" (Emiko Kasahara, Naoyoshi Hikosasa, Yukinori Yanagi) for White Box, New York City in 2001-2002. |
| -Akasegawa Genpei's The Sakura Illustrated: When the Good Old Man Makes a Dead Tree Flower and the Bad Old Man Throws a Fire Bomb (4:2) | |
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Tondro,
Jason
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is a Ph.D. student at the University of California, Riverside and a frequent presenter in the Comic Art and Comics Area of the Popular Culture Association. His published work includes both criticism ("Camelot in Comics" in King Arthur in Popular Culture, McFarland Press) and comics ("Nautilus" in Inkpunks Quarterly, Funk-o-Tron). |
| -Angel Passage: An Edition, Lyrics by Alan Moore (5:2) | |
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Towle,
Benjamin F.
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recently was graduated from the Savannah College of Art and Design. |
| -An Examination of Historiography in the Comics Medium (5:2) | |
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Tsaousis,
Sprios
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is researching his Ph.D. thesis on Spatiality and Popular Narratives at La Trobe University in Victoria, Australia. |
| -Postmodern Spatiality and the Narrative Structure of Comics (1:1) | |
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Tufts,
Clare
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is Professor of the Practice in French at Duke University and director of the French Language Program. She has published in the ares of French and francophone theater and culture, has co-authored an intermediate French textbook (Sure le Yif), and is the author of a computerized French grammar tutorial (Micro-Review in French). Her current research is focused on the Nazi Propaganda in children's newspapers during the Occupation of France |
| -Vincent Krassousky -- Nazi Collaborator or Naïve Cartoonist? (6:1) | |
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Tunç,
Asli
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-A Framework for Studying Comic Art (1:1) |
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Varea,
Jesús Jiménez
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is assistant professor in the Department of Communication, Universidad de Sevilla (Spain). He is the author of Historia de la EC (1999) and has published articles on comics in Spanish magazines such as Dolmen and Yellow Kid. He is a freelance writer of texts for PlanetaDe Agostini comic books, editorial advisor of Editores Asociados, member of GELPI (Grupo para el Estudio de las Literaturas Populares y de la Imagen) and secretary of IF, a new academic group for the exploration of motionless visual media. He is currently working on an exhaustive essay about Alan Moore's storytelling and a new book about EC. |
| -You Can Never Win: An Analysis of Comic Strips by the Spanish Cartoonist Peñarroya(5:2) | |
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Vergueiro,
Waldomiro C.S.
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is associate professor and coordinator of the Center for Research on Comics in the School of Communications and Arts of the University of São Paulo, Brazil. He has published extensively on Brazilian comics, including four previous articles in the International Journal of Comic Art (1:1, 2:2, 3:2, 4:2). |
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Comics in Brazil: From Chiquinho to Mônica, A Difficult
Journey (1:1) -Brazilian Superheroes in Search of Their Own Identities (2:2) -Brazilian Pornographic Comics: A View on the Eroticism of a Latin American Culture in the Work of Artist Carlos Zéfiro (3:2) -Forging a Sustainable Comics Industry: A Case Study on Graphic Novels as a Viable Format for Developing Countries, Based on the Work of a Brazilian Artist (4:2) -The Brazilian X-Men: How Brazilian Artists Have Created Stories That Stan Lee Does Not Know About (6:1) |
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Vilela,
Marco Túlio
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is a secondary and high school teacher, comic researcher, and cartoonist. He holds history and teaching degrees, from the University of São Paulo, Brazil. His published works include book reviews and also contributions to Brazilian Disney comic books as a writer. |
| -The Brazilian X-Men: How Brazilian Artists Have Created Stories That Stan Lee Does Not Know About (6:1) | |
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Walker,
Joyce A.
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is a Teaching Fellow in the History Department of the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. She is the Scottish representative of the Political Cartoon Society, and also sits on the Committee of the Scottish Word and Image Group. Her research interest is in the use of political cartoons as serious tools in historical research. |
| -My Mouth Is Quiet, but My Mind Is Noisy: The Work of John Watson (5:2) | |
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Webster,
Douglas
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is an artist who maintains an interest in world and image studies and art history. |
| -My Mouth Is Quiet, but My Mind Is Noisy: The Work of John Watson (5:2) | |
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Weitzel,
Eric
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is a doctoral candidate and associate teacher of literature and cultural studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has presented widely on topics related to popular culture theory, mass culture in America before World War II, and modernism at the annual meetings of the International Comic Arts Festival, the Popular Culture Association, and elsewhere. His publications include articles on Kathy Acker and Gertrude Stein. He is currently finishing up his dissertation, "Stein, Steinese, Steiniana: A Case Study of Aesthetic Innovation and Mass Culture in Modern-Era America. |
| -Of Pop Culture Pleasures and Radical Aesthetics: The Influence of Popular Comic Strips on Picasso's Political Art (2:2) | |
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Williams,
Jeff
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teaches advanced English language at The School of Languages in the National University of Córdoba, and literature and semantics at the National University of La Rioja in Argentina. He completed his Ph.D. at Texas Tech University and wrote his dissertation on current literary theories and their relationship to contemporary non-mainstream comic books. |
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Evolving Novel: The Comic-Book Medium as the Next Stage (2:2) -Argentine Comics Today: A Foreigner's Perspective (3:2) |
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Witek,
Joseph
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is associate professor of English at Stetson University. He is the author of Comic Books as History... and a number of articles on the comics form. |
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Criticism in the United States: A Brief Historical Survey (1:1) -Long Form/Short Form: Narrative Strategies of Some 9/11 Comics (5:2) |
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Wong,
Wendy Siuyi
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is Assistant Professor of Digital Graphic Communication at Hong Kong Baptist University. She has published articles in journals including Journal of Design History (2000), Mass Communication and Society (2000), and Journal of Visual Literacy (2000). She is author of two visual communication histories for Chinese readers: Advertising, Culture, and Everyday Life I: Hong Kong Newspaper Advertisements, 1945-1970 (1999) and An Illustrated History of Hong Kong Comics (1999). |
| -The Emerging Image of the Modern Woman in Hong Kong Comics of the 1960s & 1970s (2:2) | |
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Wybenga,
David
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-Stories Without Words: A Bibliography with Annotations (2:2) |
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Xu,
Ying
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has been a researcher of China Film Archive since 1985. She published more than 100 articles about Chinese culture and cinema in English journals and about foreign films and materials in major Chinese film newspapers and magazines. |
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Women Cartoonists: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (5:2) -Cartooning and China’s “Cultural Revolution” (7:2 with Lent, John) |
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Yokota,
Masao
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is a chief professor in the Department of Psychology, College of Humanities and Sciences, Nihon University. He has written on Japanese animation directors for Japanese Journal of Animation Studies and Asian Cinema. |
| -Satoshi Kon's Transition from Comics to Animation (6:1) | |
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York,
Chris
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is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of American Studies at Michigan State University. |
| -All in the Family: Homophobia and Batman Comics in the 1950s (2:2) | |
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Zupan,
Zdravko
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the most significant historian of former Yugoslavia comic art, is an artist, cartoonist, and publisher. He published his first work as artist in Mali Jez magazine, and in Decje Novine company, then the biggest comic book publisher in Eastern Europe. Since 1979 he has researched the history of comic art in former Yugoslavia, writing many articles and the first volume of A History of the Yugoslav Comic Art (Forum-Marketprin, Novi Sad). |
| -The Golden Age of Serbian Comics: Belgrade Comic Art 1935-1941 (2:1) | |
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Worcester,
Kent (Transcribe)
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-Words and Pictures in the Classroom: A Symposium (6:1) |