Vol.1, No.1
Spring/Summer 1999
218 pages / 18 articles
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Vol.1, No.2
Fall 1999
250 pages / 21 articles
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Vol.2, No.1
Spring 2000
213 pages / 19 articles
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Vol.2, No.2
Fall 2000
331 pages / 19 articles
Portfolio: 1o pieces
Vol.3, No.1
Spring 2001
302 pages / 24 articles
Portfolio: 14 pieces
Vol.3, No.2
Fall 2001
344 pages / 24 articles
Portfolio: 7 pieces
Vol.4, No.1
Spring 2002
322 pages / 27 articles
Portfolio: 12 pieces
Vol.4, No.2
Fall 2002
375 pages / 22 articles
Portfolio: 12 pieces
Vol.5, No.1
Spring 2003
426 pages / 29 articles

Portfolio: 13 pieces
Oleg Dergachov's Special: 8 pieces

Vol.5, No.2
Fall 2003
526 pages / 34 articles
1 special Index/Portfolio: 11 pieces
Vol.6, No.1
Spring 2004
386 pages / 22 articles
Portfolio: 10 pieces
Vol.6, No.2
Fall 2004
26 articles
Portfolio: 11 pieces
Vol.7, No.1
Spring 2005
35 articles
Portfolio: 16 pieces

Vol. 1, No. 1, Spring/Summer 1999
John A. Lent 1-3
Editor's Notes: Finally, an International Journal for Comic Art
Joseph Witek
4-16
Comics Criticism in the United States; A Brief Historical Survey
Matthew Lombard,
John A. Lent,
Linda Greenwood,
Asli Tunc
17-32 A Frameworks for Studying Comic Art
Allen Ellis
33-41
Comic Art in Scholarly Writing: A Citation Guide
Peter Duus
42-56
The Marumaru Chinbun and the Origins of the Japanese Political Cartoon
Gene Kannenberg, Jr.
57-75
Proving "Silas" an Artist: Winsor McCay's Formal Experiments in Comics and Animation
Mike Kidson
76-89
William Hogarth: Printing Techniques and Comics
David A. Beronä
90-103
Breaking Taboos: Sexuality in the Work of Will Eisner and the Early Wordless Novels
Leif Packalén
104-121
Comics in the Development of Africa
Bart Beaty
122-139
Featuring Stories by the World's Greates Authors:
Classics Illustrated and the "Middlebrow Problem" in the Postwar Era
Pascal Lefèvre
140-149
Recovering Sensuality in Comic Theory
John A. Lent
150-156
The Horrors of Cartooning in Slim's Algeria
David E. Goldweber
157-170
Mr. Punch, Dangerous Savior
Waldomiro C. S. Vergueiro
171-186
Children's Comics in Brazil: From Chiquinho to Mônica, A Difficult Journey
Nadilson Manoel da Silva
187-204
Brazilian Adult Comics: The Age of Market
Sprios Tsaousis
205-218
Postmodern Spatiality and the Narrative Structure of Comics

Vol. 1, No. 2, Fall 1999
John A. Lent 1-3 Editor's Note
Jose Alaniz 4-28 Towards a History of a 'Stalled' Medium: Comics in Russia
Marc Singer 29-40 Invisible Order: Comics, Time and Narrative
Anne Rubenstein 41-54 Mexican Magazine Censor Versus the United States Mariens:
A Case Study of Transnational Reception
Michael A. Chaney 55-65 The Dismangling Evolution of Heroes: Aquaman's Amputation
John A. Lent 66-75 Poland's Malgorzata Tabaka, Drawer of Lyrical Satirical Cartoons
Daniel Patanella 76-85 The Persuasive Techniques and Psychological Validity of Seduction fo the Innocent
Igor Prassel 86-97 Slovenian Comics
Allen Douglas
Fedwa Malti-Douglas
98-106 Islamic "Classics Illustrated": Regendering Medieval Philosophy in a Modern Tunisian Strip
Joost Pollmann 107-126 An Art of the Real: About the Adulthood of Contemporary Comics
Turgut Ceviker 127-131 The City and Housing in Turkish Cartoons
Mark C. Rogers 132-142 Licensing Farming and the American Comic Book Industry
Michael G. Rhode 143-170 The Commercialization of Comics: A Broad Historical Overview
Francis B. Nyamnjoh 171-190 Press Cartoons and Politics in Cameroon
Caridad Blanco de la Cruz 191-194 The Engineering of Humor
Stanford W. Carpenter 195-215 The Tarzan vs. Predator Comic Book Mini-Series: An Ethnographic Analysis
216-237 "New Voices in Comics" 1998: A Roundtable
John A. Lent 238-241 The Printed Word
Mark C. Rogers 242-243 Reviews
Gene Kannenberg, Jr. 244-247 Critical Closure
248-250 Correspondence

Vol. 2, No. 1, Spring 2000
John A. Lent 1-2 Editor's Note
Leonard Rifas 3-32 Cold War Comics
Annette matton 33-43 Reader Responses to Doug Murray's The 'Nam
Wai-ming Ng 44-56 A Comparative Study of Japanese Comics in Southeast Asia and East Asia
Andrew Matzner 57-75 Not a Pretty Picture: Images of Married Life in Thai Comic Books
Old Frahm 76-84 Weird Signs: Asethstices of Domics as a Parody
Maurice Horn 85-89 American Comic Strips And Silent Seriable: A prarallel
Zdravko Zupan 90-101 The Golden Age of Serbian Comics Belgrade Comic Art 1935-1941
John A. Lent 102-108 East European Cartooning: Differences over Time and Space
Oleg Dergatchov 109-116 Leonid Tishkov's Dabloids: Russian Myth in Comics
Michael Hill 117-132 Outside Influence / Local Color: The Australian Small Press
Anne N. Thalheimer 133-143 Terrorists, Bitches, and Dykes: Late 20th Century Lesbian Comix
Barbara Jo Lewis 144-158 Cyborg Might: Conceptions of Power in Comic Book Art
Libbie McQuillan 159-177 Between the Sheets at Pilote: 1968-1973
Caridad Blanco 178-189 Always the Other One: Salomon
Ana Merino 190-197 Inodoro Pereyra, A "Gaucho" in the Pampa of Paper and Ink:
Folkloric and Literary Intertextuality and its Reformulations in Argentinean Comics
Oyin Medubi 198-206 Leadership Stereotypes and Lexical Choices: An Example of Nigerian Cartoons
John A. Lent 207-208 The Printed Word
Mike Kidson
Michael G. Rhode
209-213 Reviews

Vol. 2, No. 2, Fall 2000
David R. Spencer 1-32 Double Vision: The Victorian Bi-cultural World of Henri Julien
Wendy Siuyi Wong
Lisa M. Cuklanz
33-53 The Emerging Image of the Modern Woman in Hong Kong Comics of the 1960s & 1970s
Francis Nyamnjoh 54-76 Zapiro and South African Political Cartooning
Jordan J. Titus 77-99 Gnashing of Teeth: The Vagina Dentata Motif in "Bad Girl" Comics
Chris York 100-110 All in the Family: Homophobia and Batman Comics in the 1950s
Thierry Groensteen 111-120 Gustave Dore's Comics
Kalman Rubovszky 121-134 The Hungarian Comic Strip at the Turn of the Millennium
Mel Gibson 135-151 Reading as Rebellion: The Case of the Girls' comic in Britain
Ruth Boyask 152-163 Reading Community in Funtime Comics: A New Zealand Narrative
Waldomiro C. S. Vergueiro 164-177 Brazilian Superheroes in Search of Their Own Identities
Jeff Williams 178-190 The Evolving Novel: the Comic-Book Medium as the Next Stage
Paul P. Somers, Jr. 191-205 Krauts Hinaus: Graphic Stereotypes of German-Americans Before and During World War I
Eric Weitzel 206-232 Of Pop Culture Pleasures and Radical Aesthetics:
The Influence of Popular Comic Strips on Picasso's Political Art
Jongmin Park
Sung Wook Shim
233-247 The Presidential Candidates in Political Cartoons:
A Reflection of Cultural Differencs between the United States and Korea
Michael L. Maynard
Edward Lordan
248-264 Laughing at the Glass Ceiling in The Wall Street Journal Cartoons
Michael Rhode
Tom Furtwangler
David Wybenga
265-306 Stories Without Words: A Bibliography with Annotations
John A. Lent 307-309 The Printed Word
310-321 Reviews
Gene Kannenberg, Jr. 322-324 Critical Closure
325-331 Portfolio

Vol. 3, No. 1, Spring 2001
John A. Lent 1-2 Editor's Note
John A. Lent 3-8 Comic Art: Some Global Issues
Joost Pollman 9-21 Shaping Sounds in Comics
Jeremy Allen 22-37 A Virtual Revolution: Australian Comic Creators and the Web
Tim Blackmore 38-58 What a Picnic!: Swamp Ecology in Walt Kelly's Pogo
Lim Cheng Tju 59-76 "Sister Art" - A Short History of Chinese Cartoons and Woodcuts in Singapore
David E. Goldweber 77-85 The Function of Dreams and Stories in The Sandman
Pierre L. Horn 86-92 American Graffiti - French Style: Three Comic Strip Artists Look at Pre-War America
Mark C. Rogers 93-108 Ideology in Four Colours: British Cultural Studies Do Comics
Jean-Marie Bertin 109-119 Thoughts and Views on Raymond Peynet, French Artist and Universal Poet
Sheng-mei Ma 120-148 The Nine Lives of Blackhawk's Oriental: Chop Chop, Wu Cheng, and Weng Chan
Sue Ralph
Beth Haller
Tim Lees
149-169 "Off Me Head": Cartoons from English Newspapers Concerning the Glenn Hoddle Affair
Peter Nieuwendijk 170-190 Several Ways of Making a Cartoon (with 26 Examples)
Andy Mason 191-197 Africa Ink: Cartoonists Working Group, Towards an Association of African Cartoonists: Report of an International Workshop on Cartoon Journalism and Democratisation in Southern Africa
John A. Lent 198-202 How To Withstand War, the Rastko Ciric Way
Chris Gage 203-209 Can You Dig It? The World of Fast Willie Jackson
William Foster, III 210-216 Interview with Bertram Fitzgerald: The Life and Times of Fast Willie Jackson (1976-1977)
M. Thomas Inge 217-250 Comic Strips: A Bibliographic Essay
Lucy Shelton Caswell 251-262 Resources for Scholars at The Ohio State University Cartoon Research Library
Micheal Rhode
Ray Bottorff, Jr.
263-274 The Grand Comics Database (GCD): An Evolving Research Tool
John A. Lent 275-277 The Printed Word
Peter Coogan
Michael Rhode
278-282 Book Reviews
Michael Rhode 283-288 Exhibition Reviews
Gene Kannenberg, Jr. 289-291 Critical Closure
292-302 Portfolio

Vol. 3, No. 2, Fall 2001
[Latin American Comic Art: A Symposim]
John A. Lent 1-22 An Historical and Contemporary Overview
Andres Accorsi 23-43 Argentine Comics
Jeff Williams 44-55 Argentine Comics Today: A Foreigner's Perspective
Ana Merino 56-69 Oesterheld, the Literary Voice of Argentine Comics
Waldomiro C. S. Vergueiro 70-78 Brazilian Pornographic Comics:
A View on the Eroticism of a Latin American Culture in the Work of Artist Carlos Zefiro
Perucho Mejia G. 79-82 Comic Art in Colombia: a Short Historical Journey
Dario Mogno 83-105 Parallel Lives: Comics and Animated Cartoons in Cuba From beginning to Present
Caridad Blanco de la Cruz 106-115 Ares: An Undomesticated Humorist
Daniel Puch 116-126 Cartooning in Uruguay: Not Yet the White Flag
Gisel Gil-Egui 127-137 Venezuela's Alonso and the Art of leaving It All to Art
Beatrice Marechal 138-150 "The Singular Stories of the Terashima Neighborhood": A Japanese Autobiographical Comic
Fusami Ogi 151-161 Beyond Shoujo, Blending Gender:
Subverting the Homogendered World in Shoujo Manga (Japanese Comics for Girls)
Nhu-Hoa Nguyen 162-174 The Rhetoric of Parody in Claire Bretecher's Le Destin de Monique
Philippe Sohet 175-188 Figures and Representation of the Fantastic in Andreas's Work
Kerry Soper 189-201 Gentrifying the Alternatives or Alternifying the Mainstream? Consolidation, Incorporation, and the State of Comic Strip Satire in Alternative Weeklies, 1985-2000
Bart Beaty 202-221 Fredric Wertham Faces His Critics: Contextualizing the Postwar Comics Debate
Patricia Watson Shariff
Hilary Janks
222-238 Changing Stories: The Making and Analysis of a Critical Literacy Romance Comic
Mel Gibson 239-249 "Wham! Bam! The X-Men Are Here":
The British Broadsheet Press and the X-Men Film and Comi
Mark David Nevins 250-294 "New Voices in Comics III" (ICAF 2000)
M. Thomas Inge 295-328 Comic Books, A Bibliographic Essay
John A. Lent 329-331 The Printed Word
David Berona 332-334 Book Review
Michael Rhode 335 Exhibition Review
Gene Kannenberg, Jr. 336-337 Critical Closure
338-343 Portfolio

Vol. 4, No. 1, Spring 2002
John A. Lent 1-4 Editor's Note
[There at the Beginning: Early Days of Comics Scholarship]
John A. Lent 5 Introduction
Maurice Horn 6-22 How It All Began, or Present at the Creation
Alvaro de Moya 23-25 Pioneering in Brazilian Quadrinhos, as a Cartoonist and Researcher
Giulio C. Cuccolini 26-39 In Search of Lost Time or Time Regained
Arthur Asa berger 40-47 Is This the Kind of Thing That Serious Academics Do?
Wolfgang J. Fuchs 48-59 The Story of an "Anatomy" That Gave Recognition to Comics as a Mass Medium
Will Eisner 60-63 Comics and Electronics
Martin Barker 64-77 Kicked into the Gutters: or, "My Dad Doesn't Read Comics, he Studies Them."
Trina Robbins 78-83 How I Became a Herstorian
John A. Lent 84-96 Almost Left at the Gate: An Arrhythmic Career in Comics Scholarship
David Ehrilich 97-133 Growing up with Dinosaurs: An Interview with Steve Bissette
Randy Duncan 134-142 The Weaver's Art: An Examination of Comic Book "Writing"
Jeffrey A. Miller 143-150 Comics Narrative as Striptease
Trina Robbins 151-162 No Man Is My Master:
American Romance Comics of the 1970s and the Women's Liberation Movement
K. A. Laity 163-169 Construction of a "Female Hero":
Iconography in Les aventures extraordinaires d'Adele Blanc-Sed
John A. Lent 170-204 New Zealand -- Exporter of Mainstream Cartoonists, haven for Alternative Comics
Fabrice Leroy 205-217 Absent-Mindness, Mustaches, and the Cold War: The Image of Science in Herge's Professor Calculus and Franquin's Count of Champignac
Oleg Dergachov 218-227 Rosta Windows: As a Phenomenon of Russian Revolutionary Comic Strips
Stanford W. Carpenter 228-238 Alex Simmons and the African-American Soldier of Fortuen Known as Blackjack:
A Case Study in Independent Comic Book Publishing
Brian Cremins 239-247 "Why have you allowed me to see you without your mask?":
Captain America #133 and the Great American (Protest) Novel
Nadilson Manoel da Silva 248-268 Viz Comic: Carnival and Commercialization
A. David Lewis 269-300 Kingdom Code
John A. Lent 301-304 The Printed Word
David Berona
Rocco Versaci
305-309 Book Reviews
Micheal Rhode 310 Exhibition Reviews
Gene Kannenberg, Jr. 311-312 Critical Closure
313-322 Portfolio

Vol. 4, No. 2, Fall 2002
Mark David Nevins 1-52 "Drawing from Life": An Interview with Joe Sacco
Micheline Maupoint 53-69 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
Hector D. Fernandez L'Hoeste 70-83 Resurrecting the Nation Through the Eyes of a Native: The Case of Turey el Taino
John A. Lent 84-123 Fear [of] and Loafing [with] Ralph Steadman in Turkey
Natsu Onoda 124-138 Drag Prince in Spotlight: Theatrical Cross-Dressing in Osamu Texuka's Early Shojo Manga
Rik Sanders 139-156 The Changing of Dutch Comics: Some Pluses and Minuses
Waldomiro Vertueiro
Lucimar Ribeiro Mutarelli
157-167 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
William H. Foster III 168-185 The Image of Blacks (African Americans) in Underground Comix:
New Liberal Agenda or Same Racist Stereotypes?
Christopher Murray 186-208 Superman vs Imago: Superheroes, Lacan, and Mediated Identity
Reiko Tomii 209-223 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
Maurice Horn 224-228 The Lady, or the Dragon?
Richard Ostrom 229-240 Bali's Transition from a Traditional to a Modern Society:
Some Op-Art Warnings about the Trade-offs
Michael L. Maynard 241-260 Friendly Fantasies in Japanese Advertising:
Persuading japanese Teens through Cartoonish Art
A. David Lewis 261-275 The Secret, Untold Relationship of Biblical Midrash and Comic Book Retcon
Jae-Woong Kwon 276-286 Korean Cartoonists' Reactions to Bush's "Axis of Evil"
John A. Lent 287-291 Larry Alcala and the Depiction of Filipinos As They Are
Wendy Kail 292-314 Clifford K. Berryman: Drawing The Line
Hong-Chi Shiau 315-326 American Imported Animationin Taiwan: A Case Study of South Park
John A. Lent 327-329 The Printed Word
Marc Singer
Charles Hatfield
Rocco Versaci
Mark Rogers
Jeff Williams
Michael Rhode
A. David Lewis
330-352 Book Reviews
Michael Rhode 353-354 Exhibition Review
Gene Kannenberg, Jr.
Michael Rhode
355-358 Critical Closure
359-368 Portfolio

Vol. 5, No. 1, Spring 2003
John A. Lent 1-2 Editor's Note
[Pioneers of Comic Art Scholarship Series]
David Kunzle 3-7 Kunzle and the Comic Strip
Sture Hegerfors 8-20 Sture Hegerfors and Swedish Comics Scholarship
M. Thomas Inge 21-30 Portrait of the Professor as a Failed Cartoonist
Ana Merino 31-73 Gary Groth and Kim Thompson: Interviews with the Heart of the Alternative Comics Industry
Fredrik Stromberg 74-94 Swedish Comics and Comics in Sweden
Jigal Beez 95-114 They Are Crazy These Swahili:
Komredi Kipepe in the Footsteps of Asterix; Globalization in East African Comics
Nhu-Hoa Nguyen
Philippe Sohet
115-133 Social Criticism in a Singular Mode of Expression:
The Art of New Realist Cartoonist Chantal Montellier
Allen Douglas
Fedwa Malti-Douglas
134-146 Tardi and Daeninckx: Comic Strips, Detective Novels, and World War I
Deborah Shamoon 147-160 Focalization and Narrative Voice in the Novels and Comics of Uchida Shungiku
Natsu Onoda 161-194 Tezuka Osamu and the Star System
Brad Prager 195-213 Modernism in the Contemporary Graphic Novel:
Chris Ware and the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
M. Thomas Inge 214-219 William Faulkner and the Graphic Novel
Hector D. Fernandez L'Hoeste 220-230 The Mystery of Kaliman, el Hombre Increible: Race and Identity in Mexican Comics
Richard Ostrom 231-243 The changed Function of Political Cartoonists in Indonesia:
From Challenging a Repressive Regime to Promoting Democratic Reforms
Kenneth D. Nordin 244-255 The Editorial Comic Art of Clay Bennett
John A. Lent 256-289 Cartooning in malaysia and Singapore: The Same, but Different
Ron Provencher 290-291 Remembering "The Chief," Rejab Had: Cartoonist, Story Teller, Teacher, and Philosopher
Muliyadi Mahamood 292-304 An Overview of malaysian Contemporary Cartoons
Mel Gibson 305-324 "You Can't Read Them, They're for Boys!" British Girls, American Superhero Comics and Identity
Chetan Desai 325-333 The Krishna Conspiracy
Craig Fischer 334-354 Fantastic Fascism? jack Kirby, Nazi Aesthetics, and Kalus Theweleit's Male Fantasies
Live Action Cartoonists 355-365 Have Markers, Will Travel:
Live-Action Cartoonists in the Age of Multimedia Performances and Online Comics
Martha H. Kennedy 366-373 Early Creative Responses to 9-11 by Comic Artists: Panelists Share Personal Experiences
John A. Lent 374-376 The Printed Word
David Kunzle 377-384 Review Essay
David Kunzle
Leonard Rifas
Marc Singer
385-393 Book Reviews
Bart Beaty
Maurice Horn
Jennifer Wood
Michael Hill
Michael Rhode
394-405 Exhibition / Festival Reviews and Report
Gene Kannenberg, Jr. 406-407 Critical Closure
408-426 Portfolio

Vol. 5, No. 2, Fall 2003
John A. Lent
i
Editor's Note
[Spanish Comics: A Symposim]
Ana Merino
3-4
Introduction
Viviane Alary
5-27
Briefness in Spanish Comics: A Few Landmarks
Manuel Barrero
28-49
The Evolution of Children's Comics in Spain
Jesus Jimenez Varea
50-65
You Can Never Win: An Analysis of Comic Strips by the Spanish Cartoonist Penarroya
Anne Magnussen
66-84
Spanish Comics and Family
Pedro Perez del Solar
85-101
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