13 no.1
 
Vol. 13, No. 1, Spring 2011
760 pages / 39 Articles
 

John Weeks

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Economics and Comics: Khmer Popular Culture in Changing Times

John Marston 32 Im Sokha and Cambodian Satirical Cartoons
John A. Lent 59 Uth Roeun, the “First” Cambodian Comic Book Author: An Interview
Chi Do Huu 62 Comic Art in Vietnam: A Brief History
Dean Wilson 87

Vietnam: Animation Is Everywhere

Masashi Ichiki 109 Embracing the Victimhood: A History of A-bomb Manga in Japan
Mark McKinney 127 Redrawing the Franco-Algerian Affrontier in Là-bas
Konstantinos Tzikas 153

Dissecting the Antiheroine: The Sexual Trangressions and Transfigurations of the Morally Ambiguous Heroine in Comics

Rachel Marie-Crane Williams 176

The Cartoons of Norman Ethre Jennett and the North Carolina Election of 1898

Jorge L. Catalá Carrasco           208

Cuban Humor Magazines and Comics during the Special Period

José Alaniz 235

“Serious” Comics Adaptations of the Classics in the Late Soviet Era: Askol’d Akishin’s A Chronicle of Military Actions

Brian Cremins 249 Depersonalization, Mysticism, and Mourning in John Porcellino’s Perfect Example and Carrie McNinch’s You Don’t Get There from Here
Foo Tee-Tuan 275 Reading Hong Kong Comics in the Heartlands of Singapore
Richard Scully 291 Sex, Art, and the Victorian Cartoonist: Matthew Somerville Morgan in Victorian Britain and America
David Schilter and Zane Zajančkauska 326

Latvian Komiksi

Joseph L. V. Donica 340

“They Are Trying To Kill Us All”: The Ethics of Urban Space in Post-Disaster Graphic Narrative

Mark McLelland 348 Thought Policing or Protection of Youth? Debate in Japan over the “Non-Existent Youth Bill”
Paweł Timofiejuk and Łukasz Szostak 368 Polish Comics as Instruments of Propaganda
Kinga Kuczyńska 385

Polish Comics – A World Without Women?

Kevin Patrick 398 The Invisible Medium: Comics Studies in Australia
Josh Benton 411 Divine Sparks: Magic and the Self in the Work of Alan Moore
Hannah Means-Shannon 426 A Funeral for Achilles: Burying the Heroic Code in Watchmen
David Brame, David Kolin, Peter Chung, and Joyce Nyhof-Young 441 Don’t Forget to Check Your Comics! Developing “Novel” Resources To Educate Young Men about Testicular Cancer
Phil Yeh              458 Using Comics and Graphic Novels for Education to a Global Audience
Tom Gill 474

The Incident at Nishibeta Village: A Classic Manga by Yoshiharu Tsuge from the Garo Years

Daniel Moreira de Sousa Pinna 490

Symphony of the Braves: The First Years of Brazilian Animation

José Alaniz 514 Chris Ware and “Autistic Realism”
Carmina Sanchez-del-Valle 529

DMZ’s Dystopic Manhattan: Loving the City, Killing the City

Nicoletta Preziosi 551

The Several Lives of Persepolis in Italy: from the Stores to the Newsstands

Rania M.R. Saleh 558 Has the U.S. Won the Iraq War? The Perspectives of American Cartoonists
Bernadette C. Bravo 581

On Turning Japanese: The Impact of Anime on Philippine Pop Culture

Jon C. Gordon  602 The Cartoons of Kobayashi Kiyochika
Armando Rotondi 617 “Manga Musicals”: Comics and Serialized Theatre
Juhanita Jiman 633 A Study of “Upin & Ipin”: Observing Their Roles in Promoting Positive Values in Children
Jonathan Rikard Brown             644

I Am Robin: The Reader’s Gateway into the World of The Dark Knight Returns

Travis Langley and Robin Rosenberg 654

Reflections on the Psychopathy of the Joker: A Comic-Con Panel Report

Joost Pollmann 677 Comics Anthropology
Fabiano Maggioni and Adair Caetano Peruzzolo 685 The Violence Visualized in Cartoons: An Analysis of Plastic Meaning
John A. Lent 701

India’s Anant Pai, Cuba’s Tomy, and the Philippines’ Pablo Gomez: Some Remembrances

Maurice Horn 714 Peirre Couperie: A Memorial
Tim Madigan 716 Remembering Harvey Pekar
John A. Lent 719 The Printed Word
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