12 no.1
 
Vol. 12, No. 1, Spring 2010
537 pages / 27 Articles
Biography of Authors

Kees Ribbens

1

World War II in European Comics: National Representations of Global Conflict in Popular Historical Culture

Warat Karuchit

34

The Renaissance of Thai Knowledge Cartoons

Peter M. Coogan

50

From Love to Money: The First Decade of Comics Fandom

John A. Lent and Xu Ying

68

Workers-Specific Comic Art of China: Worker’s Cartoon Group (Beijing) and Frog Cartoon Group (Qiu County, Hebei)

Maaheen Ahmed

103

Fallen Angels and Shattered Skies: Rejected Conventions in Yslaire’s Could 99 (XXe Ciel)

Giulio C. Cuccolini

124

A Two-sided Narration through Words and Images

Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste

135

Edgar Clément’s “The Sword of God”: On The Practice of Hybridization in Mexican Comics

William Boerman-Cornell

147

History Is Relatives: Educational Affordances of the Graphic Novel in The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam

Airel Kahn

157

Between Eros and Thanatos: Death and Desire in the Short Fiction of Koren Shadmi and Rutu Modan

Tony Venezia

183

Archives, Alan Moore, and the Historio-Graphic Novel

Ana G. Gal

200

The Social Modes of Heroization and Vilification in Stoker’s Dracula, a Graphic Novel by Roy Thomas and Dick Giordano

Sarita G.

215

Remembering the Relics: Study of Select Comic Books That Trace the Roots of India’s Cultural Inheritance

Sol M. Davidson

243

Have Comics, Will Travel: Two Hobbies, One Great Journey

John Otu

275

Nigerian Cartooning and the Dearth of Female Cartoonists

Geoffrey Moses

288

“What a Life!” Carl Barks’ Donald Duck as Nervous Modern

Jeremy Stoll

302

A Domestic Schizophrenia: Gender and Political Cartoons in the Middle East

Robert G. Weiner

323

Portrayal of Nurses and Marvel Comics’ Night Nurse

A. David Lewis

337

New Jerusalem Postponed: Revelation and Darnall & Ross’s Uncle Sam

Bob Britten

355

Picturing Terror: Visual and Verbal Rhetoric in The 9/11 Report Graphic Adaptation

Aaron Clayton

370

Bloody Hell: Realism in American War Comics

Jessica Kowalik

388

Miller Misunderstood: Rethinking the Politics of “The Dark Knight”

Andy Smith

401

The Ephemeral Nature of Everything: A Conversation with Art Spiegelman

Marguerite Imbert

410

The Spirit of Animation: An Interview with Jules Feiffer

Roman Rosenbaum

415

Tezuka Osamu: Adolf – Towards a Historio-graphic Novel

Andrew Yang

435

The Two Japans of “Spirited Away”

Asif Iqbal

453

Origins and Status of Pakistani Animation

Wai-Ming Ng

460

The Consumption and Perception of Japanese ACG (Animation-Comic-Game) among Yong People in Hong Kong

John A. Lent

478

The Printed Word

Derek Parker Royal

483

Four Recent Guides to Graphic Novels

 

493

Book Reviews

 

507

Exhibition and Media Reviews

 

529

Portfolio