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Comics Forum Online: Annual Review and Conference Call for Papers
Graphic Medicine by Ian Williams, MK Czerviec, Maria Vaccarella
Image [&] Narrative by Charlotte Pylyser, Steven Surdiacourt and Greice Schneider
The International Bande Dessinée Society
Sculpture and Comic Art by Kirstie Gregory
Special Editions
Comics and Cultural Work (Guest Editor: Casey Brienza)
Rummaging Around in Alan Moore’s Shorts (Guest Editor: Maggie Gray)
Roundtables
The Future Art of the Past? An e-panel on comics and archaeology, edited by John Swogger
Featuring: Chloe Brown, Peter Connelly, Troy Lovata, Hannah Sackett, John Swogger and Al B. Wesolowsky
The Spanish Civil War in Comics: A Conversation on Spanish Comics, Remembrance, and Trauma by Sarah D. Harris and Enrique del Rey Cabero
Articles (arranged alphabetically by author surname)
Alaniz, José: Czech Comics Anthropology: Life and Story in O přibjehi: Keva
Bergström, Malin: Into the depths of The Fountain: a study of visual layers in Aronofsky and Williams’s vision
Berlatsky, Eric: Between Supermen: Homosociality, Misogyny, and Triangular Desire in the Earliest Superman Stories
Beronä, David A.: Woodcut Novels: Cutting a Path to the Graphic Novel
Berry, Dan: Snapshots
Blanch, Christina: Gender through Comic Books
Brienza, Casey: A Reply to Simon Locke
Burscough, Clark: Genre Conventions
Chapman, James: Thinking about comics scholarship
Cortsen, Rikke Platz: ‘From now on everything is just going to get worse’
Crosby, Louise & Helen Iball: Laydeez do Comics Leeds launch
Davies, Paul Fisher: A Report on the BCCS Comics Day and Tea Party
Dawson Varughese, E. Inequality and Adversity, in Content and Form: The Indian Graphic Novel Bhimayana
de la Iglesia, Martin: Early manga translations in the West: underground cult or mainstream failure?
Dinnen, Zara: Two Jonathans: Writing on comics in essays
Dittmar, Jakob F. Experiments in Digital Comics: Somewhere between Comics and Multimedia Storytelling
Dittmer, Jason: Captain America and the Body Politic
Dony, Christophe: Vertigo’s Archival Impulse as Memorious Discourse
Duke, Sara W.: The Art of the Cartoon: Exploring the Collections of the Library of Congress
Duncan, Randy & Matthew J. Smith: Learning from Film Studies: Analogies and Challenges
Earle, Harriet. The Whites of their Eyes: Implied Violence and Double Frames in Blazing Combat and The ‘Nam
El Refaie, Elisabeth: Visual authentication strategies in autobiographical comics
Evdokimova, Maria: The History of Russian Comics: An Interview with Misha Zaslavskiy
What Comics are Published and Read in Russia?
Introducing Russian Comic Artists
Forceville, Charles: The visualization of anger in comics
Fransman, Karrie: The Body as a Canvas in Comics: Karrie Fransman Explores the Influence of Corporal Studies in the Creation of her graphic novel The House That Groaned
Goodbrey, Daniel Merlin: Digital Comics: New Mutations & Innovations by Daniel Merlin Goodbrey
Graphixia: Graphixia at Comics Forum 2013
Grove, Laurence: A Note on the Woman who Gave Birth to Rabbits One Hundred Years Before Töpffer
Hague, Ian: The Nimble Scholar: An Interview with Chris Murray
Sketching in Lectures: An Interview With Mel Gibson
Havstad, Joyce C.: Using Comics to Teach Philosophy, Inclusively
Henderson, Al. Palimpsestic Tales: The drawings of ‘Light Horse Tales of an Afghan War’. How and why these comics came into being.
Herd, Damon: Comics and Performance: From ‘Chalk Talks’ to ‘Carousel’
Hoyles, Anna: Comics and the World Wars – a cultural record
Huxley, David: A Dazzling Lack of Respectability: Comics and Academia in the UK: 1971 – 2011
Johnston, Paddy: Tintin at 85: A Conference Review
Kashtan, Aaron: Digital comics and material richness
Kuhlman, Martha: “Avant-Garde Comics? The Very Idea.”
Labarre, Nicolas: A fragmentary past: Karasik and Mazzucchelli’s City of Glass
Lauzon, Marilyn and Mathieu Laflamme: Talking Sense(s): A Review of Montreal’s first CRAS Comic Forum
Laycock, Di: Keep watering the rocks
Leroy, Fabrice: On Rewriting Hemingway: Inside Joann Sfar’s Intertextual Web
Lightman, Sarah: Women in Comics
Link, Alex: Funny? Animals? The Problem of We3
Locke, Simon: Constructing a sociology of comics
MacLeod, Catriona: Ah! Nana: The Forgotten French Feminist Comics Magazine
Mahato, Mita: Universalism Re-visited: The Cartoon Image, My Mom, and Mii
Maher, LJ: Comic Books and Rock ‘n’ Roll
McClancy, Kathleen: The Comics Arts Conference and Public Humanities
McKinney, Mark: The Colonial Heritage of Comics in French
Meskin, Aaron: What is the Philosophy of Comics?
Mickwitz, Nina: Traversing Frames: the Dialectic between Comics and Travel
Some thoughts on an Emerging Field: Connections, Transitions and Looking Ahead
Miller, Ann: Rabbit Stew
Miodrag, Hannah: Narrative breakdown in The Long and Unlearned Life of Roland Gethers
Molotiu, Andrei: List of Terms for Comics Studies
Moreno, Esther Claudio: The Reinterpretation of the Superhero in Seagle and Kristiansen’s It’s a bird…
Ormrod, Joan: Conference Review: The Joint International Conference of Graphic Novels and Comics (Review #1)
Packard, Stephan: Superior Unreliability: Thoughts on Narrators in Comics on the Occasion of Spider-Man 2012/13
Pascoal, Renata Rafaela: The Architecture in Comics
Pearlman, Corinne: Cartoon County
Pearson, Laura: Alternative Paradoxes in Heartless: Reading (Un-)Love in Nina Bunjevac’s ‘Bitter Tears of Zorka Petrovic’
Picone, Michael D.: Sequential Art: Rows by any other name…
Postema, Barbara: The Death of the Cartoonist? Working on Living Creators
Precup, Mihaela: ‘Blueprints for a Forward-Dawning Futurity’: Brynjar Åbel Banlien’s Strîmb Life (2009) and Strîmb Living – 5 Years with Oskar (2011)
Priego, Ernesto: Comics Scholarship 2.0
Ray Murray, Padmini: Comic (Book History): towards a new methodology
Register, Paul: Where did the ‘Stan Lee Excelsior Award’ come from? And where is it going?
Robbins, Trina: The Two Glorious Years of Ah! Nana
Round, Julia: Conference Review: The Joint International Conference of Graphic Novels and Comics (Review #2)
Sanders, Joe Sutliff: To Allude or To, Like, Not
Schneider, Greice: The Joy and the Burden of the Comics Artist: The role of boredom in the production of comics
Scott, Cord: Propaganda in Comics
Screech, Matthew: Conference Review: The International Bande Dessinée Society’s Seventh International Conference by Matthew Screech
Smith, Dan: Reading Correspondences through the Virtual Feminist Museum
Smith, Philip: Hybrid Languages and Literary forms in Gene Luen Yang’s American Born Chinese
Maus in the Indonesian Classroom
Stein, Daniel: Comics Studies in Germany: Where It’s At and Where It Might Be Heading
Swogger, John: Comics Forum 2011
The Sequential Art of the Past: Archaeology, comics and the dynamics of an emerging genre
Szép, Eszter: “Can one still laugh about everything?”
Tarbox, Gwen Athene: Beaucoup de Femmes, Un Artiste: Focalization Cues in the Graphic Novels of Bastien Vivès
Tsene, Lida: Comics Studies in Greece
Uhlig, Barbara: ‘Chercher dans le Noir’ – the gap as motif in Caboto by Lorenzo Mattotti and Jorge Zentner
Valgreen, Lisbeth. Telling the Prehistory of Greenland in Graphic Novels
in ‘t Veld, Laurike: Genocide in Comics
Venezia, Tony: The Indisciplined Middle Space
Verwoerd, Aletta: Navigating the Post-9/11 Mental Space Architecture and Expressionism in In the Shadow of No Towers
Wadle, Hannah: Anthropology goes Comics
Weiner, Robert G.: Comics in Education: A Personal Perspective
Williams, Paul: Literary Impressionism and Chris Ware’s Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth (2000)
Woo, Benjamin: Beyond Our Borders: Mapping the Space of Comics
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