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Volume 6, Number 3 (Winter 2013)

Shakespeare and Visual Rhetoric

• Editors' Introduction by Katherine Shaeffer and Richard Burt
• Visual Statements in Shakespearean Adaptations: Illustrating Romeo and Juliet for Children by Cara Byrne
• "To dignify some old costumed claptrap": Shakespearean Allusion and the Status of Text in the DC Comics of Grant Morrison by Brandon Christopher
• Shakespeare Manga: Early- or Post-modern? by Svenn-Arve Myklebost
• Interface Rhetoric in Shakespearean Comics: A Study of the Effect of Interface on the Construction of Shakespeare's Plays by F. Vance Neill
• The Tempest: Pastoral Romance or Colonial Critique? by Margaret Roper
• "These are not our Father's words!": Kill Shakespeare's Defense of the Meta-Text by Jason Tondro
• Review of The Metamorphoses of Tintin by Andréa Gilroy
• Review of Bradford W. Wright's Comic Book Nation by Jeremiah Massengale
• The Toils of a Clowes: A Review of Daniel Clowes: Conversations by Shauna Osborn
• Review of Dante's Divine Comedy by Seymour Chwast by Nicholas A. Theisen

Volume 6, Number 2 (Spring 2012)

ImageNext: Visions Past and Future

• Editor's Introduction by Katherine Shaeffer
• Monitoring the Past: DC Comics' Crisis on Infinite Earths and the Narrativization of Comic Book History by Andrew J. Friedenthal
• The Military Vanguard for Desegregation: Civil Rights Era War Comics and Racial Integration by Christopher J. Hayton and David L. Albright
• The Parts That Got Left Out oF the Donald Duck Book, or: How Karl Marx Prevailed Over Carl Barks by David Kunzle
• Urban America in the Newspaper Comic Strips of the Nineteenth Century: Introducing the Yellow Kid by Christina Meyer
• Illustration: Greetings from Florida, the Sunshine State by John Porcellino
• Reading from Within the Panel by David Steiling
• Review of Arguing Comics: Literary Masters on a Popular Medium by Eric L. Berlatsky
• Review of The Best American Comics Criticism by Eric L. Berlatsky
• Review of Laurence Grove's Comics in French: The European Bande Dessinée in Context by Alice Claire Burrows
• Review of Suspended Animation: Children's Picture Books and the Fairy Tale of Modernity by Caroline Campbell
• Review of Selected BD Scholarship by Anne Cirella-Urrutia
• Review of The Dragon and the Dazzle by Martin de la Iglesia
• Review of Drawn and Dangerous: Italian Comics of the 1970s and 1980s by
• Review of Graven Images by Paul Petrovic
• Review of Do the Gods Wear Capes?: Spirituality, Fantasy, and Superheroes. by Greg Steirer

Volume 6, Number 1 (Fall 2011)

• Fidelity and Period Aesthetics in Comics Adaptation by Matthew Bolton
• The Violence Museum: Aesthetic Wounds from Popeye to We3 by Jonathan Gaboury
• Two Texts on "Comics" from China, ca. 1932: "In Defense of 'Comic Strips'" by Lu Xun and "Comic Strip Novels" by Mao Dun by Sean Macdonald
• When Photographs Aren't Quite Enough: Reflections on Photography and Cartooning in Le Photographe by Nancy Pedri
• The Empirical Twilight: A Pony's Guide to Science & Anarchism by Walton Wood
• Review of Charles M. Schulz's My Life With Charlie Brown by Eric L. Berlatsky
• Review of History and Politics in French-Language Comics and Graphic Novels by Anne Cirella-Urrutia
• Surveying the Field: Recent Scholarship on Superheroines by Megan Condis
• Review of Caped Crusaders 101: Composition through Comic Books by Michael Dean
• Book Art: a review of Art of McSweeney's by Zara Dinnen
• Review of Theodor SEUSS Geisel by Donald E. Pease by Rebekah Fitzsimmons
• Review of Drawing France: French Comics and the Republic by Andréa L. Gilroy
• Review of José Alaniz' Komiks: Comic Art in Russia by Alison Mandaville
• Review of Teaching Visual Literacy by Clinton L. Robison
• Review of Toni Johnson-Woods' MANGA by Caleb Simmons
• Review of Animators Unearthed: A Guide to the Best of Contemporary Animation by Walton Wood

Volume 5, Number 4 (Spring 2011)

Alan Moore and Adaptation

• Editors' Introduction: Alan Moore and Adaptation by Rex Krueger and Katherine Shaeffer
• "Her Guardiner": Alan Moore's Swamp Thing as the Green Man by Colin Beineke
• The Saga of the Swamp Thing: Feminism and Race on the Comic Book Stand by Megan A.Condis
• Interplay Amidst the Strangeness and the Charm: Under-language and the Attenuation of Meaning in the Film Adaptation of Watchmen by Vyshali Manivannan
• The Culturally Constituted Gaze: Fetishizing the Feminine from Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons's Watchmen to Zack Snyder's Watchmen by Paul Petrovic
• A Man of Steel (by any other name):
  Adaptation and Continuity in Alan Moore's "Superman" by Jack Teiwes
• Review of Annalisa Di Liddo's Alan Moore: Comics as Performance, Fiction as Scalpel by Eric L. Berlatsky
• Review of Mechademia 4: War/Time by Ellen Grabiner
• Comics OR Philosophy? A Review of Comics as Philosophy (2005) by Mervi Miettinen
• Review of Art Spiegelman: Conversations by Laura Perna
• Review of Of Comics and Men: A Cultural History of American Comic Books by Matthew Pustz
• Review of The Anime Machine by Caleb Simmons
• Review of Graphic Women: Life Narrative and Contemporary Comics by Anastasia Ulanowicz

Volume 5, Number 3 (Fall 2010)

Convergences: Comics, Culture and Globalization

• Editors' IntroductionIntroduction: Conergences: Comics Culture and Globalizatioon by Tania Darlington and Aaron Kashtan
• Imagining a Multiplicity of Visual Rhetorical Traditions: Comics Lessons from Rhetoric Histories by Franny Howes
• Mullahs to Donkeys: Cartooning in Azerbaijan by Alison Mandaville
• Native Noir: Genre and the Politics of Indigenous Representation in Recent American Comics by Derek Parker Royal
• "Surrounded by Stillness and Quiet": Translation, Transparency, and Genre in Jason's Jernvognen by Joel Simundich
• Alan Moore, "Secondary Literacy," and the Modernism of the Graphic Novel by Phillip E. Wegner
• Review of Time Frames: Japanese Cinema and the Unfolding of History by Andréa L. Gilroy
• "SPLAT! CRACK!": Review of Secret Identity: The Fetish Art of Superman's Co-Creator Joe Shuster by Terry Harpold
• Review of The Power of Comics by Rex Krueger
• Review of Isadora Duncan: A Graphic Biography by Philip Nel
• Review of Looking for Calvin and Hobbes by Laura Perna
• Review of Teaching the Graphic Novel by Sarah N. Petrovic
• Review of Walter Benjamin's Archive: Images, Texts, Signs by Anastasia Ulanowicz

Volume 5, Number 2 (Spring 2010)

Anime and Utopia

• Introduction: Anime's Coming Communities by Phillip E. Wegner
• Contested Utopias: Ghost in the Shell, Cognitive Mapping, and the Desire for Communism by Matthew Stoddard
• The City Ascends: Laputa: Castle in the Sky as Critical Ecotopia by Anthony Lioi
• "An Unfinished Project that was Also a Missed Opportunity": Utopia and Alternate History in Hayao Miyazaki's My Neighbor Totoro by Phillip E. Wegner
• Possessed by and of: Up against Seeing: Princess Mononoke by John Leavey
• Digital Love: A Review of Cinephilia in the Age of Digital Reproduction: Film, Pleasure and Digital Culture, Vol.1 by Megan Condis
• Review of Otaku: Japan's Database Animals by Tania Darlington
• Review of God of Comics: Osamu Tezuka and the Creation of Post-World War II Manga by Tof Eklund

Volume 5, Number 1 (Winter 2010)

• Graphic Whiteness and the Lessons of Chris Ware’s Jimmy Corrigan by Juda Bennett and Cassandra Jackson
• Watchmen: The Graphic Novel as Trauma Fiction by Brandy Ball Blake
• The Confluence of Heroism, Sissyhood, and Camp in The Rawhide Kid: Slap Leather by Frank Bramlett
• "To the Stables, Robin": Regenerating the Frontier in Frank Miller’s Batman: The Dark Knight Returns by Theo Finigan
• Breaking the Frame: Political Acts of Body in the Televised Dark Knight by DT Kofoed
• "Mosaic Thresholds": Manifesting the Collection and Production of Comics in the works of Chris Ware by Aaron Mauro
• The Beautiful Ambiguity of Blankets: Comics Representation and Religious Art by Benjamin Stevens
• "Now you will pay a dreadful penalty!": A Review of I Shall Destroy All the Civilized Planets! and You Shall Die by Your Own Evil Creation! by Fletcher Hanks by Terry Harpold

 

Volume 4, Number 3 (Summer 2009)

ImageSexT: Intersections of Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

• Editor's Introductionby Lyndsay Brown and Tof Eklund
• The Queering of Haruhi Fujioka: Cross-Dressing, Camp and Commoner Culture in Ouran High School Host Club by Tania Darlington
• I for Integrity: (Inter)Subjectivities and Sidekicks in Alan Moore's V for Vendetta and Frank Miller’s Batman: The Dark Knight Returns by Jordana Greenblatt
• Our Minds in the Gutters: Sexuality, History, and Reader Responsibility in George O'Connor's Graphic Novel Journey into Mohawk Country by Melissa L. Mellon
• Spectral Memory, Sexuality and Inversion: An Arthrological Study of Alison Bechdel's Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Adrielle Mitchell
• "Gimme Gimme This, Gimme Gimme That": Confused Sexualities and Genres in Cooper and Mayerson’s Horror Hospital Unplugged by James Newlin
• The Joy of Plex: Erotic Arthrology, Tromplographic Intercourse, and "Interspecies Romances" in Howard Chaykin’s American Flagg! by Daniel F. Yezbick
• Review of Jim Ottoviani and Dylan Meconis' Wire Mothers: Harry Harlow and the Science of Love by Star Hoffman

 

Volume 4, Number 2 (Winter 2008)

• Gotham (K)Nights: Utopianism, American Mythology, and Frank Miller’s Bat(-topia) by Graham J. Murphy
• Abstraction, Trauma, and the Orphan in Brian Michael Bendis and David Mack's Daredevil: Wake Up by Rex Krueger
• Race, Space, and New Right Editorial Cartoons in the United States by Patrick Lynn Rivers
• Reading Peanuts: the Secular and the Sacred by Stephen J. Lind
• Review of Reading Network Fiction by David Ciccoricco by Hanli Geyser
• Spaniards and Queers and Comics: Oh My!" A Review of Queer Transitions in Contemporary Spanish Culture by Gema Perez-Sanchez by Ellen Gil-Gomez
• Review of Shake Girl by Katherine Shaeffer
• Review of Jessica Abel and Matt Madden's Drawing Words and Writing Pictures by Tof Eklund
• From the Margins of the Margin: Seeing Educational Comics by Joseph Witek
• On the difficulty of characterizing what educational comics are about by John Van Hook
• Educational Comics: A Family Tree by Sol Davidson

 

Volume 4, Number 1 (Summer 2008)

The Comics Work of Neil Gaiman

• Introduction Philip Sandifer and Tof Eklund
• Fairy and Faerie: Uses of the Victorian in Neil Gaiman's and Charles Vess's Stardust Meredith Collins
• Through Every Mirror in the World: Lacan's Mirror Stage as Mutual Reference in the Works of Neil Gaiman and Tori Amos S. Alexander Reed
• Incomensurable Ontologies and the Return of the Witness in Neil Gaiman's 1602 James R. Fleming
• Get Gaiman?: PolyMorpheus Perversity in Works by and about Neil Gaiman Clay Smith
• Phantom Towers: Crypto-towers Haunting Dave McKean's Cages and Mirrormask Matthew Feltman
• 'Being' Decentered in Sandman: History, Dreams, Gender, and the 'Prince of Metaphor and Allusion' Rodney Sharkey
• 'Tales Worked in Blood and Bone:' Words and Images as Scalpel and Suture in Graphic Narratives Jon Saklofske
• The Sandman as Neomedieval Text Zuleyha Cetiner-Oktem
• Review of Sandman Papers: An Exploration of the Sandman Mythology , ed. Joe Sanders Aaron Kashtan

 

Volume 3, Number 3 (Summer 2007)

Comics and Childhood

• Introduction, Cathlena Martin & Charles Hatfield
• Learning from the Sequence: The Use of Comics in Instruction Gorg Mallia
• Riddles of Engagement: Narrative Play in the Children's Media and Comic Art of George Carlson Daniel Yezbick
• The Many Sides of Hank: Modifications, Adjustments, and Adaptations of Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Cari Keebaugh
• Crossovers and Changeovers: Reading Lynn Johnston through Margaret Mahy Sam Hester
• When Real Things Happen to Imaginary Tigers Philip Sandifer
• Imagetext in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time James Bucky Carter
• Opening-Up Aesop's Fables: Heteroglossia in Slade & Toni Morrison and Pascal Lemaître's 'The Ant or the Grasshopper?' Veronique Bragard
• Baby-Boom Children and Harvey Comics After the Code: A Neighborhood of Little Girls and Boys Kathy Merlock Jackson and Mark D. Arnold
• ImageSexT: A Roundtable on Lost Girls Philip Sandifer, Moderator
  • Down the Rabbit Hole Kenneth Kidd
  • A Magical Realism of the Fuck Tof Eklund
  • A Review and a Response Charles Hatfield
  • History, Pornography, and Lost Girls Meredith Collins
• "Four Conceptions of the Page," from Case, planche, récit: lire la bande dessinée Benoît Peeters, translated by Jesse Cohn
• Translator's Commentary on Peeters, "Four Conceptions of the Page" Jesse Cohn
• Review of Aesthetic Approaches to Children's Literature: An Introduction, by Maria Nikolajeva Joseph Thomas
• Review of Moomin: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip. Vol. 1 Philip Nel
• Review of The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana Thomas Stewart

 

Volume 3, Number 2 (Winter 2007)

"William Blake and Visual Culture"

• Introduction Roger Whitson
• Minute Particulars and Quantum Atoms: The Invisible, the Indivisible, and the Visualizable in William Blake and in Niels Bohr Arkady Plotnitsky
• Wordsworth Illustrates Blake ("All light is mute amid the gloom") Nelson Hilton
• William Blake and the Novel Space of Revolution Ron Broglio
• Blake's Lines: Seven Digressions Through Time and Space Esther Leslie
• Panelling Parallax: The Fearful Symmetry of Alan Moore and William Blake Roger Whitson
• Re-Visioning William Blake's The Four Zoas Donald Ault
• William Blake: On the Infinite Plane Matthew Ritchie
• Engraving the Void and Sketching Parallel Worlds: An Interview with Bryan Talbot Roger Whitson interviews Bryan Talbot
• Tygers of Wrath John Coulthart
• Mr. Blake's Company Joel Priddy

 

Volume 3, Number 1 (Summer 2006)

• Reading the Illustrations of Jules Verne's Voyages extraordinaires: The Example of Le Superbe Orénoque by Terry Harpold
• The Exotic Other Scripted: Identity and Metamorphosis in David Mack's Kabuki by Jim Casey and Stefan Hall
• Desire without closure in Jaime Hernandez' Love and Rockets by Esther Saxey
• Architectural Grounding in Miller's Elektra: Temporality and Spatiality in the Graphic Novel by Renée Tobe
• Imagining Terrorists before Sept. 11: Marvel's GI Joe Comic Books, 1982-1994 by Christopher Norlund
• Yorick, Don't Be A Hero: Productive Motion in Y: the Last Man by Lyndsay Brown
• Review of Drawn to Extremes: The Use and Abuse of Editorial Cartoons by Chris Lamb by Michael Mayne
• Review of Action Chicks: New Images of Tough Women in Popular Culture ed. Sherrie A. Inness by Ione Damasco
• Review of The Gospel According to Superheroes: Religion and Popular Culture ed. B.J. Oropeza by James Fleming
• Review of Fredric Wertham and the Critique of Mass Culture by Bart Beaty by Tof Eklund
• Review of Black Superheroes, Milestone Comics, and Their Fans by Jeffrey A. Brown by Lelac Almagor
• Review of Lost Girls by Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie by Philip Sandifer
• Notes on Contributors

 

Volume 2, Number 2 (Winter 2006)

• Welcome by Stephanie Boluk
• Theological Compatibilism & Animation: Vessel of Wrath by Nathan Gilder
• Beyond the Balloon: Sound Effects and Background Text in Lynn Johnston's For Better or For Worse by Suzanne Covey
• Ecofeminist Themes in Paolo Eleuteri Serpieri's Morbus Gravis by Matthew Jones
• The Tides of History: Alan Moore's Historiographic Vision by Sean Carney
• Gothic Oedipus: subjectivity and Capitalism in Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins by Mark Fisher
• Review of Superman on the Couch: What Superheroes Really Tell Us about Ourselves and Our Society by James R. Fleming
• Review of Raeburn's Chris Ware by Emma Tinker
• "Old Comics and Current Technology Combine to Form New Hybrids", Review of 40 Years of The Amazing Spider-Man and 44 Years of Fantastic Four by James Bucky Carter
• "2005 Comic-Con Shines a Light on Eisner: A Look at Two Documentaries and a Tribute" Review of: 2005 International Comic-Con in San Diego by Vanessa Raney
• Notes on Contributors

 

Volume 2, Number 1 (Summer 2005)

• Welcome by Zach Whalen
• Memoriam for Bruce Hamilton by Donald Ault
• Paraliterary Immersion and the Puzzleform: An Essay in Social Restitution? by Alvaro Aleman
• Gendered Visions of Graphic Fiction: Adrian Tomine's Summer Blonde by Bianca Isaki
• Pound’s Poetry as IMAGE TEXT by James McDougall
• “I, too, was a Teenage Marvel Zombie.” Review of Editor Sean Howe's Give our Regards to the Atomsmashers!: Writers on Comics by Travis Fristoe
• Review of Geoff Klock's How to Read Superhero Comics and Why by James R. Fleming
• Review of: Charles Burns’ Black Hole by Vanessa Raney
• Notes on Contributors
  

Volume 1, Number 2 (Winter 2005)

• Preludium: Crumb, Barks, and Noomin: Re-Considering the Aesthetics of Underground Comics by Donald Ault.
• Memoriam for Will Eisner by Charles Hatfield.
• Still asking, "Are We Having Fun Yet?" by Bill Griffith.
• Wimmin and Comix by Diane Noomin.
• Comics on the Main Street of Culture by Eddie Campbell.
• London Khorographic by Julian Wolfreys.
• Alan Moore and the Graphic Novel: Confronting the Fourth Dimension by Bucky Carter and Mark Bernard.
• Webcomics: The Influence and Continuation of the Comix Revolution by Sean Fenty, Trena Houp, and Laurie Taylor.
• Review of Comic Strips and Consumer Culture, 1890-1945. By Ian Gordon. by Joshua Paddison.
• Review of Leaving Springfield: The Simpsons and the Possibility of Oppositional Culture. Ed. John Alberti. by Cathlena Martin.
• Review of Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer. by Sudha Shastri.
• Review of The Rubber Frame: Essays in Culture and Comics. Ed. D.B. Dowd and M. Todd Hignite. by Tof Eklund.
• Notes on Contributors

Volume 1 Number 1 (Spring 2004)

• Welcome by Donald Ault.
• Presentation by Will Eisner.
• Presentation by Daniel Clowes, Terry Zwigoff, and Isaac Cates.
• Q & A with Dan Clowes and Terry Zwigoff.
• Presentation by Joe Sacco.
• Presentation by Robert Williams.
• Presentation by Kim Deitch.
• The Presence of the Artist: Kim Deitch’s Boulevard of Broken Dreams vis-à-vis the Animated Cartoon by Charles Hatfield.
• Imagetext, or, Why Art Spiegelman Doesn't Draw Comics by Joseph Witek.
• Jewish Fathers and Sons in Spiegelman's Maus and Roth's Patrimony by Andrew Gordon.
• Racial Imagery, Racism, Individualism, and Underground Comix by Leonard Rifas.
• Compromised Divisions: Thresholds in Comic Books and Video Games by Laurie N. Taylor.
• David Boring: Loose Threads and Five Card Nancy by Isaac Cates.
• Imagetextuality: “Cutting Up” Again, Part III by Donald Ault.
• Notes on Contributors

Exhibits

Exhibit 1 (Fall 2004)

This is an online companion to an exhibit held by the University of Florida Library. The exhibit, "'Help Is On The Way!' Comic Books and Superheroes in Special Collections," features comics selected from the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature. The focus is mainly on popular superheroes/comic books that appeared in DC comics published during the so-called "Silver Age" (roughly from the late 50s through the early 70s).

Our online collection features scans of images in this collection, including covers and page content, organized by title.