Issues:

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 2004)

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.