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On behalf of Donald Ault and the Editorial Staff of ImageTexT, I am pleased to announce that ImageTexT Volume 3, Issue 3 is now available: http://www.english.ufl.edu/imagetext/archives/v3_3/
Volume 3, Issue 3, a special issue devoted to "Comics and Childhood," is edited by Cathlena Martin and Charles Hatfield. It seeks to examine the intersection of comics and childhood from several vantages, including comics and children's literature, comics and education, comics and publishing, and comics and revisions of literature.
This issue features essays from Gorg Mallia, Daniel Yezbick, James Bucky Carter, Philip Sandifer, Veronique Bragard, Cari Keebaugh, Kathy Merlock Jackson and Mark D. Arnold, as well as original art by Sam Hester. This special issue includes several ImageTexT firsts. The journal's first roundtable links scholars Meredith Collins, Tof Eklund, Charles Hatfield and Kenneth Kidd in conversation about Lost Girls. And we have included Jesse Cohn's translation of and commentary on Benoît Peeters's "Four Conceptions of the Page," we hope the first of many such new translations of important comics theory and criticism previously unavailable in English.
On behalf of Donald Ault and the Editorial Staff of ImageTexT, I am pleased to announce that ImageTexT Volume 3, Issue 2 is now available: http://www.english.ufl.edu/imagetext/archives/v3_2/
Volume 3, Issue 2, a special issue devoted to "William Blake and Visual Culture, " is edited by Roger Whitson and Donald Ault. It seeks to challenge divisions existing between comic, visual, and Romantic studies. The issue features essays from Arkady Plotnitsky,Nelson Hilton, Ron Broglio, Donald Ault, Esther Leslie, Matthew Ritchie and Roger Whitson, as well as original art by Joel Priddy and John Coulthart and an interview with Bryan Talbot.
On behalf of Donald Ault and the Editorial Staff of ImageTexT, I am pleased to announce that ImageTexT Volume 3, Issue 1 is now available: http://www.english.ufl.edu/imagetext/archives/v3_1/
This issue features critical essays on topics ranging from illustrated editions of Jules Verne to representations of desire in Jaime Hernandez' Love and Rockets. It also features reviews of books including Black Superheroes, Milestone Comics, and Their Fans, Action Chicks: New Images of Tough Women in Popular Culture, as well as a review of Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie's brand new graphic novel Lost Girls.
On behalf of General Editor Donald Ault and the Editorial Staff of ImageTexT, I am pleased to announce the publication of _ImageTexT: Interdisciplinary Comics Studies_ Volume 2 : Issue 2 (Winter 2005).
http://www.english.ufl.edu/imagetext/archives/v2_2/This issue features an original animation, critical essays, and a series of reviews:
We are pleased to announce the release of ImageTexT, Volume 2, Issue 1. The issue features several articles and several reviews. The articles range from analyses of textual forms as they combine image and text in James McDougall's study of Blake's and Pound's texts as image-texts, studies of comics as a medium in Alevaro Aleman's article, and studies of the social and cultural significance of comics in Bianca Isaki's reading of Adrian Tomine's "Summer Blonde."
Please see the issue online:
http://www.english.ufl.edu/imagetext/archives/v2_1/
On behalf of Donald Ault, and the entire editorial and production staff, it is my pleasure to announce that the second issue of ImageTexT: Interdisciplinary Comics Studies is now available.
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Overview:
The objective of ImageTexT is to advance the academic study of comic books, comic strips, and animated cartoons. Under the guidance of an editorial board of scholars from a variety of disciplines, ImageTexT publishes solicited and peer-reviewed papers that investigate the material, historical, theoretical, and cultural implications of visual textuality.
The editors and staff of ImageTexT pleased to bring you our first issue. To view this remarkable collection of articles, click on the "current issue" link to go to the issue's title page. Also, you can click on the thumbnail button anywhere it appears to return to the issue's table of contents page.
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