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Chatting with 1/6 comic book writer Alan Jenkins about insurrections and...
by Mike RhodeOn the weekend of Juneteenth, and Awesome Con, I had the opportunity to speak with Professor Alan Jenkins, co-writer of 1/6: A Graphic Novel, which was funded through Kickstarter,...
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Not All Heroes Need Museums: Brussels’ Marc Sleen Museum Closes
Photos by Mike Rhode, January 2019by Wim LockefeerSomewhere in the 70s, when people all over the world started seeing comics as something more than "just for kids," early cognoscenti of comics in...
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Exhibition in photos: Barbara Dale Retrospective in Baltimore
Barbara Dale Retrospective. Jeffrey Kent (cur.). Baltimore: Peale Museum. June 15-August 6, 2023. https://www.thepeale.org/exhibition-barbara-dale-retrospective/Since I know the artist, this is not a...
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Le Petit Poilu in concert: a fresh take on music and movement in comics
Le Petit Poilu in concert: a fresh take on music and movement in comicsA “BD-Concert” at the Comics Art Museum in Brussels, Belgium. June 10, 2023 Reviewed by Laurie Anne Agnese On a Saturday...
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Opening of Rumah Lat dan Galeri (or Lat is still a simple man)
Years in the making. And inevitably delayed by Covid, Rumah Lat dan Galeri (the Lat gallery) finally had its official opening on July 8, 2023.I received a call from Lat 2 weeks prior, asking if I was...
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JUST A SIMPLE MAN: The 1994 Lat interview
by Lim Cheng Tju (this article originally appeared in print as JUST A SIMPLE MAN. The Lat interview by Lim Cheng Tju in a Singaporean magazine, BigO (Jan 1994), pps. 59-60. It is reprinted and...
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Book Review: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse: The Art of the Movie, by...
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse: The Art of the Movie, by Ramin Zahed. New York: Abrams, 2023. 224 pp. ISBN: 9781419763991. U.S. $40....
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Book Review: Desegregating Comics: Debating Blackness in the Golden Age of...
Reviewed by Michael KobreDesegregating Comics: Debating Blackness in the Golden Age of American Comics, edited by Qiana Whitted. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2023. 358 pp. ISBN:...
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Table of Contents for Vol. 25, No. 1 Spring/Summer 2023
The e-version of this is now available; if you're a subscriber or want to purchase the single issue, email "John A. Lent"<john.lent@temple.edu> The print edition should be shipping in a few...
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Book review: Marvel Comics in the 1970s: The World inside Your Head by Eliot...
by CT LimMarvel Comics in the 1970s: The World inside Your Head. Eliot Borenstein. Cornell University Press, 2023. 267 pages, $23.95....
View ArticleMSU hires Comics Studies Librarian Jason Larsen
Since August 14th, Jason Larsen has been the Comics Studies Librarian at the largest comic book collection in the world. While getting his library degree, he interned at MSU.The Library is currently...
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Book Review: Drawn to Satire: Sketches of Cartoonists in Singapore by CT Lim...
Drawn to Satire: Sketches of Cartoonists in Singapore. CT Lim and Koh Hong Teng. Pause Narratives, 2023. 144 pages, $26.89. reviewed by Felix CheongIf one uses a metaphor of satire as the art of...
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Georgia Higley, "America's comic book librarian," retires from Library of...
by Mike Rhode I don't know if anyone actually ever called her "America's comic book librarian," but someone should have.On October 31, 2023, Georgia Higley retired from the Library of Congress (LOC)...
View ArticleIJOCA wants you! to help celebrate its 25th anniversary
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMIC ARTJohn A. LentFounding Publisher/Editor-in-Chief669 Ferne Blvd., Drexel Hill, PA 19026, U.S.A.Tel: (610) 622-3938 Email: jlent@temple.eduwww.ijoca.net PRESS...
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Book review: J. Andrew Deman – The Claremont Run: Subverting Gender in the...
J. Andrew Deman, The Claremont Run: Subverting Gender in the X-Men, Austin: University of Texas Press, 2023. https://utpress.utexas.edu/9781477325452/ reviewed by James Willetts It’s...
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Book review: Washington’s Gay General: The Legends and Loves of Baron von...
reviewed by Cord ScottTrujillo, Josh and Levi Hastings. Washington’s Gay General: The Legends and Loves of Baron von Steuben. New York: Abram’s Surely Press, 2023. $24.99 ISBN 978-1-4197-4372-6....
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Book Review: Matthias Lehmann's Parallel
reviewed by Lizzy Walker, Wichita State UniversityMatthias Lehmann. Parallel. Oregon: Oni Press, 2023. 452 pages, $29.99 9781637151006. https://oni-press.myshopify.com/products/parallel...
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“The look of a ghost with ashes in her shoes.” Review of Leela Corman’s...
Review by Hélène TisonLeela Corman. Victory Parade. New York: Pantheon Graphic Library, 2024. $29.00. ISBN 9780805243444....
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Book Review - Forgotten Disney: Essays on the Lesser-Known Productions.
Reviewed by Cord A. Scott, UMGC-OkinawaKathy Merlock Jackson, Carl H. Sederholm, and Mark I. West (eds.). Forgotten Disney: Essays on the Lesser-Known Productions. McFarland Publishing, 2023. $49.95....
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Book Review - Ilan Manouach in Review – Critical Approaches To His Conceptual...
Reviewed by Gareth Brookes, AHRC Techne funded PhD Candidate at UAL, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7167-8255 Pedro Moura (ed.) Ilan Manouach in Review – Critical Approaches To His Conceptual Comics....
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