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Book Review: South East Asian Kommunity 2024
reviewed by Duy Tano, of The Comics Cube commentary website and YouTube channelSouth East Asian Kommunity 2024. Edited by CT Lim and Paolo Herras. Philippines : Komiket Inc., 2024. ISBN...
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Graphic Novel Review: Big Jim and the White Boy, an Important and Insightful...
reviewed by Matthew Teutsch, PhD, Director of the Lillian E. Smith Center, Piedmont CollegeDavid F. Walker and Marcus Kwame Anderson. Big Jim and the White Boy: An American Classic Reimagined. New...
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Graphic Novel Review: Thomas Piketty’s Capital & Ideology: a graphic novel...
reviewed by Liz Brown, Outreach & Instruction Librarian, Kraemer Family Library, University of Colorado, Colorado SpringsClaire Alet and Benjamin Adam. Thomas Piketty’s Capital & Ideology: a...
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Book Review: DC Super Heroes: The Ultimate Pop-Up Book
reviewed by Gene Kannenberg, Jr. [Full disclosure: I am the paper engineer of Here Comes Charlie Brown! A Peanuts Pop-Up published by Abrams ComicArts, which is affiliated with Abrams Books for Young...
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Film Review: JewCE: The Jewish Comics Experience
reviewed by Matt Reingold JewCE: The Jewish Comics Experience. Tony Kim (dir.). JLTV and Turnkey Pictures, 2024. JewCE, or the Jewish Comics Experience <https://jewce.org/>, is an...
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Graphic Novel Review: Adieu Birkenau: Ginette Kolinka’s Story of Survival
reviewed by Matt ReingoldGinette Kolinka, Jean-David Morvan and Victor Matet (writers), Cesc and Efa (illustrators), Roger (colorist) and Edward Gauvin (translator). Adieu Birkenau: Ginette Kolinka’s...
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Graphic Novel Review: The Incredible Story of Cooking: From Prehistory to...
reviewed by Cord Scott, UMGC AsiaStephane Douay and Benoist Simmat and Montana Kane (translator). The Incredible Story of Cooking: From Prehistory to today, 500,000 years of adventure. NBM...
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Graphic Novel Review: Woman & Man+
reviewed by C.T. LimCraig Yoe. Woman & Man+. Clover Press, 2024. https://cloverpress.us/products/woman-manCraig Yoe is best known as an editor and publisher of archival comic book compilations...
View ArticleAn Evening with Jules Feiffer at the Cosmos Club in 2007
The great cartoonist Jules Feiffer has passed away. IJOCA ran this interview in print in Fall 2008. An Evening with Jules FeifferBy Alan Fern The late Dr. John P. McGovern established an award...
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Graphic Novel Review: Sunday, by Olivier Schrauwen
reviewed by Luke C. JacksonOlivier Schrauwen, Sunday. Fantagraphics, 2024. US $39.99. ISBN: 9781683969679. https://www.fantagraphics.com/products/sundayHighly regarded Belgian cartoonist Olivier...
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Graphic Novel Review: Bald by Tereza Čechová (text) and Štěpánka Jislová (ill.)
reviewed by José Alaniz, University of Washington, SeattleBald by Tereza Čechová (text) and Štěpánka Jislová (ill.); translated by Martha Kuhlman and Tereza Čechová. University Park, PA: Graphic...
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Exhibit review: Tove Jansson: Paradise
reviewed by Bart Beaty and Rebecca Sullivan, University of CalgaryTove Jansson: Paradise. Heli Harni, curator.HAM Helsinki Art Museum, October 25, 2024 – April 6, 2025....
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Lucca Comics & Games 2024 Festival Review: "The Butterfly Effect"
reviewed by Bart Beaty and Rebecca Sullivan, University of CalgaryLucca Comics & Games 2024. Lucca, Italy. October 30 – November 3, 2024.https://www.luccacomicsandgames.com/ The Butterfly...
View ArticleLent Comic Art Classification 2017 Edition online as free ebook
Now available at https://archive.org/details/lent-comic-art-classification-2017-edition-with-coversI've been updating it and hopefully a 2nd edition will come out next year as this version is dated due...
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Emil Ferris: My Favorite Thing is Monsters, Book Two exhibition review
reviewed by Laurie Anne Agnese Emil Ferris: My Favorite Thing is Monsters, Book Two. Paris: Galerie Martel, November 7, 2024 - January 11, 2025. https://www.galeriemartel.com/emil-ferris-2024/Like the...
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Comics Research Bibliography 2024 E-book Edition available online now
29 years in the making, the latest version of the Comics Research Bibliography by Mike Rhode; John A. Lent; Tony R. Rose is available for free online.Now at 1,614 pages (up from 2023's 1535 pages),...
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Graphic Novel Review: Wicked: The Graphic Novel Part I, by Scott Hampton
reviewed by Julian LawrenceWicked: The Graphic Novel Part I. Gregory Maguire, adapted and illustrated by Scott Hampton. New York: William Morrow Paperbacks, 2025....
View ArticleIJOCA seeks David Kunzle memorial articles
submit material directly to John please.from:John A. Lent<john.lent@temple.edu>David Kunzle Memorial As many of you know, prominent comics scholar, David Kunzle, died January 1, 2024. In my view,...
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International Journal of Comic Art Index 1999-2023 now available as free ebook
International Journal of Comic Art Author, Country, and Genre Index Volumes 1-25 (1999-2023)by Grace Livingston Wright Hulme, Jae-Woong Kwon, John A. Lent, and Xu Ying Drexel Hill, PA: International...
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Upcoming California Rare Book School course "The Social and Material Lives of...
Prof. Charles Hatfield's California Rare Book School course, "The Social and Material Lives of Comic Art," is to be held at UCLA from July 28 through August 1 (the week after the San Diego...
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