On sale now: The Lent Comic Art Classification System
Now available: The Lent Comic Art Classification System http://www.lulu.com/shop/john-a-lent-and-mike-rhode/the-lent-comic-art-classification-system/paperback/product-23120510.htmlBy John A. Lent, Mike...
View ArticleNew in Paperback! - Asian Comics
Asian Comics By John A. Lent University Press of Mississippi ISBN 978-1-4968-1301-5, paperback, $30For Immediate Release The first comprehensive overview of comics production and creativity in Asia Now...
View ArticleInternational Journal of Comic Art 19-1 Table of Contents
International Journal of Comic ArtVol. 19, No. 1 Spring/Summer 2017Freedom To Cartoon: An Endangered ConceptA SymposiumEdited by John A. Lent1Global Infringements on the "Right to Cartoon": A Research...
View ArticleInternational Journal of Comic Art Vol. 19, No. 2 Fall/Winter 2017 table of...
International Journal of Comic Art Vol. 19, No. 2 Fall/Winter 2017Editor's NotesJohn A. Lent1Applying the Lasso of Truth to The Secret History of Wonder Woman by Jill LeporeNicky Wheeler-Nicholson8Of...
View ArticleIJOCA's contents workaround
Our website is down, but you can see the contents of most of the issues at this link:https://web.archive.org/web/20171026090502/http://www.ijoca.com:80/
View ArticleINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMIC ART 20:1 table of contents
The latest issue is shipping now.INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMIC ARTVol. 20, No. 1 Spring/Summer 2018Transnational Graphic NarrativesEdited by Daniel Stein, Lukas Etter, and Michael Chaney1Transnational...
View ArticleProfessor John Lent on the differences between Chinese and Western comics
Professor John Lent on the differences between Chinese and Western comicsElaine ReyesCGTN AmericaJuly 19, 2018https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIBMmcjp_qcCGTN's Elaine Reyes interviewed John Lent, a...
View ArticleReview: Sense of Humor exhibit at National Gallery of Art
by Mike RhodeSense of Humor: Caricature, Satire, and the Comical from Leonardo to the Present. Jonathan Bober, Andrew W. Mellon senior curator of prints and drawings; Judith Brodie, curator and head of...
View ArticleReview: Black and White / Thoughts in Cartoon by Mohammad Sabaaneh
by Mike Rhode Black and White / Thoughts in Cartoon by Mohammad Sabaaneh,Washington, DC: Jerusalem Fund Gallery Al-Quds. November 17 – December 15, 2018....
View ArticleExhibit review: Superheroes at the National Museum of American History
by Mike RhodeSuperheroes. Washington, DC: National Museum of American History. November 20, 2018 to September 2, 2019. http://americanhistory.si.edu/exhibitions/super-heroesThe Smithsonian museum has...
View ArticleExhibit Review: The Very Best Of Slovenian Comics
Kostja GatnikThe Very Best Of Slovenian Comics. Izar Lunaček (with translation assistance by Nejc Juren). Washington, DC: Embassy of Slovenia. November 2, 2018 – February 8, 2019. Open Monday-Friday 9...
View ArticleExhibit Review: The Masters Series: Roz Chast.
The Masters Series: Roz Chast. Tyson Skross, exhibit designer. New York City: SVA Chelsea Gallery. November 17 – December 15, 2018....
View ArticlePioneers in Comic Art Scholarship: Fred Patten
Fred Patten passed away in November 2018. In remembrance, we are running the memoir he wrote last year for IJOCA.Pioneers in Comic Art ScholarshipThe Multi-Varied, 50-Year Career of a Fan-Researcher of...
View ArticleReminiscences: Fang Cheng, Sudhir Tailing, and Barry Linton
ReminiscencesJohn A. LentFang Cheng (1918-2018).The doyen of Chinese cartooning, Fang Cheng, died the morning of Aug. 22, 2018. He was 100 years and two months old, an achievement that pleased him...
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Red Lines: Cartooning at Riskhttps://www.ascmediarisk.org/events/red-lines-cartooning-at-risk/Cartoons are among the most basic forms of political commentary, but their evocative power also renders...
View ArticleExhibit Review: Underground Heroes: New York Transit in Comics
Underground Heroes: New York Transit in Comics. Jodi Shapiro. New York: New York Transit Museum. June 21, 2018-March 17, 2019. https://www.nytransitmuseum.org/(all photographs are courtesy of the...
View ArticleTwo Portuguese comics experts have died
Leonardo De Sá has written to us about the loss of two experts on the history of comics in Portugal: Two long-time friends of mine died in the last month — I knew them both for more than 40 years. Two...
View Article2019 John A. Lent Scholarship Awarded
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEJanuary 10, 2019Contact Info:Osvaldo OyolaICAF Promotions Coordinator icafcomic@gmail.com2019 John A. Lent Scholarship AwardedThe 2019 John A. Lent Scholarship in Comics Studies...
View ArticleINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMIC ART 20-2 table of contents
Here's the table of contents. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMIC ARTVol. 20, No. 2 Fall/Winter 2018See http://ijoca.blogspot.com for ordering informationA 20-Year Harvest of Comic Art Scholarship:...
View ArticleRIP Don Ault
From Charles Hatfieldon the COMIXSCHOLARS-L list, reprinted with permission.A shining light of comics scholarship has passed away: Don Ault, pioneer, mentor of mentors, brilliant scholar of Blake,...
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