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Pioneers of Comic Art Scholarship Series - Donald Ault
Professor Don Ault passed away on April 13, 2019. The following is a memoir he wrote for IJOCA sixteen years ago. We plan to have a remembrance of him in the next issue. Pioneers of Comic Art...
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Exhibit Review: Batman exhibits at the Society of Illustrators in New York City
Illustrating Batman: Eighty Years of Comics and Pop Culture, Batman Collected: Chip Kidd’s Batman Obsession, and Bat-Manga!: The Secret History of Batman in Japan. Rob Pistella and John Lind. New York:...
View ArticleAbout four comic art exhibits in France in the summer of 2019
About four comic art exhibits in France in the summer of 2019Jean-Paul GabillietUniversité Bordeaux MontaigneSempé en liberté, itinéraire d’un dessinateur d’humour(Sempé at large: a humor cartoonist’s...
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Exhibit Review: 100 Years of Cartoons in El Universal: Mexico-United States...
100 Years of Cartoons in El Universal: Mexico-United States As Seen By Mexican Cartoonists. Augustin Sánchez González. Washington, DC: Mexican Cultural Institute, September 4 – October 30, 2019....
View ArticleRik Pareit RIP
by Wim Lockefeer On October 5, 2019, Belgian journalist and comics aficionado Rik Pareit died after a long battle with prostate cancer. Pareit (born December 15, 1952) worked in political and financial...
View ArticleInternational Journal of Comic Art half-price back issue package sale
Beginning January 1, 2020, the International Journal of Comic Art will offer at half-price back issues, when bought as a package. Of the 42 issues published through Vol. 21, No. 1, Spring/Summer 2019,...
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Exhibit Review: The Comic Art of Lynn Johnston
The Comic Art of Lynn Johnston. Kate Grumbacher. Washington, DC: Embassy of Canada Art Gallery, September 13, 2019-January 31, 2020.The Canadian Embassy on Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, between the White...
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Exhibit Review: Comic Art: 120 Years of Panels and Pages
Comic Art: 120 Years of Panels and Pages. Sara W. Duke and Martha H. Kennedy, Prints and Photographs Division and Georgia M. Higley and Megan Halsband, Serial and Government Publications Division....
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Exhibit review: Marie Duval: Laughter in the First Age of Leisure
Promotional image provided by R. SabinMarie Duval: Laughter in the First Age of Leisure. Simon Grennan, Roger Sabin and Julian Waite. New York: Society of Illustrators’ Museum of Illustration. January...
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Introduction: Exhibitions of the 47th Angoulème International Comics Festival
2020 marks the 10th consecutive year that I’ve attended the Festival International de la Bande Dessinée à Angoulème, and each year there has been a progressive intensification by the organizers with...
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Book Review: Visible Cities, Global Comics: Urban Images and Spatial Form by...
Benjamin Fraser. Visible Cities, Global Comics: Urban Images and Spatial Form. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2019. $30 paperback, $99 hardcover.In Visible Cities, Global Comics: Urban...
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Angoulème 2020 Exhibit Review: Yoshiharu Tsuge, 'être sans exister'
Yoshiharu Tsuge, être sans exister. Stéphane Beaujean, Léopold Dahan and Xavier Guilbert. Angoulème. Musée d’Angoulème. 30 January - 15 March 2020. The Angoulème International Comics Festival...
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Angouleme 2020 in Photos #1: Yoshiharu Tsuge, 'être sans exister' exhibit
By Gerald HengExhibits in Angouleme are generally comprehensive, overwhelming, crowded and only in French. Mr. Heng has braved the crowds to provide us with snapshots of the Festival so our readers can...
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Angouleme 2020 in Photos #2: Young Authors
By Gerald HengExhibits in Angouleme are generally comprehensive, overwhelming, crowded and only in French.* Mr. Heng has braved the crowds to provide us with snapshots of the Festival so our readers...
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Exhibitions of the 47th Angoulème International Comics Festival Reviews: À...
So much for live-blogging!Apologies for the radio silence on this blog for any presence of in situ commentary as was set out in my introductory email. My intentions were genuine but I underestimated my...
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Angouleme 2020 in Photos #3: Trondheim
By Gerald HengExhibits in Angouleme are generally comprehensive, overwhelming, crowded and only in French. Mr. Heng has braved the crowds to provide us with snapshots of the Festival so our readers can...
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Exhibitions of the 47th Angoulème International Comics Festival: Les mondes...
Upstairs at the musée d’Angoulème in a set of rooms with classic French wall trimmings is the Angoulème Festival’s major retrospective exhibition on Wally Wood, whose title in English translates to The...
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Exhibitions of the 47th Angoulème International Comics Festival: Robert...
The basement of the l'Alpha Mediathèque, located behind the Angoulème train station, provided a temporary home during the course of the festival for the first-ever retrospective in France of the work...
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Exhibition in Photos: Nicolas de Crécy: Le Manchot mélomane et Visa transit
Nicolas de Crécy: Le Manchot mélomane et Visa transit. Huberty & Breyne Gallery. Brussels. February 7-March 7, 2020.Over the next month, the Huberty & Breyne Gallery in Brussels dedicates the...
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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMIC ART 21-1 table of contents
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMIC ARTVol. 21 , No. 1 Spring/Summer 2019This issue has been out for months, but my copies got lost in the mail. It even happens to editors when you produce an 800+ page...
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