INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMIC ART Vol. 18, No. 1 Spring/Summer 2016

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMIC ART
Vol. 18, No. 1 Spring/Summer 2016

Calvinball: Sport, Imagination and Meaning in Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes
Jeffrey 0. Segrave and John A. Cosgrove
1
Mali & Werner's Mike: Underground Sensibility in a German Advertising Comic
Paul M. Malone
14
The Meanings of Comics
Chris Gavaler
36
Founding a Dynasty and an Art-Form: John Doyle (1797-1868)
Richard Scully
60
Tactility Meets Visuality: Race, Sexuality, and Texture in Howard Cruse's Stuck Rubber Baby
Ashley Manchester
103
Forbidden Readings: The British Parliamentary Debate on "American-Style" Comic Books
Ignacio Fernandez Sarasola
118
Corruption Among the Cats: Hypocrisy Exposed by Liao Bingxiong
Linn A. Christiansen
138
Eye/I: Rodolphe Topffer's Style and the Concept of Graphiation
Charlotte Pylyser
157
Art and Science in Pere Joan's Nocilla Experience (2011)
Benjamin Fraser
169
Comics as Borderlands: The Asymmetrical Relations of Power in La Perdida, by Jessica Abel
Thayse Madella
196
An Independent Production: Comics in Paraiba (1963-1991) Regina Maria Rodrigues Behar
Waldomiro Vergueiro
211
Traces of Mauritian Origins and National Identity in Two Mauritian Comics
Aurelie Meilin Pottier
240
Syntax of Sound Symbolic Words: A Study of the Hindi Comic Books in India
Subir Dey and Prasad Bokil
260
Migration of Comics Onomatopoeia to Other Supports
Thiago de Almeida Castor do Amaral
278
Burma's Loudspeaker
An exclusive report by The Surreal McCoy
293
Grim Reapers and Shinigami: Personifications of Death in Comics and Manga
Marc Wolterbeek
297
Economy of the Comic Book Author's Soul
Nathaniel Goldberg and Chris Gavaler
331
Si Jin Kwi's Comic by Otto Suastika (Siauw Tik Kwie)
Toni Masdiono and lwan Zahar
355
Revenge, Roads, and Ronin: Finding the Weird West in Contemporary Japanese Anime
Joseph Christopher Schaub
368
Kenya's Kham and His Multi-Faceted Career
Msanii Kimani wa Wanjiru
379
Caricaturing lmran Khan during His Anti-Electoral-Rigging Campaign in Pakistan - Naveed Iqbal Chaudhry
Amna Ashraf
392
Hong Kong Comics after the Mid-1990s
Matthew M. Chew, Boris L. Pun, and Kofi P. Chan
416
It Started With A Kiss: Reframing Superheroines' Visual Narratives
Chadwick L. Roberts and Anita K. McDaniel
434
The "Not So Dark" World of the Dark Knight
Rima Bhattacharya
458
History and Philosophy of Manga Translation in North America
Katherine Lundy
477
Cultural Revolutions and Stylistic Evolutions or, Reboots and Remakes: A Conversation with Derf
Janis Breckenridge
493
Character Consumption and Character Industries in Japan
Zhiyu Zhang, Feng Su, Chang Fengxia
506
    The Next Generation of Comics Scholarship
Huang Yao's Roar of the Nation I (1938): Multi-media Approach to Wartime Cartooning
Harrison Douglass
525
Two Frameworks for the Interpretation of Metaphoric and Literal Size Depictions in Comic Books
Christopher Crawford and Igor Juricevic
561
    An Essay
Exploring Wakanda: Black Superheroes, Comic Books, and Persistent Tropes
Douglas Clarke
585
    A Preliminary Study
Feminine Representation in Misty: Brazilian and American Editions
Daniela Marino
594
It's a MAD World After All: Confessions of a MAD Collector
Jason Levine
602
The Printed Word
John A. Lent
608
Book Reviews
David Kunzle
John A. Lent
Kirsten Mollegaard
Lim Cheng Tju
613
Exhibition and Media Reviews
Edited by Mike Rhode
Ayanna Dozier
Janis Breckenridge
627