Comics Studies Here and Now

Frederick Luis Aldama is the author, co-author, and editor of over 30 books, including recently Latinx Superheroes in Mainstream Comics. He is Arts & Humanities Distinguished Professor, University Distinguished Scholar, and Director of the award-winning LASER (Latinx Space for Enrichment & Research) at The Ohio State University.

• List of FiguresList of ContributorsMatt Madden’s Brief Comic Book Odyssey: A ForewordComic Studies Here and Now: An IntroductionPart I: Words, Pictures, and BordersChapter 1: A Touch of Irony and Pity: Krazy Kat in the BreaksBen Novotny OwenChapter 2: In Love with Magic and Monsters: The Groundbreaking Life and Work of Rose O’NeillRichard Graham and Colin BeinekeChapter 3: It’s sorta wacky! But, different!: Scribbly, Inkie, and Pre-Underground Autobiographical ComicsAndrew J. KunkaChapter 4: How Lust Was Lost: Genre, Identity, and the Neglect of a Pioneering Comics PublicationRobert Hulshof-SchmidtPart II Transmedial Forms Chapter 5: Comics, Race, and the Political Project of Intermediality in Karen TeiYamashita’s I HotelJennifer Glaser Chapter 6: Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window as ‘cineromanzo’Jan BaetensChapter 7: Articulate This!: Critical Action Figure Studies and Material Culture Jonathan Alexandratos and Daniel F. YezbickPart III Institutions and MovementsChapter 8: Singapore cartoons in the anti-comics movement of the 1950s and 1960sLim Cheng TjuChapter 9: The Institutional Support for Hong Kong Independent ComicsKin Wai ChuChapter 10: Jirō Taniguchi: France’s MangakaBart Beaty Part IV Resistant Word-Drawn Acts & Transformative Reading CommunitiesChapter 11: The Latina Superheroine: Protecting the Reader from the Comic Book Industry's Racial, Gender, Ethnic, and Nationalist BiasesEnrique García Chapter 12: The Page is Local: Planetarity and Embodied Metaphor in Anglophone Graphic Narratives from South AsiaTorsa GhosalChapter 13: Hands Across the Ocean: A 1970s Network of French and American Women CartoonistsLeah MisemerChapter 14: Comics as Orientation DevicesKatherine Kelp-StebbinsChapter 15: Service Dogs, Code Switching, and Interracial Polyamory: Exploring the Reclamation Narratives of Comic Fandom Erica MasseyPart V Margins Transforming Centers Chapter 16: Once and Again, Ack!: Epimone, Recursion, and Variation in Guisewite’s CathySusan KirtelyChapter 17: Transnationality and Textual Mestizaje in Love and RocketsBrittany Tullis Chapter 18: Only a Chilling Elegy: An Examination of White Bodies, Colonialism, Fascism, Genocide, and Racism in Dragon BallZachary Michael Lewis DeanChapter 19: From the Inner City to the Interstellar: Brian K. Vaughan’s Comix after 9/11James J. DonahueChapter 20: Am I Doing the Right Thing?": Milestone Comics, Black Nationalism, and the Cosmopolitics of StaticSean GuynesChapter 21: Reconceptualizing the ‘Immature’: Humor in John Layman and Rob Guillory's ChewChristopher Pizzino

'Frederick Luis Aldama has put together this finely curated collection featuring the writing talents of some of the leading scholars in Comics Studies. They take us on a journey of rediscovery through often-neglected and seldom-written-about aspects of sequential art. This book brings into focus the diverse nature of Comics Studies, where we have been, where we should be, where the future is going, and obviously where the study of sequential art is right now. A joy to read!' --Robert G. Weiner, Texas Tech University, USA