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Interview

Interview
Of comics and climate change: an interview with Brian Fies
Sathyaraj Venkatesan & P. Ardhra
Published online: 12 Jun 2024
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Nellie Bly’s life and journalism in comics and the adaptations of Ten Days in a Mad-House
Manuel Carvalho Coutinho
Published online: 12 Jun 2024
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“Systems that make humans inhumane”: nursing home care, graphic medicine and Susan MacLeod’s Dying for Attention
Livine Ancy A & Sathyaraj Venkatesan
Published online: 10 Jun 2024
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A hovering ghost from the future: the posthuman gothic landscape of Bangalore in Appupen’s ‘Bangaloids’
Abinsha Joseph & Smita Jha
Published online: 04 Jun 2024
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“To me, Superman is the living antithesis to the adage that absolute power corrupts absolutely”: an interview with Phillip Kennedy Johnson
Katharine Trostel
Published online: 30 May 2024
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Bacchic Batman?: Batman: Killing Time and Euripides’ Bacchae
Christopher Trinacty
Published online: 24 May 2024
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Pleasure, ‘education’, and erotism: An intersectional reading of gender, sex, and sexuality in Agents of Ishq Zines
S.S. Bagchi & Liju Jacob Kuriakose
Published online: 24 May 2024
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What a wonderful (post-apocalyptic) world: representations of India and the West in Ramayan 3392 AD
João Pedro Oliveira
Published online: 22 May 2024
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Ecology at the margins: epistemic and environmental injustices in Rohan Chakravarty’s comics
Shreya Sharma & Payel Pal
Published online: 17 May 2024
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Interview

Interview
“I think that fun, poppy, feminine, colourful stories can change the world”: an interview with Sarah Kuhn
Vera J. Camden & Valentino Zullo
Published online: 15 May 2024
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Comics and the culture of free speech: the case of Neil Gaiman
Nick Robinette
Published online: 09 May 2024
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Interview with Karin Hauser
Partha Bhattacharjee, Rounak Gupta & Priyanka Tripathi
Published online: 01 May 2024
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Interview

Interview
Interview with Somesh Kumar
Partha Bhattacharjee & Haleema Badar
Published online: 29 Apr 2024
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Book Review

Book Review
Jewish Women in Comics. Bodies and Borders
edited by Heike Bauer, Andrea Greenbaum and Sarah Lightman, Syracuse, New York, Syracuse UP, 2023, 290 pp., $39.95 (paper), $90.00 (hardcover), $39.95 (eBook), ISBN 9780815637813
Kalina Kupczynska
Published online: 08 Apr 2024
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The prophet, the warrior, and the Guru in the Incal saga of Alejandro Jodorowsky
Naomi Lindstrom
Published online: 04 Apr 2024
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Interview

Interview
Dreamscape, delirium, danse macabre: an interview with Zara Slattery
Amritha R Krishnan & Smita Jha
Published online: 02 Apr 2024
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Book Review

Book Review
Book analysis: invisible differences: a story of Asperger’s, Adulting, and Living a Life in Full Color - Julie Dachez & Mademoiselle Caroline
by Dachez, J., Invisible Differences: A Story of Asperger’s, Adulting, and Living a Life in Full Color (M. Caroline, Illus.), Lion Forge Comics, Oni-Lion Forge Publishing Group, LLC, Portland, OR, 2020, 196 pp., $19.99 (Hardcover)
Rebecchi Kevin
Published online: 01 Apr 2024
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Vaude-villain and violent funster: Harley Quinn and humour
Anna-Sophie Jürgens, Anastasiya Fiadotava & Crystal-Leigh Clitheroe
Published online: 17 Mar 2024
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Reading history through animal imagery from pre–WWII British editorial cartoons: Gandhi’s anticolonial struggle during India’s civil disobedience movement (1930–1931)
Deepali Yadav
Published online: 15 Mar 2024
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Banal misogynism in Turkish media at the beginning of the multi-party era: the case of Boşboğaz
Fatma Fulya Tepe
Published online: 10 Mar 2024
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With great power comes great hunger: Marvel Zombies as parody of the superhero trope
Michael J. Burke
Published online: 08 Mar 2024
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Book Review

Book Review
In visible archives review
Aaron Kashtan
Published online: 07 Mar 2024
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The documentary rhetoric of courtroom art
Philip Smith
Published online: 06 Mar 2024
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Probing into the veils of chaos: identity and existence in cosmopolitan India with special reference to Kari by Amruta Patil
Aarti Triklani
Published online: 06 Mar 2024
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Urbanity, precarity, and infrastructural violence in Mumbai: exploring the politics of repair and urban regeneration in Grafity’s wall
Ritam Sarkar & Somdatta Bhattacharya
Published online: 05 Mar 2024
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Book Review

Book Review
Graphic narratives and the mythological imagination in India
by Roma Chatterji, New York, Routledge, 2020, 139 pp., ₹ 695 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-367-27286-9
Sanjoy Jana
Published online: 01 Mar 2024
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Modernity, violence and ‘environmentalism of the poor’: the visuality of inauspicious in Orijit Sen’s River of Stories
Joydev Maity
Published online: 27 Feb 2024
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Book Review

Book Review
Aquaman and the War against Oceans: Comics Activism and Allegory in the Anthropocene
by Ryan Poll, Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press, 2022, 249 pp., $30 (paperback), $30 (ebook), ISBN 9781496225856
Benjamin Kooyman
Published online: 25 Feb 2024
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Refiguring comic book imagery in a post-digital moment: conspicuousness, hybridity and ontological strangeness
Daniel Brodén
Published online: 20 Feb 2024
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“The boy in the cupboard”: children in Indian comics and their subversion of heteronormative interpellation
Ashitha Mary Christopher
Published online: 07 Feb 2024
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Respect the power of the beast: an ecocritical analysis into interspecies relationships in Shaun Tan’s Tales from the Inner City
Zohreh Baghban & Susan Poursanati
Published online: 06 Feb 2024
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On the Names of the Spanish Graphic Fathers: Patrilineal Narratives in Gallardos’ Un largo silencio and Altarribas’ El arte de volar
Xosé Pereira Boán
Published online: 04 Feb 2024
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Multimodal representations of LOVE and PASSION in Lithuanian graphic novel “Gertruda. Graphic diary of generation Y”, by G. JORD
Saulutė Juzelėnienė & Skirmantė Šarkauskienė
Published online: 04 Feb 2024
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Life is a long exorcism: horror as mixed race resistance in Marjorie Liu & Sana Takeda’s Monstress
Melissa Eriko Poulsen
Published online: 19 Jan 2024
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Climate grief, resilience and Brian Fies’s A fire story
P Ardhra & Sathyaraj Venkatesan
Published online: 16 Jan 2024
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Politics of extractivism, grassroot justice and crude
Sathyaraj Venkatesan & Maureen Burdock
Published online: 12 Jan 2024
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On the distinction between creative and non-creative labour and on making comics in Guy Delisle’s graphic memoirs. From “travelogues” to “laborlogs”
Eleftheria Karagianni
Published online: 09 Jan 2024
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Book Review

Book Review
Drawing from the archives, comics memory and the contemporary graphic novel
by Benoît Crucifix, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2023, 273 pp., £85 (hardback), ISBN: 9781009250931
Gareth Brookes
Published online: 07 Jan 2024
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Imagining Eastern Europe - representations of Eastern Europe in 21st century French Vampire bandes dessinées
Patrycja Pichnicka-Trivedi
Published online: 29 Dec 2023
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Lisette and the disappearance of illustrés for girls
Nicolas Labarre
Published online: 28 Dec 2023
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Interview

“You can’t escape the formalism of comics”: an interview with Dave Chisholm
Vera J. Camden & Valentino L. Zullo
Published online: 26 Dec 2023
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In her hands: navigating [sexual] identity and gender roles in a Portuguese graphic novel for young adults by Joana Estrela
Fátima Susana Mota Roboredo Amante
Published online: 24 Dec 2023
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Book review

Book Review
Review of intersectional feminist reading of comics: interpreting gender in graphic narratives
edited by Sandra Cox, Routledge, 2022, xii + 178 pp., £38.99 (Paperback), ISBN 9780367704728
Rounak Gupta & Partha Bhattacharjee
Published online: 21 Dec 2023
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Integrating mathematics and science to explain socioscientific issues in educational comics for elementary school students
Fadhlan Muchlas Abrori, Theodosia Prodromou, Mara Alagic, Reka Livits, Houssam Kasti, Zsolt Lavicza & Branko Anđić
Published online: 10 Dec 2023
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Interview

Caste and comics: an interview with Samarth
Nandhitha Muruganandan & Sathyaraj Venkatesan
Published online: 10 Dec 2023
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Interview

“There’s always that hope”: an interview with Terri Libenson
Vera J. Camden & Valentino L. Zullo
Published online: 08 Nov 2023
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Your translated memory or mine? Re-membering graphic novels in performed audio descriptions for The Cartoon Museum, London
Dimitris Asimakoulas
Published online: 01 Nov 2023
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INTERVIEW

“I don’t know how to process experiences unless I put them into comics”: an interview with Raina Telgemeier
Vera J. Camden & Valentino L. Zullo
Published online: 26 Oct 2023
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Interview

“Something happened”: an interview with Lynda Barry
Vera J. Camden & Valentino L. Zullo
Published online: 24 May 2023
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“I’m reminding us of where we came from”: an interview with Nick Sousanis
Vera J. Camden & Valentino L. Zullo
Published online: 26 Apr 2023
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