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 Figures



List of Contributors



Matt Madden’s Brief Comic Book Odyssey: A Foreword



Comic Studies Here and Now: An Introduction



Part I: Words, Pictures, and Borders



Chapter 1: A Touch of Irony and Pity: Krazy Kat in the Breaks

Ben Novotny Owen



Chapter 2: In Love with Magic and Monsters: The Groundbreaking Life and Work of Rose O’Neill

Richard Graham and Colin Beineke



Chapter 3: It’s sorta wacky! But, different!: Scribbly, Inkie, and Pre-Underground Autobiographical Comics

Andrew J. Kunka



Chapter 4: How Lust Was Lost: Genre, Identity, and the Neglect of a Pioneering Comics Publication

Robert Hulshof-Schmidt



Part II Transmedial Forms



Chapter 5: Comics, Race, and the Political Project of Intermediality in Karen TeiYamashita’s I Hotel



Jennifer Glaser



Chapter 6: Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window as ‘cineromanzo’

Jan Baetens



Chapter 7: Articulate This!: Critical Action Figure Studies and Material Culture

Jonathan Alexandratos and Daniel F. Yezbick



Part III Institutions and Movements



Chapter 8: Singapore cartoons in the anti-comics movement of the 1950s and 1960s

Lim Cheng Tju



Chapter 9: The Institutional Support for Hong Kong Independent Comics

Kin Wai Chu



Chapter 10: Jirō Taniguchi: France’s Mangaka

Bart Beaty



Part IV Resistant Word-Drawn Acts & Transformative Reading Communities



Chapter 11: The Latina Superheroine: Protecting the Reader from the Comic Book Industry's Racial, Gender, Ethnic, and Nationalist Biases

Enrique García



Chapter 12: The Page is Local: Planetarity and Embodied Metaphor in Anglophone Graphic Narratives from South Asia

Torsa Ghosal



Chapter 13: Hands Across the Ocean: A 1970s Network of French and American Women Cartoonists

Leah Misemer



Chapter 14: Comics as Orientation Devices

Katherine Kelp-Stebbins



Chapter 15: Service Dogs, Code Switching, and Interracial Polyamory: Exploring the Reclamation Narratives of Comic Fandom

Erica Massey



Part V Margins Transforming Centers



Chapter 16: Once and Again, Ack!: Epimone, Recursion, and Variation in Guisewite’s Cathy



Susan Kirtely



Chapter 17: Transnationality and Textual Mestizaje in Love and Rockets



Brittany Tullis



Chapter 18: Only a Chilling Elegy: An Examination of White Bodies, Colonialism, Fascism, Genocide, and Racism in Dragon Ball



Zachary Michael Lewis Dean



Chapter 19: From the Inner City to the Interstellar: Brian K. Vaughan’s Comix after 9/11

James J. Donahue



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