Editor’s Notes

The Things They Buried: Marvel Comics and the Vietnam War, 1963-2019

The Supermachos Strike Again! Rius and the Defense of Marijuana in Mexican Comics

“The Flow of Flipping Through the Pages”: An Interview with David Marchetti

Falling Silently Like Snow: Interpretations of Sound as a Lived Experience in A Sign of Affection

Punk Rocker to Award-Winning Comics Artist: An Interview with Nate Powell

A Graphic Repor
The Editorial Cartoon and Political Change in Kenya

Reading Beyond Martin: March, Souls of Black Folk, and the Struggle for Civil Rights in the BLM Era

Leveraging Comic Art in the Fight Against Disinformation: A Philippine Case Study

Aquí Tenemos Todo: A Love & Rockets Snapshot

Spectator Sport: The Cartoons of “Sham’s Saturday Smile”

“To Say Out Loud Everything You Think About and Everything Around You” --The Views of Russia’s Viktor Bogorad

Sham’s Smiles

Symposium
Women’s Manga: Toward an Expanded Field Crossing Boundaries

Shōjo Manga: A Challenging Label in the Global Age

Sharing My Shōjo Manga Influence at Angoulême

Kyoto, Popular Culture, Campus Life and the Pandemic

Are There Any Texts in BL Studies? Rethinking Narrativity of BL Ethnicity in
Japan and Southeast Asia

Prunella and the Cursed Skull Ring

Twisted Vines and Tangled Roots: A Reflection and Analysis of Swamp Thing

Mediating Socio-Political Issues through Digital Cartoons: A Study of
Caste-Based Cartoons on Instagram in India

The First Tarzan Manga, Boken Tarzan

A Comics and Nonfiction Graphic Memoir Course at The Graduate Center:
A Trial Run at Teaching the Methods and Making of Nonfiction Visual Narrative
as Part of Postgraduate Study and Its Resulting Work

Do Comics Affect Pop Culture? The Case of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure

Remembrance
One of a Kind, Trina Robbins, 1938-2024

Remembranc
Farewell to the Mother of Women’s Comic Book History Trina Robbins
(August 17, 1938 - April 10, 2024)

Remembrance
Bob Beerbohm: 1952-2024

Research Prompts

News Briefs

Book Reviews
   Laurent Baridon and Marie Laureillard. Caricatures en Extrême-Orient.
   Origines, Rencontres, Métissages, by Valentina Denzel, p. 340.
   Jonathan Najarian, ed. Comics and Modernism: History, Form, and
   Culture, by John A. Lent, p. 345. Phil Witte and Rex Hesner. Funny Stuff:
   How Great Cartoonists Make Great Cartoons, by Sam Cowling, p. 347.
   Haruki Murakami. Adapted by Jean-Christophe Deveney and illustrated
   by PMGL. Haruki Murakami: Manga Stories, by Jon Holt, p. 349.
   Laura Cristina Fernández, Amadeo Gandolfo, and Pablo Turnes, eds.
   Burning Down the House: Latin American Comics in the 21st Century, by
   Maite Urcaregui, p. 355.
   Jan Baetens, Hugo Frey, and Fabrice Leroy. Eds. The Cambridge
   Companion to the American Graphic Novel, by Kirsten Møllegaard, p. 358.
   Kaori Okura and Makiko Itoh (trans). Sōseki Natsume’s Botchan:
   The Manga Edition. mkdeville and Philippe Nicloux (ills). Akutagawa’s Rashômon and Other
   Stories, by Liz Brown, p. 361.
   Laura Moretti and Satō Yukiko, eds. Graphic Narratives from Early
   Modern Japan. The World of Kusazōshi, by John A. Lent, p. 364.
   Matt Reingold. The Comics of Asaf Hanuka: Telling Particular and

   Universal Stories, by Cord A. Scott, p. 366.
   Kent Worcester. A Cultural History of The Punisher, by CT Lim, p. 368.
   Brian R. Solomon. Superheroes! The History of a Pop-Culture
   Phenomenon from Ant-Man to Zorro, by Dominick Grace, p. 370.
   Benjamin Fraser. Ben Katchor, by Matt Reingold, p. 373.
   Joseph R. Givens and Darius A. Spieth, eds. Robert Williams:
   Conversations, by John A. Lent, p. 373.
   Josh Tuininga. We Are Not Strangers: Based on a True Story, by Shanna
   Hollich, p. 375.
   Rachel Khan. I Run to Make My Heart Beat, by Lori Spradley, p. 377.
   Marc Sumerak, Elena P. Craig, and Ted Thomas. Marvel Comics:
   Cooking with Deadpool, by Lizzy Walker, p. 379.
   Ken Forkish and Sarah Becan. Let’s Make Bread! A Comic Book
   Cookbook, by Christina Pasqua, p. 382.
   Christina De Witte and Mallika Kauppinen. Noodles, Rice, and
   Everything Spice: A Thai Comic Book Cookbook, by Cord A. Scott, p. 387.
   Justin Gardiner. Small Altars, by Liz Brown, p. 389.
   Rich Johnson. The Incredible Hulk: Worldbreaker, Hero, Icon, by José Alaniz, p. 391.

Exhibition Reviews
   Asian Comics: Evolution of an Art Form, by Charles Hatfield, p. 395.
   Comments on the Huge Cartoon Exhibition At the Pompidou Center in
   Paris, by Harri Römpötti, p. 407.

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