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Directory of Comics Scholars: P-T


This directory contains the responses to the New Subscriber Questionnaire for the Comics Scholars Discussion List. Entries may be found under each scholar's surname; please browse the sub-lists below. The complete list of names may be found at the Directory Main Page. Note that not everyone listed here may be currently a member of the discussion list, due to periodic un-subscribing. The date an entry was submitted or revised is found at the end of each entry.

If there are any questions, or if you would like to revise your entry, please contact Leonard Rifas.

List of Names P-T

Page, Tyler

Pasamonik, Didier

Pfister, Falecia

Pinheiro, Carlos Bandeiras

Priego, Ernesto

Pyle, Christian L. "Chris"

Ramalho-Santos, Joao

Rauch, Stephen

Reckmann, Pascal

Regalado, Aldo

Regan, Connie

Rhode, Michael

Ribiere, Mireille

Rifas, Leonard

Rippetoe, Rita

Robbins, Trina

Rodman, Larry

Rommans, Aarnoud

Ronan, John F.

Russell, Brady

Sanders, Joe

Santos, Tiago

Saraceni, Mario

Schroeder, Darren

Scott, Randall W.

Semb, Goran

Sheehy, Michael

Singer, Marc

Steiling, David

Stratton, Jerry

Streb, Dr. Ed

Strömberg, Fredrik

Suggs, Jon-Christian

Takahashi, Maki

Thalheimer, Anne N.

Thorkelson, Nick

Thorn, Matthew Allen

Tondro, Jason

Torregrossa, Michael A.

Tunc, Asli


Other Lists: Main Index || A-E || F-J || K-O || U-Z


Page, Tyler

Minneapolis, MN, USA -- t.page@graf-x.net, tylerpage@yahoo.com

 

Publications--About Comics:  

"The Value of Comics" Independent research into the value of comics as a valid form of post-modernist artistic expression

 

Publications--Other:  

Comics-Stylish Vittles

 

Research Interests, Current Projects (Comics and Otherwise):  

Space, Exobiology and Cosmology, the Natural Sciences

 

9 May 2000


Pasamonik, Didier

26 avenue de l’Opéra – 75001 Paris (France)
http://www.pasamonik.com

http://www.actuabd.com Pasamonik@pasamonik.com

Phone: + 33 6 03 84 11 78

 
Publications--About Comics:
Numerous articles in : ActuaBD, L’Année de la BD, Storyboard, Vécu, La Lettre de France Edition VSD, Les Cahiers de la BD, Le Collectionneur de BD, Catalogue « Munoz/Breccia,  l’Argentine en Noir & Blanc » (2003) ; catalogue « Alan Moore, les Dessins du Magicien » (2004).

Books in preparation : (co-director and co-writer) La Diaspora des Bulles  - bande dessiéne et judéités (Glénat) , La Bande dessinée sous l’Occupation (Aden), Hosties sanglantes et autres Petits meurtres rituels bruxellois (Aden), La Séparation de l’Eglise et de l’Etat à travers la caricature politique de la fin 19ème siècle (Denoël).


Publications--Other:
(avec Michael Croitoriu) : « Les Jeux vidéo expliqués aux Parents » (Marabout, 2002)


Conference Papers--About Comics:

Antijudaïsme aux origines de la bande dessinée belge (Bibliothèque nationale de France, 2002)

Génialogie de Gotlib (Alliance Israélite Universelle, 2003)

René Goscinny, le secret d’Astérix (Musée Jijé 2003, Alliance Israélite universelle, 2004)
 

Research Interests, Current Projects (Comics and Otherwise):
The comics and the Jews

Other Comments:

I was former chairman of the comics publishers : Magic-Strip, Bethy. Former editor by: Humanoïdes Associés, Hachette, Vertige Graphic.

15 February 2004


Pfister, Falecia

Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield Missouri -- fjp031s@mail.smsu.edu

 

Conference Papers--About Comics:  

Various research papers over Barks, Spiegelman, and Wertham

 

Teaching--Comics Related:  

Taught a class regarding comic book work by Jewish comic book artists/comic books relating to the Holocaust, i.e. Maus

 

Research Interests, Current Projects (Comics and Otherwise):  

I am interested in various aspects of comics such as the teaching of comics as a serious art form. I am also interested in the writings of Wertham and his views about the negative affects comic books on the kiddies, and the underground comix movement.

 

Other Comments: I've been interested in comic books for as long as I can remember and I would like to see people take sequential art more seriously.

 

11 September 1999


Pinheiro, Carlos Bandeiras

Apartado 30322, 1401 Lisbon Codex, Portugal -- nop27721@mail.telepac.pt

 

Publications--About Comics:

·         Editor of the following collections of Portuguese classic comics:

·         Bandas desenhadas de Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro 1892-1904 (Comics by Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro 1892-1904), Aventura Grafica, Lisbon, 1996.

·         As proezas de Necas & Tonecas - 1922 (The exploits of Necas & Tonecas - 1922), Aventura Grafica; Bedeteca de Lisboa, Lisbon, 1997.

·         Co-editor of:

·         Quim e Manecas contra a terr'vel quadrilha do P. Fatal - 1916 (Quim and Manecas against the terrible P. Fatal gang" - 1916), C'rculo de Leitores, Lisbon, 1997.

·         Exhibition catalogues/exhibition co-curator:

·         Histoires en images d'ƒpinal et d'ailleurs ((French) Picture stories from Epinal and other places), Institut Franco-Portugais de Lisbonne, 1996.

·         Stuart de Carvalhais: Aventuras de Manecas e Joao Manuel 1939/40 (Stuart de Carvalhais: Adventures of Manecas and Joao Manuel 1939/40), Bedeteca de Lisboa, 1996.

·         Banda desenhada portuguesa 1914-1945 (Portuguese comics 1914-1945), Centro de Arte Moderna da Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, 1997.

·         Exhibition catalogues/exhibition curator:

·         Banda desenhada norte-americana antes do Yellow Kid (North american comics before the Yellow Kid), Bedeteca de Lisboa, 1996.

·         Cem anos de The Katzenjammer Kids (na imprensa portuguesa) (One hundred yers of the Katzenjammer Kids (in the portuguese press)), Bedeteca de Lisboa, 1997.

·         Many articles about comics in the Portuguese press: A Capital, Sete, Expresso, Jornal de Arganil, etc.

·         Editor of "Aventura Grafica", supplement about comics, cartoon, popular literature, etc, published by the weekly "Jornal de Arganil".

Publications--Other:  

Poems and short stories in the portuguese press, mainly on the 1960's and 1970's: Di‡rio de Lisboa, Repœblica, Jornal de Almada, A Capital, Diario de Not'cias, etc.

Conference Papers--About Comics:

·         Conference/slide show about "Aventuras de Stuart de Carvalhais no mundo da banda desenhada" ("Adventures of Stuart de Carvalhais in the comics world"), Bedeteca de Lisboa, 1996.

·         Cottinelli Telmo, autor de banda desenhada e criador de "O ABCzinho", uma nova concep. do jornalismo infantil (em Portugal nos anos 20) (Cottinelli Telmo, comics author and creator of a new concept of newspapers for children (in Portugal, in the early 1920's), Associação dos Arquitectos Portugueses, 1997.

·         Participation in several discussion panels on comics: Faculty of Letters of Lisbon, Bedeteca de Lisboa, etc.

Research Interests, Current Projects (Comics and Otherwise):  

Narratology, semiotics, philosophy of art, early cinema, early comics and cartoons. Several projects about contemporary Portuguese comics. Several projects of reprints of Portuguese comics (for the first time in book form).

21 January 1998


Priego, Ernesto

Presa 49, San Jerónimo, México D.F. 10200, México; ernestopriegor@yahoo.com


Publications--About Comics:

·        1993-1996; Weekly critical column on comics, "Contextos"; Sección Cultural, daily national newspaper La Jornada

·        1996 to present; Articles and translations on comics and literature, La Jornada Semanal, cultural Sunday supplement of daily national newspaper La Jornada

·        1997-1998; Weekly column on popular music and comics; Sección Cultura, daily national newspaper Unomásuno

·        1998; "Ricardo Peláez: Noción de travesía", prologue to Ricardo Peláez's comics anthology, Fuego Lento. Madre Santa y otras historias para llorar, Taller del Perro, 1998.

·        1998-1999; Monthly column on popular music and comics; Sección Pulsadélica, Pulse! Latino magazine, Tower Records México City

·        1998 to present; Various articles, interviews, translations and critical essays on comics and pop youth culture for mainstream and independent magazines in México such as Complot, Los Universitarios, Rino, Origina, Alquimia, Viceversa, La pus moderna, Gallito Cómics, Sólo Blues & Jazz, etc.

·        2001 to present; Bi-weekly critical column on comics, "La mariposa inmóvil"; Sección Cultura, daily national newspaper El Financiero

2001; "Report from Conque, Mexico City Comic Book Convention", in The Comics Journal, Fantagraphics Books, Seattle, Washington, USA.
"BD, Internet et medias numeriques", in the  Dictionnaire Pluridisciplinaire et Multilingue Sur les Mondialisations, published by the Groupe d'Etudes de Recherches sur les Mondialisations, Paris, France. 2002
Ríus Profile, in Críticas magazine, Publisher's Weekly, New York City, USA.
"José Quintero: los colores de la ausencia", prologue to José Quintero's comic art watercolors book, Las 13 muertes de Buba, Taller del Perro, 2002.
"Frankenstein en comic: las huellas del monstruo", in Anuario de Letras Modernas, UNAM, 2002.
"Maus: el comic como testimonio", in Esther Cohen, ed., Lecciones de extranjería III, Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas, UNAM, 2002.

Publications--Other:

"Las lenguas
del pantano: monolingüismo en Margaret Atwood", in  Esther Cohen and Ana María Martínez de la Escalera, eds., Lecciones de Extranjería: una Mirada a la diferencia, Siglo XXI/UNAM, 2002.

Conference Papers--About Comics:
Many...

Conference Papers--Other:
Many...

Teaching--Comics Related:
Graphic Novel Reading Workshop (Taller de Lectura en Inglés, I y II)

Teaching--Other:
Critical Theory Course (Metodología de la Crítica I y II)
Análisis de Textos en Español

Research Interests, Current Projects (Comics and Otherwise):
Manual del Historietista Honesto: Introducción teórico-práctica a la narrativa gráfica (a comic book text book soon to be published by the National Arts and Culture Council of Mexico).

Comics and Autobiography, M.A. thesis

9 February, 2002


Pyle, Christian L. "Chris"

491 Laketower, # 341; Lexington, KY 40502

Affiliation: University of Kentucky, Dept. of English -- Phone/Fax: 606-335-1043

 

Publications--About Comics:  

"The Superhero Meets the Culture Critic." Review of Super Heroes: A Modern Mythology by Richard Reynolds. POSTMODERN CULTURE: AN ELECTRONIC JOURNAL OF INTERDISCIPLINARY CRITICISM 5.1 (Sept. 1994)

 

Publications--Other:

·         "'The Injun in Ya': Racial Ambiguity and Historical Ambivalence in The Searchers." THE IMAGE OF THE AMERICAN WEST IN LITERATURE, THE MEDIA, AND SOCIETY: SELECTED PAPERS--1996 CONFERENCE. Eds. Will Wright & Steven Kaplan. Pueblo: SISSI, 1996. 100-105.

·         "'a ful clene may': The Virgin Birth in Medieval Drama." PARADIGMS: THEOLOGICAL TRENDS OF THE FUTURE 10 (1995): 24-26.

Conference Papers--About Comics:

·         "The Family Upstairs: The Urban Cradle of Krazy Kat." Connections: Uniting Academic Disciplines; Lexington, KY; 7 Feb. 1997.

·         "Prurient Palomar: The Role of Sexuality in the Comix of Gilbert Hernandez." Popular Culture Association in the South; Nashville, TN; 16 Oct. 1993. (Second Place winner, Student Essay Prize)

·         "Five Ways of Looking at a Batman." Popular Culture Association in the South; Augusta, GA; 2 Oct. 1992. This was a version of my MA thesis on Batman.

Conference Papers--Other:  

Papers on Pynchon, Kubrick, A. Huxley, Homer, Faulkner, TV talk shows, and Frederick Douglass.

Teaching--Comics Related:  

I've used popular culture--including comics in my freshman writing classes. (My students, as well as fellow grad students, are impressed that I did my MA thesis on Batman. They greet my doctoral work on Herriman with less enthusiasm.

 

Teaching--Other:  

The usual writing courses and sophomore lit surveys

 

Research Interests, Current Projects (Comics and Otherwise):  

"'Warped with Fancy': The Modernist Vision of George Herriman," my dissertation.

 

Other Comments:  

Was interviewed by the BBC in Northern Ireland on the changing role of superheroes in society, 1996. (Anybody hear that broadcast?) Still don't know where they got my name.

 

22 November 1997


Ramalho-Santos, Joao

Current: ORPRC, Oregon Health Sciences University, 505 NW 185th Ave., Beaverton, OR 97006, USA

Permanent: Department of Zoology, University of Coimbra, 3000 Coimbra, Portugal

santosj@ohsu.edu; or jramalho@cnc.uc.pt

Phone/Fax: 1-503-613-3732/1-503-614-3725

 

Publications--About Comics:  

In Portuguese fanzines and other publications, including a national newspaper dedicated to culture and the arts

 

Publications--Other:  

A lot of Cell Biology and Biochemistry papers in specialized journals

 

Conference Papers--About Comics:  

Only in Portuguese venues, the most recent one on urban space as portrayed in comics

 

Conference Papers--Other:  

Only in Cell Biology and Biochemistry

 

Teaching--Other:  

Cell Biology and Biochemistry

 

Research Interests, Current Projects (Comics and Otherwise):  

A book on the series Cities of the Fantastic (Cites Obscures) by Schuiten and Peeters, in co-authorship with JM Lameiras, also on this list; other projects related to Portuguese authors.

 

6 October 1998


Rauch, Stephen

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, srauch6813@aol.com, http://www.stephenrauch.com/, 215-925-6936 (phone)

Publications--About Comics:

Neil Gaiman's The Sandman and Joseph Campbell: In Search of the Modern Myth from Wildside Press (June 2003)

Conference Papers--About Comics: 

"You Can Be Me When I'm Gone: Death and Mortality in Neil Gaiman's The Sandman. PCA Conference, April 2003.

Research Interests, Current Projects (Comics and Otherwise):
Currently working on a book about Garth Ennis' Preacher and Westerns

Other interests: 

Warren Ellis (especially Transmet) and Hunter Thompson, Charles de Lint and urban fantasy, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Religious/mythological themes in popular culture, pop music.

28 April 2003


Reckmann, Pascal

pascal.reckmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de

 

Research Interests, Current Projects (Comics and Otherwise):

 I am a student of Romance philology and I am writing a research paper on textlinguistic structures in comics. After that I plan to write my master's thesis on semiotic aspects in comics.

 

Other Comments:  

I have just started to develop a scientific interest in comics, but I have always liked Donald Duck and underground comics.

 

27 February 2000


Regan, Connie

402 Foulk Rd., Apt. 2B1, Wilmington, DE 19803

moultonmarston@hotmail.com

302-594-0711 (home phone)

 

Publications--Other:

_College Literature_ 30-year index, co-editor;

Translation of note to Jacques Derrida's article in _College Literature_

30.1

 

Conference Papers--About Comics:

Super Women? Sex, Symbols and Stereotypes in Comics and Graphic Novels, presented at CAC 2003 and EAPSU 2003 conferences

 

Conference Papers--Other:

Frank Miller's Dark Knight series and late 20th Century American Culture (working title), to be presented at CAC 2004

 

Teaching--Other:

elementary and secondary level English, The Benchmark School, Media, PA; Tutoring, Back to Basics Learning Dynamics, Wilmington,

DE; English as a Second Language, La Comunidad Hispana, Kennett Square, Avon Grove, and Oxford, PA

 

Research Interests, Current Projects (Comics and Otherwise):

Master's Thesis on Frank Miller's Dark Knight series

12 March, 2004


Rhode, Michael

Archivist, National Museum of Health and Medicine, Washington DC

20306-6000

 

mrhode@hotmail.com;

Cartoonphilately email list, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Cartoonphilately

Comics Research Bibliography- http://www.rpi.edu/~bulloj/comxbib.html

various comics indices -

http://www.lib.msu.edu/comics/rhode/

Cartoons and Comics in the NMHM - http://nmhm.washingtondc.museum/collections/archives/asearch/afinding_aids/comics/comics.html

 

Phone/Fax: 202-782-2212 (w) 202-782-3573 (w fax)

 

Publications--About Comics:

·              "Of Bear Cubs and Bookplates [in press], " Hogan's Alley, 10.

·              "The Eighth Annual International Comic Arts Festival (ICAF) 2003," Comics Journal, 215 (October 2003).

·              "The Other Battle of WWI," Hogan's Alley, 9 (Summer 2001)

·              "The Grand Comics Database (GCD): An Evolving Research Tool," International Journal of Comic Art, 3:1 (Spring 2001) with Ray Bottorff. 

·              "Mickey on the Block: Museum Sells Original Art from First Mickey Mouse Cartoon to Pay Rent," Comics Journal, 232 (April 2001).

·              "Words from ICAF: An art form on the horizon," Comics Journal, 228 (November 2000).

·              "She may look clean, but...: Cartoons played an important role in the military's health-education efforts during World War II," Hogan's Alley, 8 (Fall 2000).

·                 "Stories without Words: A Bibliography with Annotations," International Journal of Comic Art, 2:2 (Fall 2000), with Tom Furtwangler and David Wybenga. 

·              "International Comic Arts Festival, 1999," The Comics Journal, 217 (November 1999) with Larry Rodman.

·              "The Commercialization of Comics: A Broad Historical Overview," International Journal of Comic Art, 1:2 (Fall 1999).

·              "Drawing on Tragedy," Hogan's Alley, 6 (Winter 1999).

·              "Sequential Reportage" [letter],  The Comics Journal, 221 (March 2000).

 

Book & Exhibit reviews:

·              "Comic Art of Europe Through 2000: An International Bibliography [in press]," Hogan's Alley, 10.

·              Exhibit reviews: "Canadian Counterpoint: Illustrations by Anita Kunz," "Lo Mejor de lo Peor / The Best of the Worst by Vladdo, " "Hidden Treasures of Humour", book reviews: Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year 2003 Edition, Denver  Square: We Need a Bigger House!, The Louisiana Purchase: An American Story, Christmas on the Farm,Once Upon a Farm, Grady's in the Silo, International Journal of Comic Art, 6:1 (Spring 2004).

·              "Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year: 2002 Edition," "Better Luck Next Century: Political Cartoons by Dylan Horrocks," "Johnny Gruelle, Creator of Raggedy Ann and Andy," "Raggedy Ann and Johnny Gruelle: A Bibliography of Published Works," "Black Superheroes, Milestone Comics and Their Fans" book reviews and "The Art and Politics of Arthur Szyk" exhibit review, International Journal of Comic Art, 4:2 (Fall 2002).

·              "Pens and Needles: The Editorial Cartoons of Ann Telnaes" and "Geoffrey Moss: A Pen as Mighty as a Sword" exhibit reviews, International Journal of Comic Art, 4:1 (Spring 2002).

·              "IS Art: The Art of Insight Studios" exhibit review, International Journal of Comic Art, 3:2 (Fall 2001).

·              Raggedy Ann and More: Johnny Gruelle's Dolls and Merchandise, and Evil Geniuses in a Nutshell book reviews,  International Journal of Comic Art, 3:1 (Spring 2001).

·              "Blondie Gets Married! Comic Strip Drawings by Chic Young,"  "Herblock's History: Political Cartoons from the Crash to the Millennium," "Al Hirschfeld, Beyond Broadway," "Politics in Black and White: Local, State, and National Cartoons and Caricatures," "Cartoons and Campaigns," "Pens and Needles: The Editorial Cartoons of Joel Pett," "Yes, Virginia, There Is A Santa Claus," "The Art of John Cederquist: Reality of Illusion" exhibit reviews, International Journal of Comic Art, 3:1 (Spring 2001).

·              "Arthur Szyk: Artist for Freedom, "Honoré Daumier," "Oliphant: Pre-Election Cartoon Drawings, Prints, Paintings and Sculpture,"  "Superman at Sixty" exhibit reviews, International Journal of Comic Art, 2:2 (Fall 2000).

·              "Reviews - Edward Sorel: Unauthorized Portraits exhibit," International Journal of Comic Art, 2:1 (Spring 2000).

 

Publications--Other:

·              Battlefield Surgery 101: From the Civil War to Vietnam exhibit catalogue, Washington, DC: Borden Institute, 2004, with Lounsbury, Bellamy, Connor, and

·              Crane.

·              "Battlefield Surgery 101: From the Civil War to Vietnam" exhibit, National Museum of Health and Medicine, Washington, DC, November 2003-indefinite, with Connor and Crane.

·              "Disabled Vets" interview by Joseph Shapiro, National Public Radio's Morning Edition, May 26, 2003, online at http://discover.npr.org/rundowns/segment.jhtml?wfId=1275047

·              "Shooting Soldiers: Civil War Medical Images, Memory, and Identity in America," Invisible Culture 5: Visual Culture and National Identity (Winter 2003): http://www.rochester.edu/in_visible_culture/ivchome.html, with Connor.

·              "American Angels of Mercy": Dr. Anita Newcomb McGee's Pictorial Record of the Russo-Japanese War, 1904, Newbury, MA: Newburyport Press, 2001, with Sharf and Connor.

·              "American Angels of       Mercy": Dr. Anita Newcomb McGee's Pictorial Record of the Russo-Japanese War, 1904 exhibit, National Museum of Health and Medicine, Washington, DC, 2001-2002, with Connor.

·              "From Individual Trauma to National Policy: Tracking the Uses of Civil War Veteran Medical Records," in Disabled Veterans In History, ed. by David Gerber, AnnArbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000, with Goler

·              "The Costs of 'A Splendid Little War': TheSpanish-American War and Philippine Insurrection" exhibit, National Museum of Health and Medicine, Washington, DC, 1998, with Yockelsen and Berndt.

·              Foreword to Photographic Atlas of Civil War Injuries by Bradley P. Bengston & Julian E. Kuz  (Grand Rapids: Medical Staff Press 1996), pps. iv-ix. 

·              "The First Civil War Photographs of Soldiers with Facial Wounds," Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, 19:269-283, May-June 1995, w/ Blair Rogers

 

Conference Papers--About Comics:

·              "The Grand Comics Database (GCD): An Evolving Research Tool", The Sixth International Comics and Animation Festival (ICAF), Bethesda, Md, 2000, with Bottorff.

·              "Hermann Faber: Civil War medical illustrator as one-time caricaturist", The Fourth International Comics and Animation Festival (ICAF), Bethesda, Md, 1998.

 

Conference Papers--Other:

·              "Curating America's Premier Medical Museum: The Legacy of John S. Billings to the Professional and Public Understanding of Medicine," American

·              Association for the History of Medicine and The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College of London, London,  2003, with JTH Connor.

·              ""An enduring monument": Philadelphia's contributions to The Medical & Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion (1870-1888)," Society for the History of  Authorship, Reading and Publishing, London, 2002.

·              "Theory, Practice & Examples from the Otis Historical Archives," American Association for the History of Medicine, Kansas City, 2002.

·              "On collecting Dr. Arthur Vorwald's asbestosis records: A Cautionary Tale," Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference, Richmond, 2001.

·              "Yellow Jack and Walter Reed" commentary, Science in the Cinema film series, National Institutes of Health, Office of Science Education, 2000.

·              "Practical heresy or heretical practicality?", Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference (MARAC) meeting, 1998.

·              "The Army Medical Museum and Civil War Medical Photography" lecture, Smithsonian Associates, Washington, DC, 1997.

·              "The Changing Uses of Civil War Medical Records" lecture, 23rd Annual Conference on Washington, D.C., Historical Studies, Washington, DC, 1996.

 

Research Interests, Current Projects (Comics and Otherwise):

Comics bibliography, ephemera and merchandising including postage stamps, cartoonists work outside of standard media

 

Other Comments:

           Board member, Grand Comic Book Database, 2000-2001.

           Contributing writer, The Comics Journal,1999-2001.

           Contributing Writer, Hogan's Alley, 1999-present.

           Editorial Board member, International Journal of Comic Art, 1998-present

           Exhibit reviews editor, International Journal of Comic Art, 2002-present

 

26 February 2004


Regalado, Aldo

7737 S.W. 88 St. Apt. C-115, Miami, FL. 33156; Aldo J. Regalado, Department of History, University of Miami, 619 Ashe Building, Coral Gables, Florida 33124-4662 -- aregalad@miami.edu -- Phone/Fax: Home: (305) 598-8293 UM: (305) 284-3660

 

Conference Papers--About Comics:

·         "Beyond Tarzan: Race, Class, Gender, and Imagining Manhood in American Comic books" (Tentatively scheduled for the American Studies Association year 2000 Conference)

·         "Co-Opting Tarzan: Expanding the Frontiers of Popular Culture and Education" (Phi Alpha Theta Regional Conference), Florida State University, Talahassee, March, 2000.

Conference Papers--Other:

·         "Anglo Saxon Gift Giving Traditions and the Early Church." (Phi Alpha Theta Regional Conference), University of Florida, Gainesville, March, 1994.

·         "The African Americans and Castro." (Phi Alpha Theta Regional Conference), University of Florida, Gainesville, March, 1999.

·         "'An Opportunity to Rectify Possible Omissions:' African-Americans, the University of Miami, and the UBS Protest of 1968." (Florida Historical Conference), Florida Gulf Coast University, Ft. Myers, May 1999.

Teaching

Teaching Assistant (University of Miami) Fall 1998 - Spring 2000 (On-going - Have taught both American history surveys, and the second half of Western Civilization); Adjunct Professor (Miami Dade Community College), Spring 2000 (Teaching U.S. History Since 1877)

 

Research Interests, Current Projects (Comics and Otherwise): Currently working on initial research for a dissertation on comic books and other adventure fiction from the turn of the century to the present. I am particularly interested in how heroic paradigms were constructed by such authors as Edgar Rice Burroughs, and how these paradigms were adopted and redefined by early comic book creators (such Jack Kirby, Joe Simon, Stan Lee, Joe Shuster, and Jerry Siegel).

 

5 March 2000


Ribiere, Mireille

14 Berners Street, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, WF1 4DY - United Kingdom

100105.730@compuserve.com -- Fax +44 1924 368327

 

Publications--About Comics:  

'Maus. A second-hand narrative in comic-book form' in Representations of the Holocaust, London: Macmillan, to be published in 1999.

 

Publications--Other:

·         Monograph, Conference proceedings & numerous articles on the work of experimental French writer: Georges Perec, including analyses of his collaboration with artists. [in French]

·         Guest Editor of 'Photo narrarative'- History of Photography, 19:4 (Winter 1995), which includes articles by Benoît Peeters and Dave McKean.

·         Author of 'Danny Lyon's family album. Sequence, series, set', ibid. p.286-292.

Research Interests, Current Projects (Comics and Otherwise):

·         I am fascinated by the relationship between word and image and visual narration, hence my interest in various forms of sequential art, including comics.

·         Having organised a conference on 'Narration and the Fixed image' in London in 1995 (in collaboration with Paul Gravett of the Cartoon Art Trust), I am now editing a series of articles on the subject, to be published by Rodopi.

Other Comments: I work as a Freelance educational writer and French translator/copywriter.

23 September 1998


Rifas, Leonard

box 45831, Seattle, WA 98145-0831 USA -- rifas@earthlink.net -- 206-985-9483

 

Publications--About Comics (selected):

·         "Cold War Comics," International Journal of Comic Art , Volume 2, Number 1, Spring, 2000

·         "Comics in Sri Lanka," in Popular Culture in Asia, John Lent, ed., Westview Press, 1995

·         "AIDS Educational Comics," Reference Services Review Volume 19, Number 2, 1991, pp.81-7

·         "Educational Comics: A Message in a Bubble," PRINT XLII:VI, Nov-Dec 1988, pp. 145-157+

Publications--Other:

·         "The Big Picture: visualizing the global economy," November, 1999

·         " The DataForest: tree forms as information display graphics," Visual Communication Quarterly, Fall, 1997

·         "A method for sketching world maps," Journal of Geography Volume 95, Number 1, January/February 1996.

·         "Supermarket Tabloids and Persian Gulf War Dissent," in Seeing Through the Media: the Persian Gulf War, Susan Jeffords and Lauren Rabinovitz, eds., Rutgers University Press, 1994, pp. 229-248.

Conference Papers--About Comics:

·         "Globalizing Comic Books from Below: How Manga Came to America," Big Apple Anime Fest Symposium, New York City, 2001

·          "Origins of the Korean War as Seen in American Comic Books," Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery, Colorado Springs, Colorado. 1992

·         "Fredric Wertham: Scientist," Comic Arts Conference, San Diego, California, 1992

·         "International Aspects of the Anti-Comic Book Crusade," International Association for Mass Communication Research, Lake Bled, Yugoslavia, 1990

·         "The Image of the Soviet Union in American Comic Books," Witty World Conference, Budapest, Hungary. 1990

·         "Comic Books for Development and Democracy," Penang Consumers Association Conference on Education for Development and Democracy, Penang, Malaysia, 1983

Conference Papers--Other:

·         "An Information Visualization of the Federal Budget," Data Visualization 97, St. Louis, Missouri, 1997

·         "'War Protesters Full of Camel Poop: Persian Gulf War Dissent and American Supermarket Tabloids," Northwest and Pacific Popular Culture Association, Vancouver, British Columbia, 1992

Teaching--Comics Related:

New in Winter, 2004: "Sequential Art: History and Criticism of Comic Books and Graphic Novels," Seattle Central Community College

I teach cartooning to kids through Edmonds Parks and Recreation Department.

 

Teaching--Other:  

Introduction to Film, Sociology of Media, Introduction to Mass Media,  (new in Fall, 2004: Reading the Media), Seattle Central Community College

 

Research Interests, Current Projects (Comics and Otherwise):  

I'm working on my first webcomic on the subject of alternatives to cars for running errands.

I am interested in incorporating graphic narrative and data visualization into "information landscapes."

 

Other Comments:

·         Ph.D., University of Washington School of Communications, Spring, 1994; Dissertation: "The Dataforest: tree forms as information display graphics"

·         M.A. ,University of Washington, School of Communications, 1991; Thesis: "The forgotten war comics: the Korean War and American comic books"

·         Secondary Education Credential, San Francisco State University, (social studies and mathematics) 1986

·         B.A., Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley, 1973

·         My cartooning career is described in entries in the following publications: Contemporary Graphic Artists, Volume 2, Maurice Horn, ed., Gale, 1987; Comic-Book Superstars, Don and Maggie Thompson, eds., Krause Publications, 1993

2 May, 2003


Rippetoe, Rita

English Department /213, University of Nevada, Reno 89557 USA -- rippetoe@scs.unr.edu

 

Publications--Non-Comics:

·         "Not a Magical Mystery Tour: Locale in Dorothy Sayers' Harriet Vane Novels." Para*doxa. 2:3-4, (1996), 534-541.

·         "Layered Genre Strategies in Smiley's People" Clues 20:1, (1999).

·         "Fragments of a Song Attributed to Penelope, Queen of Ithaca" (an original poem) Tropos: a Journal of Classical and Romantic Culture. May 1997.

Conference Papers--Non-Comics:

·         "Peter Wimsey and the Aftermaths of WW1" at Bang, Boom, Bust and Bang (Again), University of Nevada, Reno Oct. 1997.

·         "Who are the Little People?: Tribal Identity in The Mists of Avalon and Firelord" at Popular Culture Assoc. 1997

·         "Old Religion in a New Age: Neo Paganism Vs. the New Age Movement" at Poplar Culture Assoc. 1996

Teaching--Non-Comics:  

Survey of American Literature; American Literature and Culture; Expository Writing; Composition T.A. (discussion leader) in Western Traditions

 

Research Interests, Current Projects (Comics and Otherwise):  

Contemporary Arthurian literature, Detective fiction

 

Other Comments:  

current comic enthusiasms: Preacher, most works by Neil Gaiman, Usagi Yojimbo.

 

24 February 1998


Robbins, Trina

mswuff@juno.com

 

Publications--About Comics:  

Women and the Comics w/cat yronwode, Eclipse 1985; A Century of Women Cartoonists, Kitchen Sink, 1993; The Great Women Superheroes, Kitchen Sink 1996; The Collected Miss Fury, 1999; From Girls to Grrrlz, Chronicle Books, 1999

 

Publications--Other:  

The Silver Metal Lover (graphic novel) Celestial Arts, 1985; Catswalk, Tricycle Press 1990; Hawaii High (CD ROM) 1993; Califia, the Queen of California, 1999; numerous comic books and paper doll books from 1970 - present

 

Conference Papers--About Comics:  

"From Kewpies to Bad Girls; the changing image of women in comics," presented at San Diego, 1998

 

Teaching--Comics Related:  

Taught numerous courses in comics, the latest being Summer 1997 at Laney College, Oakland, California

 

Teaching--Other:  

taught children's book writing at adult education classes, early 90s

 

Research Interests, Current Projects (Comics and Otherwise):  

girls' comics, amazons, superheroines

 

18 September 1998


Rodman, Larry

1804 North Quinn St. #407, Arlington, VA 22209 -- ltlthtre@erols.com -- Web: http://www.artcomics.com/ keyword: THRINGST -- 703 683-5778 (day), 703 683-1378 (fax), 703 524-9841 (home)

 

Publications--About Comics:  

Comics Journal

 

Publications--Other:  

Mole, Publishers' Auxiliary, Washington Post 

 

Teaching--Other:  

Visual arts workshops

 

Research Interests, Current Projects (Comics and Otherwise):  

Research into traditional fairy tales and symbolic literature as well as general obsession with (primarily) American pop-cultural forms and inspirations as they relate to the more reputable fine arts. Investigations expressed in comic art and sculpture. Ongoing weekly web comic strip used for springboard to self-publishing, toys and video.

 

19 September 1997


Rogers, Mark C.

Communication Department, Walsh University
2020
East Maple St.
North Canton, OH 44720

www-personal.umich.edu/~cmarx/home.html ; www.walsh.edu/mrogers
(both updated rarely)
330-490-7154

 

Publications--About Comics:

Review of Comic Wars: How Two Tycoons Battled over the Marvel Comics Empire--And Both Lost by Dan Raviv, International Journal of Comic Art 4, no.2 (2002): 342-343.

"Ideology in Four Colours: British Cultural Studies Do Comics." International Journal of Comic Art 3, no. 1 (2001): 93-108.

Review of Pulp Demons: International Dimensions of the Postwar Anti-Comics Campaign,  John A. Lent, ed. International Journal of Comic Art 2, no. 2 (2000): 311-312.

 "License Farming and the American Comic Book Industry."  International Journal of Comic Art 1, no. 2 (1999): 132-142.

Review of Seal of Approval: The History of the Comics Code, by Amy Kiste Nyberg. International Journal of Comic Art 1, no. 2 (1999): 242-243.

"Comic Books Blend Print and Visual Art."  in Richard A. Campbell. Media and Culture: An Introduction to Mass Communication. New York: St. Martins, 1997. Reprinted in Second Edition, 2000. Revised as "Comic Books: Alternative Themes but Superheroes Prevail," in the Third Edition, 2002.

"Comic Books: Culture in Four Colors." in Genre and Ethnic Collections: Collected Essays, Foundations in Library and Information Science, Volume 38. M. Wolf and M. Martin, eds., Greenwich, CT: Jai Press, 1996.

 

Publications--Other:

Rogers, M.C., M.M. Epstein, and J.L. Reeves "The Sopranos as HBO Brand Equity: The Art of Commerce in the Age of Digital Reproduction." This Thing of Ours: Investigating The Sopranos. D. Lavery, ed. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002.

Reeves, J.L., M.C. Rogers, and M.M. Epstein "Rewriting Popularity: The Cult Files," in Deny All Knowledge: Reading the X-Files (The Television Series). M. Cartwright, A. Hague, and D. Lavery, Eds. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1996

Reeves, J.L., L. Brent, R. Campbell, H. Eagle, J. Jenkins, M.C. Rogers, L. Saaf, and N. Zuberi. "Postmodernism and Television: Speaking of Twin Peaks." in Full of Secrets: Critical Approaches to Twin Peaks. David Lavery, Ed. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1994.

 

Conference Papers--About Comics:

I have presented at almost the PCA national meetings since 1994. I have done a couple of papers at ICAF, and a couple of comics related things at other conferences.
Capturing Darkness: Comics and The Film Noir Style." Presented at the International Comic Arts Festival, Georgetown University and Bethesda, Maryland September 5-8, 2002. Rescheduled from the canceled ICAF 2001.Organizer and Moderator. "Comics and Comic Art Area Roundtable: Comics Research and Academic Careers." Popular Culture Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, April 14, 2001.2000

"Policing The Comics 2000: Revisiting British Cultural Studies and Comics." Presented at the International Comic Arts Festival, Bethesda, Maryland September 14-16, 2000.

"Political Economics in Four Colors:  Comics and The Production Process." Presented at the Popular Culture Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 19, 2000

"The High Cost Of Fandom: The American Comic Book Industry from Mass Medium to Niche Medium." Presented at the International Comic Arts Festival, Bethesda, Maryland September 16-18, 1999

"Bats and Turtles and Hellspawn, Oh My: License Farming and the Future of American Comics."  Presented at the Popular Culture Association Annual Meeting, San Diego, California, April 3, 1999.

"From Femme Fatales to Ninja Hookers: Crime Comics and the Influence of Film Noir."  Presented at the Popular Culture Association Annual Meeting, Orlando, Florida April 8-11, 1998

"The Silver Age and the End of Comics as a Mass Medium," Presented at the Popular Culture Association Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas. March 26-29, 1997.
"From Anthropomorphic Mice to Pornographic Teenagers: Visual Style and Genre in Postmodern Comic Books." Presented at the Popular  Culture Association Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada. March 24-27, 1996.

"Virtual Fans, Virtual Ethnography: Studying Comics Fans Online." Invited Paper, Department Of Cultural Studies, University Of Birmingham, October 17, 1995
"Policing The Comics: EC Crime Comics and The Comics Code." Presented at the Popular Culture Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. April 12-15, 1995
"Transgression and Subversion in EC Crime Comics." Presented as an American Culture Brown Bag, November 4, 1994.
"Ideology in Four Colours: British Cultural Studies Do Comics." Presented at the Midwest Popular Culture Association Annual Meeting,  Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. October 6-7, 1994
"Wile E. Coyote Died for Your Sins:  Subversive and Hierarchical Uses of Intertextuality in  Sandman and Animal Man." Presented at the Popular  Culture Association Annual Meeting,Chicago, Illinois. April 6-9, 1994.

"Subversive and Hierarchical Uses of Intertextuality in Comic Books." Presented at Cultural  Contingencies, Graduate Student Conference, Wayne  State University, May 21-23, 1993.

 

Teaching--Comics Related:

In Winter 96, I taught a course on "Comic Books and American Culture."  The syllabus for this course is still available via the web at http://www.lsa.umich.edu/ac/online_courses/previous_terms/winter96/ac206/syllabus.html

I generally teach a little bit about the code and the 1950s in my senior seminar in mass media issues and ethics as example of interplay between social and cultural issues and the media industries. Unfortunately, I don't get to teach as much as I used to.

 

Teaching--Other:

Many Mass Communication, Broadcasting, and Film courses.

 

Research Interests, Current Projects (Comics and Otherwise):

Currently working on some ethnographic study of videogame players.

 

12 March 2004


Rommans, Aarnoud

Ridderstraat 26, 3000 Leuven, Belgium -- aarnoud.rommens@student.kuleuven.ac.be -- http://www.beeldbeeld.org/

(English version available)

 

Research Interests, Current Projects (Comics and Otherwise):  

Exhibition on the graphic novel adaptation of Franz Kafka's "The Castle" by Olivier Deprez (of the Fréon collective): due for April this year, with the institute of cultural studies, Leuven, Belgium. Preparation of a second exhibition on the work of Lorenzo Mattotti, scheduled for November/December this year, together with Beeld Beeld, a Belgian organization for the promotion of the comic (site: http://www.beeldbeeld.org/)

 

25 January 2000


Ronan, John F.

University of Florida -- ronan@ucet.ufl.edu -- http://www.ucet.ufl.edu/~ronan -- 352-392-0664

 

Publications--About Comics:  

news articles, TCJ #181-190; Jim Woodring interview, Indy #?

 

Publications--Other:  

articles in LA Weekly, OC Weekly

 

Conference Papers--Other:  

MOO and Agency

 

Teaching--Other:  

yes, too much. 1102: Writing about Desire/Other

 

Research Interests, Current Projects (Comics and Otherwise):  

MOO , history of American underground comics, Woodring as visual metonymy, Writing and Pleasure, deSade, Derrida, critical theory in general.

 

11 December 1997


Russell, Brady

2148 O St NW, Rm 401 -- bdr7@cornell.edu -- (202) 639-6370

 

Research Interests, Current Projects (Comics and Otherwise):  

Evangelical Christian involvement in school boards.

 

Other Comments:  

I'm only an undergraduate I'm afraid, but I'd really like to see Comics Studied more widely.

 

8 March 1998


Sanders, Joe

Home--6354 Brooks Blvd., Mentor OH 44060; Office--Department of English, Lakeland Community College, 7700 Clocktower Drive, Kirtland OH 44094-5198
joesanders@aol.com; Home--440-257-3646; Office--440-953-7215


Publications--About Comics:
Essays on Neil Gaiman and Alan Moore in
St. James Guide to Science Fiction Writers.  /ed. Jay P. Pederson.  Detroit: St. James Press, 1966.
"Of Parents and Children and Dreams in Neil Gaiman's Mr. Punch and The Sandman," Foundation #71 (Autumn 1997).


Publications--Other: Numerous essays on sf and fantasy, especially Roger Zelazny, Michael Bishop, Joan D. Vinge, and
Robert A. Heinlein.
Countless book reviews.
 Roger Zelazny: A Primary and Secondary Bibliography,
Boston: G.K. Hall, 1980.
E.E. "Doc" Smith
Mercer Island WA: Starmont House, 1986.
Science Fiction Fandom (editor).
Westport CT: Greenwood, 1994.
Functions of the Fantastic: Selected Essays from the Thirteenth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts (editor). 
Westport CT: 1995.


Conference Papers--About Comics:
"Of Parents and Children and Dreams in Neil Gaiman's Mr. Punch and The Sandman,"  SFRA [Science Fiction Research Association] annual conference, 1996.
"Of Storytellers and Stories in Gaiman and Vess's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream,'"  ICFA [International Conference on the Fantastic], 2000.
"Always Constant, Always Changing: The Triple Goddess and Neil Gaiman."  SFRA 2000.


Conference Papers--Other:
Numerous, usually at SFRA or ICFA; subjects include Stephen King,
Robert A. Heinlein, Michael Bishop, Raising Arizona, and Space Opera.


Teaching--Comics Related:
Initiated Graphic Fiction, a course in the English curriculum but taught with a member of the art department.  We analyze text and art while experimenting with our own work; in addition to critical essays and exams, students produce several pages of comic


Teaching--Other:
Lots of freshman comp; Contemporary Fiction, Science Fiction, Science Fiction Novel, Fantasy, Fantasy Novel.


Research Interests, Current Projects:
Finishing book on
Robert A. Heinlein begun by Thomas Clareson; gathering essays for collection on The Sandman.


Other Comments:
Long-time member of SFRA (president, 1995-6) and IAFA (division head, Interdisciplinary Approaches, 1990-8; Fine Arts and Popular Culture, 1989-  )

13 September 2000


Santos, Tiago

Rua Carlos Luz, 14, R/C Esquerdo, 2780-577 Paço de Arcos, PORTUGAL -- santiago@teleweb.pt -- 0351 0931 9607033

Publications--Non-Comics:

·         MARQUES, M. Margarida, Rui SANTOS e M. Luís ROCHA PINTO, com a colaboração de Tiago SANTOS, «Realojamento e integração social. A população do Vale de Algés perante uma operação de requalificação urbana, Vol. I: Construção indicial e estratégia de observação», SOCINOVA, Ed. Colibri, 1998.

·         MARQUES, M. Margarida, Rui SANTOS, Tiago SANTOS e Sílvia NOBREGA, «Realojamento e integração social. A população do Vale de Algés perante uma operação de requalificação urbana, Vol. II: A população envolvente e Vol. III: As populações alvo de realojamento», SOCINOVA, Ed. Colibri, 1999.

Conference Papers--Non-Comics:

·         1º Congresso Português de Sociologia Económica Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian; 4, 5 e 6 de March of 1998. Presented a paper titled «Portugal: immigration society or emigration platform? Some tests and some hypotheses.»

·         13th Internacional Conference of the Center for Studies on new Religions, Bryan Athyn College of the New Church, Bryan Athyn, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.; 2, 3, 4 e 5 June of 1999. Presented a paper titled «An Analysis of the Portuguese Scholarly Discourse on the New Religious Movements.»

Research Interests, Current Projects (Comics and Otherwise):  

Currently researching for the dissertation that will eventually grant me the degree of Master, which is comics related. Namely in that I seek to clarify the construction of identities through cultural consumption - focusing on comics. Also writing a couple of entries for The 21st Century Encyclopaedia of the World Religions, researching on a collective project on the history of reading (doing the comics bit), organising a conference on religious freedom and earning my daily bread by conducting a survey of the local science and technology park's - Taguspark - work force.

 

Other Comments:  

I happen to be academically credited with a licence to sociologize.

 

19 October 1999


Saraceni, Mario

University of Nottingham, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK -- mario@mario.uklinux.net -- http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~aexkmsi (I'll be putting pieces of my thesis on this site very soon) -- Phone/Fax: +44 (0)115 9229355

 

Publications--About Comics:  

My PhD Thesis (to be completed *hopefully* by September 2000)

 

Conference Papers--About Comics:

 informal talks at my university

 

Teaching--Non-Comics Related:  

seminars on linguistics at my university

 

Research Interests, Current Projects (Comics and Otherwise):  

My PhD Thesis is, broadly speaking, on the relationship between the visual and the verbal, with a special emphasis on comics. The study is based on theoretical underpinnings from the fields of semiotics, text-linguistics and stylistics. Currently I am working on a chapter devoted to possible pedagogical applications of comics.

 

26 January 2000


Schroeder, Darren

Art Theory Department, School of Fine Arts, University of Canterbury, Private bag 4800, Christchurch, New Zealand
darrens@es.co.nz; http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~Sdarrens/index.html; Phone/Fax: 064256160193


Publications--About Comics:
Editor of http://funtime.comics.org.nz/ Comics #5-19. Small press editor for http://www.silverbulletcomicbooks.com/smallpress/index.htm Silver Bullet Comic Books, Critic/writer for Comic Edge, Comic Quarterlyhttp://comicsaustralia.com/p and various other web sites. Write and draw my own mini comic: http://mopy.comics.org.nz/ (#1-9).


Research Interests, Current Projects (Comics and Otherwise):
Currently working on Ph.D thesis entitled "Wishing I Knew Where Here Was: The 'South Pacific' as Constructed within Postcard Production and Consumption 1970 - 2005." 

Past research projects have included investigating theoretical support/opposition to public funding of the arts, Experimental Aesthetics, Literary theory and the Autobiography, and a special interest in theories that suggest an inherently beneficial moral/social function of the arts, i.e., Frankfurt School etc.

Other comments:
If anyone here lives in the South Pacific and/or has access to modern South Pacific postcards I'd love to hear from them.


Scott, Randall W.

Comic Art Collection, Michigan State University, 100 Library, East Lansing, MI 48824-1048 USA

Resumé and stuff; MSU Collection; FON: 517/355-3770; FAX: 517/353-5069

 

Publications--About Comics:  

Here are the book titles. For other stuff see resume website.

·         The Comic Art Collection Catalog, Greenwood Press, 1993.

·         Comics Librarianship, a Handbook, McFarland Press, 1990.

·         Comic Books and Strips, an Information Sourcebook, Oryx Press, 1988.

·         A Subject Index to Comic Books and Related Material, Michigan State University Libraries, 1975.

Research Interests, Current Projects (Comics and Otherwise):  

Working full tilt on indexing our 130,000 item comics collection for academic use (see index at collection URL given above). About to sign a contract for a reference book on European comics.

 

4 August 1998


Semb, Goran

Studentv 24-13, SE-752 34 Uppsala, Sweden; sembtex@uppsala.mail.telia.com

 

Publications--About Comics:  

A few articles about various comics ("Peanuts", "Bloom County", "Rose is Rose", etc.) and storytelling in comics in "Bild & Bubbla" (="Panel & Balloon"), a Swedish publication about comics. Almost nothing academic, though -- only a short semiotics piece describing how Frank Miller gave the reader impressions of (passage of/speed of) time, sound (loudness and other qualities), and movement in "Dark Knight Returns".

 

Research Interests, Current Projects (Comics and Otherwise):  

Comics: Storytelling. Academically: Stress behavior (=type A behavior), social support, and coronary heart disease.

 

Other Comments:  

Glad to have found the list!

 

30 April 1998


Sheehy, Michael

Dublin City University School of Communications; Dublin, Republic of Ireland; michaelsheehy@eircom.net

 

Papers:  

work in progress with special focus on the portrayal, both visually and in the narrative, of minorities in comic, focusing on the semiotics of devices involved in stereotyping, visual and otherwise.  Also working on a comparison of the US and other comic industries, UK & Europe etc; How have the means of production influenced or been influenced by the market and environment? How do stereotypical portrayals differ in these environments and what factors influence these differences?

 

Research interests:  

see above

 

PS if anyone is interested in Science Fiction on a more general level, have a look at http://www.octocon.com/ , especially if you feel like spending a weekend over here in the depths of winter!!

 

17 July 2001


 

Singer, Marc


Assistant Professor, Department of Languages, Literature, and Philosophy,
Tennessee State University, 3500 John A. Merritt Blvd., Nashville, TN 37206

E-Mail, Web Page Address(es): Inquire through the Comics Scholars List.
 
Publications--About Comics:

·        “Unwrapping The Birth Caul:  Word, Performance, and Image in the Comics Text.”  International Journal of Comic Art 6.1 (Spring 2004):  forthcoming.

·        "Unwrapping The Birth Caul."  Alan Moore: Portrait of an Extraordinary Gentleman.  Ed. smoky man and Gary Spencer Millidge.  Leigh-on-Sea, UK:  Abiogenesis, 2003.  41-46.

·        “‘Black Skins’ and White Masks:  Comic Books and the Secret of Race.”  African American Review 36.1 (Spring 2002):  107-19.

·        “Invisible Order:  Comics, Time and Narrative.”  International Journal of Comic Art 1.2 (Fall 1999):  29-40.

·        Book and exhibition reviews for the International Journal of Comic Art.



Publications--Other:

·         “‘A Slightly Different Sense of Time’:  Time as Palimpsest in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man.  Twentieth-Century Literature.  Forthcoming.

·        “‘Trapped By Their Pasts’:  Noir and Nostalgia from The Big Sleep to The Big Lebowski.”  The Coen Brothers: On Screen, In Print and Beyond.  Ed. Joseph Walker and Keith Perry.  Forthcoming.

·        “Moving Forward to Reach the Past:  The Dialogics of Time in Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club.”  JNT: Journal of Narrative Theory 31.3 (Fall 2001):  324-52.

·         Underworld:  A Bibliography.”  With Jackson R. Bryer.  Underwords:  Perspectives on Don DeLillo’s Underworld.  Ed. Joseph Dewey, Steven G. Kellman, and Irving Malin.  Newark:  University of Delaware Press, 2002.  204-11.

·        Book reviews for symplokē.


Conference Papers--About Comics:

Presentations for the Popular Culture Association and the International Comic Arts Festival.

Conference Papers--Other:

Presentations for the Modernist Studies Association, the American Literature Association, the Washington Area Modernists Symposium, and the International F. Scott Fitzgerald Festival.

Teaching--Comics Related:

Teaching--Other:  American literature, African American literature, history of the novel, world literature, college composition.

Research Interests, Current Projects (Comics and Otherwise):  Temporality and narrative theory; temporality and race; narratives of contemporary comics and comics criticism.

20 November 2003


Steiling, David

Ringling School of Art and Design -- dsteilin@ringling.edu -- Phone/Fax:(941) 358-8384

 

Publications--Non-Comics Related:  

"Multicultural Aesthetic of Kate Chopin" Mississippi Quarterly

 

Teaching--Comics Related:  

I teach a course in the Literature of Comics and the Graphic Narrative which we offer each semester.

 

Teaching--Other:  

Literature, Film, and Popular Culture, Contemporary Literature, Creative Writing, Writing Studio.

 

Research Interests, Current Projects (Comics and Otherwise):  

I'm currently at work on my dissertation which is an examination of the iconic narrative and the nature of absence and presence in works in word and image.

 

11 February 2000


Stratton, Jerry

Pacific Beach, San Diego, CA -- jerry@hoboes.com, http://www.hoboes.com/jerry/

 

Publications--About Comics:  

http://www.hoboes.com/html/Comics/ specifically, "The Annotated Dreamer" might be of interest.

 

Publications--Other:  

"Computers, Telecommunications, and Western Culture", in the selected papers of the World Conference on Computers in Education 1995; Various Role-playing articles in Dragon/White Wolf Various computer articles in 80 Micro (take me back)

 

Conference Papers--Non-Comics-Related:  

"Computers, Telecommunications, and Western Culture", WCCE '95, Birmingham, England.

 

Teaching--Non-Comics-Related:  

More Internet crap than you dream of in your worst nightmares.

 

Research Interests, Current Projects (Comics and Otherwise):  

COMICS: The Twilight Proposal: Third Book in a Moore Thematic Trilogy; Cerebus the Gopher (http://www.hoboes.com/html/Comics/) -- NON-COMICS: FireBlade Coffeehouse (moving copyright-free literature on-line), http://www.hoboes.com/html/FireBlade/ Prohibition in Drugs and Arms, http://www.hoboes.com/html/Politics/

 

Other Comments:  

Is there any sort of archiving/summation of this list going on? We're going to kick ourselves later if there isn't :*)

 

25 November 1997


Streb, Dr. Ed

Dept. of Communication Studies, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ 08028 USA

STREB@ROWAN.edu

(609) 256-4243 FAX: (609) 256-4344

 

Conference Papers--About Comics:  

"Superpowered Persuasion: Rhetorical Dimensions of Custom Comic Books," Popular Culture Association Annual Conference, Las Vegas, March 1966.

 

Teaching--Comics Related:  

I cover comic books in a segment of my Persuasion & Social Influence course.

 

Teaching--Other:  

In addition to my Persuasion course, I teach Public Speaking, Rhetorical Criticism, Argumentation & Debate, and Seminar in Communication Studies

 

Research Interests, Current Projects (Comics and Otherwise):  

I am currently working on an article on credibility and supermarket tabloids and a paper on comic book propaganda during WWII.

 

Other Comments:  

During the Spring 1989 Semester, I worked full time for Marvel Comics as part of an experimental "Faculty Externship" program.

 

22 May 1998


Strömberg, Fredrik

Hantverkaregatan 6 D
211 55 Malmö
Sweden, fstromberg@telia.com, Phone/Fax: +46-406110089

 

Publications--About Comics:


Books:

100 oumbärliga seriealbum (100 Indispensable Graphic Novels), BTJ, Sweden 1999
Serienegern - en bildhistoria om fördomar (The Negro in Comics - a Story in Pictures), Seriefrämjnadet, Sweden 2000
Vad är teckande serier? - en begreppsanalys (What are comics? - an Analysis of Concepts), Seriefrämjandet, Sweden 2003
From Cartoon Coons to the Boondock - a Visual History of Black Images in Comics, Fantagraphics, USA 2003

Swedish Comic History, Seriefrämjandet, Sweden 2003
 

Articles:
400+ articles about comics, in daily, weekly and monthly magazines in various countries
Most recently: Swedish Comics and Comics in Sweden in IJOCA 5:1, John A. Lent, USA 2002
Editor of the Magazine Bild & Bubbla, Scandinavias largest, and the Worlds second oldest magazine about comics, since 1997.

 

Teaching--Comics Related:
Head of the Comics School in Malmö, Sweden since 1999.

 

Teaching--Other:
Gives lectures on Comics in general, racism in comics, Manga etc.

 

Research Interests, Current Projects (Comics and Otherwise):
Aiming at a Phd in pedagogics, which will result in a textbook on comics for higher studies.

 

Other Comments:
Chairman of The Swedish Comics Association, a nonprofit organisation that has been promoting comics since 1968.

 

09 October 2003


Suggs, Jon-Christian

English Dept., John Jay College/CUNY, NYC, NY 10019 USA

jcsjj@sprintmail.com -- 212/237-8575

 

Publications--About Comics:  

Short section on black comics in last chapter of my forthcoming book, *Whispered Consolations: Law and Narrative in African-American Life*.

 

Publications--Other:  

Articles, reviews (mostly on American and working-class or leftist fiction); editor of *American Proletarian Culture: The Twenties and the Thirties*, Vol XI of the Documentary Series, Dictionary of Literary Biography. Detroit: Gale, 1993; chapters and introductions in books. Forthcoming, see above.

 

Conference Papers--Other:  

Many, mostly in law & lit, proletarian lit, American/African-American lit.

 

Teaching--Comics Related:  

none so far except used Orwell's essay on comic postcards and examples of such cards in a lit class.

 

Teaching--Other:  

law & lit; sex roles in lit; African-American lit; lit. surveys; composition; ethnic studies, legal studies.

 

Research Interests, Current Projects (Comics and Otherwise):  

black comics and African-American comix makers; career of Walter White of the NAACP; 19th-century African-American popular culture.

 

16 May 1998


Takahashi, Maki

College of Communications and Information Studies, University of Kentucky, Grehan Journalism Building, Lexington, KY 40506 USA

cjtmaki@pop.uky.edu AND cjtmaki@ukcc.uky.edu

 

Publications--About Comics:  

My dissertation in progress. It is based on a narrative analysis of a series of Japanese comics, "Maboroshi no futsuu shoojo" by Shungiku Uchida.

 

Conference Papers--About Comics:  

None (My other papers partly deal with comics.)

 

Conference Papers--Other:  

One paper is on Japanese youth culture, especially on young women's cultures. This paper was presented at the Japanese Popular Culture Conference in Victoria, Canada in 1997.(I do not have them with me now. The titles of my papers will be available upon request.)

 

Teaching--Comics Related:  

Japanese culture -- the developmental history of Japanese comics.

 

Teaching--Other:  

The Japanese Language

 

Research Interests, Current Projects (Comics and Otherwise):  

Japanese youth culture, Japanese popular culture, and Japanese identity (especially that represented by youth cultures -- language, fashion, manga.)

 

Other Comments:  

I grew up reading Japanese girls' comics since I was three years old. Thus, I enjoy studying and writing papers about Japanese girls' and women's manga.

 

19 May 1998


Thalheimer, Anne N.

Dept. of English, University of Delaware, Newark DE 19716 -- motes@udel.edu -- http://www.simons-rock.edu/~chull/helleborine (note: that's for my comic strip stuff, not my UD page) -- 302 831 6598 FAX 302 831 1586

 

publications about comix:  

other than a master's thesis, nothing yet, tho there is stuff in the proverbial works

 

publications--other:  

some work for a recently published reader's guide to women's studies, some poetry here & there, etc.

 

conference papers about comix:  

"In Dreams I Walk With You: Fantasy, Folklore and Dark Humor in Neil Gaiman's Sandman series" at ICAF this past September (and next time I'll bring slides....); gave a lecture on the history of comix here at the university in April.

 

conference papers, other:  

various pedagog-type stuff at MAWCA and the like

 

teaching, comix related:  

i teach a unit on comix in my pop culture writing class here at UD & hope to do an all-comix class soon

 

teaching, other:  

pop culture stuff for first-year university folks. i teach poetry & poetry writing through a program where i teach in Delaware high schools, i also taught enviro. ed type goodies to 3rd-9th graders in the woods in NY, MA, and CT (Colebrook, CT--never again).

 

research stuff, current projects:  

19th C. women's illustration (Mary Hallock Foote), fem theory, art stuff (i draw my own comix), alternative feminist comix creators, outsider art, feminist guerilla art.

 

24 November 1997


Thorkelson, Nick

Thorkelson Graphics, 237A Holland Street, Somerville, MA 02144
www.nickthorkelson.com
nthork@nickthorkelson.com
617-628-6010; fax 617-625-1028

Publications--About Comics:

·        "Cartooning," article in Radical America, v. 13, no. 2 (Mar./Apr. 1979) -  (mostly about political cartooning)

·        "Duopoly" in Leonard Rifas' Itchy Planet #2 (Fantagraphics) -- 4 page comic on concentration of power in comic book industry

Publications--Other:

·        Underhanded History of the USA -- 1974, 48-page comic, with Jim O'Brien, published by New England Free Press

·        "Flemmy Harrumphs," comic strip series in Free Comix, a 1980s monthly tabloid published in Somerville, MA

·        "When They Be-GATT the Beginnings" -- 1994, anti-WTO comic published by Greenpeace USA

·        Cartoons on local politics for the Boston Globe, 1998-2001 (viewable on my website)

·        "The Comic Strip of Neoliberalism" -- series in Dollars & Sense magazine, 2000 to present (viewable on my website)

Teaching--Comics Related:
The "Cartooning" article listed above was based on a workshop on  progressive political cartooning that I used to give to community newspaper conferences sponsored by Community Press Features in the 70s and 80s. Last year (2003) I gave a talk at the Somerville Public Library on the pre-history of graphic novels.

Research Interests, Current Projects (Comics and Otherwise):
"The Comic Strip of Neoliberalism" (above) and a comic about Ernst Riebe's IWW comic, "Mr. Block," are things that I'm working on now.
I don't exactly have "research interests" but I'm always hungry for information about or examples of the following:

·        Labor cartooning

·         Pedagogical cartooning

·        Prehistory of comics: broadsides, satire, early comic strips, etc.

·        Commercial crime, humor, and horror comics, 50s ­ 70s


 13 February 2004


Thorn, Matthew Allen

Department of Humanities, Kyoto Seika University, Kyoto, Japan

(Department of Anthropology, Columbia University, New York, U.S.A.)

matt@ky.xaxon.ne.jp / mt52@columbia.edu

The Shoujo Manga Home Page

 

Publications--About Comics:

·         "Girls and Women Getting Out of Hand: The Pleasures and Politics of Japan's Amateur Comics Community" in Fanning the Flames: Fans and Consumer Culture in Contemporary Japan, William J. KELLY et al, eds. (forthcoming)

·         "What Japanese Girls Do With Comics, and Why" in Hop On Pop: The Pleasures and Politics of Popular Culture, Henry JENKINS et al, eds. (forthcoming)

·         Various general audience articles

·         Many translations of Japanese comics for Viz Comic

Conference Papers--About Comics:

  • "Girls and Women Getting Out of Hand: The Pleasures and Politics of Japan's Amateur Comics Community", presented at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Washington, D.C., November 22, 1997.
  • "What Japanese Girls Do With Comics, and Why," presented at the Japan Anthropology Workshop ("JAWS") at the University of Melbourne, Australia, July 10, 1997.
  • "Unlikely Explorers: Sexual Ambiguity in Japanese Girls' Comics," presented at the New York Conference on Asian Studies in New Paltz, Oct. 16, 1993
  • "Adolescent Liminality in Japanese Manga [comics]," presented at the Seventh Annual Association of Teachers of Japanese Seminar in Washington, D.C., Mar. 16, 1989

Conference Papers--Other:

·         "Future Cars, Past and Present: Driving to the Promised Land," presented at the Central States Anthropological Society meetings in Cincinnati, Mar. 31, 1990.

Teaching--Comics Related:

·         "Comparative Popular Culture," Department of Humanities, Kyoto Seika University, fall semester, 1997. (Latter half of course was almost entirely about comics. This is a course in Japanese for Japanese students.)

·         "Japanese Hero Types" (Comparitive Literature), Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies, University of Illinois, fall semester, 1989. (Included examples from Japanese comics.)

Teaching--Other:

·         Japanese language, Hamilton College, Aug. 1990-May 1991.

·         Various assistantships in anthropology and Asian studies

Research Interests, Current Projects (Comics and Otherwise):
Dissertation: _Unlikely Explorers: An Ethnography of the Community of Japanese Girls' and Women's Comic Books_, Department of Anthropology, Columbia University, New York. Looking to defend in September of this year. (Knock on wood.)
Interests: Cultural Anthropology, Cultural Studies, Popular Culture, Mass Media, Gender, Sexuality

 

23 June 1998


Tondro, Jason

Dept. of English
University
of California, Riverside
Riverside, CA 92521
jvester@earthlink.net, No web page yet, but I'm working on it!, 909-687-2773

Publications--About Comics:
"Camelot in Comics," to be published in "King Arthur in Popular Culture," editors Elizabeth Sklar and Donald Hoffman, McFarland Press (2002?)


Publications--Other:
I was the writer for "Nautilus," part of an anthology series titled "Inkpunks Quarterly" and published by Funk-o-Tron, but this book has unfortunately ended after three issues. My other published credits are in the RPG field, including work for Iron Crown Enterprises, Hero Games, and other companies.


Conference Papers--About Comics:
"Blood in the Gutters: the Impact of Graphic Storytelling Techniques on Arthurian Legend," (Southwest Pop Culture Assoc 1999)
"Four Color King: Arthur as American Superhero," (Pop Culture 1999)
"The Fictional City," (Southwest Pop Culture Assoc 2000)
"Return of the Four Color King: Arthurian Comics at the Millenium," (Pop Culture 2000)
"Camelot in Comics: the Six Degrees of the Arthurian Comic," (Pop Culture 2001)
"The Four Color King is Dead," Pop Culture 2002


Teaching--Comics Related:
I'm currently preparing to teach "Conflict Resolution in Comics" as a community service project to at-risk teens in the Riverside, CA area, in cooperation with the state and the Americorps program


Teaching--Other:
I am just beginning my Composition teaching at UCR.


Research Interests, Current Projects (Comics and Otherwise):
I have been mining Arthurian comics for several years now and am anxious to explore other topics while I wait for new primary sources to be invented. My focus on the medieval and the romance continues, however, as I continue to search for connections between comics, medieval and early modern Carnival, Dante, Moby Dick, and more. While I have always presented in the Arthurian section of Pop Culture, that may change.

I have recently completed a young adult Arthurian novel called "Knight of Pendragon," and I continue to write comics, film scripts, short stories, and other work whenever possible.

 

23 February 2002


Torregrossa, Michael A.

34 Second Street, Esmond, RI 02917-3627,  torregrossa@worldnet.att.net

 

Publications--About Comics:  

"CAMELOT 3000 and Beyond: An Annotated Bibliography of Arthurian Comic Books Published in the United States, c. 1980-1998" ARTHURIANA Spring 1999 (Forthcoming).

 

Publications--Other:  

"Merlin Goes to the Movies: The Many Roles of Merlin in Cinema Arthuriana" and "A Merlin Filmography: Merlin in Cinema Arthuriana and Arthurian Television." FILM & HISTORY 1999 (Forthcoming).

 

Conference Papers--Other:

·         "The Rise & Fall of Merlin: An Introduction to the 'Merlin of the Romances' from Wace to Malory and Beyond." New England Graduate Student Conference in Medieval Studies 1998.

·         "Merlin as Mage: or, Presenting the "Merlin of the Romances"." Plymouth State Medieval Forum 1998.

Research Interests, Current Projects (Comics and Otherwise):  

Arthuriana and Medievalism. I am also working on a massive study on the origins and development of the legend of Merlin from the Wild Man figure of prehistory and antiquity to late 20th reinterpretations of Merlin.

 

22 November 1998


Tunc, Asli

206 SOUTH 13th STREET APT. PHILADELPHIA, PA 19107 USA -- atunc001@astro.ocis.temple.edu -- (215) 546 2349 (phone)

 

Publications--About Comics:  

submitted to "Humor"- Transformation of an Humor Magazine/"GIRGIR"(A Turkish Humor magazine)As a Sociological Phenomenon

 

Publications--Other:  

Turkish Animation/ Problem Analyses-Animation Journal Spring 1998 (forthcoming) submitted to "Continuum" Contemporary Turkish Animation

 

Conference Papers--Non-Comics:  

Animation Conference 1997 Utrecht/the Netherlands; Mid-Atlantic Region Asian Studies Annual Meeting 1997 West Chester, PA

 

Research Interests, Current Projects (Comics and Otherwise):  

Papers about Turkish political cartooning in process; stereotypical images in Turkish cartoons, and woman and animation in Turkey (for the Animation Conference 1998 Orange County, CA)

 

Other Comments:  

I think the comix web page is great!

 

10 March 1998


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