Editor’s Notes

Chiquinho and Buster Brown: Comic Strips and Globalization in the Early 20th Century

A Career In Cartoons, A Personal Recollection by Brian Walker

“My Red Library”: A Štěpánka Jislová Interview

19th-Century American Comic Strips: A Guide to Resources and Publications

Matsumoto Leiji and the Musical Biography

The Long Haul of Stripschrift Not the First, but the World’s Oldest Comics Information Magazine

Stripschrift, the World’s Oldest Magazine about Comics: An Interview with Editor-in-Chief Rik Sanders

“When You Erase Human Beings, It Starts To Get Weird”: A Jakub Woynarowski Interview

Appalachia Comics Project’s Islands in the Sky: An Interview with Andrew Aydin on the Book, the Kickstarter, and His Other Projects

Speaking Up Sometimes Makes a Difference: Sounds of Enjoyment in She Loves to Cook,
She Loves to Eat

The Catalogue Raisonné of Will Eisner’s World War II Posters

Blackboards of Letters & Lines: On Chalk Talking and the Birth of the American Comic Strip

Dieselpunk in China? Anachronism, Speculation, and Political Anxieties in Republican Cartoons and Comics

Sir Francis Carruthers Gould The Gentle Knight of “Picture Politics”

Sport in Bill Amend’s “FoxTrot”: Family, Fantasy, and Failure

“My Running Is Drawing”: A Peter Kuper Interview

Framing Gender Through Cartoons: A Dialogue with Mona Abd Elsalam

Shifting Ambitions: The Female Protagonist in Matsuda Naoko’s Juhan Shuttai

Existence, Authenticity, and Bad Faith in Ms. Marvel

Comic Book Superheroes Are No Modern Mythology, But They Are in a Vital Way Ancient Greek

Climate Activism and a Comic Book: Holler… and the Mountain Valley Pipeline Interview with Denali Sai Nalamalapu

Thoughts as a Creator and as a Fan: Points of View from the Other Side of the Convention Table

Remembrances
Nezih Danyal, 1945-2025 Pang Bangben, 1935-2025

Research Prompt: Magazine Cartoonists and Advertising

The World of Comic News: Spain

“David Kunzle Page” on Töpfferiana Website for Early Comics

Book Reviews
-James J. Donahue. Indigenous Comics and Graphic Novels: Studies in Genre, by Jean Sébastien, p.516.
-Eike Exner. Manga: A New History of Japanese Comics, by John A. Lent, p.518.
-Barbara Chamberlin, Kom Kunyosying, and Julia Round, eds. Horror and Comics, Elizabeth Brown, Cody Parish, p.520.
-Caitlin McGurk. Tell Me a Story Where The Bad Girl Wins: The Life and Art of Barbara Shermund, by Alex Dueben, p.523.
-Douglas Brode, ed. Analyzing the Marvel Universe. Critical Essays on the Comics and Film Adaptations, by Cecilia Garrison, p.525.
-Michelle Bumatay. On Black Bandes Dessinées and Transcolonial Power, by John A. Lent, p.529.
-Thomas Paul Thesen. Chinese Animation. Volume 1: Religion, Philosophy and Aesthetics, by John A. Lent, p.531.
-Kees de Groot, ed. Comics, Culture, and Religion: Faith Imagined, by Dominick Grace, p.533.
-Brandon R. Grafius and John W. Morehead, eds. Horror Comics and Religion: Essays Framing the Monstrous and the Divine, by Philip Smith, p.535.

Graphic Novel Reviews
-Štěpánka Jislová, translated by Martha Kuhlman. Heartcore, by José Alaniz, p.539.
-Wilfrid Lupano and Stéphane Fert. Surrounded: America’s First School for Black Girls, 1832, by John Craig, p.554.
-Mikaël. Harlem, by Matthew Teutsch, p.557.
-Enchanted Lion Books, by Liz Brown, p.560.
-Loo Hui Phang and Hugues Micol. Erased: An Actor of Color’s Journey Through the Heyday of Hollywood, by Matthew Teutsch, p.565.
-Joanna Rubin Dranger. Remember Us to Life. A Graphic Memoir, by Ishita Sehgal, p.568.
-Luke C. Jackson (w), Kelly Jackson (w), and Maya Graham (a). The Brownout Murders, by Cord A. Scott, p.570.
-Briana Loewinsohn. Raised by Ghosts, by Cassy Lee, p.572.
-Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal; translated by Edward Gauvin. They Shot the Piano Player: The Graphic Novel, by Elk Paauw, p.577.
-Dave Cowen and Gabriel Wexler. Should We Buy a Gun?, by Cord A. Scott, p.580.

-Gregory Maguire, adapted and illustrated by Scott Hampton. Wicked: The Graphic Novel Part I, by Julian Lawrence, p.581.
-Louie Joyce (w, a). Godzilla: Skate or Die!, by Cord A. Scott, p.590.
-Chris Howry (w), Matt Frank (a), and Jeff Zornow (a). Godzilla Library Collection Vol. 4, by Cord A. Scott, p.592.
-Kit Anderson. Second Shift, by Maite Urcaregui, p.593.
-Arvind Ethan David, Ilias Kyriazis, and Cris Peter. Raymond Chandler’s Trouble Is My Business, by Charles Henebry, p.596.
-Paul Cornell and Rachael Smith. Who Killed Nessie?, by Daniel Peretti, p.600.

Exhibition Reviews
-The Ninth Art at the Centre Georges Pompidou: A Review of Comics 1964-2024, by Mark David Nevins, p.607.
-“Lucca Comics & Games 2024”, by Bart Beaty and Rebecca Sullivan, p.620.
-Emil Ferris: My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Book Two, by Laurie Anne Agnese, p.628.
-The 15th National Comic Art Exhibition of China, by Xu Ying, p.634.
-“Peter Kuper’s Insectopolis: A Natural History”, by José Alaniz, p.640.
-“Background” Exhibition, by José Alaniz, p.648.
-“Commemorating the Centenary Birthday of Mr. Ying Tao--Ying Tao’s Cartoon Exhibition”, by Xu Ying with John A. Lent, p.655.
-“Tove Jansson: Paradise”, by Bart Beaty and Rebecca Sullivan, p.662.
-“Tove Jansson and the Moomins: The Door Is Always Open”, by Carli Spina, p.668.

Documentary Review
“A Savage Art: The Life and Cartoons of Pat Oliphant,” by Peter Kuper, p.675.

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