Drawing the Line: Comics Studies and INKS, 1994-1997

by Lucy Shelton Caswell, Jared Gardner

Overview

Drawing the Line: Comics Studies and INKS, 1994–1997 collects some of the most important essays from INKS: Cartoon and Comic Art Studies, the first peer-reviewed scholarly journal devoted exclusively to comics studies. The volume, edited by Lucy Shelton Caswell, the journal’s founding editor, and Jared Gardner, editor of the new Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society, celebrates this foundational moment in the fast-growing field of comics studies and also serves as a call to contemporary scholars to revisit the roads-not-taken mapped out by these scholars and cartoonist critics.
Included in the volume are essays by pioneering comics scholars on newspaper comic strips, Japanese manga, Chinese lianhuanhua, comic books, graphic novels, and editorial cartoons, alongside writings and artwork by celebrated cartoonists such as Will Eisner, Oliver Harrington, Charles Schulz, and Frank Stack. This volume serves as an invaluable resource for anyone interested in the history and study of the comics form, visual culture, or the history of journalism.
 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780814274958
Publisher:	Ohio State University Press
Publication date:	03/14/2017
Series:	Studies in Comics and Cartoons
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	334
File size:	68 MB
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About the Author

Lucy Shelton Caswell is Professor Emerita and founding curator of The Ohio State University Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum. Jared Gardner is Professor in the Department of English and the film studies program, specializing in American literature, film, and popular culture.

Table of Contents

DRAWING THE LINE: COMICS STUDIES AND INKS, 1994–1997 Half Title Page Title Page Copyright Dedication CONTENTS ILLUSTRATIONS PREFACE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INTRODUCTION COVER GALLERY ESSAYS Comics and the New Literacy: An Essay: WILL EISNER EDITOR’S NOTE Lyonel Feininger: A Kinder, Gentler Comic Strip: ALAN FRIED ENDNOTES Was Krazy Kat Black?: The Racial Identity of George Herriman: M. THOMAS INGE ENDNOTES Litigation and Early Comic Strips: The Lawsuits of Outcault, Dirks, and Fisher: MARK D. WINCHESTER LEGAL SOURCES CITED ENDNOTES Crusading for World Peace: Ding Darling, Woodrow Wilson, and the League of Nations: RICHARD SAMUEL WEST ENDNOTES Picture Stories: Eric Drooker and the Tradition of Woodcut Novels: DAVID BERONÄ ENDNOTES The Captain and the Comics: A Capsule History of the Medium in its Fourth and Fifth Decades: ROBERT C. HARVEY ENDNOTES The “Monumental” Lincoln as an American Cartoon Convention: ROGER A. FISCHER ENDNOTES Easy-Going Daddy, Kaptayn Barbell, and Unmad: American Influences Upon Asian Comics: JOHN A. LENT ENDNOTES Literature in Line: Picture Stories in the People’s Republic of China: JULIA F. ANDREWS ENDNOTES Drawing the Line: An Absolute Defense for Political Cartoons: CHRISTOPHER LAMB ENDNOTES Black is the Color of My Comic Book Character: An Examination of Ethnic Stereotypes: CHRISTIAN DAVENPORT APPENDIX: COMICS SURVEYED (TITLE, ISSUE, YEAR OF PUBLICATION, PUBLISHER) ENDNOTES AUTHOR’S NOTE (2016) ENDNOTES EMANATA Percival Chubb and the League for the Improvement of the Children’s Comic Supplement: AMY KISTE NYBERG ENDNOTES Women and Children First: TRINA ROBBINS ENDNOTES Boy Can He Draw: MARK J. COHEN ENDNOTE BOOK REVIEWS Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud: REVIEWED BY JOSEPH WITEK ENDNOTES Adult Comics: An Introduction by Roger Sabin: REVIEWED BY FRANK STACK The Art of the Funnies: An Aesthetic History by Robert C. Harvey: REVIEWED BY IAN GORDON 100 Years of American Newspaper Comics edited by Maurice Horn: REVIEWED BY ROBERT C. HARVEY CONTRIBUTORS INDEX