First Issue Now Available

The first issue of Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics is now
available online, including free online access to the following
articles throughout 2010: http://www.informaworld.com/rcom

Editorial
David Huxley and Joan Ormrod

Articles

From Iky Mo to Lord Horror: representations of Jews in British comics
Paul Gravett

From fan appropriation to industry re-appropriation: the sexual
identity of comic superheroes
Gareth Schott

'A fistful of dead roses...'. Comics as cultural resistance: Alan
Moore and David Lloyd\'s V for Vendetta
Maggie Gray

The absence of black supervillains in mainstream comics
Phillip Lamarr Cunningham

Redrawing nationalism: Chester Brown\'s Louis Riel: a comic-strip biography
Andrew Lesk

Book Reviews

Che: a graphic biography, by Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colón
James Scorer

Of comics and men: a cultural history of American comic books, by
Jean-Paul Gabilliet
Tony Venezia

Art Spiegelman: conversations, edited by Joseph Witek
Ranen Omer-Sherman

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