A Comics Studies Reader

Contributors

363 Contributors Thomas Andrae teaches sociology at California state university, East bay. He is cofounder and senior editor of Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture. His most recent books are Carl Barks and the Disney Comic Book: Unmasking the Myth of Modernity and Masters of Comic Art. Martin Barker is professor of film and television studies at Aberystwyth university. He has researched widely, moving from comic books into films, covering their histories, textual forms, controversies, and—more recently—their audiences. He was director of the 2003–2004 international Lord of the Rings audience research project. Most recently he has conducted research for the british board of Film Classification into audience responses to screened sexual violence. Bart Beaty is associate professor of media studies at the university of Calgary. He is the author of Fredric Wertham and the Critique of Mass Culture; Unpopular Culture: Transforming the European Comic Book in the 1990s; and, with rebecca sullivan, Canadian Television Today. His articles on European comics have been published in numerous magazines, and he publishes regularly on this topic for Comicsreporter.com. John Benson, who has been writing about comics for over fifty years, is the editor of Squa Tront, a magazine about EC comics. His interview with bernard Krigstein in 1962 (with bhob stewart) was the first in-depth interview with a comics artist. His recent book, Confessions, Romances, Secrets, and Temptations, published by Fantagraphics, is a historical and critical perusal of the st. John romance comics. David Carrier has published books on the methods of art history, on Poussin, on the abstract painter sean scully, on baudelaire’s art criticism, and on the art museum. And he writes art criticism. His A World Art History is forthcoming from Penn state university Press. Hillary Chute is a junior fellow in literature at the Harvard society of Fellows. Her essays about comics have appeared in or are forthcoming in Twentieth-Century Literature, MFS: Modern Fiction Studies, Women’s Studies Quarterly, American Periodicals, and PMLA. in 2006 she and Marianne DeKoven coedited a special issue of Modern Fiction Studies on graphic narrative. Hillary is currently working with Art spiegelman on his book project MetaMaus (Pantheon), and on a study of contemporary graphic narratives by women. Contributors 364 Peter Coogan wrote his dissertation on “the Emergence of the superhero Genre in America from Daniel boone to batman.” in addition to serving as the writing specialist for the Kinkel Center for Academic resources at Fontbonne university, he is the cofounder and co-chair of the Comics Arts Conference, held annually at the san Diego Comic-Con international. Annalisa Di Liddo completed her Ph.D. at the university of Milan after extensively researching comics, popular culture, and contemporary literature in the u.K., u.s., and Canada. Her thesis explores the work of Alan Moore. Dr. Di Liddo has taught at the universities of Milan, Como, and trento. Her papers encompass works by Angela Carter, Alan Moore, Art spiegelman, and Chester brown; the publication of her monograph about Moore is forthcoming. she currently works as an editorial consultant and a literary translator. Ariel Dorfman is a Chilean writer who teaches at Duke university. He is the author of Death and the Maiden, a prize-winning play that was made into a film by roman Polanski, and the coauthor (with Armand Mattelart), of How to Read Donald Duck: Imperialist Ideology in the Disney Comic. His other books include The Empire’s Old Clothes: What the Lone Ranger, Babar, and Other Innocent Heroes Do to Our Minds; Widows: A Novel; and Heading South, Looking North: A Bilingual Journey. Thierry Groensteen has written and edited more than twenty books about the history, semiotics, and aesthetics of comics, including in-depth studies on tardi, Herriman, Caran d’Ache, schulz, Hergé, and baudoin. He has curated the Angouleme Comics Museum from 1993 to 2001, and been chief editor of the journals Les Cahiers de la bande dessinée and Neuvième Art. He now works as a publisher for Actes sud and teaches at the Ecole supérieure de l’image. Robert C. Harvey has been writing about cartooning for well over a quarter of a century, beginning with a column in the Menomonee Falls Gazette in the fall of 1973. A one-time freelance cartoonist, Harvey is a member of the national Cartoonist society (nCs), an associate member of the American Association of Editorial Cartoonists (AAEC), and a member of the Comic Art Professionals society (CAPs). He has...