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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Dear Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The Spring edition of <i>Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society</i> is here! We are excited to bring you a special issue focusing on migration in twenty-first-century documentary comics, guest-edited
by Benjamin Bigelow and Rüdiger Singer. The issue is available to read and download at <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/44606__;!!KGKeukY!jUPtBPRaogI7qagtl7ALpf2eiwBEXKWU91nKMqnLeisMf24tz92cIcaf3osJowsOTN1CZiFllE07$" target="_blank" title="https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/44606">Project Muse</a> and current members with a print subscription will be
receiving a hard copy soon. See below for the essays and book reviews featured in this issue.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Stay current on comics scholarship by purchasing or renewing your
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Inks 5.1: Contents <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Essays<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Introduction: Migration in Twenty-First-Century Documentary Comics by Benjamin Bigelow and Rüdiger Singer<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Presenting Absence: Migration and Dislocation in Lene Ask’s
<i>Dear Rikard</i> (2014) by Benjamin Bigelow<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Vis-à-Vis: Interview Encounters in Four Recent Comic Reportages by Julia Ludewig <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Beyond Race: The Monkey King and Creative Polyculturalism in Gene Luen Yang’s
<i>American Born Chinese</i> by Ning Ma <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Tying Up Loose Ends: The Fabric of Panel Borders in Kate Evans’
<i>Threads</i> by Elizabeth “Biz” Nijdam <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The Wretched of the Sea: Clandestine Immigration and Graphic Artistry in Bessora and Barroux’s
<i>Alpha: Abidjan to Gare du Nord </i>by Agnès Schaffauser<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Book Reviews <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The Content of Our Caricature: African American Comic Art and Political Belonging</span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">, by Rebecca Wanzo (Reviewed
by Maite Urcaregui)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Uncanny Bodies: Superhero Comics and Disability</span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">, edited by Scott T. Smith and José Alaniz (Reviewed by Jenny
Blenk)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Monstrous Women in Comics</span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">, edited by Samantha Langsdale and Elizabeth Rae Coody (Reviewed by Candida Rifkind)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Comics Studies: A Guidebook</span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">, edited by Charles Hatfield and Bart Beaty (Reviewed by Adrienne Resha)<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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Qiana Whitted<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Editor, <i><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://ohiostatepress.org/Inks.html__;!!KGKeukY!jUPtBPRaogI7qagtl7ALpf2eiwBEXKWU91nKMqnLeisMf24tz92cIcaf3osJowsOTN1CZqI7ZTA4$"><span style="color:#0563C1">Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society</span><span style="color:#0563C1;font-style:normal"> </span></a></i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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