[Comicsstudiessociety] INKS Journal 5.1

[Whitted, Qiana]

Dear Colleagues,

The Spring edition of Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society 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 Project Muse<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/44606__;!!KGKeukY!jUPtBPRaogI7qagtl7ALpf2eiwBEXKWU91nKMqnLeisMf24tz92cIcaf3osJowsOTN1CZiFllE07$ > 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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Inks 5.1: Contents

Essays

  *   Introduction: Migration in Twenty-First-Century Documentary Comics by Benjamin Bigelow and Rüdiger Singer
  *   Presenting Absence: Migration and Dislocation in Lene Ask’s Dear Rikard (2014) by Benjamin Bigelow
  *   Vis-à-Vis: Interview Encounters in Four Recent Comic Reportages by Julia Ludewig
  *   Beyond Race: The Monkey King and Creative Polyculturalism in Gene Luen Yang’s American Born Chinese by Ning Ma
  *   Tying Up Loose Ends: The Fabric of Panel Borders in Kate Evans’ Threads by Elizabeth “Biz” Nijdam
  *   The Wretched of the Sea: Clandestine Immigration and Graphic Artistry in Bessora and Barroux’s Alpha: Abidjan to Gare du Nord by Agnès Schaffauser

Book Reviews

  *   The Content of Our Caricature: African American Comic Art and Political Belonging, by Rebecca Wanzo (Reviewed by Maite Urcaregui)
  *   Uncanny Bodies: Superhero Comics and Disability, edited by Scott T. Smith and José Alaniz (Reviewed by Jenny Blenk)
  *   Monstrous Women in Comics, edited by Samantha Langsdale and Elizabeth Rae Coody (Reviewed by Candida Rifkind)
  *   Comics Studies: A Guidebook, edited by Charles Hatfield and Bart Beaty (Reviewed by Adrienne Resha)

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Qiana Whitted
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