Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics - First Issue Now Available Free Online

The first issue of Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics is now available online, including free online access to the following articles throughout 2010.

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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