Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, Volume 12, Issue 5 (2021)

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Editorial
Joan Ormrod
Page: 359
Published online: 20 Jan 2022
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Superheroes and the mythic imagination: order, agency and politics
Neal Curtis
Pages: 360-374
Published online: 10 Nov 2019
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Corto Maltese and the process of endless semiosis
Peter Stanković
Pages: 375-391
Published online: 02 Sep 2019
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Veillance in Verax and Āyālw (Ialu): Two countries, one concern
Noha F. Abdelmotagally
Pages: 392-428
Published online: 03 Sep 2019
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Anorexia through creative metaphors: women pathographers and graphic medicine
Sathyaraj Venkatesan & Anu Mary Peter
Pages: 429-442
Published online: 28 Aug 2019
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An allegorical-ideological trinity: the beast is dead — the second World War among the animals (1944)
Yaakova Sacerdoti
Pages: 443-464
Published online: 12 Sep 2019
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Unreading Beirut in the age of disaster capitalism: Jorj Abou Mhaya’s Madinah Mujawirah lil Ard
Carla Calargé & Alexandra Gueydan-Turek
Pages: 465-482
Published online: 06 Nov 2019
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‘Drawing thoughts together’: Indian artists’ reflections on the post-millennial Indian graphic narratives scene
E. Dawson Varughese
Pages: 483-499
Published online: 10 Nov 2019
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Revealing Layers: Sarnath Banerjee’s The Barn Owl’s Wondrous Capers
Shilpa Shirishkumar Tanna & Geetha Bakilapadavu
Pages: 500-515
Published online: 09 Dec 2019
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Traumatic loss and productive impasse in comics: visual metaphors of depression and melancholia in Jillian and Mariko Tamaki’s This One Summer
David Lewkowich
Pages: 516-534
Published online: 10 Dec 2019
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The theory-practice interplay in creating a graphic memoir about the trauma of forced migration
Catherine Appleton
Pages: 535-556
Published online: 16 Dec 2019
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Chester Brown´s Bible in Mary Wept Over the Feet of Jesus
Miren Junkal Guevara Llaguno
Pages: 557-573
Published online: 30 Dec 2019
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From white eagles to turbopoles. The specifics of superhero narratives in Polish comic books
Tomasz Żaglewski
Pages: 574-588
Published online: 12 Mar 2020
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The Impossibles revived: Hanna-Barbera’s superhero universe in TV and comics
Tomasz Żaglewski
Pages: 589-605
Published online: 09 Mar 2020
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Gods and monsters: authorial creation in Gaiman’s Sandman and McCreery and Del Col’s Kill Shakespeare
Delilah Bermudez Brataas
Pages: 606-629
Published online: 18 Feb 2020
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‘Tintin, gender and desire’
Paul Mountfort
Pages: 630-646
Published online: 23 Feb 2020
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Immigrant song: nostalgic tensions in Shaun Tan’s The Arrival
Giorgio Busi Rizzi
Pages: 647-666
Published online: 26 Mar 2020
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Twilight zones of history: Aleksandar Zograf’s Regards from Serbia and the Serbian alternative comics of the 1990s
Vlad Beronja
Pages: 667-685
Published online: 03 Apr 2020
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The spreading of technical knowledge in post-Civil War Spain: the example of Josep Escobar
Maria Pagès
Pages: 686-701
Published online: 19 Mar 2020
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(South) Africa’s online animation revolution: the case of Jonas Lekganyane’s The adventures of Noko Mashaba
Pfunzo Sidogi
Pages: 702-718
Published online: 03 May 2020
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Child soldiers in transatlantic graphic narratives of war
Tatiana Prorokova-Konrad
Pages: 719-736
Published online: 05 May 2020
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Tactile comics, disability studies and the mind’s eye: on “A Boat Tour” (2017) in Venice with Max
Benjamin Fraser
Pages: 737-749
Published online: 13 May 2020
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Holistic leisure education through the Czech Rapid Arrows comics
Ivo Jirásek
Pages: 750-764
Published online: 04 Jun 2020
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The discreet charm of the butterfly pierced by a pin. Federico Fellini, Milo Manara, and the comic book
Gonzalo M. Pavés
Pages: 765-779
Published online: 15 Jun 2020
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Proustian curiosity and the archive: Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home
Santiago Parga Linares
Pages: 780-796
Published online: 17 Aug 2020
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Israeli graphic novels & the second Palestinian Intifada: ‘Jamilti’, Exit Wounds & Mike’s Place
Matt Reingold
Pages: 797-810
Published online: 02 Jul 2020
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‘Nemeses! Dragons! Symbolism!’: queering the fantasy hero narrative in Nimona
Loren Barbour
Pages: 811-823
Published online: 25 Jun 2020
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Teaching people to read comics: the impact of a visual literacy intervention on comprehension of educational comics
Samantha Golding & Diarmuid Verrier
Pages: 824-836
Published online: 29 Jun 2020
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Colouring superheroes: Hue, saturation, and value in Ms.Marvel: Kamala Khan #1 and DC’s Detective Comics Annual #12 and Batman Annual #28
Suhaan Kiran Mehta
Pages: 837-856
Published online: 31 Aug 2020
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Szaber in post-war Poland: satirising plunder in Polish magazine cartoons (1945-1946)
Ewa Stańczyk
Pages: 857-872
Published online: 12 Aug 2020
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Trauma, Memory, History and its Counter Narration in Thi Bui’s Graphic Memoir The Best We Could Do
Abhilasha Gusain & Smita Jha
Pages: 873-884
Published online: 23 Aug 2020
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Reflections in comics: the views of queer artists in producing body image comics and how their work can improve health
Phillip Joy, Stéphanie E. M. Gauvin, Megan Aston & Matthew Numer
Pages: 885-911
Published online: 13 Aug 2020
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Excalibur, aesthetics and an other Britain: from whimsical tradition to tabloid aesthetic
Nicholas Holm
Pages: 912-923
Published online: 17 Aug 2020
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Capturing alternate realities: visual metaphors and patient perspectives in graphic narratives on mental illness
Sathyaraj Venkatesan & Sweetha Saji
Pages: 924-938
Published online: 24 Aug 2020
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Let’s go graphic. Mapping Italian graphic novels on gender-based violence
Nicoletta Mandolini
Pages: 939-963
Published online: 30 Aug 2020
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Iconoclasm, iconophobia, and graphic novel adaptations of John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress
Andy Draycott
Pages: 964-992
Published online: 30 Aug 2020
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Ballerina with PTSD: imagining Russia in contemporary Black Widow comics
Katharina Wiedlack
Pages: 993-1008
Published online: 08 Sep 2020
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Comics and the Situationist International
A.J. Paylor
Pages: 1009-1033
Published online: 21 Sep 2020
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Queering the harem: queerness in reverse harem manga and anime
Bancha Rattanamathuwong
Pages: 1034-1047
Published online: 19 Oct 2020
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Comicbook characters’ facial features and actions and movements as two sources of humour: the case of Fullmetal Alchemist
Li-Chi Chen & Eryk Hajndrych
Pages: 1048-1065
Published online: 21 Oct 2020
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Hermeneutic flashbacks: building the narrative space in Joe Sacco’s Safe Area Goražde
Purba Chakraborty & Rashmi Gaur
Pages: 1066-1079
Published online: 04 Oct 2020
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The narrative functions of sound-symbolic words in comics and graphic novels
Subir Dey & Prasad Bokil
Pages: 1080-1101
Published online: 15 Dec 2020
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Book Reviews

Book Review
The comics of Charles Schulz: the good grief of modern life
edited by Jared Gardner and Ian Gordon, Jackson, University Press of Mississippi, 2017, viii + 222 pp., US $25.00 (paperback), ISBN: 978-1-4968-1847-8
Peter Admirand
Pages: 1102-1103
Published online: 16 Jun 2020
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Book Review
America’s changing icons: constructing patriotic women from World War I to the present
by Annessa Ann Babic, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, Lanham, MD, 2018, 200 pp., US$70.87 (hardback), ISBN: 978-1-68393-134-8
Allene Nichols
Pages: 1103-1105
Published online: 21 Jun 2020
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‘No one hopes to leave here alive’: a review of Stalingrad: letters from the Volga
Stalingrad: letters from the Volga, by Antonio Gil and Daniel Ortega, translated by Jeff Whitman, lettered by T. Perran Mitchell, Annapolis, MD, Dead Reckoning, 2019, 112 pp., US$19.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-68247-393-1
Jeff Godsey
Pages: 1105-1107
Published online: 18 Jun 2020
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Comic connections: reflecting on women in popular culture
edited by Sandra Eckard, London, UK, Roman & Littlefield, 2018, xvii + 139 pp., US$27.00 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-4758-2805-4
Nadia Schafer
Pages: 1107-1108
Published online: 02 Jul 2020
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The comics of Hergé: when the lines are not so clear
edited by Joe Sutliff Sanders, Jackson, University Press of Mississippi, March 2018, 192 pp., US$30.00 (paperpack), ISBN: 978-1-4968-1849-2
Christa Catherine Jones
Pages: 1108-1111
Published online: 09 Jul 2020
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Book Review
Breaking the frames: populism and prestige in comics studies
by Marc Singer, Austin, TX, University of Texas Press, 2018, 312 pp., US$34.95 (paperback), ISBN: 978-1-4773-1710-5
Sean C. Hadley
Pages: 1111-1112
Published online: 10 Jul 2020
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The elephant in the room: women draw their world
edited by The Spring Collective, New Delhi, India, Zubaan Books, 2017, 240 pp., US$35.00 (paperback), ISBN 978-93-85932-24-3
Ena Dhankhar
Pages: 1112-1114
Published online: 10 Jul 2020
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Book Review
Jim shooter: conversations
edited by Jason Sacks, Eric Hoffman, and Dominick Grace, Jackson, MS, University Press of Mississippi, 2017, 252 pp., US$40.00 (hardcover), ISBN: 978-1-4968-1179-0
Jesse Matlock
Pages: 1114-1116
Published online: 10 Jul 2020
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Make ours marvel: media convergence and a comics universe
edited by Matt Yockey, Austin, TX, University of Texas Press, 2017, 364 pp., US $29.95 (paperback), ISBN: 978-1477312506
Valentino L. Zullo
Pages: 1116-1119
Published online: 10 Jul 2020
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Book Review
The lady doctor
by Ian Williams, University Park, PA, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2019, 256 pp., US $24.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-271-08374-2
Çağdaş Özerk Duman & Özge Ege Altan
Pages: 1119-1120
Published online: 15 Jul 2020
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Comics and pop culture: adaptation from panel to frame
edited by Barry Keith Grant and Scott Henderson, Austin, TX, University of Texas Press, 2019, 330 pp., US$34.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-47731939-0
Natalie R. Sheppard
Pages: 1121-1122
Published online: 20 Jul 2020
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Book Review
Theology and the Marvel Universe
edited by Gregory Stevenson, Lexington Books, 2020, 270 pp., £65.00 (Hardback), ISBN 978-1-9787-0615-6
Paul O’Connor
Pages: 1122-1124
Published online: 24 Jul 2020
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Book Review
Hole in the Heart: Bring Up Beth
by Henny Beaumont, University Park, PA, Penn State University Press, 2016. 288 pp., $24.95, ISBN-10: 0271077409, ISBN-13: 978-0271077406
Christopher McGunnigle
Pages: 1124-1126
Published online: 28 Jul 2020
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Book Review
Review: Comics and Philosophy
by Chris Gavaler and Nathaniel Goldberg, Iowa City, IA, University of Iowa Press, 2019, 221 pp., US$22.50 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-60938-655-9
Jonathan Najarian
Pages: 1126-1129
Published online: 30 Jul 2020
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Innocents and incorrigibles: constructing childhood and citizenship in progressive era comics
by Lara Saguisag, New Brunswick, NJ, Rutgers University Press, 2018, 252 pp., US$27.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-8135-9176-6
Daniel Dufournaud
Pages: 1130-1132
Published online: 28 Jul 2020
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Holocaust graphic narratives: generation, trauma & memory
by Victoria Aarons, New Brunswick, NJ, Rutgers University Press, 2019, 256 pp., US$24.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-9788-0255-1
John Hebble
Pages: 1132-1133
Published online: 05 Aug 2020
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Book Review
Lissa: a story about medical promise, friendship, and revolution
by Sherine Farouk Hamdy and Coleman Nye, North York, Ontario, Canada, University of Toronto Press, 2017, 304 pp., US$27.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-1487593476
James Eric Siburt
Pages: 1133-1135
Published online: 17 Aug 2020
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Book Review
Between pen and pixel: comics, materiality and the book of the future
by Aaron Kashtan, Columbus, Ohio State University Press, 2018, 210 pp., ISBN 9780814254707
Andrew Hock Ng
Pages: 1135-1136
Published online: 20 Aug 2020
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Book Review
Ed Brubaker: conversations
edited by Terrence R. Wandtke, Jackson, MS, University Press of Mississippi, 2016, 172 pp., US$40.00 (hardcover), ISBN 978-1-4968-0550-8
Jason DeHart
Pages: 1137-1138
Published online: 20 Aug 2020
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Book Review
Graphic memories of the civil rights movement: reframing history in comics
by Jorge J. Santos Jr., University of Texas Press, June 15th, 2019, 256 pp., $29.95 (paperback)
Peyton Del Toro
Pages: 1138-1139
Published online: 24 Aug 2020
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Book Review
Posthumanism and the graphic novel in Latin America
Victoria Lynne Scholz
Pages: 1140-1141
Published online: 14 Sep 2020
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Book Review
A review of comic shop: the retail Mavericks who gave us a new Geek culture
by Dan Gearino, Foreword by Tom Spurgeon Swallow Press/Ohio University Press, 2017, 251 pp., $26.95 (hardcover)
Robert Grant Price
Pages: 1141-1143
Published online: 14 Sep 2020
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Book Review
Once upon a time in France
written by Fabien Nury, drawn by Sylvain Vallée, colors by Delf, lettered by Haley Rose-Lyon, translated by Ivanka Hahnenberger, Annapolis, Dead Reckoning, 2019, 360 pp., US$29.95 (paperback), ISBN-13: 978-1-68247-471-6
Margaret C. Flinn
Pages: 1143-1144
Published online: 04 Oct 2020
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Book Review
Monstrous women in comics
edited by Samantha Langsdale and Elizabeth Rae Coody, Jackson, University Press of Mississippi, 2020, x + 281 pp., US $30.00 (paperback), ISBN 9781496827661 (pdf)
Partha Bhattacharjee
Pages: 1145-1148
Published online: 24 Sep 2020
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Book Review
The art of Pere Joan: space, landscape, and comics form
by Benjamin Fraser, Austin, University of Texas Press, 2019, 328 pp., USD$50.00, ISBN: 9781477318126
Michael Shymanski
Pages: 1148-1149
Published online: 04 Oct 2020
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Book Review
All new, all different? A history of race and the American superhero
by Allan W. Austin and Patrick Lawrence Hamilton, University of Texas Press, 2019, 392 pp., $35.95 (paperback), ISBN: 9781477318973
Ashley Smalls
Pages: 1149-1151
Published online: 14 Nov 2020
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Book Review
The night witches
by Garth Ennis, Penciled by Russ Braun, Annapolis, MD, Dead Reckoning, 2019, 256 pp., $24.95 (Paperback), ISBN 978-1682473900
Jason DeHart
Pages: 1151-1153
Published online: 27 Oct 2020
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Interviews

“Bold and bright, combining the aesthetics of comics and Saturday morning cartoons”: an interview with comic book artist and writer Tom Scioli
Jeffery Klaehn
Pages: 1154-1167
Published online: 29 May 2019
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Interview

Mark Russell Interview
Jeffery Klaehn
Pages: 1168-1172
Published online: 07 Apr 2020
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Steve Rude interview
Jeffery Klaehn
Pages: 1173-1176
Published online: 07 Apr 2020
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On voicelessness, graphic medicine and beyond: an interview with Georgia Webber
Sathyaraj Venkatesan & Diptarup Ghosh Dastidar
Pages: 1177-1182
Published online: 03 May 2020
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Simon Spurrier Interview
Jeffery Klaehn
Pages: 1183-1186
Published online: 18 Apr 2020
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Drawing infertility: an interview with Paula Knight, Jenell Johnson, Emily Steinberg, and Phoebe Potts
Sathyaraj Venkatesan & Chinmay Murali
Pages: 1187-1200
Published online: 18 May 2020
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Jamie Delano Interview
Jeffery Klaehn
Pages: 1201-1206
Published online: 27 May 2020
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Mike Richardson Interview
Jeffery Klaehn
Pages: 1207-1211
Published online: 18 May 2020
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‘My drawing enables my catharsis…’: in conversation with Sarah Lightman
Partha Bhattacharjee & Priyanka Tripathi
Pages: 1212-1223
Published online: 14 Jul 2020
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Rae Joyce (Rachel Fenton) interview
Aswin Prasanth, Rajesh Panhathodi & Augustine George
Pages: 1224-1235
Published online: 06 Aug 2020
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Bishakh Som Interview
Jeffery Klaehn
Pages: 1236-1247
Published online: 30 Aug 2020
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Kevin Mutch Interview
Jeffery Klaehn
Pages: 1248-1264
Published online: 19 Oct 2020
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