Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, Volume 2, Issue 1 (2011)

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Superheroes and gender

Editorial

Editorial
Editorial
Peter Coogan, Mel Gibson, David Huxley, Joan Ormrod & Derek Royal
Pages: 1-2
Published online: 17 Jun 2011
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Black cat got your tongue?: Catwoman, blackness, and the alchemy of postracialism
Deborah Elizabeth Whaley
Pages: 3-23
Published online: 17 Jun 2011
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Hero of the beach: Flex Mentallo at the end of the worlds
Will Brooker
Pages: 25-37
Published online: 17 Jun 2011
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Good Girl Art – facing images of women in David Mack's Kabuki
Frida Beckman
Pages: 39-54
Published online: 17 Jun 2011
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The feminine mystique: feminism, sexuality, motherhood
Ross Murray
Pages: 55-66
Published online: 17 Jun 2011
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Queer resistance, gender performance, and ‘coming out’ of the panel borders in Greg Rucka and J.H. Williams III's Batwoman: Elegy
Paul Petrovic
Pages: 67-76
Published online: 17 Jun 2011
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Supermoms? Maternity and the monstrous-feminine in superhero comics
Jeffrey A. Brown
Pages: 77-87
Published online: 17 Jun 2011
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Book Reviews

Book Review
Superheroes and gods: a comparative study from Babylonia to Batman, by Don LoCicero
Jefferson, NC, McFarland & Company, Inc., 2008, v + 249 pp., US$35.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-786431-84-7
Hannah Means-Shannon
Pages: 89-91
Published online: 17 Jun 2011
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Assembled 2, edited by Van Allen Plexico
Lexington KY, White Rocket Books, 2009, 183 pp., US$21.95 (paperback), ISBN: 9780984139200
Robert G. Weiner
Pages: 91-93
Published online: 17 Jun 2011
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Captain America and the struggle of the superhero: critical essays, edited by Robert G. Weiner
Foreword by John Shelton Lawrence, Afterward by J.M. DeMatteis, Jefferson, NC, McFarland & Company, 2009, v + 255pp., £35.50 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-7864-3703-0
Joan Ormrod
Pages: 93-95
Published online: 17 Jun 2011
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Marvel graphic novels and related publications: an annotated guide to comics, prose novels, children's books, articles, criticism and reference works, 1965–2005, by Robert G. Weiner
Jefferson, NC, McFarland & Company, 2008, 384 pp., US$45.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-7864-2500-6
David Huxley
Pages: 95-96
Published online: 17 Jun 2011
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Graven images: religion in comic books and graphic novels, edited by A. David Lewis and Christine Hoff Kraemer
New York, The Continuum International Publishing Group, 2010, xii + 366 pp., US$34.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-826430-2-67
Tahneer Oksman
Pages: 96-98
Published online: 17 Jun 2011
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The great women superheroes, by Trina Robbins
Northampton, Kitchen Sink Press, 1996, 207 pp., out of print, ISBN 978-0-878164-8-20
Aimee Vincent & Trina Robbins
Pages: 98-101
Published online: 17 Jun 2011
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Drawing the line: a book of comics benefiting cancer research, edited by Suley Fattah and Julie Eng
Drawing the line again: another book of comics benefiting cancer research, edited by Suley Fattah
privately published, 2004, 103 pp., US$20.00, ISBN 978-0-973511-30-7 Toronto, Fengsuli Press, 2006, 150 pp., US$20.00, ISBN 978-0-973511-32-1
John ‘Jack’ T. Becker
Pages: 101-102
Published online: 17 Jun 2011
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Growing up with comics, by R.G. Taylor and friends
Dallas, TX, Desperado, 2008, 144 pp., US$16.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-935002-12-3
Ian Williams
Pages: 102-104
Published online: 17 Jun 2011
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Comics in French. The European bande dessinée in context, by Laurence Grove
New York, Berhahn, 2010, xiv + 346 pp., US$100 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-845455-88-0
Matthew Screech
Pages: 104-106
Published online: 17 Jun 2011
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The supergirls: fashion, feminism, fantasy, and the history of comic book heroines, by Mike Madrid
Minneapolis, MN, Exterminating Angel Press, 2009, viii + 324 pp., US$16.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-935259-03-9
Bryan Carr
Pages: 106-107
Published online: 17 Jun 2011
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