[ecrea] Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics - Special Issue: Superheroes and Gender

Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics

Special Issue: Superheroes and Gender

The latest issue of Journal of Graphic Novels & Comics is a special 
issue, Superheroes and Gender. This issue is now available online and 
contains the following articles:

Editorial

Peter Coogan, Mel Gibson, David Huxley, Joan Ormrod and Derek Royal



Articles



Black cat got your tongue?: Catwoman, blackness, and the alchemy of 
postracialism

Deborah Elizabeth Whaley



Hero of the beach: Flex Mentallo at the end of the worlds

Will Brooker



Good Girl Art - facing images of women in David Mack's Kabuki

Frida Beckman



The feminine mystique: feminism, sexuality, motherhood

Ross Murray



Queer resistance, gender performance, and 'coming out' of the panel 
borders in Greg Rucka and J.H. Williams III's Batwoman: Elegy

Paul Petrovic



Supermoms? Maternity and the monstrous-feminine in superhero comics

Jeffrey A. Brown



Book Reviews



Superheroes and gods: a comparative study from Babylonia to Batman, by 
Don LoCicero

Hannah Means-Shannon



Assembled 2, edited by Van Allen Plexico

Robert G. Weiner



Captain America and the struggle of the superhero: critical essays, 
edited by Robert G. Weiner

Joan Ormrod



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

David Huxley



Graven images: religion in comic books and graphic novels, edited by A. 
David Lewis and Christine Hoff Kraemer

Tahneer Oksman



The great women superheroes, by Trina Robbins

Aimee Vincent and Trina Robbins



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

John 'Jack' T. Becker



Growing up with comics, by R.G. Taylor and friends

Ian Williams



Comics in French. The European bande dessinée in context, by Laurence Grove

Matthew Screech



The supergirls: fashion, feminism, fantasy, and the history of comic 
book heroines, by Mike Madrid

Bryan Carr





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