Focus: New Comics
Volume 46, Number 4
Winter 2025
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From the Editor
A School of One’s Own by Jeffrey R. Di Leo
Focus: New Comics
The “New Comics”: An Introduction by Paul Buhle and Raymond Tyler
Harvey Pekar: A Leftwing Figure in Comic Art by Paul Buhle
Comics and Radicalism from the UK to the USA by Raymond Tyler
The Dilemma of the Comic Creator and the Invention of the Direct Market by Raymond Tyler
World Building in and Outside the Pages of My Favorite Thing Is Monsters by Alex Dueben
“Mean, Ordinary, Boring”: Age, Faith, and Perception in My Favorite Thing Is Monsters by Diana Green
Emil Ferris: When Lines and Colors Cross and When They Don’t by Alonso Nuñez
The Ferris Wheel of Love and Longing by Robert L. Reiner
“What’s a You-Jen-Uh-Sisst?”: Disability in My Favorite Thing Is Monsters by José Alaniz
Kent Worchester reviews The Ruling Clawss: The Socialist Cartoons of Syd Hoff by Syd Hoff
Lawton Browning reviews One Beautiful Spring Day by Jim Woodring
World War 3 Illustrated: What’s So Funny? by Lucy Lippard with a preface by Sabrina Jones
A Note on Fantagraphics by Paul Buhle
On Abrams ComicArts by Charles Kochman
Interventions
La Frontera Speaks: Frederick Luis Aldama interviews Denise Chávez
Sound
Fiction
Edward M. Bury reviews The Last Huck by J. D. Austin
Robert James Cross reviews Performances for the End of Time by Harold Jaffe
Carla M. Wilson reviews Out of Competition by Lew Collins
Laurel Kallen reviews Cabbie 1971, 1972: True Tales by N. G. Haiduck
Benjamin Drevlow reviews The Missing by Ben Tanzer
Eric Sandberg reviews The Venus of Salò by Ben Pastor
E-Feature
Living in the Autumn Time by E. Ethelbert Miller
Cartographies
Kurt Vonnegut, Race, and Censorship by Robert T. Tally, Jr.
Translation
Fair Use? Translation and / as / or Plagiarism in Baudelaire by Brian O’Keefe
Poetry
Jane Rosenberg LaForge reviews Ember Days by Mary Gilliland
David Rigsbee reviews The Holy & Broken Bliss by Alicia Ostriker
Onur Ayaz reviews Here, There, and Nowhere by Valery Oisteanu
Essays
John Thurgood reviews A Kind of In-Between by Aaron Burch
Memoir
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