Written in straightforward, jargon-free language, A Concise Dictionary of Comics guides
students, researchers, readers, and educators of all ages and at all levels of comics …

This article seeks to map a social history through examining children and 'childish'or child-
like drawing styles, and hence the presence of children, in comics. Traced across different …

been curated to initiate a nuanced examination of the ways in which violence is evident in
comics. Although we do not claim to offer an exhaustive history or a complete survey of the …

This article analyses the growth of British comic publishing for children in the twenty-first
century. It starts by outlining the children's comic culture of the mid to late twentieth century …

In researching the history of comics and childhood, I have interviewed a number of adults
who were childhood readers of the medium. What is evident from the interviews is that …

Whether it is with a custard pie, a dog or a slipper, violence has remained an ever-present
feature of The Beano's iconic comic strip 'Dennis the Menace and Gnasher'(1951 to …

This essay introduces the Alain Van Passen comics collection recently acquired by Ghent
University with the financial support of a European Research Council grant for a project on …

This article will examine how in-storyworld explanations of updates to the appearance of the
long running British comics character Dennis The Menace was expanded upon by creators …

The history of the interaction between US-made comics and BD in the country can be
divided into five periods. From the turn of the 20th century until 1934, US comics were few …

Having shown how the unified catalogue of transmedia character components can be used
to analyse Doctor Doom, another smaller case study is conducted to show how it could be …