Intellect

EDITORIAL

The winding, pot-holed road of comic art scholarship

Intertwining verbal and visual elements in printed narratives for adults

Discerning pictures: how we look at and understand images in comics

The shape of comic book reading

William Hogarth’s A Harlot’s Progress : the beginnings of a purely pictographic sequential language

The graphic novel as metafiction

The limits of time and transitions: challenges to theories of sequential image comprehension

Interview-Harry Morgan: the twenty-first century Renaissance man of graphic novels

Reviews-Diary Drawings by Bobby Baker

‘Yellow Series’ Christian A. Bachmann (ed.), Bochum and Essen: Christian A. Bachmann Verlag. Academic publishing on comics in Germany

Underground Classics: The Transformation of Comics into Comix, edited by James Danky and Denis Kitchen; introduction by Jay Lynch; essays by James Danky and Dennis Kitchen; Patrick Rosenkranz; Trina Robbins; Paul Buhle (2009) New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 143 pp., 978 0 8109 0598 6, Hardback, £14.99

Alan Moore: Comics as Performance, Fiction as Scalpel, Annalisa Di Liddo (2009) Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 211 pp., ISBN 9781604732139, Paperback, £21.99

The Power of Comics: History, Form and Culture, Randy Duncan and Matthew J. Smith (2009) First Edition, New York and London: Continuum International Publishing, 346 pp., 082642936X, Paperback, $24.95

Reading Comics: How They Work and What They Mean, Douglas Wolk (2008) First Edition, Cambridge, MA, USA: Da Capo Press, 416 pp., 0306815095, Hardback, £13.99 , 0306816164, Paperback, £9.99