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American Book Review, v. 23, January-February, 2002. Copyright © 2002 American Book Review. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature, v. 17, October, 1986. Copyright © 1986 The Board of Governors, The University of Calgary. Reproduced by permission of the publisher.—Atlantic, v. 258, August, 1986 for “Comic Books for Grown-ups” by Lloyd Rose. Copyright © 1986, Atlantic. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Books in Canada, v. 31, September, 2002 for “Journeys across Time and Water” by Clara Thomas. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Callaloo, v. 13, Spring, 1990. © The Johns Hopkins University Press. Reproduced by permission.—Cambridge Quarterly, v. 31, 2002. Copyright © 2002 by the Editors. Reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press.—College English, v. 55, March, 1993; v. 57, February, 1995. Copyright © 1993, 1995 by the National Council of Teachers of English. Reprinted by permission.—Comics Journal, no. 113, December, 1986 for “Maus and Other Topics” by Harvey Pekar; no. 114, February, 1987 for “The Dark Knight Reborn” by Gene Phillips; no. 214, July, 1999 for “Paranormal Popularity” by Gregory Cwiklik. Copyright © 1986, 1987, 1999 Comics Journal. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the respective authors.—Commonweal, v. 122, October 20, 1995. Copyright © 1995, Commonweal Publishing Co., Inc. Reproduced by permission of Commonweal Foundation.—Comparative Literature Studies, v. 32, 1995 for a review by Sanford Schwartz of Minotaur: Poetry and the Nation State, by Tom Paulin. © Copyright 1995 by University of Oregon. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Critical Quarterly, v. 42, Spring, 2000. Reproduced by permission of Blackwell Publishers.—ELT: English Literature in Translation: 1880-1920, v. 36, 1993. Copyright © 1993 English Literature in Transition: 1880-1920. Reproduced by permission.—Extrapolation, v. 30, Winter, 1989; v. 39, Fall, 1998. Copyright © 1989, 1998 by The Kent State University Press. Reproduced by permission.— Financial Times, June 13, 1998 for “A Hack who Happened to Be a Genius” by Jon Cook. Reproduced by permission.— Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction, v. 71, Autumn, 1997 for “Of Parents and Children and Dreams in Neil Gaiman’s Mr. Punch and The Sandman” by Joe Sanders; v. 83, Autumn, 2001 for “Visualizations of Cyber-Gothic Bodies in William Gibson’s Trilogy and the Art of the Graphic Novel” by Tatiana Rapatzikou. Copyright © Foundation, 1997, 2001. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the respective authors.—Frontiers, v. 22, June, 2001. Copyright © by the Frontiers Editorial Collective 2001. Reproduced by permission of the University of Nebraska Press.—The Guardian, October 22, 1998 for “Woman: Mother Courage: Maureen Freely Talks to Marilyn French” by Maureen Freely. Reproduced by permission of the author; November 16, 2002. Copyright © 2002 Larushka Ivan-Zadeh. Reproduced by permission of Guardian News Service, LTD.—Image & Narrative: Online Magazine of the Visual Narrative, December, 2000 for “The Publication and Formats of Comics, Graphic Novels, and Tankobon” by Chris Couch; January, 2003, “Looking Inside Out: The Vision as Particular Gaze in From Hell” by Lisa Coppin. Copyright © 2000, 2003 by Image & Narrative. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the respective authors.—Inks: Cartoon and Comic Art Studies, v. 1, February, 1994. Copyright © 1994, Inks: Cartoon and Comic Art Studies. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—International Journal of the Classical Tradition, v. 4, Fall, 1997 for “‘Talking amongst Ourselves’: Language, Politics, and Sophocles on the Field Day Stage” by Richard C. Jones. Copyright by Transaction Publishers. 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Reproduced from Publishers Weekly, published by R. R. Bowker Company, a Xerox company, by permission.— Research in African Literatures, v. 26, Summer, 1995 for “Caught at the Confluence of History: Ama Ata Aidoo’s Necessary Nationalism” by Ranu Samantrai; v. 33, Summer, 2002 for “‘About Lovers in Accra’—Urban Intimacy in Ama Ata Aidoo’s Changes: A Love Story” by Maria Olaussen; v. 33, Summer, 2002 for “Slavery and Etiological Discourse in the Writing of Ama Ata Aidoo, Bessie Head, and Buchi Emecheta” by Modupe Olaogun. Published by Indiana University Press. Reproduced by permission of the publisher.—Science-Fiction Studies, v. 21, November, 1994. Copyright © 1994 by SFS Publications. Copyright © 1994 by SFS Publications. Reproduced by permission.—Southern Humanities Review, v. 34, Summer, 2000 for a review by Christopher Hamilton of The Day-Star of Liberty: William Hazlitt’s Radical Style, by Tom Paulin. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Spectator, v. 268, February 1, 1992; v. 281, July 11, 1998; v. 288, May 4, 2002. © 1992, 1998, 2002 by The Spectator. Reproduced by permission of The Spectator.—Studies in the Novel, v. 32, Summer, 2000. Copyright 2000 by North Texas State University. Reproduced by permission.—Studies in Short Fiction, v. 32, Spring, 1995. Copyright 1995 by Studies in Short Fiction, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—Studies in Twentieth Century Literature, v. 15, Winter, 1991. Copyright © 1991 by Studies in Twentieth Century Literature. Reproduced by permission.—Times Literary Supplement, no. 4571, November 9-15, 1990; no. 4701, May 7, 1993; no. 4762, August 7, 1994; no. 4988, November 6, 1998; no. 5056, February 25, 2000; no. 5179, July 5, 2002. © The Times Supplements Limited 1990, 1993, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2002. 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Innes, C.L. From Essays on African Writing. Edited by Abdulrazak Gurnah. Heinemann Educational Publishers, 1995. Copyright © 1995 by C.L. Innes. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Harcourt Education Ltd.—Nash, Jesse

W. From Popular Arthurian Traditions. Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1992. Copyright © 1992, by Bowling Green State University Popular Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Blackwell Publishers.— Nwankwo, Chimalum. From Ngambika: Studies of Women in African Literature. Edited by Carole Boyce Davies and Anne Adams Graves. Africa Word Press, 1986. Copyright © 1986 by Africa World Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Africa World Press, Trenton, N.J.—O’Donoghue, Bernhard. From The Chosen Ground: Essays on the Contemporary Poetry of Northern Ireland. Edited by Neil Corcoran. Ormore-by-the-Sea Books, 1992. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Sabin, Roger. From Adult Comics: An Introduction, 1993, Routledge, 1993. Copyright © by Roger Sabin 1993. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—Sullivan, Mary Rose. From Mother Puzzles: Daughters and Mothers in Contemporary American Literature. Edited by Mickey Pearlman. Greenwood Press, 1989. Copyright © 1989 by Mickey Pearlman. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., Westport, CT.—Todd, Janet. From Women Writers Talking. Edited by Janet Todd. Holmes and Meier Publishers, 1983. Reproduced by permission.—Wilentz, Gay. From Binding Cultures: Black Women Writers in Africa and the Diaspora. Indiana University Press, 1992. Copyright © 1992 by Gay Wilentz. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Witek, Joseph. From Comic Books as History: The Narrative Art of Jack Jackson, Art Spiegelman, and Harvey Pekar. University Press of Mississippi, 1989. Copyright © 1989, by the University Press of Mississippi. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.

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Clowes, Daniel, illustrator. From an illustration in Ghost World, by Daniel Clowes. Fantagraphics, 1998. © 2003 Dan Clowes/Fantagraphics. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—French, Marilyn, photograph. © Najlah Feanny/ Corbis Saba. Reproduced by permission.—Gibbons, Dave, illustrator. From an illustration in Watchmen #4, by Alan Moore. DC Comics, 1987. Watchmen #4 ™ and © 1986. All rights reserved. Used with permission.

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