Comics, cartoons, and animation

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Abstract GRAPHIC OPINIONS: EDITORIAL CARTOONISTS AND THEIR ART edited by Jack Colldeweih and Kaiman Goldstein (Bowling Green: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1998—$49.95/24–95, ISBN 0–87972–757–8 hard, 0–87972–758–6 paper, 278 pp., bibliographical references) FORGING A NEW MEDIUM: THE COMIC STRIP IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY edited by Charles Dierick and Pascal Lefèvre (Brussels: VUB University Press, 1998—£17.90, ISBN 90–5487–206–3, 214 pp., bibliographical references, index) THE FOUR IMMIGRANTS MANGA: A JAPANESE EXPERIENCE IN SAN FRANCISCO, 1904–1924 by Henry (Yoshitaka) Kiyama, translated by Frederik L. Schodt (Berkeley, CA: Stone Bridge Press, 1999—$12.95, paper, ISBN 1–880656–33–7, 152 pp., bibliographical references) PULP DEMONS: INTERNATIONAL DIMENSIONS OF THE POSTWAR ANTI‐COMICS CAMPAIGN edited by John A. Lent (Cranbury, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press/Associated University Presses—$49.50, ISBN 0–8386–3784–1, 312 pp., photos, appendix, notes, bibliography, index) THEMES AND ISSUES IN ASIAN CARTOONING: CUTE, CHEAP, MAD, AND SEXY edited by John A. Lent (Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1999—$49.95/21.95, ISBN 0–8797–2779–9 hard, 0–8797–2780–2 paper; 212 pp.) THE EROTIC ANIME MOVIE GUIDE by Helen McCarthy and Jonathan Clements (London: Titan Books, 1998—£12.99, ISBN 1–85286–946–1, 192 pp., filmography) BAD LANGUAGE, NAKED LADIES, AND OTHER THREATS TO THE NATION: A POLITICAL HISTORY OF COMIC BOOKS IN MEXICO by Anne Rubenstein (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1998—$49.95/17.95, ISBN 0–8223–2108–4 hard, 0–8223–2141–6 paper, 210 pp., bibliographic references) AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL STUDY OF CARTOONS IN INDIA by K. N. Sahay (New Delhi: Commonwealth Publishers, 1998—$61.00, ISBN 81–7169–516–7, 304 pp., bibliographical references) ASIAN POP CINEMA: BOMBAY TO TOKYO by Lee Server (San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1999—$16.95, paper, ISBN 0–8118–2119–6, 132 pp.) THE FILMS OF OSHIMA NAGISA: IMAGES OF A JAPANESE ICONOCLAST by Maureen Turim (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998—$19.95, paper, ISBN 0–520–20665–5, 314 pp., bibliographical references, index) UNDERSTANDING ANIMATION by Paul Wells (London and New York: Routledge, 1998—$65.00/19.95, ISBN 0–415–11596–5 hard, 0–415–11597–3 paper, 265 pp., bibliographical references)