S! #55: 'Comics Sans Frontieres', March 2025

 

Here's an issue where you can have your cake and eat it too!  Not only is it filled with cool and quirky comics from all over, it is also chock-a-block with comics history, criticism and philosophy from a dazzling array of points of view.  Here's an issue you can sink your (wisdom) teeth into!

 

Special issue in conjunction with the 'Comics Sans Frontieres' Conference at RICE University, Houston, Texas, 20-23 March.

 

Cover: Art Spiegelman (USA), colors by Christopher Sperandio (USA) 

 

Comics and Art: Andrew Kozlowski(USA), Mia Oberlander (Germany), Vera Bekema (The Netherlands), Liga Spunde (Latvia), Mingo Almazan (USA), Jessica Snow (USA), Augusto Mora (Mexico), Christopher Sperandio (USA), Joost Halbertsma (The Netherlands), Art Spiegelman (USA), Robert Pruitt (USA), Karim Oyazabal (France), Cheyenne Olivier (France), Sofia Adams-Giron(USA), Amelyn Ng (Australia), Jack Katz (USA), Dirk Verschure (The Netherlands)  

 

  Texts: David Messmer (USA), Amanda Focke (USA), K. Sarah Ostrach (USA), Rebecca Russell (USA), Jane Grande-Allen (USA), Christopher Sperandio, Naoko Ozaki (Japan), Jeffrey Kripal (USA), Caitlin McGurk (USA), Margarita M. Castroman Soto (Puerto Rico), Tesla Cariani (USA), Ofra Amihay (Israel), Martalisa Tsai (USA), Julie Fette (USA), Brian Baynes (USA), Pedro Moura (Portugal), David Schilter (Switzerland) 

 

  Guest Editors: Pedro Moura (Portugal), Ofra Amihay (Israel), Christopher Sperandio (USA)

 

Format: A6, 164 pages, full-color, perfect bound, environmentally friendly Munken paper.

 

Support: This project was supported in part by the following Rice University entities: Center for Languages and Intercultural Communication, Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Creative Ventures, Fondren Fellows program, Humanities Research Center, Program in Jewish Studies, Moody Center for the Arts, Religious Studies, School of Architecture, and Scientia Institute.