El Santo: Wrestler, Saint and Superhero – Gabrielle Murray

Dec 4, 2006 | Comics, Film, Older Media, Volume 10

Abstract:In Santo, el Enmascarado de Plata Álvaron A. Fernández Reyes notes that within the immense cultural productions of modern Mexico, the ritual and myths that revolve around the heroic figure of Santo, are peculiarly diverse, embodying the creation of new...

America vs. Japan: the Influence of American Comics on Manga – Ludovic Graillat

Dec 4, 2006 | Volume 10

Abstract: America is very much linked to Japan. Since the Second World War these two countries are at the same time a model, a foe, a friend to each other. When we talk about the manga we often compare them to the comics. Although Japan has its own superheroes (such...

Superheroes, Superegos : icons of war and the war of icons in the fiction of Kazuo Ishiguro – Pascal Zinck

Dec 4, 2006 | Volume 10

    Abstract: This essay examines the enduring providential intervention of superheroes in the fiction of Kazuo Ishiguro, drawing on examples from his novels to probe linguistic, psychoanalytical, cultural, and historical aspects. Arguing that most of...

Why are Japanese Girls’ Comics full of Boys Bonking?[1] – Mark McLelland

Dec 4, 2006 | Volume 10

Abstract ‘Boys’ love’ (shōnen’ai) in Japanese does not refer to the love many young Japanese women feel for male teen idols but instead refers to the homoerotic attraction the male heroes in a genre of Japanese women’s manga (comics) feel for each other. Commencing in...

Enlightenment in a Dark Age:The Yogi as Spiritual Hero – Gary Hickey

Dec 4, 2006 | Volume 10

Abstract: A concept fundamental to Hindu cosmology that became popular in India around the turn of the first millennium CE was that of world ages. According to this belief, we are now living in a cycle of spiritual decline (kali-yuga) that began after the death of...

Achilles: Man of Bronze – Annabel Orchard

Dec 4, 2006 | Volume 10

  Abstract: In the Iliad, the Trojan hero Aeneas says of his Greek enemy Achilleus: “he claims to be made all of bronze (panchalkeos)” Iliad 20.102 The poet has apparently reserved a special term for this reference to Achilleus. The word panchalkeos...