Allen, Sara. "MAUS--A Narrative History of Family and Tragedy" (final project, 1997)
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Banks, Amanda Carson and Elizabeth E. Wein. "Folklore and the Comic Book: The Traditional Meets the Popular" New Directions in Folklore 2 (formerly the Impromptu Journal) January 1998
http://www.temple.edu/isllc/newfolk/comics1.html

Boin, Douglas. "Form and Function in Art Spiegelman's MAUS" (paper for American Literary Traditions course, 1997)
http://www.georgetown.edu/bassr/218/projects/boin/maus2.htm

Broad, David B. "Sheena, Queen of the Jungle: White Goddess of the Dumont Era" (1996?)
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Brown, Joshua. "Of Mice and Memory" Oral History Review, Spring 1988
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Cygan, Steve. "Code of Honor?" (2000?)
http://www.evilgamer.org/debates/codeessay.html

Daily, Chris. "The BIG PICTURE: The Importance of Art in Watchmen" (2001?)
http://www.stripteasecomic.com/specials/watchmen3.htm

Dinovo, Matt. "What are We to Make of the Metaphor Breakdown in Maus II?" (paper for Rhetoric II course, 1997)
http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Classroom/1821/dino2.html

Edgerton, Colin. "Maus and The Holocaust: An Investigation of Memory in Literature" (1997)
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Fagan, Bryan D. "Creation and Maintenance of a Comics Research Library" (1999?)
http://www.lib.siu.edu/~bfagan/comproj.html

Flynn, Bob. "Calamity on the Comics Page" (1989?)
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Francis, Catherine. "From Superman to Super-Being: Dr. Manhattan and the Nuclear Sublime" (1993?)
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--------. "Tankgirl" c1999.
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Greenfelder, Matt. "Comics" (essay for Composition 2 course, 1998)
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Hammontree, David R. "THE AGE OF THE SUPER-HERO: AN AMERICAN MYTH REFLECTED BY AN EVERCHANGING AMERICAN IDEOLOGY" (paper for course POS 499: Graphic Novels and the American Political Myth , University of Illinois at Springfield, 1998)
http://lilt.ilstu.edu/Eng351/drhammo/repurposing/papers/part1.html

Hurt, Alyson. "Women in Comic Books" (paper for ENG 216 course, 1998)
http://alykat.hispeed.com/school/comics.htm

Kenny, Christopher . "THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN IDEALS THROUGH COMIC BOOKS" (a paper for the English 111, 112 or 133 course, U of Mass, 1999-2000).
http://writingprogram.hfa.umass.edu/anthology/anthology_archive/99/99_kenny.html

Kte'pi, Bill. "Different Bat Time, Same Bat Channel:Manifestations of Hypernostalgia in the Batman Mythos" (paper for CCS Division I Exam 1993)
http://ktepi.freeservers.com/batmanpaper.html

Lefevre, Pascal. "Le fantastique, un genre indéfinissable ? " Image (&) Narrative, Online Magazine of the Visual Narrative, issue 2, 2001
http://millennium.arts.kuleuven.ac.be/narrative/preview_art_1.cfm?article_ID=113&kind=2

--------. "Narration in Comics" Image (&) Narrative, Online Magazine of the Visual Narrative, issue 1, 2000
http://millennium.arts.kuleuven.ac.be/narrative/preview_art_1.cfm?article_ID=88&kind=2

Lemke, J. L. "Visual and Verbal Resources for Evaluative Meaning in Political Cartoons" (work in progress)
http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/education/jlemke/papers/polcart.htm

Lewis, A. David. "Never to Wake : In Continuing Praise of Neil Gaiman's The Sandman" (2000?)
http://home.bip.net/rivieran/literature/praise.html

--------. "A New Frame for Comic Books: The Genuine Literary Value of the Comic Book Medium" (2000)
http://www.holycow.com/dreaming/academia/sandman_paper.html

Mockaitis, Dave. "THE SANDMAN AND PSYCHOANALYSIS" (1993?)
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Niederhausen, Michael. "Signifying in Comic Books: Neil Gaiman's The Sandman" (essay was submitted to the faculty of Xavier University, Cincinnati, OH, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in English, 1999)
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Numrich, Monika. "Maus and Its Animal Metaphor" (1991?)
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Prosperi, Lou. "COMIC BOOKS AND GRAPHIC NOVELS:THE UNDISCOVERED MEDIUM" (thesis for BGS 399, 1995)
http://homepages.msn.com/Terminus/louprosperi/School/Thesis.html

Robinson, Jessica. "Women in Comic Books" (2001)
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Santiago, Ardith. "Manga, Beyond Ukiyo-e: Aesthetics, Postmoderism and Japan" (for Japanese C195: Asethetics and Hermanutics course (UCLA), 1999)
http://www.hanabatake.com/research/beyond.html

--------. "Meiji and Manga: Japan's Past Through the Eyes of the Present" (paper for History 187C (UCLA), 1999)
http://www.hanabatake.com/research/meiji.html

--------. "Tezuka: God of Comics" (work in progress)
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Thorn, Matt. "Adolescent Liminality in the Manga of HAGIO Moto"
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Trub, B.F. "The Trends of Comic Books" (2001?)
http://www.louisville.edu/~bftrub01/comics.html

{unknown author}. "The Aesthetic Advancement and Narrative Fluidity of Neil Gaimans Sandman: Brief Lives"
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{unknown author}. "ANIME AND MANGA: A POPULAR CULT ICON" (1999?)
http://www.usask.ca/art/digital_culture/zimmerman/page3.html

{unknown author}. "Les camps de concentration dans les Bandes Dessinées"
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{unknown author}. "IN DREAMS I WALK WITH YOU: Fantasy, Folklore and Dark Humor in Neil Gaiman's Sandman series" (1994?)
http://www.holycow.com/dreaming/academia/Anne_Sandman.txt

{unknown author}" Judge, Jury, and Executioner: The Rise of the Antihero" (1998?)
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{unknown author}. "A Many-Petaled Hybrid: Neil Gaiman and Dave McKeans Black Orchid" (1993?)
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Williams, Jeff. "COMICS: A TOOL OF SUBVERSION?" Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture 2(6) (1994) 129-146
http://www.albany.edu/scj/jcjpc/vol2is6/comics.html

--------. "Homosexuality and Political Activism in Latin American Culture: An Arena for Popular Culture and Comix" Other Voices, v.1, n.2 (September 1998)
http://www.othervoices.org/1.2/jwilliams/comix.html

Zander, Holly. "ICON: THE BACKBONE OF COMIC ILLUSTRATION" (written for college English writing contest) (1993?)
http://www.english.uwosh.edu/composition/COMIC.HTM

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