746 ABOUT THE EDITOR AND THE CONTRIBUTORS
Fredrik Strömberg is the editor of Bild & Bubbla , Scandinavia’s largest magazine about
comics; the president of the Swedish Comics Association; and head of the Comic Art
School of Sweden. Among the books he has written are Swedish Comics History , Black
Images in the Comics , and Th e Comics Go to Hell.
Jennifer K. Stuller is a professional writer, critic, scholar, pop culture “herstorian,”
and public speaker. She is the author of Ink-Stained Amazons and Cinematic War-
riors: Superwomen in Modern Mythology (I. B. Tauris 2010) and has written for Geek
Monthly and Bitch magazines. Stuller is a Charter Associate of the Whedon Studies
Association and she can be reached through her Web site: http://www.ink-staine
damazon.com/.
Raphaël Taylor is an independent scholar and holds a PhD from King’s College
London. He is completing a book on Hergé’s “Adventures of Tintin” considered as
works of art, and is also preparing a study of André Franquin’s bandes dessinées. His
other area of scholarship is Mozart studies, and projects include a monograph on
comedy, games, and the carnivalesque in Mozart’s life and works.
Anne Th alheimer fi nished her PhD (“ Terrorists, Bitches, and Dykes: Gender, Violence,
and Heteroideology in Late 20th C. Lesbian Comix”) at the University of Delaware in
2002 and is currently a chief reader for the evaluation systems group of Pearson.
Jason S. Todd , PhD is the writing center director and an assistant professor of English
at Xavier University of Louisiana, New Orleans.
John F. Weinzierl is an associate professor of Modern European History at Lyon Col-
lege, Batesville, Arkansas. His areas of specialization are 19th-century Europe, the
Middle East, and the evolution of war. Research interests include Napoleonic Europe
and popular culture during World War II.
Qiana J. Whitted is associate professor of English and African American Studies at
the University of South Carolina. Her publications include the book, A God of Justice?:
Th e Problem of Evil in 20th Century Black Literature , as well as articles and reviews in
African American Review , Callaloo , and Southern Literary Journal. She is also co-editor
of a forthcoming collection on comics and the U.S. South.
Kent Worcester is an associate professor of Political Science at Marymount Manhat-
tan College, New York. He is the author or editor of six books, including C.L.R. James:
A Political Biography (1996), Arguing Comics: Literary Masters on a Popular Medium
(2004) and A Comics Studies Reader (2009), co-edited with Jeet Heer. He is a member
