Justice Framed: Law Text Culture special issue (2012)

Many of you may already be aware of this publication, but it remains a highly useful resource for those of us interested in exploring the intersections of comics and law: the 2012 special issue of Law Text Culture 'Justice Framed: Law in Comics and Graphic Novels'. This open-access volume contains a wide variety of legal and comics analysis, from the development of a metaphor of 'eating' for understanding jurisprudence via Chew, through the significance of comics villains' aesthetic appearance, to the politics of retribution in the Punisher. Here's a handy list of contents:.

• Introduction - Justice framed: law in comics and graphic novels
  Luis Gomez Romero and Ian Dahlman

• Krazy Kat (review)
  K N Llewellyn

• The legal surrealism of George Herriman's Krazy Kat
  Ian Dahlman

• 'What had been many became one': continuity, the common law, and Crisis on Infinite Earths
  Benjamin Authers

• Justice in the gutter: representing everyday trauma in the graphic novels of Art Spiegelman
  Karen Crawley and Honni van Rijswijk

• 'Sakaarson the World Breaker': violence and différance in the political and legal theory of Marvel's sovereign
  Chris Lloyd

• Chewing in the name of justice: the taste of law in action
  Anita Lam

• Magic and modernity in Tintin au Congo (1930) and the Sierra Leone Special Court
  René Provost

• Spider-Man, the question and the meta-zone: exception, objectivism and the comics of Steve Ditko
  Jason Bainbridge

• Comic book mythology: Shyamalan’s Unbreakable and the grounding of good in evil
  Timothy D Peters

• ‘Come a Day there Won’t be Room for Naughty Men Like Us to Slip About at All’: the multi-media outlaws of Serenity and the possibilities of post-literate justice
  Kieran Tranter

• The aesthetics of supervillainy
  Jack Fennell

• The punisher and the politics of retributive justice
  Kent Worcester

• ‘Riddle me this…?’ Would the world need superheroes if the law could actually deliver ‘justice’?
  Cassandra Sharp

• Noir justice: Law, crime and morality in Díaz Canales and Guarnido’s Blacksad: Somewhere within the shadows and Arctic-nation
  Jane Hanley

• The story of Bohemia or, why there is nothing to rebel against anymore
  John Hanamy

Justice Framed: Law in Comics and Graphic Novels (2012 ) Law Text Culture 16(1)