John A. Lent, Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania, has founded and chaired numerous organizations, including the Asia and Pacific Animation and Comics Association, the Asian Research Center on Animation and Comic Art, the Asian Popular Culture group of the Popular Culture Association, the Asian Cinema Studies Society, and the Malaysia/Singapore/Brunei Studies Group. He has edited many periodicals, including the International Journal of Comic Art and Asian Cinema, and he has authored or edited seventy-six books.
Lent has brought comics studies into the mainstream and gone worldwide. This is an amazing feat, covering so many different cultural contexts on various continents. A particularly valuable contribution has been his journal, International Journal of Comic Art, a doughty biannual which he founded in 1999, which has scoured the world, and which he puts together more or less solo. His knowledge of Asian comics, much of it gathered during tireless travel to China and elsewhere, is unparalleled.--David Kunzle, author of numerous books on comics history, including Rodolphe T�pffer: The Complete Comic Strips, Father of the Comic Strip: Rodolphe T�pffer, and Gustave Dor� Twelve Comic Strips, all published by University Press of Mississippi
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