"The Inner-Directed Batman: Comics and the Lonely Crowd"
Mark T. Best, Indiana Univ.

"Who Read Canadian Heroes? Reminiscences: Comic Readership 50 Years Later"
Vicki A. Green, Okanagan Univ. College

"Drawn Together II: Ritualistic Behavior and Practices of the Gay and Lesbian Community, as Portrayed in Homosexual Relationstrips"
Solomon Davidoff, Bowling Green State Univ.

Respondent: Jay Lynch

"The Lowest of the High: Reader’s Digest, Classics Illustrated and, the Problem of Mass Literacy"
Bart Beaty, McGill Univ.

"A Trajectory Though the Swamp: The Rise of the ‘Mature’ Comic Book"
Greg M. Smith, Univ. of Wisconsin at Madison

"Nina Paley: Funny Girl of Twisted Sister?"
Justin Estes

Respondents: Chris Howard, Greg Beettam

"Comic Studies Institutions: What We Have, What We Need"
Peter Coogan, Michigan State Univ.

Panel Discussion: "Comics Scholarship"
Peter M. Coogan (moderator), Scott McCloud, Larry Marder, Jeff Smith, Kim Thompson

"The Atomic Bomb, the Hydrogen Bomb, and Their Portrayal in Political Cartoons"
Todd Allen, Northwestern Univ.

"Nibbled to Death by Ducks: An Introductory Study of Walt Kelly’s Editorial Cartoons"
Steve Thompson

"The Comic Artists Who Won the War"
Hal Higdon

Respondent: Len Strazewski

"The Heroic Image: A Content Analysis of Comic Book Covers"
Randy Duncan, Henderson State Univ.

"Giant-Size Characters: Narrative Exposition in Giant-Size X-Men"
Mark McClusky, Carleton College

"The Comics Code and The Editorial Process"
Amy Kiste Nyberg, Seton Hall Univ.

Respondent: Turtel Onli

"How Not to Read Comics Like a Book"
R.C. Harvey

"Approaching Milligan’s Meta-Comic Through Post-Structuralism and Literature"
Christopher Busiel, Univ. of Texas

Respondent: Rick Veitch