Jared Gardner Editor & Author

Jared Gardner, Columbus, Ohio, is professor of English at The Ohio State University. He is author of Master Plots: Race and the Founding of an American Literature, 1787–1845; Projections: Comics and the History of Twenty-First-Century Storytelling; and The Rise and Fall of Early American Magazine Culture.

Ian Gordon, Singapore, is professor of American history at the National University of Singapore. He is author of Comic Strips and Consumer Culture, 1890–1945 and Superman: The Persistence of an American Icon and coeditor of Comics and Ideology and Film and Comic Books, published by University Press of Mississippi.