JOHN A. LENT has studied comics for more than thirty years. Besides his professorial duties, he is managing editor of WittyWorld International Cartoon Magazine. He is the author or editor of forty-seven books and monographs, and hundreds of articles. The first three volumes of this international study of comic art literature are: Animation, Caricature, and Gag and Political Cartoons in the United States and Canada: An International Bibliography (Greenwood, 1994), Comic Art of Europe: An International Comprehensive Bibliography (Greenwood, 1994), and Comic Books and Comic Strips in the United States: An International Bibliography (Greenwood, 1994). The third volume of this series was awarded Best Bibliographies in History, 1995, History Section, RASD, American Library Association and 1994 Ray and Pat Browne National Book Award for Best Text, Reference, or Resource Work in the Field of Popular Culture.