James E. Caron is Professor Emeritus, University of Hawaiʽi at Mānoa. In addition to publishing many articles on comic writers and comic artifacts, he has authored
Satire as the Comic Public Sphere: Postmodern “Truthiness” and Civic Engagement (2021), and
Mark Twain, Unsanctified Newspaper Reporter (2008),
as well as co-edited essays on Charlie Chaplin in
Refocusing Chaplin: A Screen Icon in Critical Contexts (2013).