John A. Lent, Ph.D.
		Managing Editor
John A. Lent, Ph.D., a pioneer in the study of international communications and Third World mass media, has authored or edited over 55 books and monographs and hundreds of articles. Some of this work has concentrated on comic art, especially in Asia, United States, and the Caribbean. He is also author of a four-volume bibliography of comic art, and books such as Animation in Asia and the Pacific, Illustrating Asia, Pulp Demons, and Themes and Issues in Asian Cartooning. Besides being managing editor of WittyWorld since its founding, he inaugurated a comic art working group within the International Association for Mass Communication Research in 1984. A professor for over 42 years, Dr. Lent has taught in universities in the Philippines, where he was a Fulbright Scholar; Malaysia, where he started the first mass communications program in that country; Canada, where he held the first Rogers Distinguished Professorship at the University of Western Ontario, and the United States. He founded the Malaysia/Singapore/Brunei Studies Group in 1976 and the quarterly newsletter, Berita, in 1975. He serves as an editor or editorial board member of more than a dozen periodicals, including Comics Journal, Human Rights Quarterly, Americana, and Crossroads. He also founded and chairs the Asian Popular Culture groups of the Popular Culture Association and founded and edits the International Journal of Comic Art. He has been chair of the Asian Cinema Studies Society and editor of the journal, Asian Cinema, since 1994. John A. Lent has been with WittyWorld since 1987.
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