List of Figures
List of Contributors
Matt Madden’s Brief Comic Book Odyssey: A Foreword
Comic Studies Here and Now: An Introduction
Part I: Words, Pictures, and Borders
Chapter 1: A Touch of Irony and Pity: Krazy Kat in the Breaks
Ben Novotny Owen
Chapter 2: In Love with Magic and Monsters: The Groundbreaking Life and Work of Rose O’Neill
Richard Graham and Colin Beineke
Chapter 3: It’s sorta wacky! But, different!: Scribbly, Inkie, and Pre-Underground Autobiographical Comics
Andrew J. Kunka
Chapter 4: How Lust Was Lost: Genre, Identity, and the Neglect of a Pioneering Comics Publication
Robert Hulshof-Schmidt
Part II Transmedial Forms
Chapter 5: Comics, Race, and the Political Project of Intermediality in Karen TeiYamashita’s I Hotel
Jennifer Glaser
Chapter 6: Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window as ‘cineromanzo’
Jan Baetens
Chapter 7: Articulate This!: Critical Action Figure Studies and Material Culture
Jonathan Alexandratos and Daniel F. Yezbick
Part III Institutions and Movements
Chapter 8: Singapore cartoons in the anti-comics movement of the 1950s and 1960s
Lim Cheng Tju
Chapter 9: The Institutional Support for Hong Kong Independent Comics
Kin Wai Chu
Chapter 10: Jirō Taniguchi: France’s Mangaka
Bart Beaty
Part IV Resistant Word-Drawn Acts & Transformative Reading Communities
Chapter 11: The Latina Superheroine: Protecting the Reader from the Comic Book Industry's Racial, Gender, Ethnic, and Nationalist Biases
Enrique García
Chapter 12: The Page is Local: Planetarity and Embodied Metaphor in Anglophone Graphic Narratives from South Asia
Torsa Ghosal
Chapter 13: Hands Across the Ocean: A 1970s Network of French and American Women Cartoonists
Leah Misemer
Chapter 14: Comics as Orientation Devices
Katherine Kelp-Stebbins
Chapter 15: Service Dogs, Code Switching, and Interracial Polyamory: Exploring the Reclamation Narratives of Comic Fandom
Erica Massey
Part V Margins Transforming Centers
Chapter 16: Once and Again, Ack!: Epimone, Recursion, and Variation in Guisewite’s Cathy
Susan Kirtely
Chapter 17: Transnationality and Textual Mestizaje in Love and Rockets
Brittany Tullis
Chapter 18: Only a Chilling Elegy: An Examination of White Bodies, Colonialism, Fascism, Genocide, and Racism in Dragon Ball
Zachary Michael Lewis Dean
Chapter 19: From the Inner City to the Interstellar: Brian K. Vaughan’s Comix after 9/11
James J. Donahue
Chapter 20: Am I Doing the Right Thing?": Milestone Comics, Black Nationalism, and the Cosmopolitics of Static
Sean Guynes
Chapter 21: Reconceptualizing the ‘Immature’: Humor in John Layman and Rob Guillory's Chew
Christopher Pizzino
