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Matt Madden's Brief Comic Book Odyssey: A Foreword |
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Comics Studies Here and Now: An Introduction |
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PART I Words, Pictures, and Borders |
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1 A Touch of Irony and Pity: Krazy Kat in the Breaks |
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2 In Love with Magic and Monsters: The Groundbreaking Life and Work of Rose O'Neill |
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31 | (13) |
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3 Cranky Bosses, Rebellious Characters, and Suicidal Artists: Scribbly, Inkie, and Pre-Underground Autobiographical Comics |
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4 How Lust Was Lost: Genre, Identity, and the Neglect of a Pioneering Comics Publication |
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57 | (10) |
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PART II Transmedial Forms |
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67 | (54) |
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5 Comics, Race, and the Political Project of Intermediality in Karen Tei Yamashita's J Hotel |
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69 | (21) |
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6 Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window as "Cineromanzo" |
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90 | (12) |
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7 Articulate This!: Critical Action Figure Studies and Material Culture |
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PART III Institutions and Movements |
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8 Singapore Cartoons in the Anti-Comics Movement of the 1950s and 1960s |
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123 | (8) |
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9 The Institutional Support for Hong Kong Independent Comics |
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131 | (13) |
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10 Jiro Taniguchi: France's Mangaka |
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144 | (17) |
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PART IV Resistant Word-Drawn Acts & Transformative Reading Communities |
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161 | (78) |
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11 The Latina Superheroine: Protecting the Reader from the Comic Book Industry's Racial, Gender, Ethnic, and Nationalist Biases |
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163 | (17) |
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12 The Page Is Local: Planetarity and Embodied Metaphor in Anglophone Graphic Narratives from South Asia |
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180 | (11) |
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13 Hands across the Ocean: A 1970s Network of French and American Women Cartoonists |
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191 | (20) |
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14 Comics as Orientation Devices |
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211 | (15) |
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15 Service Dogs, Code-Switching, and Interracial Polyamory: Exploring the Reclamation Narratives of Comic Fandom |
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226 | (13) |
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PART V Margins Transforming Centers |
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239 | (94) |
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16 Once and Again, Ack!: Epimone, Recursion, and Variation in Guisewite's Cathy |
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241 | (11) |
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17 Mapping Transamerican Mestizaje in Love and Rockets |
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252 | (15) |
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18 Only a Chilling Elegy: An Examination of White Bodies, Colonialism, Fascism, Genocide, and Racism in Dragon Ball |
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267 | (14) |
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Zachary Michael Lewis Dean |
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19 From the Inner City to the Interstellar: Brian K. Vaughan's Comix after 9/11 |
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281 | (17) |
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20 "Am I Doing the Right Thing?": Milestone Comics, Black Nationalism, and the Cosmopolitics of Static |
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298 | (19) |
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21 Juvenile, Cruel, and MAD: In Defense of Immature Comics |
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