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: JirÅ 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 C.