Section 1: What is a Comic? What Kind of Studies Are Comics Studies? Why There Is No "Language of Comics" In Box: Rethinking Text in the Digital Age What Else is a Comic? Between Bayeux and Beano Reading Spaces: The Politics of Page Layout Comics as Art The Cartoon on the Comics Page: A Phenomenology All By Myself: Single-Panel Comics and the Question of Genre Drawing, Redrawing, and Undrawing Section 2: Comics as Social Commentary and Response to Sociopolitical Realities Bakhtinian Laughter and Recent Political Editorial Cartoons Columbia and the Editorial Cartoon Efficacy of Social Commentary through Cartooning Radical Graphics: Australian Second Phase Comics Self-Regulation and Auto-Censorship of Comics Creators in the Communist Eastern Bloc "This is Who I Am": Hybridity and Materiality in Comics Memoir Auto/biographics and Graphic Histories Made for the Classroom: Logicomix and Abina and the Important Men Ambiguity in Parallel: Visualizing History in Boxers & Saints Section 3: Key Issues in Comics Irony, Ethics, and Lyric Narrative in Miriam Engelberg's Cancer Made Me a Shallower Person Animals in Graphic Narrative A Diversionary Art in Le Piano Oriental by Zeina Abirached Disco, Derby, and Drag: The Queer Politics of Marvel's Dazzler The Replacements: Ethnicity, Gender and Legacy Heroes in Marvel Comics A Diversionary Art in Le Piano Oriental by Zeina Abirached Hammer in Hand: Feminist Community Building in Jason Aaron's Thor When Feminism Went to Market: Issues in Feminist Comics Anthologies in the 1980s & 90s Children in Comics: Between Education and Entertainment, Conformity and Agency "I'm not a kid; I'm a shark!": Identity Fluidity in Noelle Stevenson's Young Adult Graphic Novels Section 4: Comic Book Transcreations Forgetting at the intersection of Comics and the Multimodal Novel: James Sie's Still Life Las Vegas My Favorite Thing is Monsters: The Socially Engaged Graphic Novel as a Platform for Intersectional Feminism Paper or Plastic?: Mapping the Transmedial Intersections of Comics and Action Figures Transformative Architectures in Postcolonial Hong Kong Comics Adaptation and Racial Representation in DellGold Key TV Tie-ins Candy and Drugs for Dinner: Rat Queens, Genre, and Our Aesthetic Categories Non-Compliants, Brimpers, and She-Romps: Bitch Planet, Sex Criminals and Their Publics Literary Adaptations in Comics and Graphic Novels Section 5: Comic Book Studies Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow Comic Studies in America: The Making of a Field of Scholarship? Next Issue: Anticipation and Promise in Comics Studies Comics Studies as Interdiscipline Comics Studies as Practitioner-Scholar.