List of Figures Foreword Roger Sabin Introduction Madeline B. Gangnes, Christopher Murray, and Julia Round SECTION ONE: MULTIPLICITY AND (INTER)TEXTUALITY The Shape of Comic Book Reading A. David Lewis Re-inventing the Origins of the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up: Regis Loisel's Peter Pan Armelle Blin-Rolland The Myth of Eco: Cultural Populism and Comics Studies Marc Singer Intertwining Verbal and Visual Elements in Printed Narratives for Adults Pascal Lefèvre SECTION TWO: METACOMICS AND THE DIGITAL Spiegelman's Magic Box: MetaMaus and the Archive of Representation Elisabeth R. Friedman Meaning from Movement: Blurring the Temporal Border between Animation and Comics Joshua Gowdy SECTION THREE: LINGUISTICS AND LANGUAGE Narrative, Language, and Comics-as-Literature Hannah Miodrag The Cognitive Grammar of 'I': Viewing Arrangements in Graphic Autobiographies Christian W. Schneider SECTION FOUR: SOUND AND VISION Sound Affects: Visualizing Music, Musicians, and (Sub)Cultural Identity in BECK and Scott Pilgrim Camilo Diaz Pino The Musicalization of Graphic Narratives and P. Craig Russell's Graphic Novel Operas, 'The Magic Flute' and 'Salome' Victoria Addis SECTION FIVE: FROM MATERIAL TO TRANSTEXTUAL AND BEYOND 'Animating' the Narrative in Abstract Comics Paul Fisher Davies Multimodal Duck-Rabbitry: Multistable Perception and the Narrative Potential of Fold-Ins Thomas Hamlyn-Harris and Ross Watkins Resisting Narrative Immersion Greice Schneider Square Eyes : Augmenting Bodies, Boredom, and Things Merlyn Seller Afterword Madeline B. Gangnes, Christopher Murray, and Julia Round Notes on Contributors Index.