Introduction. Why Webcomics? Chapter 1. From Alternative Press to Ephemeral Technologies: A Contemporary History of Webcomics Explicit, Ugly, and Taboo: The Autobiographical Aesthetic of Underground Comix Alternative Experimentations in Form and Materiality Dynamic Reading and Divergent Spaces: The Wide World of Web(comics) Chapter 2. "Loading Memories.": Deteriorating Pasts and Distant Futures in Stuart Campbell's These Memories Won't Last Interrogating "Living Connections": Trauma, Memory, and Postmemory Liminal Spaces, Narrative Ruptures: Navigating Ephemeral Technologies A Cacophony of Sound and Energy: These Memories as Enhanced Webcomic Chapter 3. "You Can't Combat Nothing": Allie Brosh and the Ethical Dimensions of Graphic Medicine Speaking in Lay Terms: Representing Illness Online Cycles, Closures, and Confronting the Restitution Narrative "Does Anybody Know What is Happening with Allie Brosh": Negotiating Absence and Audience Desires Chapter 4. Mundane Bodies, Extraordinary Embodiment in Alec MacDonald's @alecwithpen Coding the Other: Apprehending Illness through Iconography Navigating Everyday Life with a "Bad Brain" Influencers of Illness: Reading Instagram Webcomics Chapter 5. Slow Violences: The Affective Weight of Re-presenting Lives in Kate Beaton's "Regular Life" Webcomics Mundane, Intimate, Anecdotal: Family Narratives Online Illness, Loss, and Visual Labour #HourlyComicsDay: Everyday Webcomics in Dialogic Spaces Chapter 6.

Subversive "Wimmen" and Bad "MUTHAs": Genealogies of Women's Web/Comix Reading and Reconciling the Counter-publics of Wimmen's Comix De/constructing MUTHA hood: Self-exposure, Vulnerability, Rebellion Digital Intimate Publics and the "Bad Mom" Movement Chapter 7. "It's Not Brave, It's Easy": Mary Leunig's Webcomics During the #MeToo Era The Risk of Telling Trauma amid an Australian #MeToo Art, Excess, Exaggeration, Imagination "No Small Thing": Complex Representations of Systemic Violence Conclusion. Webcomics, What Now? Bibliography Index.