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Citation, Legal Information and License................................................................................................6
Crossword of emotions: Craig Thompson’s Chunky Rice..............................................................134
Foreword. Year One ....................................................................................................................................7
Balloon – Kevin Huizenga.....................................................................................................................138
Peanuts, 5 October 1950.............................................................................................................................8
Harvey Pekar’s Anti-epiphanic Everyday...........................................................................................142
Ergodic texts: In the Shadow of No Towers.......................................................................................10
Shortcomings: bridging the page-break.............................................................................................146
The Wrong Place – Brecht Evens..........................................................................................................14
Dragon Hurtor: A Hero’s Tale, Satire and a Touch of Scatology..................................................150
Sin Titulo, by Cameron Stewart, page 1................................................................................................16
Vishwajyoti Ghosh’s homage to Anant Pai.........................................................................................154
Gasoline Alley, 22 April 1934................................................................................................................. 20
Asterix and the Brussels Sprouts.........................................................................................................158
Big Numbers, Small Moments............................................................................................................... 24
On order and chaos in Brian Chippendale’s Ninja...........................................................................164
Would you admit it? (On Chris Ware’s Cut-outs).............................................................................. 28
California Gothic: Jaime Hernandez’s Ghost of Hoppers..............................................................166
Jack Survives – Jerry Moriarty..............................................................................................................32
Kamimura’s Sublime Rain......................................................................................................................170
Footnotes in Gaza, by Joe Sacco............................................................................................................36
Adaptation and Narrative in Ulysses “Seen”.....................................................................................174
Of Maus and Work-in-progressness......................................................................................................38
The English Bugaboo –Cruikshank to Talbot....................................................................................178
It’s a Bird – Steven T. Seagle and Teddy Kristiansen....................................................................... 42
Ranma ½: Gender and Genre Shifting in Manga.............................................................................184
Inner Focalization: A Child’s Game...................................................................................................... 46
A Note on Ben Katchor’s Temporal Palimpsests...............................................................................188
Sarnath Banerjee’s Portrait of the Comics Artist as a Collector................................................ 50
Architecture and comics: Citizens of No Place................................................................................ 190
David Boring – Daniel Clowes.............................................................................................................. 54
Un-holy Alliance: Shatter and the Aesthetics of Cyberpunk........................................................194
Ghost World[s] and Non-Places.............................................................................................................58
A Map of Hicksville................................................................................................................................200
John Byrne’s White on White................................................................................................................. 62
Gridlocking Joann Sfar’s Talking Cat.................................................................................................204
Marjane Satrapi’s Elaborate Simplicity................................................................................................ 66
Mel Calman on Oil...................................................................................................................................208
A Face in the Mind.................................................................................................................................... 70
The Batman Adventures: Rendering the Comic Page...................................................................212
Whaam! Becoming a Flaming Star.........................................................................................................74
Intimacies in Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home.........................................................................................216
Hey, Wait… Jason......................................................................................................................................78
The dog at the door in “There Will Come Soft Rains”....................................................................220
Seth’s Suspension of Perception in Palookaville #19....................................................................... 82
Gaston Lagaffe: The Archivist as Architect.....................................................................................224
Edited City: London Passagenwerk...................................................................................................... 86
Deadenders: Comics as Virtual Text.................................................................................................. 228
Creation versus interpretation in To Boil a Bear.............................................................................. 90
Miller and Varley’s DK2: Supersimulacra.......................................................................................... 232
The cruel beauty of a world without words: Winshluss’ Pinocchio............................................. 94
Branca de Neve: Pregnant Moments................................................................................................. 236
“¡Santo!”: The Stuff of Legend................................................................................................................ 98
The Repetition of Haruhi Suzumiya.................................................................................................240
Walking the Dog – David Hughes........................................................................................................102
Georgian Projections of French Revolutionary Madness..............................................................244
“He do the police in different voices”: Martin Rowson’s Pulp Modernism............................... 106
Art and Illusion in Blutch’s Mitchum................................................................................................248
Berlin: chemistry on and of the page...................................................................................................110
Moving between worlds: The Arrival................................................................................................ 252
The not so cold world of Richard McGuire........................................................................................ 114
Pluto: Robots and Aesthetic Experience........................................................................................... 256
Thor’s Comic Opera: Götterdämmerung Revisited.......................................................................... 118
Contributors.............................................................................................................................................260
Disrupting the flow: The Authority....................................................................................................122
Bibliography.............................................................................................................................................268
Pascal Blanchet’s White Rapids and the Sense of History............................................................126
Fair Use Information..............................................................................................................................290
Scott Pilgrim’s Permeable Little Boundaries....................................................................................130
Creative Commons Information...........................................................................................................291
The Comics Grid. Year One. 2011–2012
The Comics Grid. Year One. 2011–2012
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