Acknowledgments

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction: Serial Selves 1
4. 1. Female Grotesques: The Unruly Comics of Julie Doucet 23
5. 2. Working It Through: Trauma and Visuality in the Comics of Phoebe Gloeckner 54
6. 3. Queer as Style: Ariel Schrag’s High School Comic Chronicles 84
7. 4. Staring at Comics: Disability and the Body in Al Davison’s The Spiral Cage 123
8. 5. Stereotyping the Self: Toufic El Rassi’s Arab in America 157
9. Conclusion: Making an Issue of Representation 188
10. Acknowledgments 197
11. Notes 201
12. Bibliography 211
13. Index 223
14. About the Author 233