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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface and Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: All by Myself: Single-Panel Comics and the Question of Genre 1
5. 1 “Those Damned Pictures”: Thomas Nast and the Rise of the Single-Panel Comic as a Political Cartoon 22
6. 2 Freeze Frame: R. F. Outcault’s The Yellow Kid and the Tableau Vivant 45
7. 3 “The New Yorker’s Most Influential Cartoonist”: Peter Arno and the Extraordinary Ordinary of Everyday Life 68
8. 4 Not Jokester, but Prankster: Little Lulu’s Silent Social Commentary 85
9. 5 Civil/Rights: Jackie Ormes’s Patty-Jo ’n’ Ginger, Black Girlhood, and the Black Bourgeoisie 106
10. 6 Outside the Circle of Influence: The Family Circus, Diegetic Space, and Comics Narratology 137
11. 7 Ziggy Was Here: Tom Wilson’s Newspaper Series, World War II, and the Role of Graffiti in Comics 155
12. 8 “His People Are Grotesque”: The Far Side and the Aesthetics of Ugliness 173
13. Epilogue: Reimagine, Recombine, Recreate: Dan Piraro’s Bizarro, Mash-Ups, and the Comics of Remix Culture 195
14. Notes 215
15. Works Cited 221
16. Index 233
17. About the Author 243