Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS vii
4. INTRODUCTION POW! ZAP! COMICS AREN’T JUST FOR CULTURAL STUDIES PROFESSORS ANYMORE 1
5. CHAPTER 1 THE MYTH OF ECO: COMICS, CONTINUITY, AND CULTURAL POPULISM 36
6. CHAPTER 2 THE ABUSES OF HISTORY: POSTMODERNISM AND CONTEMPORARY SUPERHERO COMICS 59
7. CHAPTER 3 PROPERTIES OF THE IMAGINATION COPYRIGHT AND EMPIRE IN THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN 94
8. CHAPTER 4 THE LIMITS OF REALISM ALTERNATIVE COMICS AND THE WORKSHOP AESTHETIC 127
9. CHAPTER 5 COMICS STUDIES IN MINIATURE THE CANONIZATION OF PERSEPOLIS 153
10. CHAPTER 6 SHADOWS OF THE PAST FICTIONS OF HISTORY IN NAT TURNER 188
11. AFTERWORD NEVER APOLOGIZE, NEVER DEFEND 236
12. NOTES 251
13. BIBLIOGRAPHY 263
14. INDEX 282