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Graphic novels as comics storytelling: word and image, form and genre. 1. "This is a well-loved book": weighing (in on) Jeff Smith's Bone / Annette Wannamaker ; 2. "What is China but a people and their (visual) stories?" The synthetic in narratives of contest in Gene Luen Yang's Boxers & Saints / Karly Marie Grice ; 3. Comics, adolescents, and the language of mental illness: David Heatley's "Overpeck" and Nate Powell's Swallow me whole / Sarah Thaller ; 4. Not haunted, just empty: figurative representation in Sarah Oleksky's Ivy / Catherine Kyle
Hybrid comics, transmedial storytelling, and graphic novels in adaptation. 5. "Are you an artist like me?!" Do -it-yourself diary books, criticial reading, and reader interaction within the worlds of the Diary of a wimpy kid and Dork diaries series / Rachel L. Rickard Rebellino ; 6. Parodic potty humor and superheroic potentiality in Dav Pilkey's The adventures of Captain Underpants / Joseph Michael Sommers ; 7. Multimodality is magic: My little pony and transmedia strategies in children's comics / Aaron Kashtan ; 8. Framing agency: comics adaptations of Coraline and City of Ember / Meghann Meeusen
The pedagogy of the panel: comics storytelling in the classroom. 9. From who-ville to hereville: integrating graphic novels into an undergraduate children's literature course / Gwen Athene Tarbox ; 10. Looking beyond the scenes: spatial storytelling and masking in Shaun Tan's The arrival / Christiane Buuck and Cathy Ryan ; 11. When young writers draw their voices: creating hybrid comic memoirs with Sherman Alexie's The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian / Michael L. Kersulov, Mary Beth Hines, and Rebecca Rupert
Representing gender and sexuality in the comics medium. 12. Unbalanced on the brink: adolescent girls and the discovery of the self in Skim and This one summer by Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki / Marni Stanley ; 13. The drama of coming out: censorship and drama by Raina Telgemeier / Eti Berland ; 14. "What the junk?" Defeating the velociraptor in the outhouse with the Lumberjanes / Rachel Dean-Ruzicka ; 15. Engendering friendship: exploring Jewish and vampiric boyhood in Joann Sfar's Little vampire / Rebecca A. Brown ; 16. Gothic excess and the body in Vera Brosgol's Anya's ghost / Krystal Howard
Drawing on identity: history, politics, culture. 17. Graphically/ubiquitously separate: the sanctified littering of Jack T. Chick's fundy-queer comics / Lance Weldy ; 18. Waiting for spider-man: representations of urban school "reform" in Marvel comics' Miles Morales series / David E. Low ; 19. "Walk together, children": the function and interplay of comics, history, and memory in Martin Luther King and the Montgomery story and John Lewis's March: book one / Joanna C. Davis-McElligatt ; 20. Sita's Ramayana's Negotiation with an Indian epic picture storytelling tradition / Anuja Madan ; Coda: whether we want them or note: building an aesthetic of children's digital comics / Joe Sutliff Sanders.
Hybrid comics, transmedial storytelling, and graphic novels in adaptation. 5. "Are you an artist like me?!" Do -it-yourself diary books, criticial reading, and reader interaction within the worlds of the Diary of a wimpy kid and Dork diaries series / Rachel L. Rickard Rebellino ; 6. Parodic potty humor and superheroic potentiality in Dav Pilkey's The adventures of Captain Underpants / Joseph Michael Sommers ; 7. Multimodality is magic: My little pony and transmedia strategies in children's comics / Aaron Kashtan ; 8. Framing agency: comics adaptations of Coraline and City of Ember / Meghann Meeusen
The pedagogy of the panel: comics storytelling in the classroom. 9. From who-ville to hereville: integrating graphic novels into an undergraduate children's literature course / Gwen Athene Tarbox ; 10. Looking beyond the scenes: spatial storytelling and masking in Shaun Tan's The arrival / Christiane Buuck and Cathy Ryan ; 11. When young writers draw their voices: creating hybrid comic memoirs with Sherman Alexie's The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian / Michael L. Kersulov, Mary Beth Hines, and Rebecca Rupert
Representing gender and sexuality in the comics medium. 12. Unbalanced on the brink: adolescent girls and the discovery of the self in Skim and This one summer by Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki / Marni Stanley ; 13. The drama of coming out: censorship and drama by Raina Telgemeier / Eti Berland ; 14. "What the junk?" Defeating the velociraptor in the outhouse with the Lumberjanes / Rachel Dean-Ruzicka ; 15. Engendering friendship: exploring Jewish and vampiric boyhood in Joann Sfar's Little vampire / Rebecca A. Brown ; 16. Gothic excess and the body in Vera Brosgol's Anya's ghost / Krystal Howard
Drawing on identity: history, politics, culture. 17. Graphically/ubiquitously separate: the sanctified littering of Jack T. Chick's fundy-queer comics / Lance Weldy ; 18. Waiting for spider-man: representations of urban school "reform" in Marvel comics' Miles Morales series / David E. Low ; 19. "Walk together, children": the function and interplay of comics, history, and memory in Martin Luther King and the Montgomery story and John Lewis's March: book one / Joanna C. Davis-McElligatt ; 20. Sita's Ramayana's Negotiation with an Indian epic picture storytelling tradition / Anuja Madan ; Coda: whether we want them or note: building an aesthetic of children's digital comics / Joe Sutliff Sanders.