Intro
Acknowledgments
Contents
About the Author
List of Figures
Chapter 1: Introduction: Comics, Fatherhood, and Autobiographical Representation
Paternal Presence in Autobiographical Comics
Words, Drawings, and Photographs: The Language of Autobiographical Comics
Autobiography, Ethics, and the Transmission of Memory
Fatherhood, Masculinity, and Popular Culture
Chapter Overview
References
Chapter 2: "A good and decent man": Fatherhood, Trauma, and Post-War Masculinity in Carol Tyler's Soldier's Heart

Capturing the Father: From Photography to Anthropomorphic Representation
Reading Fatherhood through Trauma
Conclusion
References
Chapter 3: "He was there to catch me when I leapt": Paternal Absence and Artistic Emancipation in Alison Bechdel's Fun Home
Autobiography and Revision
Paternal Pedagogy
The Present/Absent Father
Conclusion
References
Chapter 4: "As long as he was there, I felt safe": Fatherhood, Deception, and Detective Work in Laurie Sandell's The Impostor's Daughter
Engendering the Bad Daughter
Fatherhood, Posturing, and Imposture

Familiar Violence
Fatherhood and the Pedagogy of Deception
Conclusion
References
Chapter 5: "To dream of birds": The Father as Potential Perpetrator in Nina Bunjevac's "August, 1977" and Fatherland
Imagination as Narrative Intervention in "August, 1977"
A Portrait of the Father as a Potential Perpetrator
Perpetration, Stasis, and Photography
Conclusion
References
Chapter 6: "A doting fool": The Limits of Fatherhood in R. Crumb's Sophie Stories
Views and Revisions of Crumb's Autobiographical Self
The Limits of Fatherhood
Conclusion
References

Chapter 7: "Emasculated by the diaper bag": Aging, Masculinity, and Fatherhood in Joe Ollmann's Mid-Life
Middle-Aged Fatherhood and the Crisis of Confidence
"The unequal distribution of fun and responsibility": Parenthood and Gender
Conclusion
References
Chapter 8: "When the monsters come jello them": Fatherhood, Vulnerability, and the Magic of the Mundane in James Kochalka's American Elf
Vulnerability and the Elf Mask
Learning Fatherhood: Infantilism, Adulthood, and Self-Deprecation
Conclusion
References

Chapter 9: "You tell your father he did a good job": Sons, Fathers, and Intergenerational Dynamics in Jeffrey Brown's A Matter of Life
Masculinity and the Shaping of the Autobiographical Subject
Secularism and Parental Conduct
Religion, Paternity, and Intergenerational Transmission
Conclusion
References
Chapter 10: Conclusion
References
Index