Table of Contents
List of Illustrations vii
Acknowledgements ix
Introduction: An Art-Focused Approach to Creating Comics 1
1 Images 11
2 Hinges 49
3 Sequences 77
4 Pages 101
5 Words 131
6 Processes 163
7 Anthology 187
From La Perdida Jessica Abel 188
"Postscriptum" Yvan Alagbé 192
"Ernie Pook's Vague Childhood Memories" Lynda Barry 196
From The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For Alison Bechdel 198
"Street Ballet IV, New York, NY" and "Street Ballet XIII, Houston, TX" Elizabeth Bick 204
From Winter Cosmos Michael Comeau 206
From Unterzakhn Leela Corman 210
From Angola Janga Marcelo D'Salete 214
"Naji al-Ali" Marguerite Dabaie 216
"Darling, I've Realized I Don't Love You" Eleanor Davis 220
From Woman World Aminder Dhaliwal 224
"An English Lesson" and "I Was Dancing My Way to Mall" Julie Doucet 226
"First Visible Poem" (1934) Max Ernst 230
From Alienation Inés Estrada 236
Passing for Human Liana Finck 240
From micrographica Renée French 244
From I'm Not Here GG 250
"Lot C (Some Time Later)" John Hankiewicz 258
"How to Kill a … by Isabel Ruebens" Jaime Hernandez 262
Gin Lane and Beer Street (1751) William Hogarth 266
From Found Forest Floor Gareth A. Hopkins Erik Blagsvedt 268
From Night Fisher R. Kikuo Johnson 272
From We Are On Our Own Miriam Katin 276
From March: Book 2 John Lewis Andrew Aydin Nate Powell 280
From Jobnik! Miriam Libicki 284
From The Book of Sarah Sarah Lightman 286
From Leaf Daishu Ma 290
From Alack Sinner José Muñoz Carlos Sampayo 292
From Creation Sylvia Nickerson 294
"The Hook" Thomas Ott 298
From Imagine Wanting Only This Kristen Radtke 302
From Chlorine Gardens Keiler Roberts 304
From Persepolis Marjane Satrapi 306
From I Know What I Am: The Life and Times of Artemisia Gentileschi Gina Siciliano 310
From Somnambulance Fiona Smyth 314
From Super Mutant Magic Academy Jillian Tamaki 316
From Blankets Craig Thompson 318
"The Paranoid Truth" Seth Tobocman 320
"Drop" and "Unfaded" Adrian Tomine 324
From The Way of Nature C. C. Tsai Zhuangzi 328
Intimités (1898) Felix Vallotton 330
Works Cited 333
Index 339
