Comics as History, Comics as Literature

Annessa Ann Babic is the coordinator of interdisciplinary studies at New York Institute of Technology.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
France, The Second Comics Market

1.Antiquity and Bandes Dessinées: Schizophrenic Nationalism Between Atlanticism and Marxism
Henri-Simon Blanc-Hoàng

2.Did You Learn Your Strip?: The History of France as Comic Fad in the 1970s
Guillaume de Syon

3.“Ils sont fous ces Gaulois!”: Astérix, Lucky Luke, Freedom Fries, and the Love-Hate Relationship Between France and the United States
Annick Pellegrin

Nation and Revolution
4.Image and Text in Service of the Nation: Historically-themed Comic Books as Civic Education in 1980s Mexico
Melanie Huska

Images of US Wars

5.Who is Diana Prince?: The Amazon Army Nurse of World War II
Peter Lee

6.Wonder Woman as Patriotic Icon: The Amazon Princess for the Nation and Femininity
Annessa Ann Babic

7.Comic Containment: No Laughing Matter
James C. Lethbridge

8.Graphic/Narrative/History: Defining the Essential Experience(s) of 9/11
Lynda Goldstein

Morals, Ethics, and Race

9.Super Gay!: Depictions of Homosexuality in Mainstream Superhero Comics
Kara M. Kvaran

10.The Man in the Gray Metal Suit: Dr. Doom, the Fantastic Four, and the Costs of Conformity
Micah Rueber

11.Seen City: Frank Miller’s Re-Imaging as a Cinematic “New Real”
Christina Dokou

Dark Logic

12.The Zombie Apocalypse: A Fictional State of Nature?
Faiz Sheikh

13.Logicomix and the Enunciatory Apparatus
Beatrice Skordili

Works Cited
Index
About the Contributors