Comics, the Holocaust and Hiroshima

Jane Chapman is Professor of Communications at the University of Lincoln, Research Associate Wolfson College, Cambridge, UK and the author of ten books. She is Principal Investigator for the Arts and Humanities Council's 'Comics and the World Wars - a Cultural Record' project, for which Dan Ellin and Adam Sherif are researchers, and is an AHRC grant holder for two other projects on World War One. Dan Ellin is Research Assistant for the AHRC funded 'Comics and World Wars' project at the University of Lincoln, UK. A student at the University of Warwick, his research examines the lives and emotions of RAF ground personnel during the Second World War. Adam Sherif is Researcher on the Arts and Humanities Council's 'Comics and the World Wars' project at the University of Lincoln, UK and is co-authoring a book of the same name. He is also a contemporary comics critic.

1. Introduction 2. Case study: National Socialist Persecution and Genocide in Contemporary US Comic Books 3. Childhood Memories of the Holocaust and Vichy 4. Barefoot Gen and Hiroshima: Comic Strip Narratives of Trauma 5. Conclusion