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Contents Acknowledgments Chapter 1. What Comics Are, and What They Aren't Chapter 2. Auteurs, the History of Art Comics, and How to Look at Ugly Drawings Chapter 3. What's Good About Bad Comics, and What's Bad About Good Comics Chapter 4. Superheroes and Superreaders Chapter 5. Pictures, Words and the Space Between Them Chapter 6. David B.: The Battle Against the Real World Chapter 7. Chester Brown: The Outsider Chapter 8. Steve Ditko: A Is A Chapter 9: Will Eisner and Frank Miller: The Raconteurs Chapter 10. Gilbert Hernandez: Spiraling Into the System Chapter 11. Jaime Hernandez: Mad Love Chapter 12. Craig Thompson and James Kochalka: Craft Vs. Cuteness Chapter 13. Hope Larson: The Cartography of Joy Chapter 14. Carla Speed McNeil: Shape-Changing Demons, Birth-Yurts and Robot Secretaries Chapter 15. Alan Moore: The House of the Magus Chapter 16: Grant Morrison: The Invisible King Chapter 17. Dave Sim: Aardvark Politick Chapter 18. The Dark Mirrors of Jim Starlin's Warlock Chapter 19. Tomb of Dracula: The Cheap, Strong Stuff Chapter 20. Kevin Huizenga: Visions from the Enchanted Gas Station Chapter 21. Charles Burns and Art Spiegelman: Draw Yourself Raw Chapter 22. Why Does Chris Ware Hate Fun? Chapter 23. Alison Bechdel: Reframing Memory Afterword: The Rough Wave and the Smooth Wave Index
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Comic books, strips, etc. -- United States -- History and criticism.