Animal Comics

David Herman has taught at several institutions in the US and, most recently, at Durham University, UK. Growing out of his recent studies on animal narratives across media, his monograph Narratology beyond the Human will be published in 2018.

• List of FiguresAcknowledgmentsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: More-than-Human Worlds in Graphic StorytellingDavid HermanPart I. Animal Agency in the History and Theory of Comics1. Lions and Tigers and Fears: A Natural History of the Sequential Animal Daniel F. Yezbick, St Louis Community College, USA2. The Animalized Character and Style Glenn Willmott, Queen's University, CanadaPart II. Species of Difference: Functions of Animal Alterity in Graphic Narratives3. The Politics and Poetics of Alterity in Adam Hines's Duncan the Wonder DogAlex Link, Alberta College of Art & Design, Canada4. The Saga of the Animal as Visual Metaphor for Mixed-Race Identity in ComicsMichael A. Chaney, Dartmouth College, USA5. Curly Tails and Flying Dogs: Structures of Affect in Nick Abadzi's Laika Carrie Rohman, Lafayette College, USA6. Invasive Species: Manga's Insect-Human WorldsMary A. Knighton, Aoyama Gakuin University, JapanPart III. Critical Frameworks for Multispecies Comics7. Resituating the Animal Comic: Environmentalist Aesthetics in Matt Dembicki's Xoc: The Journey of a Great WhiteLaura Pearson, University of Leeds, UK8. Interspecies Relationships in Graphic Micronarratives: From Olivier Deprez to Avril-Deprez Jan Baetens, University of Leuven, Belgium9. Animal Minds in Nonfiction Comics David Herman Part IV. Graphic Animality in the Classroom and Beyond 10. Can We Be Part of the Pride? Reading Animals through Comics in the Undergraduate ClassroomAndrew Smyth and Charles E. Baraw, Southern Connecticut State University, USA 11. This is HomeBridget Brewer and Thalia Field, Brown University, USAIndex

With its international and interdisciplinary sweep, this ground-breaking volume examines the ways that comics activate animals as icons and symbols in ways that no other art form possibly can.