Disability in Comic Books and Graphic Narratives

Chris Foss is Professor of English at the University of Mary Washington, USA, where he specializes in Nineteenth-Century British Literature, with a secondary expertise in disability studies. He is the author of over 20 scholarly publications and over 35 academic conference papers. Jonathan W. Gray is Associate Professor of English, John Jay College, CUNY, USA. He is editor of the Journal of Comics and Culture and author of Civil Rights in the White Literary Imagination (2013). He is currently working on Illustrating the Race: Representing Blackness in American Comics.Zach Whalen is Associate Professor of English, University of Mary Washington, USA, where he researches video games, comics, and electronic literature. He is the co-editor of Playing the Past: History and Nostalgia in Video Games (2008).

• Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Foreword; Rosemarie Garland-Thomson1. Introduction: From Feats of Clay to Narrative Prose/thesis; Zach Whalen, Chris Foss, and Jonathan W. Gray2. Mutable Articulations: Disability Rhetorics and the Comics Medium; Jay Dolmage and Dale Jacobs3. 'when you have no voice, you don't exist'? Envisioning Disability in David Small's Stitches; Christina Maria Koch4. The Hidden Architecture of Disability: Chris Ware's Building Stories; Todd A. Comer5. Standing Orders: Oracle, Disability, and Retconning; José Alaniz6. Drawing Disability: Superman, Huntington's, and the Comic Form in It's a Bird…; Mariah Crilley7. Reading in Pictures: Re-Visioning Autism and Literature through the Medium of Manga; Chris Foss8. Graphic Violence in Word and Image: Re-Imagining Closure in The Ride Together; Shannon Walters9. 'Why Couldn't You Let Me Die?': Cyborg, Social Death, and Narratives of Disability; Jonathan W. Gray10. 'You Only Need Three Senses for This': The Disruptive Potentiality of Cyborg Helen Keller; Laurie Ann Carlson11. Cripping the Bat: Troubling Images of Batman; Daniel Preston12. Breaking Up [at/with] Illness Narratives; Kristen Gay13. Thinking through Thea: Alison Bechdel's Representations of Disability; Margaret GalvanIndex

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