Kai Mikkonen is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Helsinki, Finland.

• List of FiguresAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Comics, Narrative, and MediumPart I: Time in Comics1. Time in ComicsPart II: Graphic Showing and Style2. Narration as Showing3. Character as a Means of Narrative Continuity 4. Graphic Style, Subjectivity and NarrationPart III: Narrative Transmission5. Narrative Agency (in Jiro Taniguchi’s A Distant Neighborhood)6. Focalisation in Comics7. Characterisation in Comics Part IV: Speech and Thought in Narrative Comics8. Presenting Minds in Comics9. Dialogue in Comics: Medium-specific features and basic narrative functions Part V: Narrative Form and Publication Format10. Picture Story and Narrative Organisation in Early Nineteenth-Century British 11. Caricature and Comic Strips AfterwordBibliography

"The work embodies the inventive results possible when an adroit theorist explores a burgeoning field. I risk a cliché, although that makes it no less true, in saying: there is much to learn here. I speak especially for those who study comics but suspect the same is true for narratologists more broadly." - Jacob Murel, University of Memphis, Studies in Comics