Jan Baetens is Professor Emeritus of cultural studies at the University of Leuven. His work focuses on the theory and practice of contemporary French poetry, cultural theory, and visual narrative in popular print genres. Some of his recent publications include The Graphic Novel (2014, coauthored with Hugo Frey), Novelization: From Film to Novel (2018), The Cambridge History of the Graphic Novel (2018, coedited with Hugo Frey and Stephen E. Tabachnick). Hugo Frey is Professor of Visual and Cultural History at University of Chichester UK. With Jan Baetens he has published The Graphic Novel: An Introduction (2014) and with Baetens and Stephen Tabachnik coedited The Cambridge History of the Graphic Novel (2018). He has written extensively on French cinema (Nationalism and the Cinema in France, 2014) and the director Louis Malle. He has conducted research for the British Council and in 2022 was a Visiting Professor at the University of Ghent. Fabrice Leroy is Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He has published numerous book chapters on French and Belgian Francophone literature and graphic novels, as well as articles in leading scholarly journals. His most recent monographs devoted to comics are Sfar So Far. Identity, History, Fantasy, and Mimesis in Joann Sfar's Graphic Novels (2014), and Pierre La Police: Une estheìtique de la malfaçon (with Livio Belloï, 2019).

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• Introduction: what is the American graphic novel? Jan Baetens, Hugo Frey and Fabrice Leroy; Part I. History and Genre: 1. The 'First' graphic novel in America: revisiting he done her wrong and it rhymes with Lust Livio Belloï; 2. The Mad-Men generation: Kurtzman and Feiffer Fabrice Leroy; 3. From Justin Green and art Spiegelman to Alison Bechdel: writing the self in the graphic novel Jan Baetens; 4. Graphic journalism Laurike in 't Veld; 5. 'Great' American graphic novels: Canon formation and literary value Daniel Stein and Astrid Böger; 6. Crime: From EC comics to Ed Brubaker Andrew J. Kunka; 7. Superheroes in graphic novels Marc Singer; 8. Science fiction and fantasy: new works of imagination Ian Hague; 9. 'Scared Witless': war in the American graphic novel Hugo Frey; Part II. Graphic Novels and the Quest for an American Diversity: 10. Expressions of Jewishness alongside grief in American graphic novels Tahneer Oksman; 11. Black looking and looking black: African American cartoon aesthetics Joanna Davis-McElligatt; 12. African American new history-writing in graphic novels Michael A. Chaney; 13. Coming to America, 'Land of the Free': Asian American representations in graphic narrative Monica Chiu; 14. Spatiotemporal projections: Los Bros Hernandez, Fantagraphics and the rise of Latinx creating and reading communities Frederick Luis Aldama; 15. Queer graphic novels: a paradigm of paradox Alison Halsall; 16. American women's lives in graphic novels: becoming and unbecoming women Martha Kuhlman.

Jan Baetens is Professor Emeritus of cultural studies at the University of Leuven. His work focuses on the theory and practice of contemporary French poetry, cultural theory, and visual narrative in popular print genres. Some of his recent publications include The Graphic Novel (2014, coauthored with Hugo Frey), Novelization: From Film to Novel (2018), The Cambridge History of the Graphic Novel (2018, coedited with Hugo Frey and Stephen E. Tabachnick). Hugo Frey is Professor of Visual and Cultural History at University of Chichester UK. With Jan Baetens he has published The Graphic Novel: An Introduction (2014) and with Baetens and Stephen Tabachnik coedited The Cambridge History of the Graphic Novel (2018). He has written extensively on French cinema (Nationalism and the Cinema in France, 2014) and the director Louis Malle. He has conducted research for the British Council and in 2022 was a Visiting Professor at the University of Ghent. Fabrice Leroy is Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He has published numerous book chapters on French and Belgian Francophone literature and graphic novels, as well as articles in leading scholarly journals. His most recent monographs devoted to comics are Sfar So Far. Identity, History, Fantasy, and Mimesis in Joann Sfar's Graphic Novels (2014), and Pierre La Police: Une estheìtique de la malfaçon (with Livio Belloï, 2019).

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• Introduction: what is the American graphic novel? Jan Baetens, Hugo Frey and Fabrice Leroy; Part I. History and Genre: 1. The 'First' graphic novel in America: revisiting he done her wrong and it rhymes with Lust Livio Belloï; 2. The Mad-Men generation: Kurtzman and Feiffer Fabrice Leroy; 3. From Justin Green and art Spiegelman to Alison Bechdel: writing the self in the graphic novel Jan Baetens; 4. Graphic journalism Laurike in 't Veld; 5. 'Great' American graphic novels: Canon formation and literary value Daniel Stein and Astrid Böger; 6. Crime: From EC comics to Ed Brubaker Andrew J. Kunka; 7. Superheroes in graphic novels Marc Singer; 8. Science fiction and fantasy: new works of imagination Ian Hague; 9. 'Scared Witless': war in the American graphic novel Hugo Frey; Part II. Graphic Novels and the Quest for an American Diversity: 10. Expressions of Jewishness alongside grief in American graphic novels Tahneer Oksman; 11. Black looking and looking black: African American cartoon aesthetics Joanna Davis-McElligatt; 12. African American new history-writing in graphic novels Michael A. Chaney; 13. Coming to America, 'Land of the Free': Asian American representations in graphic narrative Monica Chiu; 14. Spatiotemporal projections: Los Bros Hernandez, Fantagraphics and the rise of Latinx creating and reading communities Frederick Luis Aldama; 15. Queer graphic novels: a paradigm of paradox Alison Halsall; 16. American women's lives in graphic novels: becoming and unbecoming women Martha Kuhlman.

Jan Baetens is Professor Emeritus of cultural studies at the University of Leuven. His work focuses on the theory and practice of contemporary French poetry, cultural theory, and visual narrative in popular print genres. Some of his recent publications include The Graphic Novel (2014, coauthored with Hugo Frey), Novelization: From Film to Novel (2018), The Cambridge History of the Graphic Novel (2018, coedited with Hugo Frey and Stephen E. Tabachnick). Hugo Frey is Professor of Visual and Cultural History at University of Chichester UK. With Jan Baetens he has published The Graphic Novel: An Introduction (2014) and with Baetens and Stephen Tabachnik coedited The Cambridge History of the Graphic Novel (2018). He has written extensively on French cinema (Nationalism and the Cinema in France, 2014) and the director Louis Malle. He has conducted research for the British Council and in 2022 was a Visiting Professor at the University of Ghent. Fabrice Leroy is Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He has published numerous book chapters on French and Belgian Francophone literature and graphic novels, as well as articles in leading scholarly journals. His most recent monographs devoted to comics are Sfar So Far. Identity, History, Fantasy, and Mimesis in Joann Sfar's Graphic Novels (2014), and Pierre La Police: Une estheìtique de la malfaçon (with Livio Belloï, 2019).

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• Introduction: what is the American graphic novel? Jan Baetens, Hugo Frey and Fabrice Leroy; Part I. History and Genre: 1. The 'First' graphic novel in America: revisiting he done her wrong and it rhymes with Lust Livio Belloï; 2. The Mad-Men generation: Kurtzman and Feiffer Fabrice Leroy; 3. From Justin Green and art Spiegelman to Alison Bechdel: writing the self in the graphic novel Jan Baetens; 4. Graphic journalism Laurike in 't Veld; 5. 'Great' American graphic novels: Canon formation and literary value Daniel Stein and Astrid Böger; 6. Crime: From EC comics to Ed Brubaker Andrew J. Kunka; 7. Superheroes in graphic novels Marc Singer; 8. Science fiction and fantasy: new works of imagination Ian Hague; 9. 'Scared Witless': war in the American graphic novel Hugo Frey; Part II. Graphic Novels and the Quest for an American Diversity: 10. Expressions of Jewishness alongside grief in American graphic novels Tahneer Oksman; 11. Black looking and looking black: African American cartoon aesthetics Joanna Davis-McElligatt; 12. African American new history-writing in graphic novels Michael A. Chaney; 13. Coming to America, 'Land of the Free': Asian American representations in graphic narrative Monica Chiu; 14. Spatiotemporal projections: Los Bros Hernandez, Fantagraphics and the rise of Latinx creating and reading communities Frederick Luis Aldama; 15. Queer graphic novels: a paradigm of paradox Alison Halsall; 16. American women's lives in graphic novels: becoming and unbecoming women Martha Kuhlman.