Canadian Graphic

Candida Rifkind is an associate professor in the Department of English, University of Winnipeg. She published Comrades and Critics: Women, Literature, and the Left in 1930s Canada (2009) and has chapters on graphic life narratives in Material Cultures in Canada (WLU Press, 2015), Canadian Literature and Cultural Memory (2014), and the journals Biography, International Journal of Comic Art, and Canadian Review of American Studies.Linda Warley specializes in Canadian life writing, including texts by First Nations and Métis authors. She has a recent chapter on John Gallant and Seth's Bannock, Beans and Black Tea in Canadian Literature and Cultural Memory (2014). She is co-editor, with Marlene Kadar,, Jeanne Perreault, and Susanna Egan of Tracing the Autobiographical (WLU Press, 2005) and, with Jeanne Perreault and Marlene Kadar, of Photographs, Histories, and Meanings (2009).

"An essential resource for anyone interested in Canadian comics, life writing, and political issues. Beautifully produced with a useful introduction and fascinating essays about major and emerging cartoonists in Canada and Quebec, Canadian Graphic puts the study of Canadian autobiographical and biographical comics on the academic map and shows us ways to think about one of the most exciting developments in Canadian cultural expression today." -- Julie Rak, University of Alberta, author of Boom! Manufacturing Memoir for the Popular Market (WLU Press, 2013)

• Table of Contents for Canadian Graphic: Picturing Life Narratives, edited by Candida Rifkind and Linda WarleyEditors' Introduction Candida Rifkind and Linda WarleyPart One: Confession and the Relational Self1. Public Dialogues: Intimacy and Judgment in Canadian Confessional Comics Kevin Ziegler2. Untangling the Graphic Power of Tangles: A Story about Alzheimer's, My Mother, and Me Kathleen Venema3. ""Oh Well"": My New York Diary, Autographics, and the Depiction of Female Sexuality in Comics J. Andrew Deman4. ""Say 'Shit' Chester"": Language, Alienation, and the Aesthetic in Chester Brown's I Never Liked You: A Comic-Strip Narrative James C. HallPart Two: Collective Memory and Visual Biography5. Personal, Vernacular, Canadian: Seth's Great Northern Brotherhood of Canadian Cartoonists as Life Writing Kathleen Dunley6. Visual Silence and Graphic Memory: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Two Generals Linda Warley and Alan Filewood7. Metabiography and Black Visuality in Ho Che Anderson's King Candida RifkindPart Three: The Child and the Nation8. Unsettling and Restorying Canadian Indigenous-Settler Histories in David Alexander Robertson's The Life of Helen Betty Osborne and Sugar Falls Doris Wolf9. Life in Boxes: History, Pedagogy, and Nation-Building in Canadian Biographics for Young Adults Eva C. Karpinski10. ""Everybody calls me Roch"": Harvey, The Hockey Sweater, and the Invisible Québécois Child Cheryl Cowdy