Boom! Splat!: Comics and Violence (Hardcover)

Introduction: Here is Violence Galore

Jim Coby and Joanna Davis-McElligatt

Section I. Bang! Histories of Violence
1. Hawk, Dove, Ditko, and Kant: Self-Defense for Superheroes
Sam Cowling

2. Black and White Death: Graphics of Violence from the Great War
Christina M. Knopf

3. A Tale of Two Cuban Cartoonists
Diana Álvarez Amell

4. Archiving the Past, Drawing the Present, and Preserving Displaced Histories of Violence in Nonfictional Graphic Novels
Natalja Chestopalova

Section II. Zzap! Forms of Violence
5. Calvin and Hobbes: A Case Study of the Cartoon Fight Cloud
Jacob Murel

6. White Black Men and Black White Men: Reading Race as Violence in Mat Johnson and Warren Pleece’s Incognegro: A Graphic Mystery
Joanna Davis-McElligatt

7. Violence Trying Patience: Daniel Clowes, Gender, Semiotics, and the Duo-Parallel-Critical Alternative to McCloud’s World-Image Typology in Comics
Steven S. Vrooman

Section III. Aarrgh! Interpersonal and Collective Violence
8. Gender-Bending Aggression: A Comparative Study of Superheroine Aggression in Hulk (2016), Captain Marvel (2017), and The New Wolverine (2017)
Kiera M. Gaswint

9. Male Authority against Female Bodies: Gender, Sexuality, and Violence in Comics
Elisabetta Di Minico

10. "It’s Football, Sir. It’s Worth the Blood": Football and "The Violence That Finds Us" in Aaron and Latour’s Southern Bastards
Jim Coby

11. Complex Comics, Complex Trauma: Registration of Traumatized Childhood in the "Autographics" of Phoebe Gloeckner
Partha Bhattacharjee and Priyanka Tripathi

Section IV. Thunk! Political and Social Violence
12. #BlackLivesMatter and Cartooning Racial Violence
Vincent Haddad

13. Radical Empathy in March
Leah Milne

14. "Peace Be with You": The Sheriff of Babylon and Violence in the "War on Terror"
Lawrence Abrams and Kaleb Knoblauch

15. Violence for the Cause: Social Justice and the Need for Representations of Violence
Rita Costello

Acknowledgments

About the Contributors

Index