List of Illustrations ... ix
Acknowledgements ... xi
Introduction ... 1

PART ONE: THE NATURE OF COMICS

1. Caricature; or, representing Causal Connection ... 11
2. The Speech Balloon; or, The Problem of Representing Other Minds ... 27
3. The Image Sequence; or, Moving Modernist Pictures ... 47
4. Words and Pictures Boud Together; or, Experiencing the Unity of Comics ... 61

PART TWO: INTERPRETING COMICS

5. The Content of the Form: or, Seeing Pictures, Reading Texts, Viewing Comics ... 77
6. Interpreting a Populist Art Form; or, The Liberating Force of Krazy Kat ... 87

PART THREE: THE PLACE OF COMICS IN RELATION TO ART HISTORY

7. Posthistorical Art; or, Comics and the Realm of Absolute Knowledge ... 107

Bibliography ... 125
Index ... 137

• Anonymous.  [Review.]  To Wit: Official Newsletter of the American Humor Studies Association 10:2 (April 2001; new series): 4.
• Eisler, John.  [Review.]  Rain Taxi 5.2 (Summer 2000): 17.
• Meskin, Aaron.  [Review.]  British Journal of Aesthetics 41.4 (1991): 446-449.
• Williams, Jeff.  [Review.]  International Journal of Comic Art 4.2 (Fall 2002): 344-45.