Hatfield,
Charles. Alternative
Comics: An
Emerging Literature.
Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2005. 182pp. ISBN 1578067189
(hardcover),
1578067197 (paper).
- Acknowledgments ... vii
- Introduction: Alternative
Comics as an Emerging
Literature ... ix
- Comix. Comic Shops, and the
Rise of Alternative
Comics, Post 1968 ... 3
- An Art of Tensions: The
Otherness of Comics
Reading ... 32
- A Broader Canvas: Gilbert
Hernandez's
Heartbreak Soup ... 68
- "I Made the Whole Thing
Up!": The Problem of
Authenticity in Autobiographical Comics ... 108
- Irony and Self-Reflexivity
in Autobiographical
Comics: Two Case Studies ... 128
- Whither the Graphic Novel?
... 152
- Notes ... 164
- Works Cited ... 169
- Index ... 177
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