Disability in Comic Books and Graphic Narratives

Chapter 1 Introduction: From Feats of Clay to Narrative Prose/thesis

Chapter 3 “When you have no voice, you don’t exist”?: Envisioning Disability in David Small’s Stitches

Chapter 4 The Hidden Architecture of Disability: Chris Ware’s Building Stories

Chapter 5 Standing Orders: Oracle, Disability, and Retconning

Chapter 6 Drawing Disability: Superman, Huntington’s, and the Comic Form in It’s a Bird …

Chapter 7 Reading in Pictures: Re-visioning Autism and Literature through the Medium of Manga

Chapter 8 Graphic Violence in Word and Image: Reimagining Closure in The Ride Together

Chapter 9 “Why Couldn’t You Let Me Die?”: Cyborg, Social Death, and Narratives of Black Disability

Chapter 10 “You Only Need Three Senses for This”: The Disruptive Potentiality of Cyborg Helen Keller

Chapter 11 Cripping the Bat: Troubling Images of Batman

Chapter 12 Breaking Up [at/with] Illness Narratives

Chapter 13 Thinking through Thea: Alison Bechdel’s Representations of Disability