On Comics and Grief
About this book
Fragmented and hybrid in style, On Comics and Grief examines a year in comic book publishing and the author's grief surrounding his mother's death. This book connects grief, memory, nostalgia, personal history, theory, and multiple lines of comics studies inquiry in relation to the comic books of 1976.
Structured around a year of comic books with a cover date of 1976, the year the author turned ten, the book is divided into an Introduction plus twelve sections, each a month of the publishing year. Two comic books are highlighted each month and examined through the interwoven lenses of creative nonfiction and comics studies. Through these twenty-four comics, the book addresses the major comic book publishers and virtually all genres of comics published in 1976.
By pushing the ways in which the personal is used in comics studies, combining different modes of writing, and embracing a fragmentary style, the book explores what is possible in academic writing in general and comics studies in particular. On Comics and Grief both acts as a way for the author to process his grief and uses grief as a way to think about the comics themselves through the emotions and personal connections that underlie the work we do as scholars.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction
- January: Marvel Team-Up #41 Casper Halloween Trick or Treat #1
- February: The Amazing Spider-Man #153 Our Army at War #289
- March: 1st Issue Special #12 Dennis the Menace #143
- April: Daredevil #132 Little Dot #164
- May: Hello, I’m Johnny Cash UFO Flying Saucers #10
- June: Two-Gun Kid #130 Richie Rich, Casper and Wendy—National League
- July: Emergency! #1 Laugh #304
- August: I Love You #119 Looney Tunes #9
- September: Captain America’s Bicentennial Battles Superman Salutes the Bicentennial
- October: Cracked #136 Betty and Me #79
- November: Justice League of America #136 Grimm’s Ghost Stories #35
- December: Conan King-Size Annual #2 Archie Comics Digest #21
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- Works Cited