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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Introduction: Comics in Canada
Part I: Alternative History
1. Alternatives Within an Alternative Form: Canadian Wartime Creators Bus Griffiths, Avrom Yanovsky, “Ab Normal,” Tedd Steele, and Jack Tremblay
2. The State as Alternative: Conceptualizing the Historical Role of Government Comics in Canada
3. Gene Day: The Man Who Never Slowed Down
Part II: Alternative Worlds
4. Paul “Moose” Mackinnon and an Alternative Cape Breton
5. Michel Gets a Comics Job: Cartooning, Labor, and Notions of the Alternative in the Comics of Michel Rabagliati
6. Vicky: Young, Rich, Popular, Sexy, Gay, and Unhappy
7. Nowadays and The Free Will Zombie Apocalypse
8. “Once Upon a Time this was a True Story”: Indigenous Peoples Graphic Novels and Orature
Part III: Alternative Comics
9. Cerebus the Canadian: Frontier Survivalism and Victimhood in Sim and Gerhard’s Epic
10. Seth’s it’s a Good Life, If you Don’t Weaken as Anti-Nostalgia
11. Louis Riel, Super-History Hero: The Politics of Representation in Chester Brown’s Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography
12. Hark! Anachronism: Kate Beaton’s Historiographic Metafiction
13. Ray Fawkes’s Formal and Stylistic Shifts in the Field of Comic Book Production
Part IV: Alternative Perspectives
14. “To Dream of Birds”: Autobiography, Photography, and Memory in Nina Bunjevac’s “August, 1977” and Fatherland
15. Alternative Paradoxes in Heartless: The Bound and Transcultural Catwoman in Nina Bunjevac’s “Bitter Tears of Zorka Petrovic”
16. The Postcolonial Enterprise of Trillium: Maps, Language, Histories, and Multilateral Consciousness
17. Making Space for Making Space: Jeff Lemire’s Essex County and the Canadian Alternative
Notes about Contributors
Index
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