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Index
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Introduction: Chris Ware and the “Cult of Difficulty”
Contexts and Canons
Inventing Cartooning Ancestors: Ware and the Comics Canon
Masked Fathers: Jimmy Corrigan and the Superheroic Legacy
The Limits of Realism: Alternative Comics and Middlebrow Aesthetics in the Anthologies of Chris Ware
Chris Ware’s Failures
Artistic Intersections
Chris Ware and the Burden of Art History
In the Comics Workshop: Chris Ware and the Oubapo
Comics and the Grammar of Diagrams
The Urban Landscape
On Modernism’s Ruins: The Architecture of “Building Stories” and Lost Buildings
Chris Ware’s “Building Stories,” Gentrification, and the Lives of/in Houses
Reading History
Confronting the Intersections of Race, Immigration, and Representation in Chris Ware’s Comics
Public and Private Histories in Chris Ware’s Jimmy Corrigan
Autobiography with Two Heads: Quimby the Mouse
Everyday Temporalities
Chris Ware and the Pursuit of Slowness
Imagining an Idiosyncratic Belonging: Representing Disability in Chris Ware’s “Building Stories”
Past Imperfect: “Building Stories” and the Art of Memory
Appendix: A Guide to Chris Ware’s Primary Works
Selected Bibliography
Contributors
Index
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