Notes on the Contributors
Foreword, John A. Lent
Introducing Transnational Perspectives on Graphic Narratives: Comics at the Crossroads, Shane Denson, Christina Meyer, Daniel Stein
Part I: Politics and Poetics
1) Not Just a Theme: Transnationalism and Form in Visual Narratives of U.S. Slavery, Michael A. Chaney
2) Transnational Identity as Shape-shifting: Metaphor and Cultural Resonance in Gene Luen Yang's American Born Chinese, Elisabeth El Refaie
3) Cosmopolitan Suspicion: Comics Journalism and Graphic Silence, Georgiana Banita
4) Staging Cosmopolitanism: The Transnational Encounter in Joe Sacco's Footnotes in Gaza, Aryn Bartley
5) "Trying to Recapture the Front": A Transnational Perspective on Hawaii in R. Kikuo Johnson's Night Fisher, Iris-Aya Laemmerhirt
6) Folding Nations, Cutting Borders: Transnationalism in the Comics of Warren Craghead III, Daniel Wüllner
Section II: Transnational and Transcultural Superheroes
7) Batman Goes Transnational: The Global Appropriation and Distribution of an American Hero, Katharina Bieloch and Sharif Bitar
8) Spider-Man India: Comic Books and the Translating/Transcreating of American Cultural Narratives, Shilpa Davé
9) Of Transcreations and Transpacific Adaptations: Investigating Manga Versions of Spider-Man, Daniel Stein
10) Warren Ellis: Performing the Transnational Author in the American Comics Mainstream, Jochen Ecke
11) "Truth, Justice, and the Islamic Way": Conceiving the Cosmopolitan Muslim Superhero in The 99, Stefan Meier
Section III: Translations, Transformations, Migrations
12) Lost in Translation: Narratives of Transcultural Displacement in the Wordless Graphic Novel
Florian Groß
13) Hard-Boiled Silhouettes: Transnational Remediation and the Art of Omission in Frank Miller's Sin City, Frank Mehring
14) The "Big Picture" as a Multitude of Fragments: Jason Lutes's Depiction of Weimar Republic Berlin, Lukas Etter
15) "Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together": The Cultural Crossovers of Bryan Lee O'Malley, Mark Berninger
16) A Disappointing Crossing: The North American Reception of Asterix and Tintin, Jean-Paul Gabilliet
Afterword
Framing, Unframing, Reframing: Retconning the Transnational Work of Comics, Shane Denson
Index
