Comics Memory

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Despite the boom in scholarship in both Comics Studies and Memory Studies, the two fields rarely interact—especially with issues beyond the representation of traumatic and autobiographical memories in comics. With a focus on the roles played by styles and archives—in their physical and metaphorical manifestations—this edited volume offers an original intervention, highlighting several novel ways of thinking about comics and memory as comics memory. Bringing together scholars as well as cultural actors, the contributions combine studies on European and North American comics and offer a representative overview of the main comics genres and forms, including superheroes, Westerns, newspaper comics, diary comics, comics reportage and alternative comics. In considering the many manifestations of memory in comics as well as the functioning and influence of institutions, public and private practices, the book exemplifies new possibilities for understanding the complex entanglements of memory and comics. Front Matter ....Pages i-xix Introduction: Untaming Comics Memory (Maaheen Ahmed, Benoît Crucifix)....Pages 1-12 Front Matter ....Pages 13-13 Portrait of the Artist as a Nostalgic: Seth’s It’s a Good Life if You Don’t Weaken (Giorgio Busi Rizzi)....Pages 15-35 “It’s All Come Flooding Back”: Memories of Childhood Comics (Mel Gibson)....Pages 37-56 Front Matter ....Pages 57-57 Archives and Oral History in Emmanuel Guibert’s Le Photographe (Bettina Egger)....Pages 59-78 The Ever-Shifting Wall: Edmond Baudoin and the “Continuous Poem” of Autobiography (Pedro Moura)....Pages 79-97 Front Matter ....Pages 99-99 Keep Out, or Else: Diary as Body in The Diary of a Teenage Girl and Cruddy (Rachel R. Miller)....Pages 101-119 The Un-Erotic Dancer: Sylvie Rancourt’s Melody (Eleanor Ty)....Pages 121-141 Front Matter ....Pages 143-143 Panique en Atlantique: Bridging Personal and Collective Memories of L’Association and Comics History (Chris Reyns-Chikuma)....Pages 145-163 Comics History and the Question of Delinquency: The Case of Criminal (Christopher Pizzino)....Pages 165-185 Front Matter ....Pages 187-187 Sons and Grandsons of Origins: Narrative Memory in Marvel Superhero Comics (Jean-Matthieu Méon)....Pages 189-209 A Trip Down Memory Lane: Reprints and Canonization of Morris’ Lucky Luke Series (Nicolas Martinez)....Pages 211-230 Selective Memory: Art History and the Comic Strip Work of Jack B. Yeats (Michael Connerty)....Pages 231-248 Front Matter ....Pages 249-249 The Marie Duval Archive: Memory and the Development of the Comic Strip Canon (Simon Grennan)....Pages 251-258 The Tremendous Treasure: The Curious Problem of Preserving Belgian Comics Heritage (Roel Daenen)....Pages 259-265 Fanzines and Swedish Comics Memory (Gunnar Krantz)....Pages 267-276 Store Memory (Philippe Capart)....Pages 277-280 Coda: A User Guide to Comics Memory (Maaheen Ahmed, Benoît Crucifix)....Pages 281-285 Back Matter ....Pages 287-290