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

Transnational Perspectives on Graphic Narratives offers a wealth of concepts and perspectives for the study of the transnational in comics research … [and] signals the arrival of the ‘transnational turn’ in comics studies.