Master List of Contents...... vii Clumsy...... 162 Publisher’s Note...... xi Color Trilogy, The...... 166 Introduction...... xv Complete Essex County, The...... 170 Contributors...... xvii Complete Fritz the Cat, The...... 174 Contract with God, And Other A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge...... 1 Tenement Stories, A...... 179 Adventures of Luther Arkwright, The...... 5 Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The...... 183 Adventures of Tintin, The...... 9 David Boring...... 187 Age of Bronze: The Story of the Trojan War...... 15 Dead Memory...... 190 Age of Reptiles...... 20 Dear Julia...... 194 Airtight Garage of Jerry Cornelius ...... 24 Deogratias: A Tale of Rwanda...... 198 Alan’s War: The Memories of G.I. Alan Cope...... 28 Diary of a Mosquito Abatement Man...... 202 Alec: The Years Have Pants...... 32 Dropsie Avenue: The Neighborhood...... 205 Alice in Sunderland: An Entertainment...... 37 Dykes to Watch Out For...... 209 Aliens...... 41 Ed the Happy Clown: The Definitive Ed Book...... 214 American Born Chinese...... 46 Elk’s Run...... 218 American Splendor: From off the Streets of Embroideries...... 222 Cleveland...... 50 Epileptic...... 226 Anya’s Ghost...... 55 Ethel and Ernest: A True Story...... 231 Arrival, The...... 59 Exit Wounds...... 234 Asterios Polyp...... 63 Far Arden...... 238 Asterix...... 67 Fax from Sarajevo: A Story of Survival...... 242 Aya of Yopougon...... 72 The Fixer: A Story from Sarajevo...... 246 Bacchus...... 77 Flaming Carrot Comics...... 250 Ballad of Doctor Richardson, The...... 82 Flood! A Novel in Pictures...... 255 Berlin: City of Stones...... 86 Footnotes in Gaza: A Graphic Novel...... 259 Binky Brown Sampler...... 89 Frank Book, The...... 263 Black Hole...... 93 Friends with Boys...... 267 Blackmark...... 97 From Hell: Being a Melodrama in Sixteen Parts...... 271 Blankets: An Illustrated Novel...... 101 Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic...... 276 Blueberry...... 105 Gemma Bovery...... 281 Bone...... 112 Get a Life...... 286 Book of Genesis, The...... 117 Ghost World...... 290 Boulevard of Broken Dreams, The...... 121 Give It Up! And Other Short Stories...... 296 Box Office Poison...... 125 Glacial Period...... 300 Boxers and Saints...... 128 Golem’s Mighty Swing, The...... 304 Burma Chronicles...... 133 Goliath...... 308 Cages...... 137 Good-Bye, Chunky Rice...... 311 Cancer Vixen: A True Story...... 141 Hard Boiled...... 315 Cartoon History of the Universe, The...... 145 Harum Scarum...... 319 Castle Waiting...... 149 Harvey Kurtzman’s Jungle Book: Or, Chicken with Plums...... 154 Up from the Apes! (and Right Back Down)...... 323 City of Glass...... 158 Hate...... 327

vii Master List of Contents Critical Survey of Graphic Novels

Haunted...... 332 Hicksville...... 343 He Done Her Wrong: The Great American Novel— History of Violence, A...... 347 And Not a Word in It...... 336 Home after Dark...... 351 Hey, Wait…...... 340 Houdini: The Handcuff King...... 355

Volume 2

Master List of Contents...... vii Lucky...... 498 Mail Order Bride...... 502 Ice Haven...... 359 Market Day...... 506 Incognegro: A Graphic Mystery...... 363 Maus: A Survivor’s Tale...... 509 I Never Liked You: A Comic-Strip Narrative...... 367 Metropol: The Complete Series + Metropol A.D......514 In the Shadow of No Towers...... 370 Minor Miracles: Long Ago and Once Upon a Time It Rhymes with Lust...... 374 Back When Uncles Were Heroic, Cousins Were It’s a Bird . . ....... 377 Clever, and Miracles Happened It’s a Good Life, If You Don’t Weaken: A Picture on Every Block...... 518 Novella...... 380 Monologues for the Coming Plague...... 522 It Was the War of the Trenches...... 384 Mouse Guard...... 526 Jar of Fools: A Picture Story...... 388 My Mommy Is in America and She Met Jew in Communist Prague, A: Buffalo Bill...... 531 1. Loss of Innocence...... 391 Nat Turner...... 535 Jew of New York, The: A Historical Romance...... 395 Night Fisher...... 540 Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth...... 398 9/11 Report, The: A Graphic Adaptation...... 543 Journey: The Adventures of Wolverine Notes for a War Story...... 547 MacAlistaire...... 402 Omaha the Cat Dancer...... 551 Journey into Mohawk Country...... 407 One! Hundred! Demons!...... 556 Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer: Stories.....411 Our Cancer Year...... 560 Kabuki...... 414 Owly...... 564 Kafka...... 419 Palestine...... 569 Kampung Boy...... 424 Palomar: The Heartbreak Soup Stories...... 573 Kane...... 428 Passionate Journey...... 577 King: A Comics Biography...... 431 Paul...... 581 Kings in Disguise...... 434 Paying For It: a comic-strip memoir about Laika...... 437 being a john...... 585 La Perdida...... 441 Pedro and Me: Friendship, Loss, and Last Day in Vietnam: A Memory...... 445 What I Learned...... 588 Leave It to Chance...... 448 Percy Gloom...... 591 Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck, The...... 454 Perfect Example...... 595 Life Sucks...... 459 Persepolis...... 598 Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron...... 463 Photographer, The: Into War-Torn Afghanistan Long Time Relationship...... 467 with Doctors Without Borders...... 602 Lost Cause: John Wesley Hardin, the Taylor-Sutton Plain Janes, The...... 605 Feud, and Reconstruction Texas...... 470 Playboy, The...... 608 Lost Girl...... 474 Poor Bastard, The...... 611 Lost Girls...... 477 Predator...... 615 Louis...... 482 Pride of Baghdad: Inspired by a True Story...... 619 Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography...... 487 Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea...... 622 Love and Rockets...... 491 Queen and Country...... 626

viii Independents & Underground Classics Master List of Contents

Rabbi’s Cat, The...... 632 Roughneck...... 656 Rex Mundi...... 637 Safe Area Goražde Richard Stark’s Parker...... 642 The War in Eastern Bosnia 1992-95...... 659 Road to Perdition...... 646 Scary Godmother: The Boo Flu...... 663 Robot Dreams...... 649 Scott Pilgrim...... 666 Rose...... 652 Shenzhen: A Travelogue from China...... 671

Volume 3 Master List of Contents...... vii Transit...... 800 Treasury of Victorian Murder, A...... 803 Shortcomings...... 675 Tricked...... 807 Shutterbug Follies...... 679 Twentieth Century Eightball...... 811 Signal to Noise...... 683 Usagi Yojimbo...... 815 Sin City...... 687 Violent Cases...... 820 Skim...... 692 Walking Dead, The...... 823 Skitzy: The Story of Floyd W. Skitzafroid...... 696 Wall, The: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain...... 828 Sloth...... 700 Waltz with Bashir: A Lebanon War Story...... 832 Small Killing, A...... 704 We Are on Our Own...... 836 Smile...... 708 What It Is...... 839 Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles...... 712 When the Wind Blows...... 842 Snowman, The...... 715 Whiteout...... 846 Stitches: A Memoir...... 718 Why I Hate Saturn...... 850 Strangers in Paradise...... 722 Wilson...... 853 Stray Bullets...... 727 Xenozoic Tales...... 857 Stray Toasters...... 732 Yossel...... 860 Streak of Chalk...... 736 You Are Here...... 864 Stuck Rubber Baby...... 740 You’ll Never Know Suckle: The Status of Basil ...... 745 Book One: A Good and Decent Man...... 867 Summer Blonde...... 749 Zombies Vs. Robots...... 871 Summer of Love, The...... 753 Zot! The Complete Black and White Collection, System, The...... 756 1987-1991...... 875 Tale of One Bad Rat, The...... 760 Tales of the Beanworld: A Most Peculiar Appendixes Comic Book Experience...... 764 Bibliography...... 881 Tamara Drewe...... 768 Guide to Online Resources...... 905 Tank Girl...... 772 Timeline...... 907 Tantrum...... 776 Major Awards...... 911 30 Days of Night...... 780 Works by Artist...... 1002 Three Fingers...... 784 Works by Author...... 1014 300...... 788 Works by Publisher...... 1021 Three Shadows...... 792 Index...... 1027 Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy of Mr. Punch, The...... 796