Table of Contents
Acknowledgments IX
Introduction: A Shared Space Tahneer Oksman XI
Section 1 Genealogies
From Julie Doucet to Gabrielle Bell Feminist Genealogies of Comics Anthologies Margaret Galvan 3
My Most Secret Boredom (Dis)Affective Narrative in Julie Doucet's "A Day in Julie Doucet's Life" and Hergés "Adventures with Tintin: The Broken Ear" Jessica Stark 23
Section 2 Drawing Across Autobiography
Julie Doucet's "Monkey and the Living Dead" as Subliminal Autobiography Natalie Pendergast 47
Ghost Cats and the Specter of Self Telling Trauma in the Works of Gabrielle Bell Sarah Hildebrand 75
Section 3 Transgressive Aesthetics
A Very Dirty Word Cuteness as Affective Strategy in the Comics of Julie Doucet Sarah Richardson 97
Drawn to Life The Diary as Method and Politics in the Comics Art of Gabrielle Bell and Julie Doucet Kylie Cardell 122
Section 4 Communal Visions
"At This Point I Become Real" Experimental Autobiography in Julie Doucet and Michel Gondry's Comics/ Video Hybrid My New New York Diary Frederik Byrn Køhlert 145
"Everyone Looks through Peepholes" Voyeurism in The Voyeurs Seamus O'Malley 164
Interviews
"A Good Life: The Julie Doucet Interview" Dan Nadel 189
"'The Starting Point': An Interview with Julie Doucet" Annie Mok 197
"Sometimes in Reality You Kick the Football: A Conversation with Gabrielle Bell" James Yeh 206
"Gabrielle Bell" Aaron Cometbus 218
"A Talk with Gabrielle Bell" Annie Mok 225
Contributor Biographies 232
Index 235