Index
2 3 5 Page numbers in bold indicate illustrations. affective deceleration, 187–88 alternative comics, xii, 5, 29, 32, 34–40, 42, 50 architecture, x, xvii, xix, 93–95, 103n13, 107–18, 123–24, 156, 170 autobiography, xiii, xiv, xxi, 9, 29–30, 84–85, 110, 166, 168, 172n9, 207, 209, 213, 215–16; autobiographical pact, 159, 170; emphasis on realism, 28, 33, 39–40; genres of comics, 37–39; Philippe Lejeune, 159, 164; memory, 219; Harvey Pekar, 32 Ayroles, François, 79, 82, 84, 85, 89n51 Baetens, Jan, xviii, xxiiin10 Baker, Nicholson, 6, 13n19 Barry, Lynda, 38, 44n60, 206 Barthes, Roland, 86 Beaty, Bart, 79, 88n31, 147 Benjamin, Walter, xviii; The Arcades Project, 177; archive, 110; Origin of German Tragic Drama, 107; “Paris, Capital of the Nineteenth Century” and “The Angel of History,” 118; “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” 109 Berlant, Lauren, 197, 200 Blackbeard, Bill, 7–8, 10, 11 Blegvad, Peter, 99–100 body: in adolescence, 216; awkward body language, 185; disability, 192–93; Lacan’s mirror stage, 19; memories of, 209, 211– 12; mind over, 171; W. J. T. Mitchell’s concept of, 192; sexuality, 201–2; shame, 199 braiding (tressage), 89n64, 147, 151, 156. See also Groensteen, Thierry Bredehoft, Thomas, xviii, 83, 93, 103n11, 103n15, 111, 160, 165, 170, 171, 178, 184 Briggs, Clare, 8 Brown, Chester, 6, 11 Brunetti, Ivan, ii, 5, 12n13, 39, 80 Bushmiller, Ernie, 97 Caniff, Milton, 5, 8 Cavell, Stanley, 196 Chabon, Michael, 41 child: “Billy,” Jimmy’s imaginary son, 23; illegitimate, 25, 94, 143 childhood: “childish” medium of comics, 16; “children’s literature,” 49, 79; and comics, 37–38; fantasy, 107; games, 83–84; James’s (Jimmy’s grandfather) narrative of, 147, 150, 181, 208; in Jimmy Corrigan, 19–20, 181; memory, 209, 210, 215; in Nebraska, xiii; nostalgia, 109; in Quimby the Mouse, 160, 165, 168, 169, 171, 172, 180; in “Rusty Brown,” 50–51; Tim Samuelson, memories of, 112–14, 117; shame, 188; superheroes, 35; in “Thrilling Adventure Stories/I Guess,” xiv, 15 Chute, Hillary, 112, 131n8 Clark, T. J., 110 closure, 25, 147, 149, 162 Clowes, Dan, xii, 5, 33, 38, 41, 80 collecting, xii, xvi, 182–83; in “Building Stories,” 210; Jimmy Corrigan’s comics, 27n31, 93; in “Rusty Brown,” 12, 50–51, 60n20; The Smithsonian Collection of Newspaper Comics, 8; Ware’s comics anthologies, 38; Ware’s historical collections, 4, 7, 157n13 Comics Code Authority, 16, 26n8 Comics Journal, 47, 48, 49–50, 53, 58, 60n17 Cornell, Joseph, x, xxiin7 Crimp, Douglas, 109 DC Comics, xii, 16, 41, 59n10 death, 189; of Jimmy’s father, 94; of Jimmy’s paternal grandmother, 93; of Richard Nickels, 112; in Quimby the Mouse, 162; of the superhero, 16–17; of Ware’s grandmother, 169, 172n9 Deleuze, Gilles, and Felix Guattari, 178, 182 Dennett, Daniel, 217 Derrida, Jacques, 18 Dickens, Charles, 4, 56, 57 Dirks, Rudolph, 6, 47 disability studies, 26n11, 191, 192–95, 199, 203n8, 203n10 Donne, John, 4–5, 12n8 Duchamp, Marcel, 67, 74, 76n10 Eco, Umberto, 9, 10, 13n25, 15, 17, 20, 27n22 Eggers, Dave, x, xxiin5, 14, 28, 43n52, 158n6 Index 2 3 6 I N D E x Eliot, T. S., ix, 4, 5, 12n8 Elkins, James, 75, 77n29 embarrassment, 178, 185, 187–88, 189n4, 199–200 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 53, 61n36 everyday life, xxi, 5; and architecture, 108–9, 111, 115, 118; in comics, 32; the quotidian, 33, 39, 40, 41, 114; in sketchbooks, 66; in urban neighborhoods, 130. See also ordinariness failure: according to Douglas Wolk, 178; in the ACME display, 60n17; in The ACME Report, 45, 51; of comics, 20; and disability, 218; in Jimmy Corrigan, 19, 23, 27n23, 67, 95, 156; literary treatment of, 53, 56–58; rhetoric of, xvi, xix, 45–47, 168–69 fear, 187, 189, 199 Fiedler, Leslie, 36–37, 41 flâneur, 110, 177 Forbell, Charles, 215, 221n32 Foster, Hal, 5, 8 Freud, Sigmund, xviii; in the modernist canon, 109; and repetition, 182; “Screen Memories,” 212; Totem and Taboo, 20 Garland-Thomson, Rosemarie, 193 Genette, Gérard, 59n5, 164, 171 gentrification, 123–30 Gerner, Jochen, 79 Glass, Ira, xvii, 37, 108, 112, 115–17, 158n23 Goldberg, Myla, xviii graphic novel, ix, xii, xvi, 11–12, 14, 15, 16, 40–41, 112, 165, 207 Gray, Harold, 6, 8 Groensteen, Thierry, 42n3, 79, 82–83, 84, 86, 87n9, 89n64, 119n23, 147, 151 Groth, Gary, 49–50, 53, 165 Guston, Philip, x, 66, 73, 75, 77n28 Hajdu, David, 26n8, 136, 137 Halley, Janet, 193...
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