Alternative Comics: An Emerging Literature

Acknowledgments

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Who can do this sort of thing alone? Not I. Thanks are due to many. For permission to include passages from my article, “Heartbreak Soup: The Interdependence of Theme and Form” (Inks 4:2, May 1997), the Ohio State University Press. For shepherding that article in the first place, Inks editor Lucy Shelton Caswell. For the use of copyrighted material, the many artists and other rightsholders represented herein. Special thanks to the following, without whom my vague aspirations and tentative arguments could not have become a book: For guiding my first draft, my advisors at the University of Connecticut: Tom Roberts, Jean Marsden, and Tom Recchio. For information and images: Robert Beerbohm, Cécile Danehy, Gary Groth, John Morrow, Mark Nevins, Nhu-Hoa Nguyen, Nick Nguyen, Eric Reynolds, Michael Rhode, Patrick Rosenkranz, Randall Scott, R. Sikoryak, Tim Stroup, Brian Tucker, and the Comics Scholars’ Discussion List (comix-scholars@clas.ufl.edu). For the correspondence , Gilbert Hernandez. For patience and counsel, Seetha Srinivasan and Walter Biggins. For design, Pete Halverson. For mentorship and friendship, Joseph (Rusty) Witek. For help of all sorts and friendship in all weathers, my fellow traveler Gene Kannenberg, Jr. For inspiration and conversation, my brother Scott. For unstinting moral and material support, my parents Ella and Jerry and my parents-in-law Ann and Bob. For the spark, Jack Kirby. Finally, and above all, to my own dear family: Michele, Coleman, and Nicholas. Norp! vii This page intentionally left blank ...