Table of Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Comics, Narrative, and Medium

Part I: Time in Comics

1. Time in Comics

Part II: Graphic Showing and Style

2. Narration as Showing

3. Character as a Means of Narrative Continuity

4. Graphic Style, Subjectivity and Narration

Part III: Narrative Transmission

5. Narrative Agency (in Jiro Taniguchi’s A Distant Neighborhood)

6. Focalisation in Comics

7. Characterisation in Comics

Part IV: Speech and Thought in Narrative Comics

8. Presenting Minds in Comics

9. Dialogue in Comics: Medium-specific features and basic narrative functions

Part V: Narrative Form and Publication Format

10. Picture Story and Narrative Organisation in Early Nineteenth-Century British

11. Caricature and Comic Strips

Afterword

Bibliography

About the Author

Kai Mikkonen is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Helsinki, Finland.

Reviews

"The work embodies the inventive results possible when an adroit theorist explores a burgeoning field. I risk a cliché, although that makes it no less true, in saying: there is much to learn here. I speak especially for those who study comics but suspect the same is true for narratologists more broadly." - Jacob Murel, University of Memphis, Studies in Comics