Promotional Information

"This collection is the first extended work to mesh childhood studies with comics studies, and, as such, it represents an important contribution to the discourse of both disciplines, as well as to children's literature, popular culture, and related fields. What makes this volume especially notable is the broad scope of the comics under consideration. This breath of format, setting, and purpose helps ensure that both casual readers and expert comics scholars will come away with new insights." -- Carol L. Tilley, Associate Professor of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Table of Contents

• Putting Childhood Back into World Comics: A Foreword, by Frederick Luis Aldama
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction. Bridging Comics Studies and Childhood Studies, by Mark Heimermann and Brittany Tullis
• Chapter 1. Little Orphan Annie as Streetwalker, by Pamela Robertson Wojcik
• Chapter 2. Competent Children and Social Cohesion: Representations of Childhood in Home Front Propaganda Comics during World War II in Finland, by Ralf Kauranen
• Chapter 3. In the Minority: Constructions of American Dream Childhood in 1950s–Early 1960s Little Audrey Comics, by Christopher J. Hayton and Janardana D. Hayton
• Chapter 4. Comics and Emmett Till, by Qiana Whitted
• Chapter 5. Out of the Mouths of Babes: Mafalda's Interrogation of the Argentine Angel in the House, by Brittany Tullis
• Chapter 6. Sex, Comix, and Masculinity: The Rhetoric of Zap Comix's Attack on the American Mainstream, by Ian Blechschmidt
• Chapter 7. RAW and Little Lit: Resisting and Redefining Children's Comics, by Lara Saguisag
• Chapter 8. Lolicon: Adolescent Fetishization in Osamu Tezuka's Ayako, by James G. Nobis
• Chapter 9. Wise beyond Her Years: How Persepolis Introjects the Adult into the Child, by Clifford Marks
• Chapter 10. Vehlmann, or the End of Innocence: Lessons in Cruelty in Seuls and Jolies ténèbres, by Annick Pellegrin
• Chapter 11. Zeno, Childhood, and The Three Paradoxes, by C. W. Marshall
• Chapter 12. Dancing with Demons: Consciousness and Identity in the Comics of Lynda Barry, by Tamryn Bennett
• Chapter 13. The Grotesque Child: Animal-Human Hybridity in Sweet Tooth, by Mark Heimermann
• List of Contributors
• Index

About the Author

Mark Heimermann holds a PhD in English from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.

Brittany Tullis is an assistant professor of Spanish and women and gender studies at St. Ambrose University.

Reviews

Picturing Childhood is a much needed and long-awaited interdisciplinary project that looks at representations of children throughout the history of comics.
*Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-first Century Literature*

This anthology will be extremely valuable for educators and students of children's comics; it is likely to trigger many important conversations about the intersections between comics and childhoods.
*Jeunesse*

Picturing Childhood is at its best when its contributors are exploring new ground and when they shine the spotlights of historical analysis and close reading on under-researched topics.
*Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth*