Contexts of Violence in Comics

Introduction
Ian Hague, Ian Horton & Nina Mickwitz



History and Memory



Doing justice to the past through the representation of violence: Three and ancient Sparta
Lynn Fotheringham



Comics do not forget: Historical memory and experiences of violence in the Spanish Civil War and early Francoism
Enrique del Rey Cabero



Legacies of War: Remembering Prisoner of War Experiences in French Comic Books about the Second World War
Claire Gorrara



"I think we’re maybe more or less safe here": Violence and Solidarity
during the Lebanese Civil War in Zeina Abirached’s A Game for Swallows Mihaela Precup



War and Peace



In a Growing Violent Temper: The Swedish Comic Market during World War II
Michael F. Scholz



Will Eisner and the Art of War: Educational Comics in the American
Defence Industry
Malin Bergstrom



Urban Conflict



Bringing the War Back Home: Reflecting Violence in Brian Wood’s DMZ
Jorn Ahrens



Infrastructural Violence: Urbicide, Public Space, and Postwar Reconstruction
in Recent Lebanese Graphic Memoirs
Dominic Davies



Law, Justice and Censorship



The Lives of Others: Figuring Grievability and Justice in Contemporary
Comics and Graphic Novels
Golnar Nabizadeh



Scales of Violence, Scales of Justice, and Nate Powell’s Any EmpireAlex Link

Oink: The Story of a Dangerously Funny Comic
David Huxley