List of Figures; List of Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Graphic Narratives and the Precarious Condition; Part I Representations of Precarious Youth in Graphic Fiction;
1. The Ideological Depiction of Childhood during the Great Depression: from Little Orphan Annie to Little Lefty;
2. Oppressive Structures and Childhood Precarity in The Witches: A Graphic Novel;
3. Journey to Adulthood: Visual Representation of a Morphing Identity in Inio Asano’s Goodnight Punpun;
4. “A Malaise That We Don’t Know What to Name:” Cruel Optimism and Residual Disenchantment in Nadar’s El Mundo a Tus Pies (2015);
5. What Is Love? Precarious Lives, Precarious Loves in the Works of Italian Women Graphic Novelists; Part II The Young Self in Crisis in (Auto)Biographic Comics;
6. Uncertain Homes: Trauma, Fracture, and Resilience in Roma Biographies from the “Children’s Homes” in the Czech Republic;
7. Finding Voice Within the Objects of Their Lives: Adolescents Writing Memoir Comics to Interrogate Crisis; Part III Superheroic Precarity;
8. Super-Precariat: Socioeconomic Fictions and Realities of Superhero Comic Books;
9. “What Happens to a Dream Deferred?”: Super Villains of African Descent; Part IV Surviving in a Precarious Market: Labour Insecurity and the Publishing Sector;
10. Precarious Identity: Labelling Oneself Fumettista?;
11. Amazing Ultradeformer Cartoonist from Ituzaingo: The Memes of Pedro Mancini;
12. In Conversation with Vicent Giard: A Decade Taking Care of a Little Colossus; Part V Spaces of Vulnerability / Spaces of Action;
13. Crises, New Modalities of Social Struggle and the Emergence of LGBTIQ+ Discourses as Revulsive and Autonomous Responses in the Field of Argentine Comics (2016- 2020);
14. Cultural Otherness in Der Traum von Olympia (An Olympic Dream);
15. Wasted Potential, Disposable Bodies: The Many Victims of Backderf’s My Friend Dahmer;
16. Strike Comics: Representing the Inequities and Absurdities of Academic Precarity; Index