Representing Acts of Violence in Comics Introduction
Nina Mickwitz, Ian Horton & Ian Hague Depiction Picturing National and personal acts of violence: modes of depiction in Barefoot Gen John Miers Bloody Murder in the Bible: Graphic Representations of the "First Murder"
in Biblical Comics
Zanne Domoney-Lyttle A Balancing Act: Didactic Spectacle in Jack Jackson’s "Nits Make Lice"
and Slow Death Comix
Laurike in ‘t Veld Embodiment Seeing (in) Red: "Thick" Violence in Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas’s
Red: A Haida MangaLaura A. Pearson Embodied Reading and Performing Vulnerability in Joe Sacco’s The Great WarEszter Szep Humour "Boiled or fried, Dennis?" Violence, play and narrative in ‘Dennis the Menace and Gnasher’
Christopher J. Thompson Humour as a strategy in communicating sexual and domestic abuse of women in comics
Nicola Streeten Gendered and Sexual Violence The risks of representation: making gender and violence visible in The Ballad
of Halo Jones
Maggie Gray Unmaking the Apocalypse: Pain, Violence, Torture, and Weaponizing the Black, Female Body
Joseph Willis Killgrave, The Purple Man
Jamie Brassett and Richard Reynolds