Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- I. The South in the National Imagination -- Li'l Abner, Snuffy, and Friends: The Appalachian South in the American Comic Strip -- Bumbazine, Blackness, and the Myth of the Redemptive South in Walt Kelly's Pogo -- Southern Super-Patriots and United States Nationalism: Race, Region, and Nation in Captain America -- "The Southern Thing": Doug Marlette, Identity Consciousness, and the Commodification of the South -- II. Emancipation and Civil Rights Resistance -- Drawing the Unspeakable: Kyle Baker's Slave Narrative -- "Black and White and Read All over": Representing Race in Mat Johnson and Warren Pleece's Incognegro: A Graphic Mystery -- Everybody's Graphic Protest Novel: Stuck Rubber Baby and the Anxieties of Racial Difference -- III. The Horrors of the South -- Of Slaves and Other Swamp Things: Black Southern History as Comic Book Horror -- Crooked Appalachia: The Laughter of the Melungeon Witches in Mike Mignola's Hellboy: The Crooked Man -- Meat Fiction and Burning Western Light: The South in Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon's Preacher -- IV. Revisualizing Stories, Rereading Images -- A Visitation of Narratives: Dialogue and Comics in Randall Kenan's A Visitation of Spirits -- A Re-Vision of the Record: The Demands of Reading Josh Neufeld's A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge -- About the Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.