Introduction: From Comic Strips to Graphic Novels -- Part I. Graphic Narrative and Narratological Concepts -- Zooming In and Out: Panels, Frames, Sequences, and the Building of Graphic Storyworlds -- Space, Time, and Causality in Graphic Narratives: An Embodied Approach -- Who's Telling the Tale? Authors and Narrators in Graphic Narrative -- Subjectivity and Style in Graphic Narratives -- Part II. Graphic Narrative beyond the 'Single Work' -- Graphic Memoir: Neither Fact Nor Fiction -- Superhero Comics and the Authorizing Functions of the Comic Book Paratext -- Intermediality, Transmediality, and Graphic Narrative -- Comics in the intersecting Histories of the Window, the Frame, and the Panel -- Part III. Genre and Format Histories of Graphic Narrative -- A History of the Narrative Comic Strip -- Narration in the Flemish Dual Publication System: The Crossover Genre of the Humoristic Adventure -- Un/Taming the Beast, or Graphic Novels (Re)Considered -- Archival, Ephemeral, and Residual: The Functions of Early Comics in Art Spiegelman's In the Shadow of No Towers -- Part IV. Graphic Narrative across Cultures -- Anglo-American Graphic Narrative -- European Graphic Narratives: Toward a Cultural and Mediological History -- Ghostly: 'Asian Graphic Narratives,' Nonnonba, and Manga -- Graphic Narrative as World Literature -- Index (Persons) -- Index (Works).