Cover -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Notes on the Contributors -- Foreword -- Introducing Transnational Perspectives on Graphic Narratives: Comics at the Crossroads -- Intersections: Comics and transnationalism-transnationalism and comics -- From an international to a transnational perspective -- Premises, promises, pitfalls -- Part I Politics and Poetics -- 1 Not Just a Theme: Transnationalism and Form in Visual Narratives of US Slavery -- 2 Transnational Identity as Shape-Shifting: Metaphor and Cultural Resonance in Gene Luen Yang's -- Introduction -- Cultural identity, metaphor, and embodiment -- Cultural allusions and resonances -- Conclusion -- 3 Cosmopolitan Suspicion: Comics Journalism and Graphic Silence -- Still life with children -- "Freedom is slavery": Guy Delisle -- "War is peace": Joe Sacco -- "Ignorance is strength": Jean-Philippe Stassen and Ari Folman -- Notes -- 4 Staging Cosmopolitanism: The Transnational Encounter in Joe Sacco's -- Joe Sacco as a civic model -- The encounter (I): Universal empathy -- The encounter (II): The violence of empathy -- The encounter (III): Cosmopolitan documentation -- 5 "Trying to Recapture the Front": A Transnational Perspective on Hawaii in R. Kikuo Johnson's -- Image and imagination in the construction of the exotic -- Society, ecology, and the search for roots -- 6 Folding Nations, Cutting Borders: Transnationalism in the Comics of Warren Craghead III -- Going transnational -- Crossing the Atlantic -- Folding the Arab Spring -- Conclusion -- Works cited -- Part II Transnational and Transcultural Superheroes -- 7 Batman Goes Transnational: The Global Appropriation and Distribution of an American Hero -- Introduction: On the scope of Batman as a transnational icon -- The Nightrunner primer -- Transcultural influence -- Transnational relations.

Conclusion: The not-so-American icons -- 8 Spider-Man India: Comic Books and the Translating/ Transcreating of American Cultural Narratives -- The narratives of transnational and transcultural exchange -- Spider-Man and American/global identity -- Interrogating the transcreation of Spider-Man India -- The problematic transcreation of heroic origins -- Conclusion -- 9 Of Transcreations and Transpacific Adaptations: Investigating Manga Versions of Spider-Man -- Ryoichi Ikegami: Spider-Man the Manga -- Yamanaka Akira: Spider-Man J -- Kaare Andrews: Spider-Man Mangaverse -- Conclusion -- 10 Warren Ellis: Performing the Transnational Author in the American Comics Mainstream -- 11 "Truth, Justice, and the Islamic Way": Conceiving the Cosmopolitan Muslim Superhero in The 99 -- The making of a Muslim media franchise -- Fighting for truth, justice, international harmony, and cooperation -- The team-up as a transnational experience -- Part III Translations, Transformations, Migrations -- 12 Lost in Translation: Narratives of Transcultural Displacement in the Wordless Graphic Novel -- Comics and the wordless graphic novel -- Transnational silence -- Alienated and anonymous: The City -- Stranger in a strange land: Gods' Man -- Explicitly transnational: The Arrival -- A monstrous comic book: The Golem -- Conclusion -- 13 Hard-Boiled Silhouettes: Transnational Remediation and the Art of Omission in Frank Miller's Sin City -- Remediating film noir -- Remediating sound effects and wordless woodcuts -- Remediating silent film -- Conclusion -- 14 The "Big Picture" as a Multitude of Fragments: Jason Lutes's Depiction of Weimar Republic Berlin -- Out of many individuals: The multitude of stories -- Out of many comics: The multitude of styles -- E pluribus pluria -- 15 "Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together": The Cultural Crossovers of Bryan Lee O'Malley -- Works cited.

16 A Disappointing Crossing: The North American Reception of Asterix and Tintin -- From BD to comics -- Readers -- The dialectics of market and culture -- 17 Afterword: Framing, Unframing, Reframing: Retconning the Transnational Work of Comics -- Toward a media-theoretical backstory: The frame -- Of sequences, series, and states: Unframing and reframing -- Conclusion, or: To be continued . . . -- Index.