1. Introduction: Untaming Comics Memory (Maaheen Ahmed & Benoît Crucifix)

Part One: Remembering

2. Portrait of the Artist as a Nostalgic: Seth's It's a Good Life if You Don't Weaken (Giorgio Busi Rizzi)

3. 'It's All Come Flooding Back': Memories of Childhood Comics (Mel Gibson)

Part Two: Memory Styles

5. The Ever-Shifting Wall: Edmond Baudoin and the 'Continuous Poem' of Autobiography (Pedro Moura)

Part Three: Comics Embodiment

6. Keep Out, Or Else: Diary as Body in The Diary of a Teenage Girl and Cruddy (Rachel R. Miller)

7. The Un-erotic Dancer: Sylvie Rancourt's Melody (Eleanor Ty)

Part Four: Reading Comics History

8. Panique en Atlantique: Bridging Personal and Collective Memories of L'Association and Comics History (Christian Reyns-Chikuma)

9. Comics History and the Question of Delinquency: The Case of Criminal (Christopher Pizzino)

Part Five: Archival Memory

10. Sons and Grandsons of Origins: Narrative Memory in Marvel Superhero Comics (Jean-Matthieu Méon)

11. A Trip Down Memory Lane: Reprints and Canonization of Morris' Lucky Luke Series (Nicolas Martinez)

12. Selective Memory: Art History and the Comic Strip Work of Jack B. Yeats (Michael Connerty)

Part Six: Archiving by Other Means

13. The Marie Duval Archive: Memory and the Development of the Comic Strip Canon (Simon Grennan)

15. Fanzines and Swedish Comics Memory (Gunnar Krantz)

16. Store Memory (Philippe Capart)

17. Coda: A User Guide to Comics Memory (Maaheen Ahmed and Benoît Crucifix)

Maaheen Ahmed is a postdoctoral fellow at the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO) at Ghent University, Belgium. She is currently working on possibilities for conceptualizing the relationship between comics and different kinds of memories, ranging from personal memories to collective and medium-based ones. Her books include Openness of Comics (2016) and Le Statut culturel de la bande dessinée/The Cultural Standing of Comics (2017), co-edited with Stéphanie Delneste and Jean-Louis Tilleuil. She recently received an ERC Starting Grant for her project on children in European comics.

Benoît Crucifix is a FRS-FNRS doctoral fellow at the University of Liège and UCLouvain, Belgium. His thesis focuses on the cultural memory of comics in the contemporary graphic novel. His research on comics memory has been published in European Comic Art, The Comics Grid, Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics and Inks. He is a member of the ACME Comics Research Group and of the editorial board of Comicalités.