Why are comics still in search of cultural legitimization? / Thierry Groensteen
Rodolphe Töpffer's aesthetic revolution / David Kunzle
How comics came to be : through the juncture of word and image from magazine gag cartoons to newspaper strips, tools for critical appreciation plus rare seldom witnessed historical facts / Robert C. Harvey
The "vulgar" comic strip / Gilbert Seldes
Excerpt from Seduction of the innocent / Fredric Wertham
William Gaines and the battle over EC Comics / Amy Kiste Nyberg
The comics debates internationally / John A. Lent
The definition of the superhero / Peter Coogan
Two boys from the Twin Cities / M. Thomas Inge
Caricature / David Carrier
Beyond comparison / W.J.T. Mitchell
The impossible definition / Thierry Groensteen
An art of tensions / Charles Hatfield
The arrow and the grid / Joseph Witek
The construction of space in comics / Pascal Lefèvre
The acoustics of Manga / Robert S. Petersen
Ally Sloper : the first comics superstar? / Roger Sabin
Jackie and the problem of romance / Martin Barker
Home loving and without vices / Anne Rubenstein
Autobiography as authenticity / Bart Beaty
Manga versus Kibyōshi / Adam L. Kern
Beyond Shoujo, blending gender / Fusami Ogi
The innocents march into history / Ariel Dorfman
The garden in the machine / Thomas Andrae
An examination of "Master Race" / John Benson, David Kasakove, Art Spiegelman
The comics of Chris Ware / Gene Kannenberg, Jr.
Transcending comics : crossing the boundaries of the medium / Annalisa Di Liddo
History and graphic representation in Maus / Hillary Chute.
