Introduction; I. Forms: 1. Comics drawing: a (poly)graphic history Simon Grennan; 2. Comics, media culture and seriality Matthieu Letourneux; 3. Comics and graphic novels Paul Williams; 4. Manga, an affective form of comics Jaqueline Berndt; 5. Digital comics: a new/old form Giorgio Busi Rizzi; II. Readings: 6. Comics and multimodal storytelling Blair Davis; 7. Comics adaptations: fidelity and creativity Jan Baetens; 8. Comics genres: cracking the codes Nicolas Labarre; 9. Life writing in comics Shiamin Kwa; 10. Racialines: interrogating stereotypes in comics Daniel Stein; 11. Women and comics Maaheen Ahmed; 12. Comics at the limits of narration Erwin Dejasse; III. Uses: 13. Comics and their archives Benoît Crucifix; 14. Readers and fans: lived comics cultures Mel Gibson; 15. Comics in the museum Kim Munson; 16. Comics in libraries Jo Sutliff Sanders; 17. 'Educationally occupied': learning with comics Susan Kirtley.