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An exploration of form and innovation in the rapidly evolving medium of graphic narrative. Includes a study of comics' development through the 20th century and the myriad experiments in reportage and autobiography, as well as in long-form fiction, that increasingly characterize comics’ endeavor. Readings in contemporary American literature and critical theory consider comics’ shifting social and cultural status, as well as the particular purchase this hybrid representational form has on experience and cognition.