Spaces Between

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xviii

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2. Reproducing Inequality and Representing Diversity: The Politics of Gender in Superhero Comics

   • Carolyn Cocca

   Pages 1-15

3. Gendered Violence and Structures of Power. Reclaiming the Victim Narrative in the Netflix Show Marvel’s Jessica Jones

   • Juliane Blank

   Pages 17-34

4. Spider-Analogues: The Unmarking and Unmasking of White Male Superheroism

   • Jeffrey A. Brown

   Pages 35-46

5. My Noose Around that Pretty’s Neck: Meditations on Matt Baker’s Good Girls

   • Philip Crawford

   Pages 47-61

6. The Nude and the Naked: From Fine Art to Comics

   • Ann Miller

   Pages 63-78

7. Fragmented and Framed. Precarious ‘Body Signs’ in Comics by Regina Hofer, Ulli Lust, Barbara Yelin and Peer Meter

   • Marina Rauchenbacher, Katharina Serles

   Pages 79-93

8. Othering Voices and the Voice of the Other: The Depiction of Joseph Merrick in From Hell

   • Natalie Veith

   Pages 95-107

9. Dis/ability and Hybridity: The Bodies of Charles Burns

   • Jonas Neldner

   Pages 109-124

10. The Binary Comics of a Non-binary Artist: How Vaughn Bodé’s Identity Structured His Art

    • Romain Becker

    Pages 125-141

11. Branford the Best Bee in the World. The Socio-Culturally Imprinted Self of Anthropomorphic Bodies

    • Nina Eckhoff-Heindl

    Pages 143-160

12. “If only I’d had a nose job”. Representations of the Gendered Jewish Body in the Works of Aline Kominsky-Crumb

    • Véronique Sina

    Pages 161-174

13. Manga Aging: Grannies and Gutters

    • Jaqueline Berndt

    Pages 175-186

14. An Art of Loss

    • Tahneer Oksman

    Pages 187-200

The contributions gathered in this volume exhibit a great variety of interdisciplinary perspectives on and theoretical approaches to the notion of ‘spaces between’. They draw our attention to the nexus between the medium of comics and the categories of difference as well as identity such as gender, dis/ability, age, and ethnicity, in order to open and intensify an interdisciplinary conversation between comics studies and intersectional identity studies.

• Comics
• Intersectionality
• Gender
• Diversity
• Identity
• Disability

• University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

  Nina Eckhoff-Heindl, Véronique Sina

Nina Eckhoff-Heindl, M.A. is a research assistant at the University of Cologne and MSCA Fellow in the “a.r.t.e.s. EUmanities” program of the a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for the Humanities Cologne. 
Dr. Véronique Sina is a Research Associate at the Department of Media Culture and Theatre at the University of Cologne and the vice president of the German Society of Comics Studies (ComFor).

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