This book adds to the scant academic literature investigating how comics transmit knowledge of
the past and how this refraction of the past shapes our understanding of society and politics
in sometimes damaging ways. The volume comes at these questions from a specifically
archaeological perspective foregrounding the representation and narrative use of material
cultures. It fulfils its objectives through three reception studies in the first part of the
volume and three chapters by comic creators in the second part. All six chapters aim to grapple
with a set of central questions about the power inherent in drawn images of various kinds.
