Despite the boom in scholarship in both Comics Studies and Memory Studies the two fields
rarely interact¿especially with issues beyond the representation of traumatic and
autobiographical memories in comics. With a focus on the roles played by styles and archives¿in
their physical and metaphorical manifestations¿this edited volume offers an original
intervention highlighting several novel ways of thinking about comics and memory as comics
memory. Bringing together scholars as well as cultural actors the contributions combine
studies on European and North American comics and offer a representative overview of the main
comics genres and forms including superheroes Westerns newspaper comics diary comics
comics reportage and alternative comics. In considering the many manifestations of memory in
comics as well as the functioning and influence of institutions public and private practices
the book exemplifies new possibilities for understanding the complex entanglements of memory
and comics.
