Critical essays on contemporary Canadian cartoonists working in graphic life narrative, from confession to memoir to biography. Draws on literary theory, visual studies, and cultural history to ask why and how Canadian cartoonists have become so prominent in the international market for comic books based on real life experiences.

Table of Contents for Canadian Graphic: Picturing Life Narratives, edited by Candida Rifkind and Linda Warley

Editors' Introduction | Candida Rifkind and Linda Warley

Part One: Confession and the Relational Self

1. Public Dialogues: Intimacy and Judgment in Canadian Confessional Comics | Kevin Ziegler

2. Untangling the Graphic Power of Tangles: A Story about Alzheimer's, My Mother, and Me | Kathleen Venema

3. "Oh Well": My New York Diary, Autographics, and the Depiction of Female Sexuality in Comics | J. Andrew Deman

4. "Say 'Shit' Chester": Language, Alienation, and the Aesthetic in Chester Brown's I Never Liked You: A Comic-Strip Narrative | James C. Hall

Part Two: Collective Memory and Visual Biography

5. Personal, Vernacular, Canadian: Seth's Great Northern Brotherhood of Canadian Cartoonists as Life Writing | Kathleen Dunley

6. Visual Silence and Graphic Memory: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Two Generals | Linda Warley and Alan Filewood

7. Metabiography and Black Visuality in Ho Che Anderson's King | Candida Rifkind

Part Three: The Child and the Nation

8. Unsettling and Restorying Canadian Indigenous-Settler Histories in David Alexander Robertson's The Life of Helen Betty Osborne and Sugar Falls | Doris Wolf

9. Life in Boxes: History, Pedagogy, and Nation-Building in Canadian Biographics for Young Adults | Eva C. Karpinski

10. "Everybody calls me Roch": Harvey, The Hockey Sweater, and the Invisible Québécois Child | Cheryl Cowdy