Comics and Sacred Texts Reimagining Religion and Graphic Narratives 1st Edition Assaf Gamzou Editor Ken Koltun Fromm Editor

I. SEEING THE SACRED IN COMICS

Chapter One Writing the Sacred in Craig Thompson’s Habibi

Chapter Two God’s Comics: The Hebrew Alphabet as Graphic Narrative

Chapter Three The Ineffability of Form: Speaking and Seeing the Sacred in Tina’s Mouth and The Rab

Chapter Four The Seven Traits of Fictoscripture and the Wormhole Sacred

II. REIMAGINING SACRED TEXTS THROUGH COMICS

Chapter Five Many Comic Book Ramayanas: Idealizing and Opposing Rama as the Righteous God-King

Chapter Six The Ending of Mark as a Page-Turn Reveal

Chapter Seven Slaying a Biblical Archetype: 1 Samuel, Gauld’s Goliath, and the New Midrash

Chapter Eight Transrendering Biblical Bodies: Reading Sex in The Action Bible and Genesis Illustrate

III. TRANSFIGURED COMIC SELVES, MONSTERS, AND THE BODY

Chapter Nine The Dark Phoenix as “Promising Monster”: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Teaching

Chapter Ten “Honor the Power Within”: Daoist Wizards, Popular Culture, and Contemporary Japan’

Chapter Eleven Joe Kubert’s Yossel: April 19, 1943: Faith and Art History’s Precedents

IV. THE EVERYDAY SACRED IN COMICS

Chapter Twelve Urban Revelation in Paul Madonna’s Postsecular Comics

Chapter Thirteen The Common Place: The Poetics of the Pedestrian in Kevin Huizenga’s Walkin’

Chapter Fourteen Marvel’s Fallen Son and Making the Ordinary Sacred

Chapter Fifteen Will Eisner: Master of Graphic Wisdom