The Graphic Lives of Fathers: Memory, Representation, and Fatherhood in North American Autobiographi

Introduction 1. Comics, Fatherhood, and Autobiographical Representation 2. "A Good and Decent Man": Fatherhood and Post-war Patriarchy in Carol Tyler's Soldier's Heart (2015) 3. "He was there to catch me when I leapt": Paternal Absence and Non-normative Sexuality in Alison Bechdel's Fun Home (2006) 4. "As long as he was there, I felt safe": Deception and the Performance of Ideal Fatherhood in Laurie Sandell's The Impostor's Daughter (2009) 5. "To Dream of Birds": Fatherhood, Exile, and Extremism in Nina Bunjevac's "August 1977" and Fatherland (2014) 6. "A Doting Fool": Reformed Masculinity and Parental Responsibility in R. Crumb's Sophie Stories (1980s-2008) 7. "Emasculated by the Diaper Bag": Middle Age and the Vulnerability of the Paternal Body in Joe Ollmann's Mid-Life (2011) 8. "A Baby to Love Together": Parental Infantilism and Fatherly Love in James Kochalka's American Elf (1998-2012) 9. "You Tell Your Father He Did a Good Job": Sons, Fathers, and Familial Harmony in Jeffrey Brown's Little Things (2008) and A Matter of Life (2013) 10. Conclusion