Perspectives on French-language comics and graphic novelsINCLUDESBaru, "The Working Class and Comics: A French Cartoonist's Perspective"Bart Beaty, "The Concept of 'Patrimoine' in Contemporary Franco-Belgian Comics Production"Cécile Vernier Danehy, "Textual Absence, Textual Color: A Journey Through Memory-Cosey's Saigon-Hanoi"Hugo Frey, "Trapped in the Past: Anti-Semitism in Hergé's Flight 714"Pascal Lefèvre, "The Congo Drawn in Belgium"Fabrice Leroy, "Games Without Frontiers: The Representation of Politics and the Politics of Representation in Schuiten and Peeters's La frontière invisible"Amanda Macdonald, "Distractions from History: Redrawing Ethnic Trajectories in New Caledonia"Mark McKinney, "The Algerian War in Road to America (Baru, Thévenet, and Ledran)"Ann Miller, "Citizenship and City Spaces: Bande dessinée as Reportage"Clare Tufts, "Re-imaging Heroes / Rewriting History: The Pictures and Texts in Children's Newspapers in France, 1939-45"Mark McKinney is associate professor of French at Miami University, Ohio. With Alec G. Hargreaves, he edited Post-Colonial Cultures in France.