Table of Contents

EcoComix: An Introduction (Sidney I. Dobrin)
The Threat of (Non)Normative Nature: Queer Ecology in H2O
and A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge (Ashley Holland)
The Middle Voice of EcoComix: Reading Philippe Squarzoni’s
Climate Changed (Terry Harpold)
Virtual Farmer, Real Activist? Cory Doctorow and Jen Wang’s
In Real Life (Anastasia Salter)
The “GUD,” the “BAD” and the Biorg: Reading the Postanimal
in We3 (Melissa Bianchi)
Follow the Concrete Submersible (Sidney I. Dobrin)
“Where You Create Life”: Monsters and Nature in Black Orchid
(Spencer Chalifour)
How the Comic Book Store Became Ecological (Aaron Kashtan)
Trees, Anti-Advocacy and Visual Rhetoric in Truax
(A Parody of The Lorax) (Madison Jones)
Treacherous Fields and Bunny Girls: Representations of Nature
in Yuu Watase’s Alice 19th (Catherine Kyle)
Killing Oliver Queen: Environmentalist Meaning and Demeaning in Green Arrow (Eric C. Otto)
About the Contributors
Index

About the Author

Sidney I. Dobrin is a professor and chair in the English department at the University of Florida in Gainesville. He is the founding director of the Trace Innovation Initiative, which includes the comic form journal Sequentials. He has written and edited more than 23 books about writing, ecology, and technology.