Broadening the boundaries: A preface -- Foreword / Tom Hart -- Introduction. Creating graphic literature: The magic of image and text / Kelcey Ervick -- Lines and mark-making. Drawing a breath: Abstraction, minimalism, and lines in comics / Leonie Brialey ; My kid could do that!: Abstract comics and the art of play / Nick Francis Potter ; The poetic line and the comics panel: The conscious uncertainty of poetry comics / Bianca Stone ; Communicating and communing: Using technology to make and share art / Tom Hart -- The panel and the page. The problem of the page: Manifesting imagination through panels and page spreads / Marnie Galloway ; Merging traditions: Composing graphic poetry inspired by Japanese Emaki picture scrolls / Naoko Fujimoto ; Juxtaposition as composition in comics poetry: Mapping where the mind went / Alexander Rothman ; Comics magic: The poetics of page design / Trinidad Escobar -- Story structure and style. "Exercises in style" : Working with constraints to uncover your comics' potential / Matt Madden ; Storyboarding and second-guessing: How to find your story's structure / Kristen Radtke ; The fragmented narrative: Using abstraction to deepen emotion / Aidan Koch ; Satirical comics: Finding the right format for humorous cultural commentary / Keith Knight ; Surrealist storytelling: Artistic experimentation and spontaneity through improvisation / Scott Roberts -- Creating characters. "Released from forms" : Using found photos and mixed media to compose characters / Oliver Baez Bendorf ; Comics selfies: Creating dynamic characters in a single panel / Sharon Lee De La Cruz ; Drawing the news: Portraying real-life characters in comics journalism / Josh Neufeld ; Beyond memoir: Creating a comics alter ego / Justine Mara Andersen -- Power of Place. A geography of comics: Uncovering layers to reveal the bedrock of story / Arwen Donahue ; Capturing the light: Rendering place with historical accuracy and a wash of ink / Thi Bui ; Stories from the fringe: Mapping the landscape of memory with comics / Zeke Peña -- Voice and Visual language. "Oh, now I get it" : Using concrete imagery to make the abstract accessible in poetry comics / Lauren Haldeman ; Dialogue: The art of miscommunication / Mira Jacob ; Exploded view: Using diagrams and directions to construct new stories / Dustin Parsons ; Material losses: Collage comics as elegy / Mita Mahato -- Transforming archival materials. Disobedient texts: Mining the archives for (voluntary and involuntary) collaborators / Deborah A. Miranda ; Controlled chaos: On turning what's discarded into continuously surprising art / David Dodd Lee ; Round about reality: Digging in the infinite archive when the horse is in motion / Eleni Sikelianos ; The old becomes the new: Transforming books through erasure and collage / Lawrence Sutin -- Teaching resources. Teaching graphic literature in the creative writing class / Kelcey Ervick ; Materials for making graphic literature ; Elements of a comic ; Alternate table of contents by form.