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Book SynopsisPART ONE: CULTURES AND COMMUNITIES.- Chapter 1-What Kinds of Questions Do We Ask About Australian Comics?.- Chapter 2-Lessons from My Journey into Australian Comics.-Chapter 3-Obsession and Unreasonable Love: creativity and devotion in comics scholarship.- Chapter 4- Considering the Australianness' of Comic Books and Graphic Novels by Australian Creators- Chapter 5- Community over Industry? Comics makers at zine fairs in Australia.- Chapter 6- The Comic Art Festival: communities of practice in practice.- Chapter7- Drawn Together: what can the visual narrative skillset of comic makers enable as a process in social contexts.-PART TWO:PRACTICES AND READINGS.- Chapter 8- Close to the Surface: staged messaging in Australian Government-commissioned comics.- Chapter 9- Masks, Southern Crosses and Old Jungle Sayings: Australian action, adventure, the superheroes, and contributions to a hidden genre.- Chapter 10- Australian Comics Making Places.-Chapter 11- Augmenting Alice: an augmented comic about a Mparntwe road trip.-Chapter 12- The Brownout Murders:using comics to challenge the stereotype of women as victims in the serial killer narrative by Luke C Jackson, Karen Le Rossignol, Patrick.- Chapter 13- Reconsolidate, Revise, Reframe: narrativising the past with diary comics.- Chapter 14- Pad 2 pad:identity, relationality, and comics practice in Leonie Brialey's Raw Feels and Alice Chipkin and Jessica Tavassoli's Eyes Too Dry.
