Introduction: serial selves -- Female grotesques: the unruly comics of Julie Doucet -- Working it through: trauma and visuality in the comics of Phoebe Gloeckner -- Young, queer, and female: Ariel Schrag's high school comic chronicles -- Staring at comics: disability and the body in Al Davison's the spiral cage -- Stereotyping the self: Toufic el Rassi's Arab in America -- Conclusion: making an issue of representation.