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Acknowl­edgments I would like to offer a very sincere and hardy “thank you” to the follow- ing for their assistance and support of this book: My editors Jessica Grib- ble and Barbara Ittner for all their editing prowess, their wisdom, and for providing me with this opportunity, as well as every­one at Libraries Unlimited and ABC-­CLIO Tom Gaadt and the staff at Cartoon Books for enthusiastically supporting me and providing images Jack Baur who prob­ably should have been the one writing this book Valentino Zullo whose input and assistance ­ were invaluable Cindy Orr and Tish Lowry for their encouragement and support, for this could not have happened without them Becky Spratford for being an inspiration Ashley Dallac- qua and David Kohl for the information and encouragement Amie Wright, Tina Coleman, and ­ every member of the GNCRT for being such wonder- ful resources Brad Ricca for the publishing advice the staffs of Carol and John’s Comic Shop and The Laughing Ogre for supporting my comic habit Alice Son and Clare Kindt for guidance Christian Wildgoose for helping me to include his work the staff of the London Public Library for helping me grow the staff of the Willoughby-­Eastlake Public Library for cheering me on Michael Ritchie for the valuable cata­loging infor- mation all the librarian experts on comics who have come before me, including Michael Pawuk, David Serchay, Steve Weiner, Randall Scott, Robert Weiner, Francisca Goldsmith, Matthew Wood, and anyone I’m missing Dr. Miriam Matteson for overseeing my proj­ect on comics in grad school DC Comics, Judd Winnick, Terry Moore, Gene Ambaum, and Pat Coleman for permitting me to use their material all my contribu- tors, including Karen Green, Hope Larson, Mark Waid, Tony Isabella, Raina Telgemeier, Andrew Tadman, Bryn Wolanski, Jessica Lee, Lucas McKeever, John Dudas, Chloe Ramos, Rachael Bild, Carolyn Paplham,