Contributors

Suzy Becker is the author and illustrator of eleven books for children and adults, including the internationally bestselling All I Need to Know I Learned from My Cat , as well as the illustrated memoirs I Had Brain Surgery, What's Your Excuse? , and One Good Egg . Her cartoons have appeared in The New Yorker, Narrative, Alta Journal and other print and digital publications. She lives with her family and their tiny dog (with a Napoleon complex) in western Massachusetts.

Vera J. Camden is Emerita Professor of English at Kent State University, Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Case Western Reserve University, and Training and Supervising Analyst at the Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center. She is Associate Editor of American Imago and American Editor of the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics. She is editor of She Being Dead Yet Speaketh: The Franklin Family Papers (Iter Press and ACMRS Press, ), which was shortlisted for the Richard Greaves Prize of the John Bunyan Society and the Cambridge Companion to Literature and Psychoanalysis , which won the Book Prize of the American Psychoanalytic Association. Recent publications include “Hennell's Puritan Progress and the Portrait of the Artist as Bunyan” in Global Bunyan and Visual Art (Bloomsbury, ) and “A Martyrology of Her Own: Mary Franklin's Documentation of Dissent” in Religion and Freedom of Expression in the Early Modern Period (Brill, ).

Lan Dong is the Louise Hartman Schewe and Karl Schewe Professor in Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois Springfield. She teaches Asian American literature, comics and graphic narratives, and children's and young adult literature, and has published many articles, chapters, and essays in these areas. She is the author or editor of six books including Reading Amy Tan and Mulan's Legend and Legacy in China and the United States .