Graphic texts:
- Understanding Comics, Scott McCloud (Harper 1993)
- The Complete Maus (I+II), Art Spiegelman (combined edition, Penguin 2003)
- Palestine, Joe Sacco (Jonathan Cape 2003)
- The Complete Persepolis (I+II), Marjane Satrapi (combined edition, Pantheon 2007)
- Fun Home, Alison Bechdel (Mariner Books 2007)
Secondary literature:
- Autobiography, Linda Anderson (Routledge 2001)
Compendium articles and book chapters:
- Chapter 3 from Regarding the Pain of Others, Susan Sontag (2003)
- Chapter 6 from Regarding the Pain of Others, Susan Sontag (2003)
- "Narrativizing Visual Culture," from The Visual Culture Reader, Ella Shohat and Robert Stam (1998)
- "Comics as Literature? Reading Graphic Narrative," from PMLA, Hilary Chute (2008)
- "Word Made Flesh" from Soft Weapons, Gillian Whitlock (2007)
- "Bookends: Autographics,” from Soft Weapons, Gillian Whitlock (2007)
- "The Entangled Self: Genre Bondage in the Age of Memoir," PMLA, Nancy Miller (2007)