I Sing the Body Comic: Breaking the Skinned Surfaces of

Empaneled Corporeality

by Adam Haley Pennsylvania State Universi ty

@noendofneon | noendofneon.net

Insides, Outsides, Publics, Privates

Body Horror and the Horror of Bodies

clockwise from top left: Videodrome (1983), American Mary (2012), eXistenZ (1999), Teeth (2007)

Thomas Ott’s Cinema Panopticum

Tom Neely’s The Blot

Tom Neely’s The Blot

Ken Dahl’s Monsters

Ken Dahl’s Monsters

Charles Burns’s Black Hole

Charles Burns’s Black Hole

Paul Pope’s 100%

Paul Pope’s 100%

Phoebe Gloeckner’s Illustrations to J.G. Ballard’s The Atrocity Exhibition

Phoebe Gloeckner’s A Child’s Life and Other Stories

Phoebe Gloeckner’s A Child’s Life and Other Stories

Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home

Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home

Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home

Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home

Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home

Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home

Comics Cited

•  Ballard, J.G. with Phoebe Gloeckner. The Atrocity Exhibition.

•  Bechdel, Alison. Fun Home. •  Burns, Charles. Black Hole. •  Dahl, Ken. Monsters. •  Gloeckner, Phoebe. A Child’s Life and

Other Stories. •  Huizenga, Kevin. Gloriana. •  McCloud, Scott. Understanding Comics. •  Neely, Tom. The Blot. •  Nilsen, Anders. Big Questions. •  Ott, Thomas. Cinema Panopticum. •  Pope, Paul. 100%. •  Powell, Nate. Swallow Me Whole.