Doing justice to the past through the representation of violence : three and ancient Sparta / Lynn Fotheringham -- Comics do not forget : historical memory and experiences of violence in the Spanish Civil War and early Francoism / Enrique del Rey Cabero -- Legacies of war : remembering prisoner of war experiences in French comic books about the Second World War / Claire Gorrara -- "I think we're maybe more or less safe here" : violence and solidarity during the Lebanese civil war in Zeina Abirached's A game for swallows / Mihaela Precup -- In a growing violent temper : the Swedish comic market during World War II / Michael F. Scholz -- Will Eisner and the art of war : educational comics in the American defence industry / Malin Bergström -- Bringing the war back home : reflecting violence in Brian Wood's DMZ / Jörn Ahrens -- Infrastructural violence : urbicide, public space, and postwar reconstruction in recent Lebanese graphic memoirs / Dominic Davies -- The lives of others : figuring grievability and justice in contemporary comics and graphic novels / Golnar Nabizadeh -- Scales of violence, scales of justice, and Nate Powell's Any empire / Alex Link -- Oink : the story of a dangerously funny comic / David Huxley.