This book looks at the work of over thirty authors who have challenged the boys' club of comics in the United States, and whose stories shed a revealing light on contemporary society, through counter-cultural ripostes to the patriarchy, raw or humorous confessions, deconstruction of femininity, stories of vulnerability which offer powerful counterpoints to the super bodies of mainstream comics, non-white and queer cartoonists drawing back , and more. This is a key title for students and scholars in the fields of Comics Studies, Literature, and Women and Gender Studies.
Helene Tison is associate professor in the English department at the University of Tours in France. After a doctoral dissertation on the crime fiction of Chester Himes, she turned to the study of comics and graphic narratives. In 2007, she organized the first academic conference with and about Alison Bechdel after the publication of her graphic memoir Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic.
Title: Female Cartoonists in the United States: Bad Girls and Invisible Women (Routledge Studies in Gender, Sexuality, and Comics)
Author: Tison, H�l�ne
ISBN: 9780367861612
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Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Publication Date: 2021-11-30
Number of Pages: 242
Weight: 0.5301 kg
In this illuminating book, Helene Tison looks at the work of various US women cartoonists from the 1970s to the present. Tison examines individual talents, but also turns her lens on these artists' collective contribution to the evolving medium of comics, and to the ongoing conversations about the politics of gender. An indispensable guide to anyone seriously interested in comics.
Alison Bechdel, author of The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For and Fun Home