Uk Feminist Cartoons And Comics

Author : Nicola Streeten
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-28
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9783030363000

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UK Feminist Cartoons and Comics by Nicola Streeten Pdf

This book demonstrates that since the 1970s, British feminist cartoons and comics have played an important part in the Women’s Movement in Britain. A key component of this has been humour. This aspect of feminist history in Britain has not previously been documented. The book questions why and how British feminists have used humour in comics form to present serious political messages. It also interrogates what the implications have been for the development of feminist cartoons and for the popularisation of feminism in Britain. The work responds to recent North American feminist comics scholarship that concentrates on North American autobiographical comics of trauma by women. This book highlights the relevance of humour and provides a comparative British perspective. The time frame is 1970 to 2019, chosen as representative of a significant historical period for the development of feminist cartoon and comics activity and of feminist theory and practice. Research methods include archival data collection, complemented by interviews with selected cartoonists. Visual and textual analysis of specific examples draws on literature from humour theory, comics studies and feminist theory. Examples are also considered as responses to the economic, social and political contexts in which they were produced.

Author : Kristy Beers Fägersten,Anna Nordenstam,Leena Romu,Margareta Wallin Wictorin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000404593

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Comic Art and Feminism in the Baltic Sea Region by Kristy Beers Fägersten,Anna Nordenstam,Leena Romu,Margareta Wallin Wictorin Pdf

This edited collection explores how the relationship between comic art and feminism has been shaped by global, transnational, and local trends, curating analyses of multinational comic art that encompass themes of gender, sexuality, power, vulnerability, assault, abuse, taboo, and trauma. The chapters illuminate in turn the defining features of the aesthetics, materiality, and thematic content of their source material – often expressed with humorous undertones of self-reflection or social criticism – as well as recurring strategies of visualising and narrating female experiences. Broadening the research perspective of feminist comics to include national comics cultures peripheral to the cultural centers of Anglo-American, Franco-Belgian, and Japanese comics, the anthology explores how the dominant narrative or history of canonical works can be challenged or deconstructed by local histories of comics and feminism and their transnational connections, and how local histories complement or challenge the current understanding of the relationship between feminism and comic art. This is an essential collection for scholars and students in comics studies, women and gender studies, media studies, and literature.

Author : Emma
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-18
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781609809195

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The Mental Load by Emma Pdf

A new voice in comics is incisive, funny, and fiercely feminist. "The mental load. It's incessant, gnawing, exhausting, and disproportionately falls to women. You know the scene--you're making dinner, calling the plumber/doctor/mechanic, checking homework and answering work emails--at the same time. All the while, you are being peppered with questions by your nearest and dearest 'where are my shoes?, 'do we have any cheese?...'" --Australian Broadcasting Corp on Emma's comic In her first book of comic strips, Emma reflects on social and feminist issues by means of simple line drawings, dissecting the mental load, ie all that invisible and unpaid organizing, list-making and planning women do to manage their lives, and the lives of their family members. Most of us carry some form of mental load--about our work, household responsibilities, financial obligations and personal life; but what makes up that burden and how it's distributed within households and understood in offices is not always equal or fair. In her strips Emma deals with themes ranging from maternity leave (it is not a vacation!), domestic violence, the clitoris, the violence of the medical world on women during childbirth, and other feminist issues, and she does so in a straightforward way that is both hilarious and deadly serious.. If you're not laughing, you're probably crying in recognition. Emma's comics also address the everyday outrages and absurdities of immigrant rights, income equality, and police violence. Emma has over 300,000 followers on Facebook, her comics have been. shared 215,000 times, and have elicited comments from 21,000 internet users. An article about her in the French magazine L'Express drew 1.8 million views--a record since the site was created. And her comic has just been picked up by The Guardian. Many women will recognize themselves in THE MENTAL LOAD, which is sure to stir a wide ranging, important debate on what it really means to be a woman today.

Author : Nicola Streeten,Cath Tate
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Comic books, strips, etc
ISBN : 0995590087

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The Inking Woman by Nicola Streeten,Cath Tate Pdf

Companion to exhibition held at the Cartoon Museum, London, in 2017.

Author : Erin La Cour,Simon Grennan,Rik Spanjers
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030749743

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Key Terms in Comics Studies by Erin La Cour,Simon Grennan,Rik Spanjers Pdf

Key Terms in Comics Studies is a glossary of over 300 terms and critical concepts currently used in the Anglophone academic study of comics, including those from other languages that are currently adopted and used in English. Written by nearly 100 international and contemporary experts from the field, the entries are succinctly defined, exemplified, and referenced. The entries are 250 words or fewer, placed in alphabetical order, and explicitly cross-referenced to others in the book. Key Terms in Comics Studies is an invaluable tool for both students and established researchers alike.

Author : Thomas Giddens
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781496829030

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Critical Directions in Comics Studies by Thomas Giddens Pdf

Contributions by Paul Fisher Davies, Lisa DeTora, Yasemin J. Erden, Adam Gearey, Thomas Giddens, Peter Goodrich, Maggie Gray, Matthew J. A. Green, Vladislav Maksimov, Timothy D. Peters, Christopher Pizzino, Nicola Streeten, and Lydia Wysocki Recent decades have seen comics studies blossom, but within the ecosystems of this growth, dominant assumptions have taken root—assumptions around the particular methods used to approach the comics form, the ways we should read comics, how its “system” works, and the disciplinary relationships that surround this evolving area of study. But other perspectives have also begun to flourish. These approaches question the reliance on structural linguistics and the tools of English and cultural studies in the examination and understanding of comics. In this edited collection, scholars from a variety of disciplines examine comics by addressing materiality and form as well as the wider economic and political contexts of comics’ creation and reception. Through this lens, influenced by poststructuralist theories, contributors explore and elaborate other possibilities for working with comics as a critical resource, consolidating the emergence of these alternative modes of engagement in a single text. This opens comics studies to a wider array of resources, perspectives, and modes of engagement. Included in this volume are essays on a range of comics and illustrations as well as considerations of such popular comics as Deadpool, Daredevil, and V for Vendetta, and analyses of comics production, medical illustrations, and original comics. Some contributions even unfold in the form of comics panels.

Author : Maggie Gray,Ian Horton
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-17
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9783030935078

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Seeing Comics through Art History by Maggie Gray,Ian Horton Pdf

This book explores what the methodologies of Art History might offer Comics Studies, in terms of addressing overlooked aspects of aesthetics, form, materiality, perception and visual style. As well as considering what Art History proposes of comic scholarship, including the questioning of some of its deep-rooted categories and procedures, it also appraises what comics and Comics Studies afford and ask of Art History. This book draws together the work of international scholars applying art-historical methodologies to the study of a range of comic strips, books, cartoons, graphic novels and manga, who, as well as being researchers, are also educators, artists, designers, curators, producers, librarians, editors, and writers, with some undertaking practice-based research. Many are trained art historians, but others come from, have migrated into, or straddle other disciplines, such as Comparative Literature, American Literature, Cultural Studies, Visual Studies, and a range of subjects within Art & Design practice.

Author : Dominic Davies,Candida Rifkind
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-21
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9783030379988

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Documenting Trauma in Comics by Dominic Davies,Candida Rifkind Pdf

Why are so many contemporary comics and graphic narratives written as memoirs or documentaries of traumatic events? Is there a specific relationship between the comics form and the documentation and reportage of trauma? How do the interpretive demands made on comics readers shape their relationships with traumatic events? And how does comics’ documentation of traumatic pasts operate across national borders and in different cultural, political, and politicised contexts? The sixteen chapters and three comics included in Documenting Trauma in Comics set out to answer exactly these questions. Drawing on a range of historically and geographically expansive examples, the contributors bring their different perspectives to bear on the tangled and often fraught intersections between trauma studies, comics studies, and theories of documentary practices and processes. The result is a collection that shows how comics is not simply related to trauma, but a generative force that has become central to its remembrance, documentation, and study.

Author : Maaheen Ahmed
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009255684

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The Cambridge Companion to Comics by Maaheen Ahmed Pdf

Interweaving history and theory, this book unpacks the complexity of comics, covering formal, critical and institutional dimensions.

Author : Mira Falardeau
Publisher : Mosaic Press
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-01
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781771613521

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A History of Women Cartoonists by Mira Falardeau Pdf

In this volume, Mira Falardeau looks at the work of great women artists and their experiences in the industry to reveal advice and positive encouragement for future cartoonists. Heavily illustrated with cartoons and artwork from many of the best in the field, the book also asks serious questions about why there have been so few women cartoonists in the field of visual humor and if the digital age is opening more opportunities for female humorists. Falardeau is uniquely positioned to ask these questions. She has spent decades as an art historian, a specialist in visual humor, and the author of several books and essays on cartoonists and their history. She was also a former cartoonist herself—among the first generation of women in her field during the 1970s and 1980s. A History of Women Cartoonists is the first book to offer a truly global survey and analysis of the great women cartoonists of the last three decades—and a welcome addition to the history of comics and cartoons.

Author : MK Czerwiec
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-21
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781637790205

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Menopause by MK Czerwiec Pdf

Hot flashes. Vaginal atrophy. Social stigma. The comics in this unapologetic anthology prove that when it comes to menopause and its attendant symptoms, no one needs to sweat it alone. Featuring works by comics luminaries such as Lynda Barry, Joyce Farmer, Ellen Forney, and Carol Tyler, Menopause is the perfect antidote to the simplistic, cheap-joke approach that treats menopause as a cultural taboo. This anthology challenges stereotypes with perspectives from a range of life experiences, ages, gender identities, ethnicities, and health conditions. Other contributors include Maureen Burdock, Jennifer Camper, KC Councilor, MK Czerwiec, Leslie Ewing, Ann M. Fox, Keet Geniza, Roberta Gregory, Teva Harrison, Rachael House, Leah Jones, Monica Lalanda, Cathy Leamy, Ajuan Mance, Jessica Moran, Mimi Pond, Sharon Rosenzweig, Joyce Schachter, Susan Merrill Squier, Emily Steinberg, Nicola Streeten, A. K. Summers, Kimiko Tobimatsu, Shelley L. Wall, and Dana Walrath.

Author : Kay Fuller,Pontso Moorosi,Victoria Showunmi,Saeeda J. A. Shah
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782889719440

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Ways of Seeing Women’s Leadership in Education: Stories, Images, Metaphors, Methods and Theories by Kay Fuller,Pontso Moorosi,Victoria Showunmi,Saeeda J. A. Shah Pdf

Author : Nina Mickwitz,Ian Horton,Ian Hague
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351051767

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Representing Acts of Violence in Comics by Nina Mickwitz,Ian Horton,Ian Hague Pdf

This book is part of a nuanced two-volume examination of the ways in which violence in comics is presented in different texts, genres, cultures and contexts. Representing Acts of Violence in Comics raises questions about depiction and the act of showing violence, and discusses the ways in which individual moments of violence develop, and are both represented and embodied in comics and graphic novels. Contributors consider the impact of gendered and sexual violence, and examine the ways in which violent acts can be rendered palatable (for example through humour) but also how comics can represent trauma and long lasting repercussions for both perpetrators and victims. This will be a key text and essential reference for scholars and students at all levels in Comics Studies, and Cultural and Media Studies more generally.

Author : Mira Falardeau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-20
Category : Wit and humor
ISBN : 1771613513

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A History of Women Cartoonists by Mira Falardeau Pdf

In this volume, Mira Falardeau looks at the work of great women artists and their experiences in the industry to reveal advice and positive encouragement for future cartoonists. Heavily illustrated with cartoons and artwork from many of the best in the field, the book also asks serious questions about why there have been so few women cartoonists in the field of visual humor and if the digital age is opening more opportunities for female humorists. Falardeau is uniquely positioned to ask these questions. She has spent decades as an art historian, a specialist in visual humor, and the author of several books and essays on cartoonists and their history. She was also a former cartoonist herself--among the first generation of women in her field during the 1970s and 1980s. A History of Women Cartoonists is the first book to offer a truly global survey and analysis of the great women cartoonists of the last three decades--and a welcome addition to the history of comics and cartoons.

Author : Nicola Streeten
Publisher : Myriad Editions
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781908434111

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Billy, Me & You by Nicola Streeten Pdf

Nicola Streeten's little boy, Billy, was two years old when he died following heart surgery for problems diagnosed only ten days earlier. Thirteen years later, able finally to revisit a diary written at the time, Streeten begins translating her notes into a graphic novel. The result, a retrospective reflection from a 'healed' perspective and gut wrenchingly sad at moments, is an unforgettable portrayal of trauma and our reaction to it - and, especially, the humour or absurdity so often involved in our responses. As Streeten's story unfolds and we follow her and her partner's heroic efforts to cope with well-meaning friends and day-to-day realities, we begin to understand what she means by her aim to create a 'dead baby story that is funny'.