Female Cartoonists in the United States

Female Cartoonists in the United States
Author: Hélène Tison
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2021-11-29
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1000479552

This book provides an introduction to women cartoonists in the US, reading their work from a feminist, literary and stylistic perspective, which shines a light on their innovative and unique narratives and graphic languages. From rabid feminists to blundering teenagers to dyke avengers and pregnant butches, from political satire to memoirs to troubling sexual tales, from caricature to the clear line, from realism to minimalism and abstraction – they have done it all. This book looks at the work of over thirty authors who have challenged the boys’ club of comics in the US and whose stories shed a revealing light on contemporary society, through countercultural ripostes to the patriarchy, raw or humorous confessions, deconstruction of femininity, stories of vulnerability that 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.

Animal Comics

Animal Comics
Author:
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2017-12-14
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1350015334

Animal characters abound in graphic narratives ranging from Krazy Kat and Maus to WE3 and Terra Formars. Exploring these and other multispecies storyworlds presented in words and images, Animal Comics draws together work in comics studies, narrative theory, and cross-disciplinary research on animal environments and human-animal relationships to shed new light on comics and graphic novels in which animal agents play a significant role. At the same time, the volume's international team of contributors show how the distinctive structures and affordances of graphic narratives foreground key questions about trans-species entanglements in a more-than-human world. The writers/artists covered in the book include: Nick Abadzis, Adolpho Avril, Jeffrey Brown, Sue Coe, Matt Dembicki, Olivier Deprez, J. J. Grandville, George Herriman, Adam Hines, William Hogarth, Grant Morrison, Osamu Tezuka, Frank Quitely, Yu Sasuga, Charles M. Schultz, Art Spiegelman, Fiona Staples, Ken'ichi Tachibana, Brian K. Vaughan, and others.

Kramers Ergot #9

Kramers Ergot #9
Author: Sammy Harkham
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2016-04-20
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1606999125

Powerful and impulsive cartooning of the highest caliber still exists in the short form; you just have to look. For all these lonely lovers, Kramers Ergot fights the good fight and gathers many of the best and brightest together in one giant, oversized collection. For a few moments, you can fool yourself into believing in a reality where "comics" is vital and powerful, and can still make you lose it with laughter.Kramers Ergot 9 will feature the work of Michael Deforge, Noel Freibert, Steve Weissman, Anya Davidson, Stefan Marx, Abraham Diaz, Leon Sadler, Julia Gfrörer, Adam Buttrick, Kim Deitch, Ben Jones, Andy Burkholder, Antony Huchette, Trevor Alixopulos, Antoine Cossé, Archer Prewitt, Kevin Huizenga, Renee French, and many other greats.

Baby Bjornstrand

Baby Bjornstrand
Author: Renée French
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Comic books, strips, etc
ISBN: 9781927668139

Baby Bjornstrand is like a monster movie written by Beckett, and presented in delightfully delicate, and slightly diabolical, pencil drawings.

The Best American Comics 2014

The Best American Comics 2014
Author: Scott McCloud
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 405
Release: 2014
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 0544106008

Scott McCloud, "just about the smartest guy in comics" (Frank Miller), picks the best graphic pieces of the year.

Micrographica

Micrographica
Author: Renee French
Publisher: Top Shelf Productions
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2007
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1603092331

"Eccentrically impressive." ”–”–Ray Olson, Booklist "Nobody can touch Renee French for sweet fiendishness."-- Jim Woodring "Renee French has long been one of my favorite artists and she doesn't disappoint in her latest work. Tiny creatures in tiny drawings with lots of crapballs makes this another freakish delight that also winds up being strangely touching."-- Jenna Fischer (Pam, on The Office) Micrographica takes Ren_e French's Ignatz award nominated online strip of the same name and turns it way up. A mob of tiny rodents live la vida loca, led by the trash-talking bully Moe, and his trash-talking sidekick Preston. Add in Nubbins, the big guy; poor, sweet crapball-lovin' Aldo; and a rotting corpse turned playground, and you'll never find a more moving affirmation of traditional values. Inspired by a bald bird sighting while the author was wandering Hunter's Hill in Sydney, Australia, this book is pure weirdness -- just what Ren_e French fans dream of. With guest drawings by Jim Woodring, Penn Jillette, Dean Cameron, Dylan Williams, James Gunn and more.

H Day

H Day
Author: Renée French
Publisher: Picturebox, Incorporated
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Autobiographical comic books, strips, etc
ISBN: 9780982094709

Renee French, the acclaimed graphic novelist and Inkpot Award winner, has entranced legions of fans with her twisted, highly inventive pencil drawings, whose agile lines and delicate shading open up strange imaginary vistas. She has been heralded as an inimitable and masterful stylist, a kind of Ed Gorey who draws out the whimsical side of body-horror. In H Day, French's first graphic novel in four years, she explores, through metaphor and in pictures, her struggles with migraine headaches, marshalling troops of insects, beasts and humanoids.

Barry's Best Buddy

Barry's Best Buddy
Author: Renee French
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Total Pages: 35
Release: 2012
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1935179217

Polarhog takes his reluctant best friend on a walk while a surprise is brewing.

The Ticking

The Ticking
Author: Renée French
Publisher: Top Shelf Productions
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2005
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN:

A graphic novel about budding artist Edison Steelhead, born grotesquely deformed, who sets out to the big city to seek his fortune after he refuses his father's pleas to have radical plastic surgery.