The GirlFrenzy Millennial

The GirlFrenzy Millennial
Author: Erica Smith
Publisher: Slab-O-Concrete Publications
Total Pages: 104
Release: 1998
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 9781899866182

A collection of articles, comic strips, and photostories in the traditional Girls Annual style but for adult readers. Contributors include Roberta Gregory and Trina Robbins and others representing the female sub-culture. Erica wrapped up her Girlfrenzy publishing enterprise with a bumper-sized 'Millennial' at the turn of the century - like a feminist take on the girly annuals of the past.

Remembered Reading

Remembered Reading
Author: Mel Gibson
Publisher: Leuven University Press
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2015-06-30
Genre: Design
ISBN: 9462700303

A reader’s history exploring the forgotten genre of girls’ comics Girls’ comics were a major genre from the 1950s onwards in Britain. The most popular titles sold between 800,000 and a million copies a week. However, this genre was slowly replaced by magazines which now dominate publishing for girls. Remembered Reading is a readers’ history which explores the genre, and memories of those comics, looking at how and why this rich history has been forgotten. The research is based around both analysis of what the titles contained and interviews with women about their childhood comic reading. In addition, it also looks at the other comic books that British girls engaged with, including humour comics and superhero titles. In doing so it looks at intersections of class, girlhood, and genre, and puts comic reading into historical, cultural, and educational context.

UK Feminist Cartoons and Comics

UK Feminist Cartoons and Comics
Author: Nicola Streeten
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2020-01-28
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 3030363007

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.

Youth Culture, Popular Music and the End of 'Consensus'

Youth Culture, Popular Music and the End of 'Consensus'
Author: The Subcultures Network
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2018-01-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317628209

This book examines youth cultural responses to the political, economic and socio-cultural changes that affected Britain in the aftermath of the Second World War. In particular, it considers the extent to which elements of youth culture and popular music served to contest the notion of ‘consensus’ that historians and social commentators have suggested served to frame British polity from the late 1940s into the 1970s. The collection argues that aspects of youth culture appear to have revealed notable fault-lines in and across British society and provided alternative perspectives and reactions to the presumptions of mainstream political and cultural opinion in the period. This, perhaps, was most acute in the period leading up to and after the seemingly pivotal moment of Margaret Thatcher’s election to prime minister in 1979. This book was originally published as a special issue of Contemporary British History.

Below Critical Radar

Below Critical Radar
Author: Teal Triggs
Publisher: Codex
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2000
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN:

The move from the underground to the mainstream by many fanzines and underground comics has been largely ignored by the mainstream media. These writings consider how and why this has occurred and the relationship between reader and producer.

Zines

Zines
Author: Liz Farrelly
Publisher: Booth-Clibborn
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2001-10
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Graphic art from zines, small press and independant publications.

Bitch

Bitch
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 428
Release: 2006
Genre: Feminism
ISBN:

DIY

DIY
Author: Amy Spencer
Publisher: Marion Boyars Publishers
Total Pages: 392
Release: 2005
Genre: Music
ISBN:

A history of 'zine' fanzines, since the 1930s and DIY publishing.