Women and comics : politics and materialities
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- Maaheen Ahmed (UGent)
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- COMICS (Children in Comics: An intercultural history from 1865 to today)
- Abstract
- Countering popular assumptions about comics being made for and by men, this chapter begins by offering a brief alternative comics history focusing on women artists, covering comics production from the mainstream to the underground. Taking cues from recent exhibitions on women artists and comics history by women authors and artists, the chapter provides insight into the different contexts and communities, covering political cartoonists and illustrators, mainstream and underground artists. The second half of the chapter focuses on the graphic novel and examines works by Lynda Barry and a new generation of women comics artists, Ebony Flowers and Weng Pixin. It elaborates on the possibilities of reading the graphic novels in light of the rich history of women artists and comics storytelling, building bridges between individual and collective stories while pointing out the innovations unfolding through drawing, writing, and collage.
- Keywords
- women comics artists, gender, activism, race, autofiction, collage, Trina Robbins, Lynda Barry, Ebony Flowers, Weng Pixin
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-01HRN2YZVEJRK4H6MJ28EPN33H
- MLA
- Ahmed, Maaheen. “Women and Comics : Politics and Materialities.” The Cambridge Companion to Comics, edited by Maaheen Ahmed, Cambridge University Press, 2023, pp. 225–43, doi:10.1017/9781009255653.015.
- APA
- Ahmed, M. (2023). Women and comics : politics and materialities. In M. Ahmed (Ed.), The Cambridge companion to comics (pp. 225–243). https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009255653.015
- Chicago author-date
- Ahmed, Maaheen. 2023. “Women and Comics : Politics and Materialities.” In The Cambridge Companion to Comics, edited by Maaheen Ahmed, 225–43. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009255653.015.
- Chicago author-date (all authors)
- Ahmed, Maaheen. 2023. “Women and Comics : Politics and Materialities.” In The Cambridge Companion to Comics, ed by. Maaheen Ahmed, 225–243. Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781009255653.015.
- Vancouver
- 1.Ahmed M. Women and comics : politics and materialities. In: Ahmed M, editor. The Cambridge companion to comics. Cambridge University Press; 2023. p. 225–43.
- IEEE
- [1]M. Ahmed, “Women and comics : politics and materialities,” in The Cambridge companion to comics, M. Ahmed, Ed. Cambridge University Press, 2023, pp. 225–243.
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The second half of the chapter focuses on the graphic novel and examines works by Lynda Barry and a new generation of women comics artists, Ebony Flowers and Weng Pixin. It elaborates on the possibilities of reading the graphic novels in light of the rich history of women artists and comics storytelling, building bridges between individual and collective stories while pointing out the innovations unfolding through drawing, writing, and collage.}},
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