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List of feminist comic books

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This is a list of feminist comic books and graphic novels.[2]

Alison Bechdel, creator of Dykes to Watch Out For, Fun Home and Are You My Mother?[1]
Kelly Sue DeConnick, creator of Bitch Planet, Pretty Deadly, and writer of Captain Marvel
Neil Gaiman, creator of Black Orchid and Death: The High Cost of Living
G Willow Wilson, creator of A-Force and Ms. Marvel (Kamala Khan)
Brian K. Vaughan, creator of Saga and Y:The Last Man

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  • Wimmin's Comix[52] anthology series founded by Trina Robbins that ran from 1972 to 1992.
  • Woman World by Aminder Dhaliwal, a science fiction comic about the development of an all-woman civilization after men become extinct as a result of a birth defect.
  • Wonder Woman, DC Comics series. Iconic superheroine, originally symbolizing the 1940s liberated woman.[10][53][54][55]

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  1. ^ "Alison Bechdel", MacArthur Fellows Program, September 17, 2014.
  2. ^ A feminist is generally defined as advocating for or supporting the rights and equality of women; see "feminist". Oxford English Dictionary (3rd ed.). Oxford University Press. 2012. An advocate or supporter of the rights and equality of women. 1852: De Bow's Review ('Our attention has happened to fall upon Mrs. E. O. Smith, who is, we are informed, among the most moderate of the feminist reformers!')
  3. ^ Diaz, Eric (2015-05-19). "Review: Marvel's A-FORCE #1". The Nerdist. Archived from the original on 2019-03-13. Retrieved 2015-05-22.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s Gilley, Casey (June 2, 2014). "Reading List: A Field Guide to Fifteen Feminist Comics". comicbookresources.com. Comic Book Resources. Retrieved December 19, 2014.
  5. ^ Lance Parkin (2013), Magic Words: The Extraordinary Life of Alan Moore, p. 9, ISBN 978-1781310779
  6. ^ Abad-Santos, Alex (December 9, 2014). "Bitch Planet is the feminist comic book we've all been waiting for". Vox. Retrieved December 20, 2014.
  7. ^ Thomases, Martha (December 19, 2014). "Martha Thomases: Gifting Comics". comicmix.com. ComicMix Pro Services. Retrieved December 20, 2014.
  8. ^ Cantrell, Sarah (2012). "Feminist Subjectivity in Black Orchid," in Tara Prescott, Aaron Drucker (eds.), Feminism in the Worlds of Neil Gaiman: Essays on the Comics, Poetry and Prose, p. 102.
  9. ^ a b Schodt, Frederik L. (1996). Dreamland Japan: Writings on Moderm Manga. Stone Bridge Press, Inc. p. [1]. ISBN 9781880656235.
  10. ^ a b Berlatsky, Noah (August 13, 2013). "Some of the Greatest, Most Popular Comic Books Are Feminist". The Atlantic. Atlantic Monthly Group. Retrieved December 19, 2014.
  11. ^ Arbeiter, Michael (October 2014). "9 Fascinating Facts About Captain Marvel, The Studio's First Super Heroine". Bustle. Retrieved December 20, 2014.
  12. ^ Edgar, Sean (January 22, 2013). "Castle Waiting: Volume I". Paste. Retrieved December 20, 2014.
  13. ^ "Graphic Novels: About Women. By Women". flashlightworthybooks.com. Flashlight Worthy. 2014. Retrieved December 19, 2014.
  14. ^ Martin, Rachel R. (2012). "Speaking the Cacophony of Angels: Gaiman's Women and the Fracturing of Phallocentric Discourse". In Prescott, Tara; Drucker, Aaron (eds.). Feminism in the Worlds of Neil Gaiman. McFarland. ISBN 9780786466368. Retrieved December 20, 2014.
  15. ^ Chase, Alicia (2013). "You Must Look at the Personal Clutter: Diaristic Indulgence, Adolescence, Feminist Autobiography," in Jane Tolmie (ed.), Drawing from Life: Memory and Subjectivity in Comic Art, University Press of Mississippi, p. 225.
  16. ^ a b Chute (2010), p. 177.
  17. ^ Constable, Liz (2002). "Consuming Realities: The Engendering of Invisible Violences in Posy Simmonds's 'Gemma Bovery' (1999)"], South Central Review, 19(4)–20(1), Winter 2002 – Spring 2003, pp. 63-84. JSTOR 3190136
  18. ^ Watts, Andrew (November 2011). "Cracks in a cartoon landscape: Fragmenting memory in Posy Simmonds' Gemma Bovery", Essays in French Literature and Culture, 48, pp. 45–65: "In reflecting on which elements Simmonds adapts and appropriates from Madame Bovary, Constable identifies Gemma Bovery as a feminist satire structured around metaphors of food, consumption, and gendered violence."
  19. ^ Munt, S. R. and Richards, R. (2020). Feminist Comics in an International Frame. Feminist Encounters: A Journal of Critical Studies in Culture and Politics, 4(1), 01. https://doi.org/10.20897/femenc/7905
  20. ^ "Underground Comix Collection". Comix Joint. Retrieved December 20, 2014.
  21. ^ Burns, Kate (2003). "Cartoons and comic books," in George Haggerty, Bonnie Zimmerman (eds.), Encyclopedia of Lesbian and Gay Histories and Cultures, Taylor & Francis, p. 149.
  22. ^ a b Williams, Paul (2010). "Questions of 'Contemporary Women's Comics,'" in Paul Williams, James Lyons (eds.), The Rise of the American Comics Artist, University Press of Mississippi, p. 138.
  23. ^ Sen, Jai (October 18, 2013). "Paige Braddock Changes the World Without Bending or Breaking It". The Clyde Fitch Report. Retrieved 5 December 2019.
  24. ^ Regan, Tim (December 11, 2014). "Meet the Local Illustrator of Lumberjanes, a Feminist, Fast-Growing Summer Camp Comic". Washington City Paper. Washington, D.C. Retrieved December 20, 2014.
  25. ^ Klock, Geoff (2002). How to Read Superhero Comics and Why, A&C Black, p. 8.
  26. ^ White, Brett (July 9, 2014). "Marvel Women of the 70's: Ms. Marvel". marvel.com. Marvel. Retrieved December 23, 2014.
  27. ^ Lynskey, Dorian (March 25, 2015). "Kapow! Attack of the feminist superheroes". The Guardian. Retrieved February 6, 2016.
  28. ^ Maggs, Sam. "A Feminist Ranking of Female Superheroes". Marie Claire. Retrieved February 6, 2016.
  29. ^ Chute, Hillary L. (2014). Outside the Box: Interviews with Contemporary Cartoonists, University of Chicago Press, p. 12.
  30. ^ "Book Review: Nemi – Vol 3 – Author Lise Myhre", Horror News, 2010
  31. ^ "The Herstory of Sense of Gender Award" (PDF). gender-sf.org. Japanese Association for Gender Fantasy & Science Fiction. August 2014. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 15, 2021. Retrieved December 23, 2014.
  32. ^ Abel, Jessica (September 29, 2011). "Are your comics feminist?". jessicaabel.com. Jessica Abel. Archived from the original on December 22, 2014. Retrieved December 22, 2014.
  33. ^ Díez Balda, María Antonia (2004). "La imagen de la mujer en el cómic: Cómic feminista, cómic futurista y de cienciaficción" (PDF). Asociación de mujeres investigadoras y tecnólogas. Dpto. Sociología y Antropología Social. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales. Univ. de Valencia. Retrieved December 22, 2014.
  34. ^ Chute (2010), p. 242.
  35. ^ Pfeiffer, Elisabeth (January 11, 2013). "Interview with Jeremy Whitley of Princeless". Women Write About Comics. Retrieved December 20, 2014.
  36. ^ "Comic Book: Priya's Shakti". priyashakti.com. Rattapallax. Archived from the original on December 20, 2014. Retrieved December 22, 2014. Led by Priya, her followers, both men and women, spread the message of women's equality across the Earth, and not to remain silent in the face of violence against women and injustice.
  37. ^ Chowdhury, Jennifer (December 15, 2014). "India's Newest Heroine Breaks Rape-Talk Taboo with Comic Book". NBCNews.com.
  38. ^ "Asian Women Giving Circle". Archived from the original on 7 January 2015. Retrieved 29 December 2014.
  39. ^ Ballou, Elizabeth (June 17, 2014). "'Rat Queens' Comic Allows Female Characters to Kick Some Butt...With Clothes On". Bustle. Retrieved December 20, 2014.
  40. ^ Lehoczky, Etelka (September 22, 2014). "'Sally Heathcote' Rescues Women's Suffrage From The Doldrums". NPR. Archived from the original on November 22, 2023. Retrieved November 22, 2023.
  41. ^ "Sesame But Different (LGBT)". Webtoon. 2021. Retrieved 16 March 2021.
  42. ^ "Lesbische Sichtbarkeit mit Poppy und Chia" [Lesbian visibility with Poppy and Chia]. Mannschaft Magazin (in German). 25 December 2020. Retrieved 16 March 2021.
  43. ^ El Deeb, Sarah (November 20, 2014). "New Egypt comic artists push limits of expression". U-T San Diego. Associated Press. Retrieved December 20, 2014.
  44. ^ Rosenberg, Alyssa (May 21, 2014). "She-Hulk is a feminist hero, not a male fantasy". Washington Post. Retrieved December 20, 2014.
  45. ^ "Home". suffrajitsu.com.
  46. ^ "Fiction Book Review: Tamara Drewe". Publishers Weekly. PWxyz. 2008. Retrieved December 23, 2014.
  47. ^ Ho, Elizabeth (Summer 2011). "From 'Having it all' to 'Away from it all': Post-feminism and Tamara Drewe", College Literature, 38(3), pp. 45–65, p. 46: "Tamara Drew represents the experience of feminism as non-linear, consisting of sometimes overlapping, sometimes conflicting, histories."
  48. ^ Imelda Whelehan, Esther Sonnet (1997), "Regendered Reading: Tank Girl and Postmodernist Intertextuality", Trash Aesthetics: Popular Culture and Its Audience, pp. 31–47, ISBN 978-0745312026
  49. ^ Dueben, Alex (May 7, 2014). "Mariko and Jillian Tamaki Tell the Story of "This One Summer"". comicbookresources.com. Comic Book Resources. Retrieved December 20, 2014.
  50. ^ Williams (2010), p. 139.
  51. ^ Smith, Amanda (2018). "A Graphic Revolution: Talking Poetry and Politics with Giannina Braschi". Chiricu. 2. No. 2.
  52. ^ Young, Allison J. Kelaher (2005). "Comics," in James Thomas Sears (ed.), Youth, Education, and Sexualities: An International Encyclopedia, Volume 1, Greenwood Publishing Group, p. 187.
  53. ^ Lepore, Jill (December 5, 2014). "Wonder Woman: the feminist". Guardian. Retrieved December 20, 2014.
  54. ^ Lincoln, Ross (December 17, 2014). "Five Favorites from the Comics and Cosplay Channel: From the Desk of Senior Editor Ross Lincoln". Escapist. Defy Media. Retrieved December 20, 2014.
  55. ^ Knight, Gladys L. (2010). Female Action Heroes: A Guide to Women in Comics, Video Games, Film, and Television, ABC-CLIO, p. 304.
  56. ^ "Y: The Last Man – The F-Word". www.thefword.org.uk. 18 July 2011. Retrieved 2016-07-25.

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