Tag: women in comics
Review: The Bursting Beauty of Niki de Saint Phalle
When the biographies of so many celebrated male artists are revealed as chronicles self-destruction where the subjects too often allow themselves to become awash in their weakest points, this biography of painter and sculptor...
Review: French surrealist Nicole Claveloux celebrated in new collection
Compiled of stories from the 1970s, The Green Hand and Other Stories presents for the first time translated into English the work of French cartoonist Nicole Claveloux, whose surrealist art comics at the time...
The first rule of harassment club
A confession: I've been struggling all week to know what to say about the Harvey Weinstein scandal. I mean, #metoo because #existingwhilefemale. I reistsed saying this, thought, maybe because my own experiences with sexual...
DeConnick and MariNaomi on #visiblewomen: Creating Community and Change One Resource At a Time
The internet has a tendency to ask questions it doesn't expect or necessarily want answered. There's an almost rhetorical nature to the way questions are posed. The question can then serve the dual purpose...
A Day of Finding Women Creators: #VisibleWomen
By Andrea Ayres
On the search for women colorists, letterers, inkers, writers or artists but aren’t sure where to look? Then the Visible Women hashtag is the place for you. The event is a project...
Review: Fortuna is a superhero for the rest of us
Superhero comics promise a certain amount of action and personal drama based on the idea that anyone who would become a superhero would put themselves out there. Not so Coco Picard’s Fortuna, the focus...
Review: Cathy Malkasian’s latest dark parable ‘Eartha’
You’re not likely to come out of a Cathy Malkasian book without being spooked by something you can’t quite put your finger on even though it lingers and gets you a little bit down....
Review: Kristen Radtke’s autobiography captures the big picture in the small frame
I am often torn about autobiographical comics. Not whether they should exist or not — of course people should create the comics they are moved to create — and not about the level of...
Review: Emil Ferris beckons the monsters into the light of day
It’s fair to say that Emil Ferris’ sprawling My Favorite Thing Is Monsters — volume one of a two volume work — came out of absolutely nowhere for many people. Ferris is a Chicago-based...
Review: Jillian Fleck’s bottomless pit of emotion
The most frequent bottomless thing that has popped up in my life is the idea of bottomless pits, which Lake Jehovah immediately made me think of. Even as a kid, I never thought of...
Review: Bernadou, Varela, Mendes deliver three strong works
Canopy by Karine Bernadou
Bernadou’s excellent silent parable of what it’s like to be a woman out in the world follows Canopy from her childhood — symbolically presented as a continual act of nursing with her...
Review: Missing the mark on magic realism, but doing well with realism itself
Looking at the effects of trauma as a long term property that you find visible bursts of in the short term, The Return Of The Honey Buzzard evokes Nabokov and magic realism in a...
