The complete Wimmen's comix

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The complete Wimmen's comix

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Wimmen's comix

ISBN:

9781606998984

Edition:

Facsimile edition.

Physical Description:

2 volumes (xiv, 704 pages) : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm + 1 pair folded 3D glasses

General Note:

Sharon Banks, Donna Barr, Lynda Barry, Alison Bechdel, Judy Becker, Lee Binswanger, Angela Bocage, Terry Boyce, Michele Brand [Michele Robinson Brand Wrightson], Simone Bressler, Barb Brown, M.K. Brown, Peti Buchel, Dot Bucher, L. Lois Buhalis, Mark Burbey, Jennifer Camper, Cecilia Capuana, Carole, Susan Catherine, William Clark, Olivia Clavel, Carol Clement, Linda Crothers, Sophie Crumb, Pat Daley, Dalison Darrow, Rosemary Dinegar, Julie Doucet, Joellen "Joey" Epstein/Joey Hachtman, Leslie Ewing, Sharon Farber, Joyce Farmer, Mary Fleener, Shary Flenniken, Lora Fountain, Melinda Gebbie (as Clothilde), Phoebe Gloeckner (as Phoebe Adams), Larry Gonick, J. Grasberger (Jennifer Daydreamer), Heather Green, Roberta Gregory, Ann Hagler, Myrna Hancock, Karen Marie Haskell, Bugs Herbert, Joan Hilty, Debbie K. Holland, Julie Hollings, Nancy Husari, Edna Jundis, Michelle Jurras Nancy Kalish (as Hurricane Nancy), Lucie Kalouskova, Viviane Katz, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, Lyn Joy Kroeger, Krystine Kryttre, Meredith Kurtzman, Cecily Lang, Carol Lay, Kathryn LeMieux, Caryn Louise Leschen, Virginia Lombard, Deni Loubert, Lisa Lyons, Lee Marrs, Cynthia Martin, Barbara "Willy" Mendes, Cathy Millet, Barb Brown Millikan, Susan Mills, Bob Mogill, Carel Moiseiwitsch, Patricia Moodian, Penny Moran [Van Horn], Pauline Murray [Pauline Beaumont], Andrea Natalie, Diane Noomin, Nina Paley, Margery Peters (as Petchesky), Christine Powers, Barb Rausch, Teresa "Terre" Richards (as Terry Balawejder), Trina Robbins, Debra Rooney, Morris Rosenfeld, Sharon Rudahl, Kay Rudin, Mark Salditch, Salina, Shelby Sampson, Blanche Sant Ana, Dori Seda, Severin, Mary Skrenes, Virginia Small, Cheela Smith, Janet Wolfe Stanley, Leslie Sternbergh, Rae Page Stimler, Carol Tyler, Carole Tyrrell, Jackie Urbanovic, Suzy Varty, Melinda Wentzell, Mary Wilshire, Rebecca Wilson, Kate Worley, Moira Wright, Rebecka Wright, Bernardino Zapponi, Ray Zone.

Contents:

Volume 1: [Introduction]: babe & women / Trina Robbins -- It aint me babe / edited by Trina Robbins -- Wimmen's Comics #1 / edited by Patricia Moodian -- Wimmen's Comics #2 / edited by Lee Marrs -- Wimmen's Comics #3 / edited by Sharon Rudahl -- Wimmen's Comics #4 / edited by Shelby Sampson -- Wimmen's Comics #5 / edited by Trina Robbins and Terre Richards -- Wimmen's Comics #6 / edited by Rebecca West and Barb Brown -- Wimmen's Comics #7 / edited by Melinda Gebbie and Dot Bucher -- Wimmen's Comics #8 / edited by Kathryn LeMieux and Lee Binswanger.

Volume 2: Wimmen's Comics #9 / edited by Caryn Leschen and Rosemary Dinegar -- Wimmen's Comics #10 / edited by Joyce Farmer -- Wimmen's Comics #11 / edited by Krystine Kryttre and Dori Seda -- Wimmen's Comics #12 / edited by Angela Bocage and Rebecka Wright. e-D by Ray Zone -- Wimmen's Comics #13 / edited by Lee Binswanger and Caryn Leschen -- Wimmen's Comics #14 / edited by Trina Robbins and Deni Loubert -- Wimmen's Comics #15 / edited by Phoebe Gloeckner and Angela Bocage -- Wimmen's Comics #16 / edited by Rebecka Wright -- Wimmen's Comics #17 / edited by Caryn Leschen.

Subject Term:

Women -- Comic books, strips, etc.

Feminism -- Comic books, strips, etc.

Genre:

Underground comics.

Comics (Graphic works)

Summary:

In the late '60s, underground comix changed the way comics readers saw the medium -- but there was an important pronoun missing from the revolution. In 1972, ten women cartoonists got together in San Francisco to rectify the situation and produce the first and longest-lasting all-woman comics anthology, Wimmen's Comix. Within two years the Wimmen's Comix Collective had introduced cartoonists like Roberta Gregory and Melinda Gebbie to the comics-reading public, and would go on to publish some of the most talented women cartoonists in America -- Carol Tyler, Mary Fleener, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, Dori Seda, Phoebe Gloeckner, and many others. In its twenty-year run, the women of Wimmen's tackled subjects the guys wouldn't touch with a ten-foot pole: abortion, menstruation, masturbation, castration, lesbians, witches, murderesses, and feminists. Includes the ground-breaking 1970 one-shot, It Ain't Me, Babe, the very first all-woman comic book ever published.

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In the late '60s, underground comix changed the way comics readers saw the medium -- but there was an important pronoun missing from the revolution. In 1972, ten women cartoonists got together in San Francisco to rectify the situation and produce the first and longest-lasting all-woman comics anthology, Wimmen's Comix. Within two years the Wimmen's Comix Collective had introduced cartoonists like Roberta Gregory and Melinda Gebbie to the comics-reading public, and would go on to publish some of the most talented women cartoonists in America -- Carol Tyler, Mary Fleener, Dori Seda, Phoebe Gloeckner, and many others. In its twenty year run, the women of Wimmen's tackled subjects the guys wouldn't touch with a ten-foot pole: abortion, menstruation, masturbation, castration, lesbians, witches, murderesses, and feminists. Most issues of Wimmen's Comix have been long out of print, so it's about time these pioneering cartoonists' work received their due.

Reviews (2)

Booklist Review

*Starred Review* Fantagraphics gives the big, boxed-set treatment previously accorded to such paradigm-shifting comics as Harvey Kurtzman's Humbug to the underground comic that put female comics creators on the map. OK, as Wimmen's Comix cofounder Robbins admits, Joyce Farmer and Lyn Chevely's Tits & Clits beat us to the head shops by two weeks. But Wimmen's Comix had longer legs, lasting, with a six-year hiatus, from 1972 to 1992 and publishing 17 issues, all collected here the last 9 of which were themed anthologies (e.g., #11, Fashion Confidential, and #18, Men), except for #12, the 3-D issue. Launched during the heyday of women's liberation, Wimmen's Comix sustained the in-your-face, rebellious spirit of the 1960s social and sexual revolutions throughout its run. Contributors most of the famous women cartoonists of an entire generation were more explicit about sex, in word and image, than any of the male undergrounders. Their artwork, especially in the beginning, was as deliberately crude as their male counterparts', also so crowded and busy that it shares the horror vacui of pre-classical Greek pottery and Victorian decor (because it's in black and white, it's even harder to make out). Their scripts, regardless of genre, are chock-full of sass about women's issues and male obliviousness and general cluelessness, not to mention outright oppression. As definitely essential as it is definitely not for children.--Olson, Ray Copyright 2016 Booklist

Library Journal Review

Not the first comic created by women cartoonists, San Francisco's Wimmen's Comix, written by the Wimmen's Comix Collective, followed a single issue of It Ain't Me Babe (also featured here) and the puckish Tits & Clits Comix from Los Angeles. Noted graphic gals contributing to Wimmen's 1972-92 run included Robbins (Pretty in Ink; Chicagoland Detective Agency), Lynda Barry, Alison Bechdel, Julie Doucet, Joyce Farmer, Melinda Gebbie, Phoebe -Gloeckner, -Roberta Gregory, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, Diane Noomin, Sharon Rudahl, and Carol Tyler. There's something of everything for anybody, and the black-and-white art runs from sketchy, newbie work to expert draftswimmenship. As reaction against male-drawn misogynist underground comix, the stories capture the cultural struggles of the period, when "women's liberation" grew from niche activism into the mainstream, yet the universal themes remain relevant. Plots touch on female/male role reversals, double binds, harassment, straight and gay sex and love, exploitation and revenge, unplanned pregnancy, menstruation, abortion, and women heroes both real and fictional. VERDICT As frontline reporting on the gender issues closing out the 20th century, this essential collection will interest and engage both amateur and professional culture critics. The adult content includes plenty of -explicit sex and language.-MC © Copyright 2016. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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