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This book examines the fictional female bodies of comics artists-Chris Ware, Emil Ferris, Ebony Flowers, and Tillie Walden-whose work has attracted significant attention. These bodies showcase how comics and its unique visual language can both critique and re-envision some of the most challenging social issues of our time.
List of contents
Introduction: Our Bodies, Our Sequential Selves; 1: Boxing Bodies and Building Stories: The Anatomy of an Everyday Life; 2: The Horror of the Female Body: Monstrous Subversion in My Favorite Thing Is Monsters; 3: Privacy and Proliferation: "Embodied Thinking" in Hot Comb; 4: On a Sunbeam: The Promise and Perils of Utopian Bodies, Spaces, and Outer Space; Epilogue: Future Bodies
About the author
Jessica Baldanzi is professor and chair of English at Goshen College in Goshen, Indiana, where she teaches comics and graphic novels, as well as American literature, media and popular culture, creative writing, critical theory, and composition. Her most recent publication is the essay collection
Ms. Marvel's America: No Normal, co-edited with Hussein Rashid, to which she also contributed the essay, "'I Would Rather Be a Cyborg: Both/And Technoculture and the New Ms. Marvel." Her comics review blog
Commons Comics helps promote comics for a general readership, and she has also written about comics pedagogy for the edited collection
Lessons Drawn, edited by David Seelow. Jessica also writes in multiple genres, including memoir, flash memoir, fiction, screenplay, and poetry.
Summary
This book examines the fictional female bodies of comics artists—Chris Ware, Emil Ferris, Ebony Flowers, and Tillie Walden—whose work has attracted significant attention. These bodies showcase how comics and its unique visual language can both critique and re-envision some of the most challenging social issues of our time.
