A History of Women Cartoonists

by Mira Falardeau

Overview

In this volume, Mira Falardeau looks at the work of great women artists and their experiences in the industry to reveal advice and positive encouragement for future cartoonists. Heavily illustrated with cartoons and artwork from many of the best in the field, the book also asks serious questions about why there have been so few women cartoonists in the field of visual humor and if the digital age is opening more opportunities for female humorists. Falardeau is uniquely positioned to ask these questions. She has spent decades as an art historian, a specialist in visual humor, and the author of several books and essays on cartoonists and their history. She was also a former cartoonist herself—among the first generation of women in her field during the 1970s and 1980s. A History of Women Cartoonists is the first book to offer a truly global survey and analysis of the great women cartoonists of the last three decades—and a welcome addition to the history of comics and cartoons.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781771613521
Publisher:	Mosaic Press
Publication date:	08/01/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	298
File size:	10 MB

About the Author

Mira Falardeau is well known cartoonist and academic who has had her comic strips published in Châtelaine, Perspectives, Canadian Women Studies, La Vie en rose and Recherches Féministes. Her drawings were exhibited in Art and Feminism (Contemporary Art Museum, Montreal, 1981), Pork Roasts. 250 Feminist Cartoons (Vancouver, 1981), Women Cartoonists (Cartoonist Guild, New York, 1982), Radical Humor (New York University, 1983) and The Voice of Images, Feminists cartoons (Powerhouse Gallery, Montreal, 2017). She is the author of several books on the history of cartoonists, animators and political cartoonists in French and has served as a guest curator for several exhibitions at Le Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec in Quebec City and the National Library of Quebec in Montreal. Falardeau has taught “Visual Humor” and “Scriptwriting for Cartoons and Comics” at the Laval University in Quebec City and later taught at the University of Ottawa and in the Department of Cinema and Communication in the Cegep of Limoilou from 1997 to 2005. Mira lives in Quebec City. Mira Falardeau is well known cartoonist and academic who has widely exhibited her work and authored several books on the history of cartoonists and animators. Falardeau has taught Visual Humor and Scriptwriting for Cartoons and Comics at the Laval University in Quebec City. She later taught at the University of Ottawa and in the Department of Cinema and Communication in the Cegep of Limoilou. She lives in Quebec City.

Table of Contents

Foreword 17

Introduction 21

American Women Cartoonists 27

History 28

Comics 29

Beginnings 29

Backlash 33

The Wimmen's Comix 34

Revival 37

Animation Films 42

Political Cartoons 45

Web 47

Portraits of American Women Cartoonists 51

Rose Cecil O'Neill 52

Edwina Dumm 53

Mary Ellen Bute 55

Trina Robbins 57

Nicole Hollander 60

Shary Flenniken 62

Signe Wilkinson 64

Mary Fleener 66

Debbie Drechsler 68

Roberta Gregory 70

Liza Donnelly 73

Lynda Barry 76

Victoria Roberts 79

Ann Telnaes 81

Nina Paley 83

Canadian Women Cartoonists 87

History 88

English Canadians: Political Cartoons and Comics 89

The Beginnings 89

The World of Comics 91

The Young Artists 92

Quebeckers: Comics and Cartoons 95

The Beginnings 95

"BDQ" 97

The New Wave 101

Canadian Animation Cinema 104

Portraits of Canadian Women Cartoonists 107

Evelyn Lambart 108

Caroline Leaf 111

Lynn Johnston 114

Sue Dewar 117

Janet L. Hetherington 119

Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis 121

Kate Beaton 123

Francine Desbiens 126

Suzanne Gervais 128

Michèle Cournoyer 130

Andrée Brochu 132

Joyce Borenstein 134

Janet Perlman 137

Line Arsenault 140

Obom (Diane Obomsawin) 142

Martine Chartrand 145

Julie Doucet 147

Zviane (Sylvie-Anne Ménard) 150

French, Belgian and Swiss Women Cartoonists 153

French History 154

Comics 154

The Beginnings 154

Growth 157

Ah! Nana Magazine 157

Expansion 159

Our Time 163

Young Artists 167

Political Cartoons 172

Animation Films 173

Swiss History 175

Belgian History 177

Comics 177

Political Cartoons and Animation Films 181

Portraits of French, Belgian and Swiss Women Cartoonists 183

Claire Bretécher 184

Nicole Van Goethem 188

Chantal Montellier 190

Florence Cestac 194

Françoise Ménager 197

Catherine Beaunez 199

Cécile Bertrand 201

Jeanne Puchol 203

Bénédicte Sambo 205

Lisa Mandel 207

Pénélope Bagieu 209

Middle Eastern and Maghrebis Women Cartoonists 211

Context 212

Portraits of Middle Eastern and Maghrebis Women Cartoonists 217

Ramize Erer 218

Marjane Satrapi 220

Firoozeh Mozaffari 222

Willis from Tunis alias Nadia Khiari 224

Riham El-Hour 226

Zeina Abirached 228

Three Examples of Positive Action 231

The New Yorker 232

The National Film Board of Canada 234

Cartooning for Peace 236

Women and Stereotypes 239

Women Confronting Their Image 240

Stereotypes About Women 242

Women and Humorous Languages 244

Synthesis 249

To be a Woman in the Circles of Political Cartooning, Comics and Animation Films 250

Feminist Cartooning 255

Women's Humorous Languages 257

Women's Themes 259

Committed Women 262

Conclusion 265

Annexe 1: Data 271

Bibliography 279

Books 280

Articles, Reviews and Thesis 281

Selected Bibliography of English Comic Books, Comics Albums and Cartoons Collections Quoted 283

Index of Artists 287

Author's Bio 298