Inhaltliche Zusammenfassung: | General introduction --Chapter 1. Queer in common: section introduction /Alison Halsall and Jonathan Warren --Chapter 2. "Rude girls and dangerous women": lesbian comics from the 1990s /Michelle Ann Abate --Chapter 3. Condoms not coffins: 1980s-1990s American AIDS comics as collective memory /Tesla Cariani --Chapter 4. Of anthologies and activisim: building an LGBTQ+ comics community /Margaret Galvan --Chapter 5. Desire without end: on the queer imagination of sequential art /Alison Halsall and Jonathan Warren in coversation with Ramzi Fawaz --Chapter 6. Global crossings and intersections: section introduction /Alison Halsall and Jonathan Warren --Chapter 7. Queer visualities - queer spaces: German-language LGBTQ+ comics /Susanne Hochreiter, Marina Rauchenbacher, and Katharina Serles --Chapter 8. XX,XY, and XXY: genderqueer bodies in Hagio Moto'science fiction manga /Keiko Miyajima --Chapter 9. An exploration of the birth of the slave through ero-pedagogy in Tagame Gengoroh's PRIDE /William S. Armour --Chapter 10. Fanzines as contact zones: Dokkun's adventures with "Bara" manga in between Japan and France /Edmond (Edo) Ernest Dit Alban --Chapter 11: Resiliance: section introduction /Alison Halsall and Jonathan Warren --Chapter 12: Critics and creators: the LGBTQ+ comics ecosytem /Hillary Chute in conversation with Justin Hall --Chapter 13. Activism and solidarity in the comics of Howard Cruse /Matthew Cheney --Chapter 14: Canadian LGBTQ+ comics: intersections of queerness, race, and spirituality /Alison Halsall --Chapter 15. BLK cartoons: Black lesbian identity in comics /Sheena C. Howard --Chapter 16. Goldie Vance: queer girl detective /Lara Hedberg and Rebecca Hutton --Chapter 17. Reproduction of artwork /Alison Bechdel --Chapter 18. Seen/scene: section introduction /Alison Halsall and Jonathan Warren --Chapter 19. Reading comics queerly /Jonathan Warren --Chapter 20. "Better a man than dead?": radical (trans)masculinities in comic-zines /Remus Jackson -- Chapter 21. Comics, community, and kickass women /Alison Halsall and Jonathan Warren in conversation with Jennifer Camper --Chapter 22. Conceiving the inconceivable: graphic medicine, queer motherhood, and A.K. Summers's Pregnant Butch: nine long months spent in drag /Sathyaraj Venkatesan and Chinmay Murali -- Chapter 23. Pixel fantasies and futures: narrative "do-othering" in queer webcomics /Lin Young --About the contributors --Index.
"The LGBTQ Comics Studies Reader explores the exemplary trove of LGBTQ comics that coalesced in the underground and alternative comix scenes of the mid-1960s and in the decades after. Through insightful essays and interviews with leading comics figures, volume contributors illuminate the critical opportunities, current interactions, and future directions of these comics. This heavily illustrated volume engages with the work of preeminent artists across the globe, such as Howard Cruse, Edie Fake, Justin Hall, Jennifer Camper, and Alison Bechdel, whose iconic artwork is reproduced within the volume. Further, it addresses and questions the possibilities of LGBTQ comics from various scholarly positions and multiple geographical vantages, covering a range of queer lived experience. Along the way, certain LGBTQ touchstones emerge organically and inevitably-pride, coming out, chosen families, sexual health, gender, risk, and liberation. Featuring comics figures across the gamut of the industry, from renowned scholars to emerging creators and webcomics artists, the reader explores a range of approaches to LGBTQ comics-queer history, gender and sexuality theory, memory studies, graphic medicine, genre studies, biography, and more-and speaks to the diversity of publishing forms and media that shape queer comics and their reading communities. Chapters trace the connections of LGBTQ comics from the panel, strip, comic book, graphic novel, anthology, and graphic memoir to their queer readership, the LGBTQ history they make visible, the often still quite fragile LGBTQ distribution networks, the coded queer intelligence they deploy, and the community-sustaining energy and optimism they conjure. Above all, The LGBTQ Comics Studies Reader highlights the efficacy of LGBTQ comics as a kind of common ground for creators and readers"-- |
