Comic Books and Graphic Novels
Provides useful information about comic books and graphic novels as topics of academic research at the University of Michigan.
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Articles and Criticism
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Today's Feminist Comics: Why I Don't Relateby Monica Johnson, The Comics Journal (March 3, 2016).
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Feminism and Comics [Special Section]Feminist Media Studies Vol. 15, Issue 3 (2015).
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The Hawkeye Initiative: Pinning Down Transformative Feminisms in Comic-Book Culture through Superhero Crossplay Fan Artby Suzanne Scott, Cinema Journal Vol. 55, Issue 1 (2015).
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The Saga of the Swamp Thing: Feminism and Race on the Comic Book Standby Megan Condis, ImageTexT: Interdisciplinary Comics Studies Vol. 5, Issue 4 (2011).
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Graphic Novel Histories: Women’s Organized Resistance to Slum Clearance in Crossroads, South Africa, 1975–2015by Koni Benson, African Studies Review Vol. 59, Number 1 (April 2016).
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(Not) Lost in the Margins: Gender and Identity in Graphic Textsby Marjorie C. Allison, Mosaic: a journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature Vol. 47, Issue 4 (2104).
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Critiques of Gender Ideology: Women comic artists and their work in Hong Kongby Wendy Siuyi Wong and Lisa M. Cuklanz, Journal of Gender Studies Vol. 11, Issue 3 (2002).
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Reading Wonder Woman's Body: Mythologies of Gender and Nationby Mitra C. Emad, The Journal of Popular Culture Vol. 39, Issue 6 (2006).
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Girlhood in the Gutter: Feminist Graphic Knowledge and the Visualization of Sexual Precarityby Elizabeth Marshall and Leigh Gilmore, Women's Studies Quarterly Vol. 43 Issue 1-2 (2015)
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Beyond Persepolis: a bibliographic essay on graphic novels and comics by womenby Liorah Golomb, Collection Building Vol. 32, Issue 1 (2013).
Comics and Graphic Novels to Start With
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Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists by Mikki Kendall; Anna D'Amico
Call Number: PN 6727 .K462 A42 2019ISBN: 9780399581793Publication Date: 2019 -
Choices : a pro-choice benefit comic anthology for the National Organization for Women
by
Trina Robbins (Editor)
Call Number: PN 6720 .C496 1990Publication Date: 1990 -
The Complete Wimmen's Comix
by
Trina Robbins
Call Number: PN 6720 .W55 2016ISBN: 9781606998984Publication Date: 2016-03-07 -
Drawing Power by Diane Noomin (Editor)
Call Number: PN 6720 .D715 2019ISBN: 9781419736193Publication Date: 2019 -
Drawing the line : Indian women fight back!
Call Number: PN 6720 .D72 2015ISBN: 9780994050717Publication Date: 2015 -
The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel
Call Number: PN 6728 .D94 B475 2008ISBN: 9780618968800Publication Date: 2008-11-12 -
Feminist Fables for the Twenty-First Century by Maureen Burdock
Call Number: PN 6720 .F46 2015ISBN: 9780786474233Publication Date: 2015-07-08 -
Hunna
by
Līnā Mirhij
Call Number: PN 6790 .L43 M57 H8613 2019ISBN: 9789953047829Publication Date: 2019 -
Sally Heathcoate, Suffragette by Mary M. Talbot; Kate Charlesworth (Illustrator); Bryan Talbot (Illustrator)
Call Number: PN 6737 .T36 S35 2014ISBN: 9781616555474Publication Date: 2014-10-07 -
Woman Rebel: The Margaret Sanger Story by Peter Bagge
Call Number: PN 6727 .B3 W66 2013ISBN: 9781770461260Publication Date: 2013-10-15
Books About Feminism, Women, and Gender in Comics
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The Big Feminist But: Comics about Women, Men and the IFS, ANDS, & BUTS of Feminism by Shannon O'Leary (Editor)
Call Number: PN 6720 .B54 2014ISBN: 0615789382Publication Date: 2014-05-13 -
Black Women in Sequence: Re-inking Comics, Graphic Novels, and Anime by Deborah Elizabeth Whaley
Call Number: PN6725 .W48 2016ISBN: 9780295994963Publication Date: 2015-11-01 -
Cartooning for Suffrage
by
Alice Sheppard
Call Number: PN 6714 .S485 1993ISBN: 0826314589Publication Date: 1994-01-01 -
Chicks Dig Comics: A Celebration of Comic Books by the Women Who Love Them by Lynne M. Thomas; Sigrid Ellis
Call Number: PN 6710 .C45 2012ISBN: 9781935234050Publication Date: 2012-04-10 -
From Girls to Grrrlz: A History of [Women's] Comics from Teens to Zines by Trina Robbins
Call Number: PN 6725 .R581 1999ISBN: 0811821994Publication Date: 1999-04-01 -
Graphic Women by Hillary L. Chute
Call Number: PN 6714 .C49 2010ISBN: 9780231150637Publication Date: 2010 -
Heroines of Comic Books and Literature by Maja Bajac-Carter (Editor)
Call Number: PN56.5 .W64 H55 2014ISBN: 9781442231474Publication Date: 2014-03-14 -
How Come Boys Get to Keep Their Noses? Women and Jewish American Identity in Contemporary Graphic Memoirs by Tahneer Oksman
Call Number: PN6714 .O38 2016ISBN: 9780231172745Publication Date: 2016-02-16 -
Out of Sequence: Underrepresented Voices in American Comics by Damian Duffy; John Jennings
Call Number: PN6725 .D77 2008ISBN: 1883015421Publication Date: 2009-06-01 -
Straight from the Heart: Gender, Intimacy, and the Cultural Production of Shojo Manga by Jennifer Sally Prough
Call Number: PN6790.J3 P76 2011ISBN: 9780824834579Publication Date: 2011-03-01 -
Wonder Women: Feminisms and Superheroes by Lillian S. Robinson
Call Number: PN 6725 .R641 2004ISBN: 0415966310Publication Date: 2004-04-09
Last Updated: Nov 25, 2025 2:36 PM
Subjects: Arts, Humanities
Tags: comics