List of feminist comic books
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This is a list of feminist comic books and graphic novels.[1]
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- A-Force by G. Willow Wilson, Marguerite Bennet, and Jorge Molina. A Marvel Comics series about an all-female team of Avengers.[2]
- Anya's Ghost by Vera Brosgol. Graphic novel about a teen Russian immigrant girl who befriends a dangerous ghost.[3]
B
- The Ballad of Halo Jones by Alan Moore and Ian Gibson.[4]
- Batwoman: Elegy by Greg Rucka and J. H. Williams III.[3] DC Comics graphic novel, originally serialized in Detective Comics. A lesbian super-heroine faces a murderous super-villainess.
- Bitch Planet by Kelly Sue DeConnick and Valentine De Landro. Image Comics comic book series about a prison planet for "non-compliant" women.[5][6]
- Black Orchid by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean[7]
- Blue Sky by Murasaki Yamada. Serial that depicts the economic struggles of a woman after divorce and the societal criticism she must ignore when she later lives with a younger man.[8]
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer[9]
C
- Captain Marvel by Kelly Sue DeConnick and Dexter Soy. The Marvel Comics superheroine was renamed from Ms. Marvel, replaced her one-piece swimsuit style uniform with a more practical flight suit, and became the source of her own powers, emphasizing self-sufficiency.[3][10]
- Castle Waiting, by Linda Medley. Fantagraphics. Medieval fantasy series about a pregnant woman who takes refuge in a castle with fairy tale characters.[11][12]
D
- Death: The High Cost of Living by Neil Gaiman, Chris Bachalo, and Mark Buckingham. Vertigo Comics miniseries about a female Death taking temporary human form.[3][14]:19–20
- Dirty Plotte by Julie Doucet[15]
- Duster (Graphic Novel) by Jay Lender and Micah Ian Wright
- Dykes to Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel[16]
F
G
H
- Hark! A Vagrant by Kate Beaton. Comic strip parodying sexism in classic literature.[3]
Hothead Paisan by Diane DiMassa
I
- I Kill Giants by Joe Kelly and artist J. M. Ken Niimura. An anti-social fifth grade girl retreats into a fantasy world where she kills giants with a hammer.[3]
- It Aint Me Babe (1970). Contributors included Trina Robbins, Meredith Kurtzman, Barbara Mendez, Michele Brand, Lisa Lyons, Hurricane Nancy Kalish, and the monomynous "Carol"[19][20][21]
L
- Lazarus by Greg Rucka and Michael Lark.[3]
- Love and Rockets by Gilbert, Jaime, and Mario Hernandez.[3]
- Lumberjanes by Grace Ellis and Shannon Watters. Boom! Studios series about five teenage girls adventuring at summer camp.[3][22]
M
- The Maxx by Sam Kieth.[3][23] Image Comics series. A freelance social worker deals with her pain by retreating into a fantastic alternate reality where she is protected by the monstrous titular hero.
- Ms. Marvel (Carol Danvers)[24]
- Ms. Marvel (Kamala Khan) by G. Willow Wilson and Adrian Alphona.[25][26]
N
O
- Ōoku: The Inner Chambers by Fumi Yoshinaga. Manga serialized in Melody magazine, about an alternate history medieval Japan in which an unknown disease kills most of the male population, making a matriarchal society with a harem of men serving the female shogun.[29]
P
- La Perdida by Jessica Abel. Pantheon Books series about a young American woman in Mexico.[30][31]
- Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi. Autobiographical graphic novel about a woman growing up in 1980-1995 Iran.[3][32]
- Pretty Deadly by Kelly Sue DeConnick and Emma Ríos.[3]
- Princeless by Jeremy Whitley and M. Goodwin[3][33] Action Lab Comics series. A young black princess rescues herself and her five sisters.
- Priya's Shakti[34][35][36]
R
- Rat Queens by Kurtis J. Wiebe and Roc Upchurch.[3][37] Image Comics series. Four free-spirited female adventurers in a D&D-inspired fantasy setting.
- Red Sonja by Gail Simone. Dynamite Entertainment comic book series reimagining the fantasy swordswoman.[3]
S
- Saga by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples. Space opera series by Image Comics, about a husband and wife from opposing extraterrestrial races, trying to care for their newborn daughter in the midst of war.[3][38]
- Sailor Moon[9][39][40]
- Sally Heathcote: Suffragette by Mary M. Talbot, Kate Charlesworth and Bryan Talbot.[citation needed]
- Sex Criminals by Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky. Image Comics series. A woman can stop time when she has an orgasm.[3]
- Shakmagia (Jewelry Box in English), a feminist Egyptian magazine, collecting political comics stories by different authors.[41]
- She-Hulk. Marvel Comics series about a female lawyer that gains green skin and super strength, that, depending on the writer, varies between a male fantasy, and a witty swashbuckler.[3][42]
- Shin Kilali by Murasaki Yamada. A semi-autobiographical story in which the protagonist, a mother of two whose marriage of ten years is slowly failing, eventually decides to find a job despite protest from her husband.[8]
- Suffrajitsu: Mrs. Pankhurst's Amazons by Tony Wolf with art by Joao Vieira. A Jet City Comics trilogy about the adventures of a secret society of martial arts-trained women, known as the "Amazons", who serve as bodyguards and field agents for the leaders of the radical women's suffrage movement in England during early 1914.[43]
T
- Tamara Drewe by Posy Simmonds[44][45]
- Tank Girl by Jamie Hewlett and Alan Martin.[46]
- This One Summer by Mariko and Jillian Tamaki[3][47]
- Tits & Clits Comix[21]
- Twisted Sisters by Aline Kominsky-Crumb and Diane Noomin[48]
U
W
- Wimmin's Comix[49]
- Wonder Woman, DC Comics series. Iconic superheroine, originally symbolizing the 1940s liberated woman.[9][50][51][52]
See also
- List of award-winning graphic novels
- List of comic books
- List of female comics creators
- List of feminist literature
- List of women's presses
- Portrayal of women in comics
- Zubaan Books
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- AMC (2004). "Feminism," in Gina Renée Misiroglu, David A. Roach (eds.), The Superhero Book: The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Comic-book Icons and Hollywood Heroes, Visible Ink Press, pp. 212–215.
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- Robbins, Trina (2010). "Feminism," in M. Keith Booker (ed.), Encyclopedia of Comic Books and Graphic Novels, ABC-CLIO, pp. 212–218.
- Scott, Suzanne (2013). "Fangirls in refrigerators: The politics of (in)visibility in comic book culture", Transformative Works and Cultures, 13.
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- ↑ Burns, Kate (2003). "Cartoons and comic books," in George Haggerty, Bonnie Zimmerman (eds.), Encyclopedia of Lesbian and Gay Histories and Cultures, Taylor & Francis, p. 149.
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