«Over 50 women cartoonists from vintage comic strips to cutting edge
graphic novels explore themes common to the female experience such as
love, sexuality, motherhood, creativity, discrimination, and
independence. 75 works drawn from the collection of the author and
herstorian Trina Robbins show a progression of witty women from the
Flapper era to the psychedelic women’s comix of the 1970s, including
original drawings from Nell Brinkley, Dale Messick, Tarpé Mills, and
Lily Renee. Women struggled for recognition in the male-dominated field
of newspaper comic strips and thrived with popular characters like the
Brinkley Girls, Flapper Fanny, Mopsy, and Brenda Starr. Women drew
adventure, superhero, and romance stories for comic books during World
War II, until the men came home and claimed their jobs. Women came back
to comics in the 1970s. Artists Ramona Fradon (DC) and Marie Severin
(Marvel) drew mainstream characters like Aquaman and Plastic Man, while
artists Trina Robbins, Barbara “Willy” Mendes, and Jewlie Goodvibes
created independent underground comix aimed specifically at female
readers. (…)». Saiba mais.
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