Publication

2016 - Fantagraphics Books, Washington (State)

Language

English

Word Count

176,000 words, Guess

Page Count

704 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139781606998984
  • ISBN-101606998986
  • Library of Congress Control Number2015943981
  • OCLC Control Number904036722
  • Better World Books9781606998984
and 1 more

Classifications

  • DDC741.5 qC737 2016
  • LCCPN6720 .C665 2016
  • LCCPN6728.W588C66 2016
and 1 more
  • LCCPN6728.W58786 W56 2016

Alternate Titles

  • Wimmen's comix.

Description

In the late '60s, underground comix changed the way comics readers saw the medium -- but there was an important pronoun missing from the revolution. In 1972, ten women cartoonists got together in San Francisco to rectify the situation and produce the first and longest-lasting all-woman comics anthology, Wimmen's Comix. Within two years the Wimmen's Comix Collective had introduced cartoonists like Roberta Gregory and Melinda Gebbie to the comics-reading public, and would go on to publish some of the most talented women cartoonists in America -- Carol Tyler, Mary Fleener, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, Dori Seda, Phoebe Gloeckner, and many others. In its twenty-year run, the women of Wimmen's tackled subjects the guys wouldn't touch with a ten-foot pole: abortion, menstruation, masturbation, castration, lesbians, witches, murderesses, and feminists. Includes the ground-breaking 1970 one-shot, It Ain't Me, Babe, the very first all-woman comic book ever published.

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