Comics have been an important locus of queer female identity,
community, and politics for generations. Whether taking the form of
newspaper strips, comic books, or graphic novels and memoirs, the
medium has a long history of featuring female same-sex attraction,
relationships, and identity. This book explores the past place,
current presence, and possible future status of lesbianism in
comics. What role has the medium played in the cultural
construction, social (and literal) visibility, and political
advocacy of same-sex female attraction and identity? Likewise, how
have these features changed over time? How have nonheteronormative
female characters been raced, classed, and gendered? What is the
relationship between lesbian comics and queer comics? What role has
the medium played in establishing the distinction between lesbian
and queer female identity as well as blurring, reinforcing, or
policing it? What roles have queer female comics, characters, and
cartoonists played in the origins, history, and evolution of
sequential art as a genre? The essays in this book inspire an
engagement with these and other questions as well as provide an
exploration of possible answers. They provide a compelling
examination of a variety of important titles, characters, creators,
topics, themes, and issues. The chapters in this book were
originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Lesbian
Studies.
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