For many years, the world of cartoons and comics was seen as a male
preserve. The reality is that women have been drawing and
publishing cartoons for longer than most people realise. In the
early 1760s, Mary Darly illustrated, wrote and published the first
book on caricature drawing published in England, A Book of
Caricaturas. In the nineteenth century, Britain's first comic
character, Ally Sloper, was developed by the actress and cartoonist
Marie Duval (1847-1890). Cartoons were used by the suffragettes,
and, during the Great War, artists such as Flora White and Agnes
Richardson produced light-hearted propaganda comic postcards.; From
the 1920s, a few women cartoonists began to appear regularly in
newspapers. The practice was for artists to sign with their
surname, so most readers were unaware of the cartoonist's gender.
In 1920, Mary Tourtel created Rupert Bear for the Daily Express,
and nearly a hundred years later her character is still going
strong. From the 1960s, feminism inspired cartoonists to question
the roles assigned to them and address subjects such as patriarchy,
equal rights, sexuality and child rearing, previously unseen in
cartoons. Over the last thirty years, women have come increasingly
to the fore in comics, zines and particularly graphic novels; This
wide-ranging curation of women's comics work includes prints,
caricatures, joke, editorial and strip cartoons, postcards, comics,
zines, graphic novels and digital comics, covering all genres and
topics. It addresses inclusion of art by women of underrepresented
backgrounds. Based on an exhibition of the same name, held at the
Cartoon Museum in 2017, this book demonstrates that women have
always had a wicked sense of humour and a perceptive view of the
world.
General
Imprint: |
Myriad Editions
|
Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
March 2018 |
Editors: |
Nicola Streeten
• Cath Tate
|
Dimensions: |
270 x 210 x 16mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
|
Pages: |
144 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-9955900-8-3 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General
|
LSN: |
0-9955900-8-7 |
Barcode: |
9780995590083 |
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