The LGBTQ+ Comics Studies Reader
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The LGBTQ+ Comics Studies Reader

Critical Openings, Future DirectionsBy Unknown AuthorNarrated by Tina Woods
Length12h 44m

About this audiobook

Contributions by Michelle Ann Abate, William S. Armour, Alison Bechdel, Jennifer Camper, Tesla Cariani, Matthew Cheney, Hillary Chute, Edmond (Edo) Ernest dit Alban, Ramzi Fawaz, Margaret Galvan, Justin Hall, Alison Halsall, Lara Hedberg, Susanne Hochreiter, Sheena C. Howard, Rebecca Hutton, remus jackson, Keiko Miyajima, Chinmay Murali, Marina Rauchenbacher, Katharina Serles, Sathyaraj Venkatesan, Jonathan Warren, and Lin Young The LGBTQ+ Comics Studies Reader explores the exemplary trove of LGBTQ+ comics that coalesced in the underground and alternative comix scenes of the mid-1960s and in the decades after. Through insightful essays and interviews with leading comics figures, volume contributors illuminate the critical opportunities, current interactions, and future directions of these comics. Brought to audio through new AI narrative technology, this volume engages with the work of preeminent artists across the globe, such as Howard Cruse, Edie Fake, Justin Hall, Jennifer Camper, and Alison Bechdel. Further, it addresses and questions the possibilities of LGBTQ+ comics from various scholarly positions and multiple geographical vantages, covering a range of queer lived experience. Along the way, certain LGBTQ+ touchstones emerge organically and inevitably—pride, coming out, chosen families, sexual health, gender, risk, and liberation. Featuring comics figures across the gamut of the industry, from renowned scholars to emerging creators and webcomics artists, the reader explores a range of approaches to LGBTQ+ comics—queer history, gender and sexuality theory, memory studies, graphic medicine, genre studies, biography, and more—and speaks to the diversity of publishing forms and media that shape queer comics and their reading communities. Chapters trace the connections of LGBTQ+ comics from the panel, strip, comic book, graphic novel, anthology, and graphic memoir to their queer readership, the LGBTQ+ history they make visible, the often still quite fragile LGBTQ+ distribution networks, the coded queer intelligence they deploy, and the community-sustaining energy and optimism they conjure. Above all, The LGBTQ+ Comics Studies Reader highlights the efficacy of LGBTQ+ comics as a kind of common ground for creators and readers.

Audiobook details

GenreLiterary Classics, Psychology
Length12 hrs 44 mins
Narrated byTina Woods
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateNov 15, 2022
LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1Opening Credits
14Chapter 12. Critics and Creators: The LGBTQ+ Comics Ecosystem
2General Introduction
15Chapter 13. Activism and Solidarity in the Comics of Howard Cruse
3Chapter 1. Queer in Common: Section Introduction
16Chapter 14. Canadian LGBTQ+ Comics: Intersections of Queerness, Race, and Spirituality
4Chapter 2. "Rude Girls and Dangerous Women": Lesbian Comics from the 1990s
17Chapter 15. BLK Cartoons: Black Lesbian Identity in Comics
5Chapter 3. Condoms not Coffins: 1980s–1990s American AIDS Comics as Collective Memory
18Chapter 16. Goldie Vance: Queer Girl Detective
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6Chapter 4. Of Anthologies and Activism: Building an LGBTQ+ Comics Community
19Chapter 17. Reproduction of Artwork by Alison Bechdel
7Chapter 5. Desire Without End: On the Queer Imagination of Sequential Art
20Chapter 18. Seen/Scene: Section Introduction
8Chapter 6. Global Crossings and Intersections: Section Introduction
21Chapter 19. Reading Comics Queerly
9Chapter 7. Queer Visualities—Queer Spaces: German-Language LGBTQ+ Comics
22Chapter 20. "Better a Man than Dead?": Radical (Trans)masculinities in Comic-Zines
10Chapter 8. XX, XY, and XXY: Genderqueer Bodies in Hagio Moto's Science Fiction Manga
23Chapter 21. Comics, Community, and Kickass Women
11Chapter 9. An Exploration of the Birth of the Slave through Ero-Pedagogy in Tagame Gengoroh's PRIDE
24Chapter 22. Conceiving the Inconceivable: Graphic Medicine, Queer Motherhood, and A. K. Summers's Pregnant Butch: Nine Long Months Spent in Drag
12Chapter 10. Gay Fanzines as Contact Zones: Dokkun's Adventures with "Bara" Manga in between Japan and France
25Chapter 23. Pixel Fantasies and Futures: Narrative "De-Othering" in Queer Webcomics
13Chapter 11. Resilience: Section Introduction
26Closing Credits

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