Books & Publications
Special issue Girls in Comics: Transmedia and Transnational Approaches to Girlhood for Girlhood Studies
Together with my colleagues Nicoletta Mandolini (Universidade do Minho) and Maya Quaianni Manuzzato (WOW Milan) I had the pleasure of co-editing a special issue on girls in comics for the Canadian journal Girlhood Studies. My contribution to this issue (17, 3) consists of a review of the German series Nika, Lotte, Mangold! by Thomas Wellmann (Rotopol). It is a series that not only unites German-speaking audiences but is also translated to numerous other European languages. You can find it here.
Many thanks to Thomas Wellmann, to Ann Smith and to Nico and Maya!
Sugar, Spice, and the Not So Nice Download the Open Access Volume here.
Sugar, Spice, and the Not So Nice offers an innovative, wide-ranging and geographically diverse book-length treatment of girlhood in comics. The various contributing authors and artists provide novel insights into established themes within comics studies, children’s comics, graphic medicine and comics by and about refugees and marginalised ethnic or cultural groups. The book enriches traditional historical, narratological and aesthetic approaches to studying girlhood in comics with practice-based research, discussion and conversation. This re-examination of girls, gender and identity in comics connects with contemporary discourse on gender identity politics. Through examples from both within Europe, the anglophone world and beyond, and including visual essays alongside critical theory, the volume furthermore engages with new developments in contemporary comics scholarship. It will therefore appeal to students and scholars of childhood studies, comics scholars and creators, and those interested in addressing gender identity through the prism of comics.
Contributors: Mel Gibson (Northumbria University), Martha Newbigging (Seneca College), María Porras Sánchez (Complutense University of Madrid), JoAnn Purcell (York University and Seneca College), Benoît Glaude (Ghent University/University of Louvain), Sylvain Lesage (University of Lille), Joan Ormrod (Manchester Metropolitan University), Aswathy Senan (The Research Collective Delhi), Michel De Dobbeleer (Ghent University), Sébastien Conard (KASK Ghent School of Arts and LUCA Brussels), Marine Berthiot (University of Edinburgh), Julia Round (Bournemouth University)