Comic Book Women

Characters, Creators, and Culture in the Golden Age

By: Peyton Brunet, Blair Davis, Trina Robbins - foreword

Narrated by: C.S.E. Cooney

Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins

Publisher's summary

The history of comics has centered almost exclusively on men. Comics historians largely describe the medium as one built by men telling tales about male protagonists, neglecting the many ways in which women fought for legitimacy on the page and in publishers' studios. Despite this male-dominated focus, women played vital roles in the early history of comics. The story of how comic books were born and how they evolved changes dramatically when women like June Tarpe Mills and Lily Renee are placed at the center rather than at the margins of this history, and when characters such as the Black Cat, Patsy Walker, and Señorita Rio are analyzed.

Comic Book Women offers a feminist history of the golden age of comics, revising our understanding of how numerous genres emerged and upending narratives of how male auteurs built their careers. Considering issues of race, gender, and sexuality, the authors examine crime, horror, jungle, romance, science fiction, superhero, and Western comics to unpack the cultural and industrial consequences of how women were represented across a wide range of titles by publishers like DC, Timely, Fiction House, and others. This revisionist history reclaims the forgotten work done by women in the comics industry and reinserts female creators and characters into the canon of comics history.

©2022 The University of Texas Press (P)2022 Tantor

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I am such a lover of comic book history but this was really hard to follow. There were so many great female comic creators to follow the writing jumps all over rhe place so fast its hard to follow. it's also just really sad and an u happy work of putting down some great characters
I have heard other stores from female creators and they didn't have as many sad stories as this book really focused on the negative more than the positive.