Pretty in Ink: Women Cartoonists (5pts)

 Interestingly, until when the underground comix movement began in the 70's, the content women created were very similar, just a bit more 'women-centric'. There was comedy, war stories, fantasy and super hero, most just revolved around women! Another significant distinction was a focus on comics about children or for children, which can also parallel the history of children's books themselves, as that was also started by women.  The interesting part is the divide that occurs during the underground comix movement. Both men and women focus on sex, but the divide happens as women also focus on women's rights, while men would end up going more absurdist. Finally, they show the 80s to present, not much to say that hasn't already been said in other comics I've discussed for the week, but if I would say anything, it felt like a perfect harmony between the two main differences I stated about the previous two comic generations: these comics revolved a female antagonist, but instead of focusing on the more subservient aspect of being a mother or wife, it focused in these characters being protagonists in their own right. I am a bit disappointed by the preface, as they said they would not include international works nor webcomics. I believe this book could have shortened each section slightly, and provided two new sections featuring both topics I felt like were missing, even if they were significantly shorter than the rest. In general, this book is a decent resource to learn about the beginning of women on comics to around the 2000's, if you want to strictly look at the American portion of history, which I heavily disagree as even the introduction states there are so many internationally made women's comics. 

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