# Feminist Cartoonist Book

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [April 2, 2003, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feminist-cartoonist-book/165904 "2003-04-02T05:14:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![The\_Collaborator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8e7dd6/32.png) [@The\_Collaborator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Collaborator)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feminist-cartoonist-book/165904/1 "2003-04-02T05:14:03Z")

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This guy I know was telling me about this book he saw on [Amazon.com](http://Amazon.com), published fairly recently, written by a feminist cartoonist about the cartooning industry. I love comic books and feminism, so I was pretty psyched, only I don’t know the author’s name. He told me it was Alison Bechdel (who does _Dykes to Watch Out For_) but I don’t think it is her. Amazon and Powells turn up only comic collections. I don’t really know the guy well enough to call him and ask about it, and I dunno when I’ll see him again.

Is anyone familiar with this title?

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**Author:** ![The\_Collaborator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8e7dd6/32.png) [@The\_Collaborator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Collaborator)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feminist-cartoonist-book/165904/2 "2003-04-02T05:16:24Z")

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And I’ve tried looking for just “Feminist+cartoonish+whatever” on google, but since I don’t know what I’m looking for, it’s not much help.

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**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 9:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feminist-cartoonist-book/165904/3 "2003-04-02T09:17:46Z")

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It might be _The Diary of a Teenage Girl: An Account in Words and Pictures_ by Phoebe Gloeckner, profiled in current and recent editions of [salon.com](http://salon.com). I don’t think it’s about the comics industry _per se_, but it’s been getting a lot of coverage recently.

You might also want to look into the _Twisted Sisters_ anthologies. Edited by Aline Kominsky-Crumb and Diane Noomin, these focus on the bad girl end of the feminist alt/underground comics spectrum (as opposed to the politcal end, represented by _Wimmin’s Comix_ regulars like Trina Robbins and Lee Marrs).