Michelle Ann Abate is Professor of Literature for children and young adults at The Ohio State University. Karly Marie Grice is Assistant Professor of English Education at the University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire. Christine N. Stamper is independent scholar based in Michigan.

• IntroductionMichelle Ann Abate, Karly Marie Grice and Christine N. Stamper1. Lovers, enemies, and friends: The complex and coded early history of lesbian comic strip charactersCaitlin McGurk2. A regressive formula of perversity: Wertham and the women of comicsCarol L. Tilley3. Making space: Jennifer Camper, LGBTQ anthologies, and queer comics communitiesMargaret Galvan4. Representations of same-sex relationships between female characters in all-ages comics: Princess Princess Ever After and LumberjanesErica Gillingham5. Situating Cyberzone: Black lesbian identity in comicsSheena C. Howard6. Survival angst: Reading Hothead Paisan in the Trump eraCynthia Barounis7. "There is no such thing as a straight woman": Queer female representations in South Asian graphic narrativesPoushali Bhadury8. PoC, LGBTQ, and gender: The intersectionality of America ChavezLaura M. Jiménez

Michelle Ann Abate is Professor of Literature for children and young adults at The Ohio State University. Karly Marie Grice is Assistant Professor of English Education at the University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire. Christine N. Stamper is independent scholar based in Michigan.

• IntroductionMichelle Ann Abate, Karly Marie Grice and Christine N. Stamper1. Lovers, enemies, and friends: The complex and coded early history of lesbian comic strip charactersCaitlin McGurk2. A regressive formula of perversity: Wertham and the women of comicsCarol L. Tilley3. Making space: Jennifer Camper, LGBTQ anthologies, and queer comics communitiesMargaret Galvan4. Representations of same-sex relationships between female characters in all-ages comics: Princess Princess Ever After and LumberjanesErica Gillingham5. Situating Cyberzone: Black lesbian identity in comicsSheena C. Howard6. Survival angst: Reading Hothead Paisan in the Trump eraCynthia Barounis7. "There is no such thing as a straight woman": Queer female representations in South Asian graphic narrativesPoushali Bhadury8. PoC, LGBTQ, and gender: The intersectionality of America ChavezLaura M. Jiménez

Michelle Ann Abate is Professor of Literature for children and young adults at The Ohio State University. Karly Marie Grice is Assistant Professor of English Education at the University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire. Christine N. Stamper is independent scholar based in Michigan.

• IntroductionMichelle Ann Abate, Karly Marie Grice and Christine N. Stamper1. Lovers, enemies, and friends: The complex and coded early history of lesbian comic strip charactersCaitlin McGurk2. A regressive formula of perversity: Wertham and the women of comicsCarol L. Tilley3. Making space: Jennifer Camper, LGBTQ anthologies, and queer comics communitiesMargaret Galvan4. Representations of same-sex relationships between female characters in all-ages comics: Princess Princess Ever After and LumberjanesErica Gillingham5. Situating Cyberzone: Black lesbian identity in comicsSheena C. Howard6. Survival angst: Reading Hothead Paisan in the Trump eraCynthia Barounis7. "There is no such thing as a straight woman": Queer female representations in South Asian graphic narrativesPoushali Bhadury8. PoC, LGBTQ, and gender: The intersectionality of America ChavezLaura M. Jiménez