Hélène Tison is associate professor in the English department at the University of Tours in France. After a doctoral dissertation on the crime fiction of Chester Himes, she turned to the study of comics and graphic narratives. In 2007, she organized the first academic conference with and about Alison Bechdel after the publication of her graphic memoir Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic.

"In this illuminating book, Hélène Tison looks at the work of various US women cartoonists from the 1970s to the present. Tison examines individual talents, but also turns her lens on these artists’ collective contribution to the evolving medium of comics, and to the ongoing conversations about the politics of gender. An indispensable guide to anyone seriously interested in comics." Alison Bechdel, author of The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For and Fun Home

• List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1. Down with the patriarchy!; Chapter 2. Not entertainment: ageing, illness and abuse; Chapter 3. Memoirs and dysfunctional diaries; Chapter 4. Full color; Chapter 5. Queer power!; Chapter 6. Mirror of the world; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

Hélène Tison is associate professor in the English department at the University of Tours in France. After a doctoral dissertation on the crime fiction of Chester Himes, she turned to the study of comics and graphic narratives. In 2007, she organized the first academic conference with and about Alison Bechdel after the publication of her graphic memoir Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic.

"In this illuminating book, Hélène Tison looks at the work of various US women cartoonists from the 1970s to the present. Tison examines individual talents, but also turns her lens on these artists’ collective contribution to the evolving medium of comics, and to the ongoing conversations about the politics of gender. An indispensable guide to anyone seriously interested in comics." Alison Bechdel, author of The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For and Fun Home

• List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1. Down with the patriarchy!; Chapter 2. Not entertainment: ageing, illness and abuse; Chapter 3. Memoirs and dysfunctional diaries; Chapter 4. Full color; Chapter 5. Queer power!; Chapter 6. Mirror of the world; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

Hélène Tison is associate professor in the English department at the University of Tours in France. After a doctoral dissertation on the crime fiction of Chester Himes, she turned to the study of comics and graphic narratives. In 2007, she organized the first academic conference with and about Alison Bechdel after the publication of her graphic memoir Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic.

"In this illuminating book, Hélène Tison looks at the work of various US women cartoonists from the 1970s to the present. Tison examines individual talents, but also turns her lens on these artists’ collective contribution to the evolving medium of comics, and to the ongoing conversations about the politics of gender. An indispensable guide to anyone seriously interested in comics." Alison Bechdel, author of The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For and Fun Home

• List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1. Down with the patriarchy!; Chapter 2. Not entertainment: ageing, illness and abuse; Chapter 3. Memoirs and dysfunctional diaries; Chapter 4. Full color; Chapter 5. Queer power!; Chapter 6. Mirror of the world; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.