{"product_id":"comics-of-julie-doucet-and-tahneer-oksman-9781496820570","title":"The Comics of Julie Doucet and Gabrielle Bell: A Place Inside Yourself","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2020 Comics Studies Society Edited Book Prize\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eContributions by Kylie Cardell, Aaron Cometbus, Margaret Galvan, Sarah Hildebrand, Frederik Byrn K hlert, Tahneer Oksman, Seamus O'Malley, Annie Mok, Dan Nadel, Natalie Pendergast, Sarah Richardson, Jessica Stark, and James Yeh \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In a self-reflexive way, Julie Doucet's and Gabrielle Bell's comics, though often autobiographical, defy easy categorization. In this volume, editors Tahneer Oksman and Seamus O'Malley regard Doucet's and Bell's art as actively feminist, not only because they offer women's perspectives, but because they do so by provocatively bringing up the complicated, multivalent frameworks of such engagements. While each artist has a unique perspective, style, and worldview, the essays in this book investigate their shared investments in formal innovation and experimentation, and in playing with questions of the autobiographical, the fantastic, and the spaces in between. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Doucet is a Canadian underground cartoonist, known for her autobiographical works such as \u003ci\u003eDirty Plotte\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMy New York Diary\u003c\/i\u003e. Meanwhile, Bell is a British American cartoonist best known for her intensely introspective semiautobiographical comics and graphic memoirs, such as the \u003ci\u003eLucky\u003c\/i\u003e series and \u003ci\u003eCecil and Jordan in New York\u003c\/i\u003e. By pairing Doucet alongside Bell, the book recognizes the significance of female networks, and the social and cultural connections, associations, and conditions that shape every work of art. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In addition to original essays, this volume republishes interviews with the artists. By reading Doucet's and Bell's comics together in this volume housed in a series devoted to single-creator studies, the book shows how, despite the importance of finding \"a place inside yourself\" to create, this space seems always for better or worse a shared space culled from and subject to surrounding lives, experiences, and subjectivities.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tahneer Oksman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1496820576\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781496820570\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Mississippi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/18\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 298\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.34lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d","brand":"Tahneer Oksman","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44860421013759,"sku":"9781496820570","price":110.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_164b30a1-9dce-4ed4-9e16-5e58d6824561.jpg?v=1709136041","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/comics-of-julie-doucet-and-tahneer-oksman-9781496820570","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}