[Commlist] New book: Comic Book Women: Characters, Creators, and Culture in the Golden Age

*Comic Book Women*

Characters, Creators, and Culture in the Golden Age

*Peyton Brunet & Blair Davis*

*Foreword by Trina Robbins*

https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9781477324110/comic-book-women/ 
<https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9781477324110/comic-book-women/>

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The history of comics has centered almost exclusively on men. Comics 
historians largely describe the medium as one built by men telling tales 
about male protagonists, neglecting the many ways in which women fought 
for legitimacy on the page and in publishers’ studios. Despite this 
male-dominated focus, women played vital roles in the early history of 
comics. The story of how comic books were born and how they evolved 
changes dramatically when women like June Tarpé Mills and Lily Renée are 
placed at the center rather than at the margins of this history, and 
when characters such as the Black Cat, Patsy Walker, and Señorita Rio 
are analyzed.

/Comic Book Women/ offers a feminist history of the golden age of 
comics, revising our understanding of how numerous genres emerged and 
upending narratives of how male auteurs built their careers. Considering 
issues of race, gender, and sexuality, the authors examine crime, 
horror, jungle, romance, science fiction, superhero, and Western comics 
to unpack the cultural and industrial consequences of how women were 
represented across a wide range of titles by publishers like DC, Timely, 
Fiction House, and others. This revisionist history reclaims the 
forgotten work done by women in the comics industry and reinserts female 
creators and characters into the canon of comics history.

*Peyton Brunet*is a graduate of DePaul University’s communication and 
media master’s program.

*Blair Davis*is an associate professor of media and cinema studies at 
DePaul University. He is the author of/Movie Comics: Page to 
Screen/Screen to Page/,/Comic Book Movies/, and/The Battle for the Bs: 
1950s Hollywood and the Rebirth of Low-Budget Cinema./


*University of Texas Press | World Comics and Graphic Nonfiction Series 
| January 2022 | 320pp | 9781477324110 | HB | £36.00**

*Price subject to change.

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