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Author
Series
Glitterbomb (2016) volume 1
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Farrah Durante is a middle-aged actress hunting for her next gig in an industry where youth trumps experience. Her frustrations become an emotional lure for something horrifying out beyond the water...something ready to exact revenge on the shallow celebrity-obsessed culture that's lead her astray. The entertainment industry feeds on our insecurities, desires, and fears. You can't toy with those kinds of primal emotions without them biting back...,"--Amazon.com....
Author
Publisher
Salamandra Graphic
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Español
Description
"Defred recuerda los años previos a la instauración de Gilead, cuando ella era una mujer independiente con empleo, una familia y un nombre propio. Ahora, sus recuerdos y su voluntad de supervivencia se consideran actos de rebelión" -- Page 4 of cover.
"In the Republic of Gilead, a Handmaid named Offred lives in the home of the Commander, to the purpose that she become pregnant with his child. Stripped of her most basic freedoms (work, property,...
Author
Publisher
Titan Comics
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Horizon: a far-future Earth where awe-inspiring, animal-like machines are the dominant species and humans struggle to survive in pre-industrial tribes. In the aftermath of a titanic battle, Talanah, one of the greatest machine-hunters in the land, struggles to find her place in the rebuilding effort. Making matters worse, Aloy, her trusted friend, has disappeared. When a new threat emerges in the hinterlands, she must decide how best to serve her...
224) Gast
Author
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Helen is an amateur bird watcher and naturalist who lives in a rural community in Wales. When a local farmer Bill tells Helen that a "rare bird" named Emrys killed himself at Cuddig farm, she decides to investigate. One of the dogs at the farm tells her, by way of explanation, that Emrys "had no feathers and couldn't fly." She plucks an old cosmetic kit from a dumpster and discovers it belonged to Emrys. Inventorying the kit's contents, she finds...
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
After having been a good girl and following her mother's advice to snag a husband before she became a twenty-something spinster, Barbara Slate realized that her Mr. Right was actually Mr. Wrong and that she was living her life according to everyone's rules but her own. After twelve years of an unblissful marriage, she made her escape. Now this accomplished comic artist lets it all out in a savagely funny and emotionally honest fictional narrative....
Author
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In the time before the Great Flood, the world of man is a place of wanton violence and unbridled depravity. But hidden high atop a mountain, there is a very different sort of world. One without men. Here the holy sisters at a secret nunnery live in paradise, a new Eden, rearing their flock of orphaned girls to embrace their future as blessed Brides of the Sons of God. But when Sharri and Jael, two girls on the cusp of flowering, uncover what it truly...
227) When I came out
Author
Publisher
SelfMadeHero
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Forty-something Louise is married to Peter, with whom she has four children. They live in a big house, and on paper everything looks fantastic. But Louise has a secret that she barely dares to admit to herself: a burning desire for women. When I Came Out is the story of a woman who has met society's expectations throughout her life but finally realizes that she has not been true to herself. From first-time creator Anne Mette Kaerulf Lorentzen, this...
Author
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Soon to star in her very own live action series, Stargirl by Geoff Johns collects his earliest work at DC Comics as he introduces the young woman who becomes Stargirl, Courtney Whitmore! Before her adventures with the Justice Society of America as Stargirl, Courtney Whitmore was part just a normal kid. When Courtney discovers her stepfather, Pat Dugan was the sidekick of the original Star-Spangled Kid, she decides to teach him a lesson for marrying...
Author
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
"'I Love Led Zeppelin' includes Ellen Forney's best work from a vast array of comics, anthologies, magazines, and alternative weekly newspapers. From practical to whimsical, this long-awaited collection includes autobiographical stories and fictional revelries, as well as startling collaborations with luminaries Margaret Cho, Kristin Gore, Dan Savage, and an oddball encounter with Camille Paglia."--taken from back cover.
Author
Publisher
Scarecrow Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"Jacqueline Danziger-Russell contends that comics have a unique place in the representation of female characters and readers. She discusses the overall history of the comic book, playing special attention to that of girls' comics, showing how such works relate to a female point of view. While examing the concept of visual literacy, Danziger-Russell asserts that comics are an excellent space in which the marginalized voices of girls can be expressed....
231) Seoul before sunrise
Author
Publisher
Life Drawn, an imprint of Humanoids, Inc
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
"Longtime friends Seong-ji and Ji-won are excited to begin university in Seoul, swearing to stay close in the big city, but from the moment they arrive, they begin to drift apart. Her focus split between her rigorous accounting program and her overnight job at a grocery store, Seong-ji tries to make peace with the loss. It's during her overnight shifts that she encounters an enigmatic young woman who spends her nights entering the empty homes of other...
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In the late '60s, underground comix changed the way comics readers saw the medium -- but there was an important pronoun missing from the revolution. In 1972, ten women cartoonists got together in San Francisco to rectify the situation and produce the first and longest-lasting all-woman comics anthology, Wimmen's Comix. Within two years the Wimmen's Comix Collective had introduced cartoonists like Roberta Gregory and Melinda Gebbie to the comics-reading...
Author
Publisher
Lumen
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
En 1895, los periódicos de Nueva York llamaron la atención sobre una mujer que recorra̕ el pas̕ pedaleando. Annie "Londonderry" se había ido de casa para ganar una apuesta: recorrer el mundo en bicicleta a cambio de cinco mil dólares. Aquello no era solo una proeza física y geográfica: estaba desafiando las convenciones de la época. Y a pesar de que los medios estuvieron más interesados en señalar que usaba pantalones en lugar de falda,...
Publisher
[Alternative Comics]
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Comics for Choice is an anthology of comics about abortion. As this fundamental reproductive right continues to be stigmatized and jeopardized, over sixty artists and writers have created comics that boldly share their own experiences, and educate readers on the history of abortion, current political struggles, activism, and more. Lawyers, activists, medical professionals, historians, and abortion fund volunteers have teamed up with cartoonists and...
235) Comics for choice
Publisher
Silver Sprocket
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Comics for Choice is an anthology of comics about abortion. As this fundamental reproductive right continues to be stigmatized and jeopardized, over sixty artists and writers have created comics that boldly share their own experiences, and educate readers on the history of abortion, current political struggles, activism, and more. Lawyers, activists, medical professionals, historians, and abortion fund volunteers have teamed up with cartoonists and...
236) Ms. Marvel: Vol. 2
Author
Series
Publisher
Marvel Worldwide, Inc., a subsidary of Marvel Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Kamala Khan may not be allowed to go to the school Valentine's Day dance, but Ms. Marvel will crash it - in an attempt to capture Asgard's most annoying trickster, Loki! And when a mysterious, and really cute, stranger arrives in Jersey City, Ms. Marvel must deal with ... a crush! Then, it's the moment you demanded, as Ms. Marvel meets her idol: Carol Danvers and Kamala Khan battle side by side! The Marvel Universe's last days have arrived, but Ms....
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