The Comics of Julie Doucet and Gabrielle Bell: A Place inside Yourself
298The Comics of Julie Doucet and Gabrielle Bell: A Place inside Yourself
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Overview
Contributions by Kylie Cardell, Aaron Cometbus, Margaret Galvan, Sarah Hildebrand, Frederik Byrn Køhlert, Tahneer Oksman, Seamus O'Malley, Annie Mok, Dan Nadel, Natalie Pendergast, Sarah Richardson, Jessica Stark, and James Yeh
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.
Doucet is a Canadian underground cartoonist, known for her autobiographical works such as Dirty Plotte and My New York Diary. Meanwhile, Bell is a British American cartoonist best known for her intensely introspective semiautobiographical comics and graphic memoirs, such as the Lucky series and Cecil and Jordan in New York. 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.
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.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781496820570 |
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Publisher: | University Press of Mississippi |
Publication date: | 12/18/2018 |
Series: | Critical Approaches to Comics Artists Series |
Pages: | 298 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d) |
About the Author
Tahneer Oksman, Brooklyn, New York, is assistant professor of academic writing at Marymount Manhattan College. She is author of "How Come Boys Get to Keep Their Noses?": Women and Jewish American Identity in Contemporary Graphic Memoirs. She has published articles in a/b:Auto/Biography Studies, Studies in Comics, and Studies in American Jewish Literature, as well as The Forward, the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Comics Journal, and Cleaver Magazine, where she is the graphic narratives reviews editor.
Seamus O'Malley, New York, New York, is assistant professor of English at Stern College for Women, Yeshiva University. He is author of Making History New: Modernism and Historical Narrative and coeditor of Ford Madox Ford and America. He has published on W. B. Yeats, Rebecca West, Robert Louis Stevenson, Edmund Wilson, D. H. Lawrence, and Alan Moore.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments IX
Introduction: A Shared Space Tahneer Oksman XI
Section 1 Genealogies
From Julie Doucet to Gabrielle Bell Feminist Genealogies of Comics Anthologies Margaret Galvan 3
My Most Secret Boredom (Dis)Affective Narrative in Julie Doucet's "A Day in Julie Doucet's Life" and Hergés "Adventures with Tintin: The Broken Ear" Jessica Stark 23
Section 2 Drawing Across Autobiography
Julie Doucet's "Monkey and the Living Dead" as Subliminal Autobiography Natalie Pendergast 47
Ghost Cats and the Specter of Self Telling Trauma in the Works of Gabrielle Bell Sarah Hildebrand 75
Section 3 Transgressive Aesthetics
A Very Dirty Word Cuteness as Affective Strategy in the Comics of Julie Doucet Sarah Richardson 97
Drawn to Life The Diary as Method and Politics in the Comics Art of Gabrielle Bell and Julie Doucet Kylie Cardell 122
Section 4 Communal Visions
"At This Point I Become Real" Experimental Autobiography in Julie Doucet and Michel Gondry's Comics/ Video Hybrid My New New York Diary Frederik Byrn Køhlert 145
"Everyone Looks through Peepholes" Voyeurism in The Voyeurs Seamus O'Malley 164
Interviews
"A Good Life: The Julie Doucet Interview" Dan Nadel 189
"'The Starting Point': An Interview with Julie Doucet" Annie Mok 197
"Sometimes in Reality You Kick the Football: A Conversation with Gabrielle Bell" James Yeh 206
"Gabrielle Bell" Aaron Cometbus 218
"A Talk with Gabrielle Bell" Annie Mok 225
Contributor Biographies 232
Index 235