Until recently, queer cartooning existed in a parallel universe to the rest of comics, appearing only in gay newspapers and gay bookstores and not in comic book stores, mainstream bookstores or newspapers. The insular nature of the world of queer cartooning, however, created a fascinating artistic scene. LGBT comics have been an uncensored, internal conversation within the queer community, and ... Weiterlesen

Alison Bechdel: Are You My Mother?

USA 2013, 290 pp. b/w, brochure, € 24.95
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Alison Bechdel's »Fun Home« was a literary phenomenon: an intimate account of family secrets. While »Fun Home« explored the cartoonist's relationship with her father, a closeted homosexual, this new memoir is about her mother - a voracious reader, a music lover, a passionate amateur actor. Also a woman, unhappily married to a gay man, whose artistic aspirations simmered under the ... Weiterlesen

Cristy C. Road: Spit and Passion

USA 2012, 160 pp., b/w, brochure, € 15.95
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Feminist Press

At its core, »Spit and Passion« is about the transformative moment when music crashes into a stifling adolescent bedroom and saves you. Suddenly, you belong. At 12 years old, Cristy C. Road is trying to balance the values of a Cuban catholic family with her newfound queer identity, and begins a chronic obsession with the punk band Green Day. In ... Weiterlesen

Eric Shanower und Skottie Young: Der Zauberer von Oz

Nach einem Roman v. L. Frank Brown. Dt. v. Bernd Kronsbein. D 2012, 208 S., Farbe, geb., € 25.65
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Panini

L. Frank Baums »Der Zauberer von Oz« ist eines der berühmtesten Kinderbücher aller Zeiten. Hinter der Fassade des (kindgerechten) Abenteuers verbergen sich System- und Gesellschaftskritik, die in der Vergangenheit immer wieder von Verlegern »kindgerechter« zurechtgestutzt und verstümmelt wurden. Die Wiederentdeckung des originalen Textes lohnt sich besonders, um die im kollektiven Gedächtnis verankerten Bilder zu ergänzen, die Hollywood 1939 mit dem ... Weiterlesen

Kathrin Kadasch / Svenia Dritter: Mädchen oder Junge?

D 2011, 36 S., Broschur, € 17.95
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Ein thematisch herausragendes Sachbilderbuch für Kinder von 3 bis 6 Jahren, das sich mit Geschlechterrollenzuschreibungen und normativem Rollenverhalten auseinandersetzt. Die Texte sind leicht verständlich und dabei informativ und zum Nachdenken anregend. Für Kindertageseinrichtungen ein wichtiges Buch, das auch kleinen Kindern ermöglicht, überliefertes Geschlechterrollenverhalten zu hinterfragen, statt sich gegen eigenes Empfinden den Konventionen anzuschließen. Und natürlich für alle, die ihren Kindern ... Weiterlesen

Ron Marz, Stjepan Sejic: Angelus - Erleuchtung

Dt. v. Bernd Kronsbein. D 2011, 132 S., Farbe, Broschur, € 17.42
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»Angelus« setzt die lesbische Witchblade-Comicserie fort. Begonnen hat alles mit einem Krieg der Witchblades. Danielle Baptiste - einstmals selbst Trägerin einer Witchblade - und Freundin von Sara Pezzini wurde von Angelus (einer menschlichen Verkörperung des Lichts) für besondere Aufgaben ausgewählt. Bei ihrer Rückkehr nach New Orleans muss sich Dani erst einmal an ihre neue Rolle gewöhnen und sich in den ... Weiterlesen

Michael Thompson: The Other Bears

USA 2010, 40 pp., brochure, € 9.95
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Star Bright

Mother and Father Koala are suspicious of the »other« bears. They don't like the panda bears and they don't trust the polar bears. The black bears are too noisy and the brown bears have big teeth. But all of their grumpiness melts away as they watch the littlest bears play together and realize that all their similarities and common needs ... Weiterlesen

Ariel Schrag: Likewise

The High School Comic Chronicles of Ariel Schrag. USA 2009, 361 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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The hefty final volume of Schrag’s high-school chronicles has been a decade in the making and shows her development as an artist and storyteller. Employing a stream-of-consciousness style, she examines her relationship with an unenthusiastic lover and her sexuality and anatomy. She argues with her parents over wanting to attend Barnard rather than a public university in California, and she ... Weiterlesen

Ariel Schrag: Awkward and Definition

The High School Comic Chronicles of Ariel Schrag. USA 2008, 84 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Ariel Schrag captures the American high school experience in all its awkward, questioning glory in »Awkward and Definition«, the first of three amazingly honest autobiographical graphic novels about her teenage years. During the summer following each year at Berkeley High School in California, Ariel wrote a comic book about her experiences, which she would then photocopy and sell around school. ... Weiterlesen

Alison Bechdel: The Essential Dykes to Watch out for

USA 2009, 395 pp., brochure, € 28.95
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For 25 years Allison Bechdel's »Dykes to Watch out for« strip has been collected in 11 volumes, syndicated in 50 alternative newspapers, and translated into many languages. Now, at last, this book gathers a rich, funny, deep, and impossible to put down selection from all »Dykes« volumes. Plus 60 of new strips. Settle into this wittily illustrated soap opera ... Weiterlesen

Paige Braddock: Jane's World No. 8

USA 2008, 118 pp., brochure, € 12.39
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Like accidentally stumbling into heavy metal karaoke night, Jane knew this vacation was a disaster before it even started. Her first clue could have been the plane crash, but the spiral actually began hours before that, when it was decided they would all travel together in a very small plane that Jill would pilot. Jane was immediately demoted in this ... Weiterlesen

Paige Braddock: Jane's World, Vol.7

USA 2007, 143 pp., brochure, € 12.39
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Chelle is about to uncover the whereabouts of Virginia's missing ex, Rachel, when Jill is kidnapped by the Nevada Liberation Militia. Yes, those mullet-wearing chicks in plaid shirts hit Chelle up for a $2 million ransom, or no safe return of Jill. Meanwhile, Jane gets talked into manning the captain's chair of a 1994 Winnebago, on its annual »Priscilla Queen ... Weiterlesen

Jennifer Camper (ed.): Juicy Mother 2

USA 2007, 180 pp., brochure, € 12.39
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This anthology of gay and lesbian cartoonists returns with an added thematic component, taking on various »how we met« stories. Like the 1st installment, this one is uneven, but includes several strong entries.Leanne Franson's »Under New Management« combines breezy line work with a vaguely discomfiting romantic triangle to good effect, and Joan Hilty's »Zion« uses rough, kinetic inks to depict ... Weiterlesen

Alison Bechdel: Fun Home

USA 2007, 234 pp., brochure, € 18.95
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This breakout memoir from a cult favorite comic artist is a darkly funny family tale, pitch-perfectly illustrated with Bechdel's sweetly gothic drawings. Meet Alison's father, a historic preservation expert and obsessive restorer of the family's Victorian home, a third-generation funeral home director, a highschool English teacher, an icily distant parent, and a closeted homosexual who, as it turns out, is ... Weiterlesen

Alison Bechdel: Dykes and Sundry Other Carbon-Based Life-Forms to Watch out for

USA 2003, 156 pp., brochure, € 13.95
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For 20 years Alison Bechdel has created a comic strip serial that has become a classic. In this edition, Mo, everyone's favorite curmudgeon, blithely rants about Dr. Laura. Donald Rumsfeld, gay Enron execs and the pernicious effects of Frogger, while her cozy counterculture community is quickly shifting before her feet. Her job is in jeopardy due to her customer base ... Weiterlesen

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