List of feminist comic books

This is a list of feminist comic books and graphic novels.

A

*''A-Force'' by G. Willow Wilson, Marguerite Bennet, and Jorge Molina. A Marvel Comics series about an all-female team of Avengers.
*'' Anya's Ghost'' by Vera Brosgol. Graphic novel about a teen Russian immigrant girl who befriends a dangerous ghost.

B

*'' The Ballad of Halo Jones'' by Alan Moore and Ian Gibson.
*'' Batwoman: Elegy'' by Greg Rucka and J. H. Williams III. DC Comics graphic novel, originally serialized in '' Detective Comics''. A lesbian super-hero faces a murderous super-villainess.
*'' Bitch Planet'' by Kelly Sue DeConnick and Valentine De Landro. Image Comics comic book series about a prison planet for "non-compliant" women.
*'' Black Orchid'' by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean
*'' Blue Sky'' by Murasaki Yamada. Serial that depicts the economic struggles of a woman after divorce and the societal criticism she must ignore when she later lives with a younger man.
*'' Buffy the Vampire Slayer''

C

*'' Captain Marvel'' by Kelly Sue DeConnick and Dexter Soy. The Marvel Comics superhero was renamed from Ms. Marvel, replaced her one-piece swimsuit style uniform with a more practical flight suit, and became the source of her own powers, emphasizing self-sufficiency.
*'' Castle Waiting'', by Linda Medley. Fantagraphics. Medieval fantasy series about a pregnant woman who takes refuge in a castle with fairy tale characters.

D

*'' Death: The High Cost of Living'' by Neil Gaiman, Chris Bachalo, and Mark Buckingham. Vertigo Comics miniseries about a female Death taking temporary human form.
*'' Dirty Plotte'' by Julie Doucet
*''Dykes to Watch Out For'' by Alison BechdelChute (2010), p
177

F

*''Fun Home'' by Alison Bechdel

G

*''Gemma Bovery'' by Posy Simmonds

H

*''Hark! A Vagrant'' by Kate Beaton. Webcomic that frequently parodies sexism in classic literature and pop culture.

I

*'' I Kill Giants'' by Joe Kelly and artist J. M. Ken Niimura. An anti-social fifth grade girl retreats into a fantasy world where she kills giants with a hammer.
*''It Ain't Me, Babe'' (1970). Contributors included Trina Robbins, Meredith Kurtzman, Barbara Mendez, Michele Brand, Lisa Lyons, Hurricane Nancy Kalish, and the mononymous "Carol"

J

*'' Jane's World'' by Paige Braddock.

L

*'' Lazarus'' by Greg Rucka and Michael Lark.
*'' Love and Rockets'' by Gilbert, Jaime, and Mario Hernandez.
*'' Lumberjanes'' by Brooklyn Allen, Grace Ellis, ND Stevenson, and Shannon Watters. Boom! Studios series about five teenage girls adventuring at summer camp.

M

*''Man-Eaters'' by Chelsea Cain, Kate Niemczyk and Lia Miternique at Image Comics. Toxoplasmosis has muted to turn people who menstruate into dangerous panthers, so now there are hormones in the water to prevent menstruation and tame the population with female genitals. Cats = women, pantherism = feminism and the dystopian society controlling women = the patriarchy.
*'' The Maxx'' by Sam Kieth. Image Comics series. A freelance social worker deals with her pain by retreating into a fantastic alternate reality where she is protected by the monstrous titular hero.
* ''Ms. Marvel'' (Carol Danvers)
* ''Ms. Marvel'' (Kamala Khan) by G. Willow Wilson and Adrian Alphona.

N

*'' Naughty Bits'' by Roberta Gregory
*''Nemi'' by Lise Myhre

O

*'' ODY-C'' by writer Matt Fraction and artist Christian Ward, published by Image Comics. A genderbent version of Homer's ''The Odyssey'' set in outer space, which deconstructs traditionally male-centric stories.
*'' Oh Joy Sex Toy'' sex education comics by Erika Moen.
*'' Ōoku: The Inner Chambers'' by Fumi Yoshinaga. Manga serialized in '' Melody'' magazine, about an alternate history medieval Japan in which an unknown disease kills most of the male population, making a matriarchal society with a harem of men serving the female ''shōgun''.

P

*'' Paper Girls'' by Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang
*''La Perdida'' by Jessica Abel. Pantheon Books series about a young American woman in Mexico.
*''Persepolis'' by Marjane Satrapi. Autobiographical graphic novel about a woman growing up in 1980-1995 Iran.
*'' Pretty Deadly'' by Kelly Sue DeConnick and Emma Ríos.
*'' Princeless'' by Jeremy Whitley and M. Goodwin Action Lab Comics series. A young black princess rescues herself and her five sisters.
*'' Priya's Shakti'' by Ram Devineni, Lina Srivastava, and Dan Goldman.
*'' Pudge, Girl Blimp''

R

*'' Rat Queens'' by Kurtis J. Wiebe and various artists. Image Comics series. Four free-spirited female adventurers in a D&D-inspired fantasy setting.
*''Red Sonja'' by Gail Simone. Dynamite Entertainment comic book series reimagining the fantasy swordswoman.

S

*''Sailor Moon''
*''Sally Heathcote: Suffragette'' by Mary M. Talbot, Kate Charlesworth and Bryan Talbot.
*''Sesame But Different'' by Chiapoppy.
*''Sex Criminals'' by Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky. Image Comics series. A woman can stop time when she has an orgasm.
*''Shakmagia'' (''Jewelry Box'' in English), a feminist Egyptian magazine, collecting political comics stories by different authors.
*''She-Hulk''. Marvel Comics series about a female lawyer that gains green skin and super strength, that, depending on the writer, varies between a male fantasy, and a witty swashbuckler.
*''Murasaki Yamada, Shin Kilali'' by Murasaki Yamada. A semi-autobiographical story in which the protagonist, a mother of two whose marriage of ten years is slowly failing, eventually decides to find a job despite protest from her husband.
*''Strong Female Protagonist'' written by Brennan Lee Mulligan and drawn by Molly Ostertag.
*''Suffrajitsu: Mrs. Pankhurst's Amazons'' by Tony Wolf with art by Joao Vieira. A Jet City Comics trilogy about the adventures of a secret society of martial arts-trained women, known as the "Amazons", who serve as bodyguards and field agents for the leaders of the radical women's suffrage movement in England during early 1914.

T

*''Tamara Drewe'' by Posy Simmonds
*''Tank Girl'' by Jamie Hewlett and Alan Martin (writer), Alan Martin.
*''This One Summer'' by Mariko Tamaki, Mariko and Jillian Tamaki
*''Tits & Clits Comix''Williams, Paul (2010). "Questions of 'Contemporary Women's Comics,'" in Paul Williams, James Lyons (eds.), ''The Rise of the American Comics Artist'', University Press of Mississippi, p
138
anthology series edited by Joyce Farmer and Lyn Chevli
*''Twisted Sisters (comic), Twisted Sisters'' by Aline Kominsky-Crumb and Diane Noomin

U

*''Umbral'' by Antony Johnston
*United States of Banana#Adaptations, ''United States of Banana'' (graphic novel adaptation)

W

*''Wimmen's Comix, Wimmin's Comix'' anthology series founded by Trina Robbins that ran from 1972 to 1992.
*''Woman World'' by Aminder Dhaliwal, a science fiction comic about the development of an all-woman civilization after men become extinct as a result of a birth defect.
*''Wonder Woman'', DC Comics series. Iconic superheroine, originally symbolizing the 1940s liberated woman.

Y

* ''Y: The Last Man'' by Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra

See also

* List of award-winning graphic novels
* List of comic books
* List of female comics creators
* List of feminist literature
* List of women's presses
* Portrayal of women in comics

References

Further reading

*AMC (2004). "Feminism," in Gina Renée Misiroglu, David A. Roach (eds.), ''The Superhero Book: The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Comic-book Icons and Hollywood Heroes'', Visible Ink Press, pp
212–215

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*Trina Robbins, Robbins, Trina (2010). "Feminism," in M. Keith Booker (ed.), ''Encyclopedia of Comic Books and Graphic Novels'', ABC-CLIO, pp
212–218

*Scott, Suzanne (2013)
"Fangirls in refrigerators: The politics of (in)visibility in comic book culture"
''Transformative Works and Cultures'', 13.

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