Queer Narratives in Contemporary American Comics: Gutter Smut examines how comics reveal evolving perspectives on gender, sex and sexuality in the United States. Tracing moral panics from the mid-20th century to present-day radical cartoonists, this volume analyzes works from established creators like Alison Bechdel and Kelly Sue DeConnick alongside emerging cartoonists such as Laura Gao and Isabella Rotman. Through various feminist theoretical lenses, the book provides timely cultural criticism of both fiction and nonfiction comics, revealing how social mores related to gender have—and haven’t—shifted over time.
Queer Narratives in Contemporary American Comics: Gutter Smut serves as an invaluable resource for students of gender studies, cultural studies, media studies and other many other disciplines.
Queer Narratives in Contemporary American Comics: Gutter Smut provides timely cultural criticism of both fiction and nonfiction graphic narratives in order to reveal how social mores related to gender and sexuality have—and haven't—shifted since the turn of the twenty-first century.
List of figures; Preface;
Chapter 1: The Dream of a Common Visual
Language: Reading Sex, Gender and Sexuality through Comics Formalism in the
Early 21st Century;
Chapter 2: I Just Dont Know How to Explain Myself:
Liminality, Narrative Foreclosure and Censorship in Comics Memoirs by Alison
Bechdel and Maia Kobabe;
Chapter 3: Illustrated User Manuals for Adolescent
Bodies: The Sex Positive Rhetoric of Recent Young Adult Comics for Sexual
Health Education;
Chapter 4: Language is a Map: Transtextuality,
Transculturality and Belonging in Coming-Out Narratives by Laura Gao and
Trung Le Nguyen;
Chapter 5: Caging Father Earths Unruly Daughters: Critiques
of the Carceral State and Abolitionist Feminist Aesthetics in Bitch Planet;
Index.
Sandra Cox is a professor at Southeast Missouri State University. Her work has been published in a variety of journals, including The Journal of Science Fiction and The Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics. In 2021, she edited the collection Intersectional Feminist Readings of Comics.
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