[Comicsstudiessociety] Book available for review - History of Women Cartoonists

[Mike Rhode]

The author has just written in to offer this for review. It's open
worldwide - the first person to write back, gets to do the review, first
for IJOCA's blog, and then for the print edition (deadline early Dec 2020).
Make sure you hit reply all because I'm only on digest and can't figure out
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- Mike

http://www.mosaic-press.com/product/history-women-cartoonists/

In this volume, *Mira Falardeau* looks at the work of great women artists
and their experiences in the industry to reveal advice and positive
encouragement for future cartoonists. Heavily illustrated with cartoons and
artwork from many of the best in the field, *History of Women Cartoonists*
also asks serious questions about why there have been so few women
cartoonists in the field of visual humour and if the digital age is opening
more opportunities for female humourists in the future.

alardeau is uniquely positioned to ask these questions. She has spent
decades as an art historian, a specialist in visual humor, and the author
of several books and essays on cartoonists and their history. She was also
a former cartoonist herself—among the first generation of women in her
field during the 1970s and 1980s. *A History of Women Cartoonists* is the
first book to offer a truly global survey and analysis of the great women
cartoonists of the last three decades—and a welcome addition to the history
of comics and cartoons.

*Mira Falardeau* is well known cartoonist and academic who has had her
comic strips published in Châtelaine, Perspectives, Canadian Women Studies,
La Vie en rose and Recherches Féministes. Her drawings were exhibited in
Art and Feminism (Contemporary Art Museum, Montreal, 1981), Pork Roasts.
250 Feminist Cartoons (Vancouver, 1981), Women Cartoonists (Cartoonist
Guild, New York, 1982), Radical Humor (New York University, 1983) and The
Voice of Images, Feminists cartoons (Powerhouse Gallery, Montreal, 2017).

She is the author of several books on the history of cartoonists, animators
and political cartoonists in French and has served as a guest curator for
several exhibitions at Le Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec in Quebec
City and the National Library of Quebec in Montreal. Falardeau has taught
“Visual Humor” and “Scriptwriting for Cartoons and Comics” at the Laval
University in Quebec City and later taught at the University of Ottawa and
in the Department of Cinema and Communication in the Cegep of Limoilou from
1997 to 2005. Mira lives in Quebec City.
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