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

[Mike Rhode]

Thank you all, we've got a taker for the book.

Mike

On Tue, Sep 1, 2020 at 2:36 PM Mike Rhode <mrhode at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> how to change to individual messages
>
> - 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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