Sun January 21, 2024
Werewolf Hunters, Jungle Queens, and Space Commandos: The Lost Worlds of Women Comic Artists
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Beginning with the 1940s, this exhibition explores how American women comics artists used monsters to explore the histories and futures of the U.S. as its racial, gendered, and national politics shifted throughout the 20th century.
This exhibition examines the role that monsters play in the development of women's comics art across the 20th century. As the market for comic books boomed in the 1940s, talented women artists with formal training in the fine arts and illustration joined the comics industry and began to make their mark on this male-dominated sphere. Working within the often gendered and racially biased conventions of the comics medium, artists like Lily Renee, Fran Hopper, Marcia Snyder, and Jill Elgin pushed against the industry's confining frames (both literal and figurative), creating aliens, unexpected octopuses, hybrid beasts, and other monstrous bogeymen that laid the groundwork for women to make--and be--monsters throughout the mainstream comics of the 20th century.
Image Credit: Copy of Nina Albright's Suspense cover, February 1944
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This exhibition examines the role that monsters play in the development of women's comics art across the 20th century. As the market for comic books boomed in the 1940s, talented women artists with formal training in the fine arts and illustration joined the comics industry and began to make their mark on this male-dominated sphere. Working within the often gendered and racially biased conventions of the comics medium, artists like Lily Renee, Fran Hopper, Marcia Snyder, and Jill Elgin pushed against the industry's confining frames (both literal and figurative), creating aliens, unexpected octopuses, hybrid beasts, and other monstrous bogeymen that laid the groundwork for women to make--and be--monsters throughout the mainstream comics of the 20th century.
Image Credit: Copy of Nina Albright's Suspense cover, February 1944
Beginning with the 1940s, this exhibition explores how American women comics artists used monsters to explore the histories and futures of the U.S. as its racial, gendered, and national politics shifted throughout the 20th century.
This exhibition examines the role that monsters play in the development of women's comics art across the 20th century. As the market for comic books boomed in the 1940s, talented women artists with formal training in the fine arts and illustration joined the comics industry and began to make their mark on this male-dominated sphere. Working within the often gendered and racially biased conventions of the comics medium, artists like Lily Renee, Fran Hopper, Marcia Snyder, and Jill Elgin pushed against the industry's confining frames (both literal and figurative), creating aliens, unexpected octopuses, hybrid beasts, and other monstrous bogeymen that laid the groundwork for women to make--and be--monsters throughout the mainstream comics of the 20th century.
Image Credit: Copy of Nina Albright's Suspense cover, February 1944
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This exhibition examines the role that monsters play in the development of women's comics art across the 20th century. As the market for comic books boomed in the 1940s, talented women artists with formal training in the fine arts and illustration joined the comics industry and began to make their mark on this male-dominated sphere. Working within the often gendered and racially biased conventions of the comics medium, artists like Lily Renee, Fran Hopper, Marcia Snyder, and Jill Elgin pushed against the industry's confining frames (both literal and figurative), creating aliens, unexpected octopuses, hybrid beasts, and other monstrous bogeymen that laid the groundwork for women to make--and be--monsters throughout the mainstream comics of the 20th century.
Image Credit: Copy of Nina Albright's Suspense cover, February 1944
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