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Comics, Community, and Kickass Women
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In this interview, ground-breaking and influential comics artist and creator and director of the biennial LGBTQ+ comics conference
“Queers & Comics” Jennifer Camper provides insight into the origins and development of her comics sensibility, her sense of the evolving queer comics scene, and the importance of her LGBTQ+ comics community-building work. Powerful lesbian representation, “mongrel” identities in comics, humor as a weapon, and kickass women are some of the ideas that she addresses in her comics that foster a queer solidarity that has galvanized the queer comics scene.
University Press of Mississippi
Title: Comics, Community, and Kickass Women
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In this interview, ground-breaking and influential comics artist and creator and director of the biennial LGBTQ+ comics conference
“Queers & Comics” Jennifer Camper provides insight into the origins and development of her comics sensibility, her sense of the evolving queer comics scene, and the importance of her LGBTQ+ comics community-building work.
Powerful lesbian representation, “mongrel” identities in comics, humor as a weapon, and kickass women are some of the ideas that she addresses in her comics that foster a queer solidarity that has galvanized the queer comics scene.
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