{"title":"“So You Still Believe in the Future?”","authors":"Matt Green, Paul Fisher Davies","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1595mkx.18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1595mkx.18","url":null,"abstract":"The third in a trilogy of graphic novels by Mary and Bryan Talbot, The Red Virgin and the Vision of Utopia both explores the intersection of violence, law, and gender, and allows an unprecedented opportunity to explore what can be called the expository function of graphic narrative. This chapter provides the first ever exploration of the continuity between Mary Talbot’s writing for comics and her academic work, whilst also addressing the surprising gap in scholarly work on Bryan Talbot whose international reputation and pioneering work in the medium merit further enquiry. Drawing on a Marxist tradition of critique embodied by Frederic Jameson and Slavoj Žižek, the chapter explores the political commitments of this graphic novel, enriching our understanding of the way Red Virgin combines fiction and non-fiction, as well as text and image, to provide a nuanced contribution to debates concerning utopianism and revolutionary politics within critical comics studies.","PeriodicalId":310050,"journal":{"name":"Critical Directions in Comics Studies","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128074544","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Women’s Cartoons and Comics in the Twenty-First Century","authors":"N. Streeten, L. Wysocki","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1595mkx.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1595mkx.13","url":null,"abstract":"Streeten draws on Simone Lia’s graphic novel Fluffy (2005, Jonathan Cape) to demonstrate how humor combines with the comics form to address and quietly challenge assumptions around childcare, parenting, and masculinity. Streeten’s consideration is part of her wider thesis that the humorous cartoon and comic has been an essential element of feminist activism in the UK, supporting serious political messages. Her claim is that the structures built by feminist activity have made the buoyant position and visibility of women cartoonists in the UK today possible. The role of humor in this history, has been an essential, yet little recognized aspect.","PeriodicalId":310050,"journal":{"name":"Critical Directions in Comics Studies","volume":"63 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124514210","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Destructive Interim Formation”","authors":"Thomas R. Giddens, Paul Fisher Davies","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1595mkx.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1595mkx.16","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter seeks to invoke the graceful and relentless violence of John Hicklenton’s 100 Months in a bombardment of theoretical elaboration that, with Benjamin, explores the violent quality of critique: created in Hicklenton’s final moments before ending his own life at Dignitas. 100 Months tears down the perception that capitalism has made the world dehumanized, commodified, and godless, and portrays the journey of Mara—the soul of the Earth—in her relentless evisceration of the ‘Longpig paradise’ that represents the cannibalization of the subject under the pursuit of profit, of capital, of coin, and whilst Mara may be the ‘feminine destructive principle’, the ‘end of all things’, amidst the blood and horror, the splatter and sinew, her trajectory presents a change that indicates her temporary form, thus reflecting the violent and temporary quality of critique itself: ‘You may call me … the destructive interim formation’.","PeriodicalId":310050,"journal":{"name":"Critical Directions in Comics Studies","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126479099","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Parable of Bill Ayers:","authors":"A. Gearey, P. Davies","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1595mkx.19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1595mkx.19","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":310050,"journal":{"name":"Critical Directions in Comics Studies","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126626196","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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