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It's Complicated: A Collection of Comics with Everyday Feminism
What is the difference between being sexually empowered and sexually objectified? Is there any such thing as being “trans enough”? How do you respond respectfully to being called out online?
In It’s Complicated! Ronnie Ritchie collects a year of comics with the feminist online magazine, Everyday Feminism. Covering topics from sex positivity to transgender healthcare to the Military Industrial Complex, Ronnie has been working to better inform the public on everyday oppression and some ways to overturn it, one step at a time.
Ronnie Rene Ritchie is an illustrator, comic artist, and storyteller working out of Peterborough, Ontario. Since graduating from the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon with a BFA in Illustration, Ronnie has had work featured in galleries and sex shops across North America, and their autobiographical webcomic, GQutie, has seen its popularity soar online. Their favorite stories are the most earnest, surrounding the ways that imperfect people find joy and connection in a difficult world.
In It’s Complicated! Ronnie Ritchie collects a year of comics with the feminist online magazine, Everyday Feminism. Covering topics from sex positivity to transgender healthcare to the Military Industrial Complex, Ronnie has been working to better inform the public on everyday oppression and some ways to overturn it, one step at a time.
Ronnie Rene Ritchie is an illustrator, comic artist, and storyteller working out of Peterborough, Ontario. Since graduating from the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon with a BFA in Illustration, Ronnie has had work featured in galleries and sex shops across North America, and their autobiographical webcomic, GQutie, has seen its popularity soar online. Their favorite stories are the most earnest, surrounding the ways that imperfect people find joy and connection in a difficult world.
80 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2016
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February 16, 2017
Ritchie's collection is summed up in the title: this is a series of educational comics on issues about feminism, queer and trans issues, and even one on the military industrial complex. The comics are quite accessible, breaking down complex issues into easy to digest pieces. Sometimes I think the concepts are over-simplified though.
My main issue with the book is that because it is self-published the production could be better. The paper quality is not fantastic, particularly the cover, and some of the comics look like they were not drawn in print resolution. I always feel a bit conflicted over critiquing these sorts of things with low volume work, but I've seen plenty of zine creators manage to produce beautiful, cost-effective books, so I was a mite disappointed with this one. It's too expensive to be something I pick up multiple copies of
My main issue with the book is that because it is self-published the production could be better. The paper quality is not fantastic, particularly the cover, and some of the comics look like they were not drawn in print resolution. I always feel a bit conflicted over critiquing these sorts of things with low volume work, but I've seen plenty of zine creators manage to produce beautiful, cost-effective books, so I was a mite disappointed with this one. It's too expensive to be something I pick up multiple copies of
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