The Inking Woman

by Nicola Streeten (Editor), Cath Tate (editor)

This wide-ranging curation of women's comics work includes prints, caricatures, joke, editorial and strip cartoons, postcards, comics, zines, graphic novels and digital comics, covering all genres and topics. It addresses inclusion of art by women of underrepresented backgrounds. Based on an exhibition of the same name, held at the Cartoon Museum in 2017, this book demonstrates that women have always had a wicked sense of humour and a perceptive view of the world.

Genres: Graphic Novels, Comics, Nonfiction, Graphic Novels Comics, History

144 pages, Hardcover

Published March 29, 2018

Reviews

[Chris Browning · Rating 4 out of 5]

It’s excellent but feels a bit like it’s trying to do too much considering the space given. I’d have liked the section on modern zine culture to have been longer and more detailed because feminist zines and comics are so integral to why self publishing flourishes. Similarly some of the choices feel a bit like they’re not quite cartoonists and more illustrators, which is very much a good thing but thusly requires the book to expand to take on that part of the story. It’s probably a tough job to try and write a history of a criminally neglected part of comic and cartoon history that fulfils the needs of every reader, but I think it tries to do too much in too short a space and should really be at least two books, one the historical stuff and the other the newer work. Still a vitally important book though and an essential part of any comic/ cartoon library

[Sian Bradshaw · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is an excellent presentation of female artists. I wish I had been able to see the exhibition it relates to. It covers women's rights, sexism and mental health and many other subjects. I really enjoyed this book and it was not a simple skim through. It set the artists in context. I thoroughly recommend it.

[Ms_prue · Rating 4 out of 5]

Delicious sample-sized snackettes of a smorgasboard of ladies who draw.

[Debs · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not a subject I'm hugely interested in, but it was so good to learn about these amazing creative women in such a male dominated industry. Some excellent commentary and pictures.