Sweet Little Cunt: The Graphic Work of Julie Doucet [Paperback]

EISNER AWARD WINNER | Best Academic/Scholarly Work About Comics | 2019One of the most influential women in independent comics, Julie Doucet, receives a full-length critical overview from a noted chronicler of independent media and critical gender theorist. Grounded in a discussion of mid-1990s media and the discussion of womens rights that fostered it, this book addresses longstanding questions about Doucets role as a feminist figure, master of the comics form, and object of masculine desire. Doucets work is hilarious, charming, thoughtful, brilliant, and challenging, even three decades on.
Anne Elizabeth Moore is an award-winning journalist, bestselling comics anthologist, and internationally lauded cultural critic. Her most recent book,Body Horror, is on the Nonfiction Shortlist for the 2017Chicago Review of BooksNonfiction Award, was named a Best Book of 2017 by the Chicago Public Library, and was nominated for the 2018 Lammys. She teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the College for Creative Studies. She was born in Winner, SD, and resides in Detroit with her cat.Praise forBody Horror:[Body Horroris] scary as fuck and liberating. . . . Moore connects the dots that you did not even think were on the same page. Viva la FeministaPraise forBody Horror: Scary as fuck and liberating & Moore connects the dots that you did not even think were on the same page. Viva la Feminista Sharp, shocking, and darkly funny, the essays in this sapient collection & expose the twisted logic at the core of Western capitalism and our stunted understanding of both its violence and the illnesses it breeds. & Brainy and historically informed, this collection is less a rallying cry or a bitter diatribe than a series of irreverent and ruthlessly accurate jabs at a culture that is slowly devouring us. Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEW The metaphor that centers the collection & is captured in a comicalã9