Comics, Activism, Feminisms explores how comic art, activism, and feminisms are intertwined from both historical and contemporary perspectives and how comic art can be a form of activism. It is an essential collection for scholars and students of comics, literary, art, and media studies, and gender studies.

Table of contents Chapter 1: Introduction Anna Nordenstam, Margareta Wallin Wictorin, and Kristy Beers Fägersten Part I: Activism in comics Chapter 2: The affective grammar of comics as activism: Performativity and desire in feminism as a politics of hope, Mia Liinason Chapter 3: Comics, feminism and the Internet, a dangerous affaire?, Gaëlle Kovaliv Chapter 4: The motivating power of feminist comics in modern Ukrainian society, Iryna Pinich & Kristy Beers Fägersten Chapter 5: Queer every week: Ilana Zeffren’s Urban Tails, Kevin Haworth Chapter 6: A study in black and white. Colour change and gender fluidity in George Herriman’s Krazy Kat, Daniela Kaufmann Chapter 7: Becoming an activist in the 1970s – Tandem artists Gunna Grähs & Eva Lindström: Pioneers of Swedish feminist comics, Kristina Mejhammar Chapter 8: Comics as art: Directly drawing on the wall in the museological context, Meichen Lu Part II: Comics as political space Chapter 9: Foregrounding the background: Space and place in feminist comics, Rebecca Scherr Chapter 10: Imagining a world beyond binaries – Feminist utopianism and the activist potential of webcomics, Leena Romu Chapter 11: Daring to draw a different world: Feminist utopias/dystopias in American women’s comix from the 1970s, Małgorzata Olsza Chapter 12: The House of Paper. Body, memory, and interior in the work of Italian women graphic novel authors, Linda Bertelli & Virginia Tonfoni Chapter 13: The transfer of French feminist comics approaches to a Swedish context. The case of Pénélope Bagieu, Ylva Lindberg, & Sandra Riomar Part III: Comics collectives Chapter 14: Comics and community in climate and gender justice activism, Nicola Streeten Chapter 15: Distant Connections: Connecting to the public through a zine on the gendered pandemic, Renée B. Adams Chapter 16: Moments of wonder and armies of care: Comics anthology and its activist implications in a non-Western context, Nafiseh Mousavi Chapter 17: Personal stories, knowledge, materials, and people: The practical entanglements of activism bringing together migrants and comics, Ralf Kauranen Chapter 18: Getting organised. Comics, communality, and care, Katharina Serles