Table of contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
Anna Nordenstam, Margareta Wallin Wictorin, and Kristy Beers Fagersten
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?, Gaelle Kovaliv
Chapter 4: The motivating power of feminist comics in modern Ukrainian society, Iryna
Pinich & Kristy Beers Fagersten
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 Grahs & Eva Lindstrom:
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 Penelope 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, Renee 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