Funny girls : guffaws, guts, and gender in classic American comics /
For several generations, comics were regarded as a boy's club, created by, for and about men and boys. In the twenty-first century, however, comics have seen a rise of female creators, characters and readers. While this sudden presence of women and girls in comics is being regarded as new and n...
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- "It's a bird! it's a plane! it's an elementary-aged girl!": remembering a time in American comics when young female protagonists ruled
- "Then I could have a real papa and mama like other kids": Little Orphan Annie, the orphan girl formula, and the nanny state
- "I slant my gags to the Lawrence Welk gum chewers?: Nancy and the Vaudeville aesthetic
- From battling adult authority to battling the opposite sex: Little Lulu as gag panel and comic book
- In your dreams: Little Audrey, freudian psychoanalysis, and postwar child psychology
- "From the top, stupid!": the Li'l Tomboy comic book series, female juvenile delinquency, and the comics code.