Sweet Little Cunt: The Graphic Work of Julie Doucet (Critical Cartoons) - Softcover

Moore, Anne Elizabeth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1941250289 ISBN 13: 9781941250280

Publisher: Uncivilized Books, 2018

Synopsis

EISNER AWARD WINNER | Best Academic/Scholarly Work About Comics | 2019

One 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 women’s rights that fostered it, this book addresses longstanding questions about Doucet’s role as a feminist figure, master of the comics form, and object of masculine desire. Doucet’s 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 2017 Chicago Review of Books Nonfiction 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 for Body Horror:

“[Body Horror is] scary as fuck and liberating. . . . Moore connects the dots that you did not even think were on the same page.” ―Viva la Feminista

About this title

About the Author:

Anne Elizabeth Moore is an award-winning journalist, best-selling comics anthologist, and internationally lauded cultural critic. Called “one of the sharpest thinkers and cultural critics bouncing around the globe today” by Razorcake, a 'general phenom' by the Chicago Reader, and "a critic" by the New York Times, Moore has also been named “fun” by FastCompany, a “rad writer” by Time Out New York-Kids, and a “notable underground author” by the Onion. Her book Unmarketable was named Best Book of 2007 by Mother Jones. Body Horror is on the Nonfiction Shortlist for the 2017 Chicago Review of Books Nonfiction Award and was named a Best Book of 2017 by the Chicago Public Library. Cambodian Grrrl received a 2012 Lowell Thomas Award for Travel Journalism. Threadbare made the 2016 Tits & Sass list of "Best Investigative Reporting on Sex Work." Moore's essays "Reimagining the National Border Patrol Museum (and Gift Shop)" and "17 Theses on the Edge" were honorable mentions in Best American Non-Required Reading (2008 and 2010, respectively). Her work in comics has received Harvey and Eisner Award nominations and appeared on several bestseller lists. She is the former editor of seminal, award-winning Punk Planet and the founding editor of the Best American Comics, which continues to be a New York Times bestselling title. She has exhibited work in the Whitney Biennial in New York; in Leipzig, Phnom Penh, Berlin, Tbilisi, Lisbon, and Vienna; and in a solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. She has been honored to receive a National Endowment for the Arts Award, a UN Press Fellowship, a USC Annenberg/Getty Arts Journalism Fellowship, and two Fulbright Scholarships. She teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the College for Creative Studies. She was born in Winner, SD and in 2016, was awarded a fellowship in Detroit's unique Write A House program. She resides there with her cat.

Review:

Praise for Body 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 comically macabre way by the book’s cover art, which combines freak-show graphics with a punk-zine sensibility. And it is that extra edge, that bizarro brio, that makes this collection resonate long after the political harangue has faded. ... By audaciously linking her disparate Body Horrors to a larger construct ― more complex even than her own immune system, more menacing than mere patriarchy ― Moore allows her essays, each plenty feisty its own right, to punch significantly above their individual weight. Whether one is ready in real life to attribute everything from Crohn’s disease to Pacific Time to the machinations of the market, Moore’s arguments land with force enough to make even the marginally politicized reader think."―Los Angeles Review of Books

"[D]evastating in its unwillingness to flinch ... Body Horror is an incredible, touching, intelligent collection that looks beyond what’s comfortable to examine what is true."―Foreword (5 Star Review)

About this edition

• Publisher: Uncivilized Books
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1941250289
• ISBN 13: 9781941250280
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 120