Published in 2014
200 pages
Shannon O’Leary is a writer and cartoonist living in Los Angeles. She is a regular contributor to Publishers Weekly and a contributing editor to The Beat: The News Blog of Comics and Culture. She was the editor of Pet Noir: An Illustrated Anthology of True Pet Crime Stories (Manic D Press, 2007).
Joan Reilly is an artist residing in Brooklyn, New York. She has contributed to the books Studs Terkel’s Working: A Graphic Adaptation, I Saw You…: Comics Inspired by Real-Life Missed Connections, Pet Noir, Hi-Horse Omnibus and The Art of Spelling: The Madness and the Method by Marilyn vos Savant.
Gabrielle Bell was born in England and raised in California. Her work has been selected for the 2007, 2009, and 2010 Best American Comics and the Yale Anthology of Graphic Fiction, and she has contributed to McSweeneys, Bookforum, the Believer, and Vice. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Ulli Lust was born in 1967 in Vienna, Austria. Her cartooning work has mainly comprised comics reportages; Today Is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life is her first graphic novel, and her first work to be translated into English. She lives and works in Berlin, Germany.
Jeffrey Brown is an Eisner Award winner and NY Times Bestselling author/illustrator of Darth Vader and Son and Vader’s Little Princess, both imagining what it would have been like if Darth Vader had raised a young Luke and Leia.
What is this book about?
The Big Feminist BUT: Comics about Women, Men and the IFs, ANDs & BUTs of Feminism is a comics anthology that asks: What do we really mean when we say, I’m not a feminist, BUT
” or I am 100% a feminist, BUT
” What do our great big BUTs” say about where things stand between the sexes in the 21st Century? We asked some of the most talented ladies (and gentlemen) working in comics and animation today, along with some of the smartest writers we know including Lauren Weinstein, Jeffrey Brown, Sarah Oleksyk, Gabrielle Bell, Justin Hall, Ron Rege Jr., Vanessa Davis, Josh Neufeld, Andi Zeisler, Angie Wang, Ulli Lust (winner of the 34th annual Los Angeles Times Book Prize for graphic novels/comics) and a whole lot more, to but” into the heated discussion about the much more level but still contradictory playing field both sexes are struggling to find their footing on today.
