A review by brogan7
Graphic Women by Hillary Chute

challenging informative slow-paced

This is a hard book to rate.  It is Extremely academic--like, so extremely I had to wonder how Chute maintained that register throughout and why it felt necessary to her to do so.  Clearly she is interested in what the artists she covers are making--Kominsky-Crumb, Gloeckner, Satrapi, Barry and Bechdel--but yet one thing they all are is accessible, and the one thing Chute isn't is accessible.
She is trying to get the works to be taken seriously, but the intellectual remove gets tedious after a while.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, Violence, and Death of parent