I'm writing to say that Kathe and I have both finished Bitch Planet Volume 1, and will be returning it tomorrow.
In the meantime, I must tell you that neither Kathe nor I liked it very much. We agreed that it covered ground better tilled by novels like The Handmaid's Tale* and Native Tongues**.
Kathe asked me to come up with a list of better feminist graphic novels, especially ones which depicted a horrific patriarchal dystopia. I couldn't find that exact thing (unless you would count the Sid Jacobson/Ernie Colon adaptation of the diary of Anne Frank: http://www.amightygirl.com/anne-frank-graphic-novel
or Marzi:
or Lili Renee:
or maybe Rosa Parks:
and there's a case to be made for The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/888169.Triangle_Shirtwaist_Factory_Fire), but here are some graphic novels that have come recommended by various people. Some I have read, some I have not, some which the GNBC has read:
Ody-C tries a different approach to undermining patriarchy, reversing the genders in one of the most influential patriarchalist documents, The Odyssey (which some have claimed was written by a woman):
-- John M. Burt
(BTW: A graphic novel of THT is coming soon: http://groupthink.kinja.com/the-handmaids-tale-graphic-novel-1630506060).
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