The Big Feminist But: Comics about Women, Men and the IFs, ANDs & BUTs of Feminism - Softcover

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.

“Truth. Thankfully, The Big Feminist But is strong anthology work, with an emphatic and seriously-felt point of view. The criteria is also incredibly multifaceted: no one involved questions the need to use the word “feminism,” the authors just differ over what the term means and how to apply it in everyday life.” – Hillary Brown, Paste Magazine

“In all of these stories there is a sense of paradigms shifting and boundaries melting, with fresh possibilities springing forth – feminism in action.” ― Robert Kirby, The Comics Journal

"Brilliant, funny, touching, sweet, dark, righteous comics..." — Jezebel

“One of the great strengths of this book: that no matter where you’re coming from, you’re bound to find an idea or two in here that are surprising or unexpected. And while none of the stories are preachy―many, in fact, are quite the opposite―you could easily find yourself considering some alternative points of view.” ― Sean Kleefeld, Freaksugar

"The Big Feminist BUT kicks ass." — Heidi MacDonald

Truth. Thankfully, The Big Feminist But is strong anthology work, with an emphatic and seriously-felt point of view. The criteria is also incredibly multifaceted: no one involved questions the need to use the word feminism,” the authors just differ over what the term means and how to apply it in everyday life.” Hillary Brown, Paste Magazine

In all of these stories there is a sense of paradigms shifting and boundaries melting, with fresh possibilities springing forth feminism in action.” Robert Kirby, The Comics Journal

"Brilliant, funny, touching, sweet, dark, righteous comics..." — Jezebel

One of the great strengths of this book: that no matter where you’re coming from, you’re bound to find an idea or two in here that are surprising or unexpected. And while none of the stories are preachy many, in fact, are quite the opposite you could easily find yourself considering some alternative points of view.” Sean Kleefeld, Freaksugar

"The Big Feminist BUT kicks ass." — Heidi MacDonald