Fine : a comic about gender /
Ewing, Rhea,
Fine : a comic about gender / Rhea Ewing. - First edition. - xii, 319 pages : chiefly black and white illustrations ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction -- How do you know what to call yourself -- Femininity -- Masculinity -- Race -- Expression -- Body feelings -- Hormones -- Healthcare -- Language -- Being (un)seen -- Relationships -- Housing -- Bathrooms -- Queer community -- What we build.
"Graphic artist Rhea Ewing celebrates the incredible diversity of experiences within the transgender community with this vibrant and revealing debut. For fans of Alison Bechdel's Fun Home and Meg-John Barker's Queer, Fine is an essential graphic memoir about the intricacies of gender identity and expression. As Rhea Ewing neared college graduation in 2012, they became consumed by the question: What is gender? This obsession sparked a quest in their quiet Midwest town, where they anxiously approached both friends and strangers for interviews to turn into comics. A decade later, their project has exploded into a fantastical and informative portrait of a surprisingly vast community spread across the country. Questions such as How do you identify? invited deep and honest accounts of adolescence, taking hormones, changing pronouns-and how these experiences can differ depending on culture, race, and religion. Amidst beautifully rendered scenes emerges Ewing's own visceral story growing up in rural Kentucky, grappling with their identity as a teenager, and ultimately finding themself through art-and by creating something this very fine"--
9781631496806
2021043275
Ewing, Rhea--Comic books, strips, etc.
Cartoonists--United States--Biography--Comic books, strips, etc.
Gender identity--Comic books, strips, etc.
Autobiographical comics.
Comics (Graphic works)
Graphic novels.
Nonfiction comics.
PN6727 .E98 / F56 2022
Fine : a comic about gender / Rhea Ewing. - First edition. - xii, 319 pages : chiefly black and white illustrations ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction -- How do you know what to call yourself -- Femininity -- Masculinity -- Race -- Expression -- Body feelings -- Hormones -- Healthcare -- Language -- Being (un)seen -- Relationships -- Housing -- Bathrooms -- Queer community -- What we build.
"Graphic artist Rhea Ewing celebrates the incredible diversity of experiences within the transgender community with this vibrant and revealing debut. For fans of Alison Bechdel's Fun Home and Meg-John Barker's Queer, Fine is an essential graphic memoir about the intricacies of gender identity and expression. As Rhea Ewing neared college graduation in 2012, they became consumed by the question: What is gender? This obsession sparked a quest in their quiet Midwest town, where they anxiously approached both friends and strangers for interviews to turn into comics. A decade later, their project has exploded into a fantastical and informative portrait of a surprisingly vast community spread across the country. Questions such as How do you identify? invited deep and honest accounts of adolescence, taking hormones, changing pronouns-and how these experiences can differ depending on culture, race, and religion. Amidst beautifully rendered scenes emerges Ewing's own visceral story growing up in rural Kentucky, grappling with their identity as a teenager, and ultimately finding themself through art-and by creating something this very fine"--
9781631496806
2021043275
Ewing, Rhea--Comic books, strips, etc.
Cartoonists--United States--Biography--Comic books, strips, etc.
Gender identity--Comic books, strips, etc.
Autobiographical comics.
Comics (Graphic works)
Graphic novels.
Nonfiction comics.
PN6727 .E98 / F56 2022