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Maureen Burdock
illustration • comics • teaching • writing • graphic research
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EISNER AWARD WINNER! Menopause: A Comic Treatment
EISNER AWARD WINNER! Menopause: A Comic Treatment
EISNER AWARD WINNER! Menopause: A Comic Treatment
“Often informative, sometimes moving, and ambitious in its frank talk about what is oddly taboo: an inevitable experience for half of humanity.”
—Publisher's Weekly
PathoGraphics
EISNER AWARD WINNER! Menopause: A Comic Treatment
EISNER AWARD WINNER! Menopause: A Comic Treatment
“This multidisciplinary collection of essays examines textual and graphic representations of illness, disability, and pain, describing how the narratives in question use the aesthetics of their medium to embrace contention and community. The authors reclaim ground previously ceded to traditional paradigms and in the process liberate the mind, the body, and the text.”
—MK Czerwiec, author of Taking Turns: Stories from HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371
COVID Chronicles
COVID Chronicles
COVID Chronicles
At times heartbreaking and at others hopeful and humorous, these comics express the anger, anxiety, fear, and bewilderment we feel in the era of COVID-19. Above all, they highlight the power of art and community to help us make sense of a world in crisis, reminding us that we are truly all in this together.
Contested Selves
COVID Chronicles
COVID Chronicles
Available on Amazon
Major Projects
The Queen of Snails: A Graphic Memoir
The Queen of Snails: A Graphic Memoir
The Queen of Snails: A Graphic Memoir
The Queen of Snails is an autobiographical and transgenerational retracing of memory, trauma, and feminist resilience. It is a graphic novel, and a portion of this work is also my dissertation in cultural studies at the University of California, Davis, completed in June, 2021.
The F Word Project
The Queen of Snails: A Graphic Memoir
The Queen of Snails: A Graphic Memoir
I am the author of Feminist Fables for the Twenty-First Century (McFarland 2015), with a foreword by Trina Robbins. This compendium of fables in visual form features women negotiating different types of gender-based violence and inequity in various cultures worldwide. Five graphic narratives expose such issues as femicide, child molestati
I am the author of Feminist Fables for the Twenty-First Century (McFarland 2015), with a foreword by Trina Robbins. This compendium of fables in visual form features women negotiating different types of gender-based violence and inequity in various cultures worldwide. Five graphic narratives expose such issues as femicide, child molestation and female genital mutilation without defining the affected women and girls by their unfortunate circumstances.
Publications
Art Portfolio
Art Portfolio
Published graphic narratives and writing about comics, trauma, memory, and belonging.
Art Portfolio
Art Portfolio
Art Portfolio
An overview of autobiographical and activist projects.