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Nicole Ferentz is an American cartoonist, illustrator, graphic designer, and teacher. [2] Her works cover feminist themes, lesbian themes, and themes of illness. Her comics have been featured in prominent queer comics like Gay Comics. [3]
Nicole Ferentz earned her BFA and MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. [4]
Nicole Ferentz's cartoons are often biographical reflections of her own life that feature elements of humor within them. [4]
Nicole Ferentz's work as a female comic creator is showcased in some of Roz Warren's comic collections.
A biography on Nicole Ferentz is included alongside the biographies and works of bisexual and lesbian cartoonists like Alison Bechdel, Angela Bocage, and Karen Favreau within Roz Warren's Dyke Strippers: Lesbian Cartoonists A to Z. [2]
Roz Warren's curated collection of comics Mothers!: Cartoons by Women features contributions from cartoonists like Nicole Ferentz, Claire Bretécher, Barbara Brandon, Roz Chast, and Jennifer Camper. [5]
Nicole Ferentz's work on sex and relationships is featured alongside female cartoonists like Alison Bechdel, Claire Bretécher, and Roberta Gregory within Roz Warren's What Is This Thing Called Sex?. [6]
The Best Contemporary Women's Humor is Roz Warren's compilation of comic strips and panels by female cartoonists like Nicole Ferentz, Alison Bechdel, Jennifer Camper, and Diane DiMassa that covers topics like motherhood, relationships, and women in the workforce. [7]
The 17th edition of Gay Comics (previously Gay Comix) includes a comic contribution by Nicole Ferentz within their larger section covering the 1993 March on Washington. Ferentz's work is included in this issue of Gay Comics alongside other cartoonists like Robert Kirby, Kris Kovick, Leslie Ewing, and Roberta Gregory. [3]
Nicole Ferentz's work in collaboration with Celeste West focused on topics like lesbian sex and polyfidelity. Ferentz took on the role of illustrator for Celeste West's novels A Lesbian Love Advisor and Lesbian Polyfidelity. [8] [9] Both of Celeste West's novels illustrated by Nicole Ferentz were nominated for Lambda Literary Awards; A Lesbian Love Advisor was nominated in the 2nd Lambda Literary Awards under both Lesbian Nonfiction and Humor and Lesbian Polyfidelity was nominated in the 9th Lambda Literary Awards for the Small Press Book Award. [10]
Nicole Ferentz's city-wide project "The Critical Messages Show" was a collection of political audio recordings, videos, and posters by female artists from across the country placed in public trains and buses across Chicago. Nicole Ferentz acted as a co-curator alongside Anita David to create "The Critical Messages Show" under the sponsorship of the Artemisia Gallery. Several works from the show were censored and banned by the Chicago Transportation Authority for their focus on contemporary public issues. [11]
Nicole Ferentz is a credited contributor to the 1986 Hallwalls Exhibition "Artists from Artemisia" which featured the works of a number of Chicago-based female artists under the curation of Catherine Howe. [12]
Nicole Ferentz designed an event-specific logo t-shirt for the cooperative art exhibit Artemisia Flex at the Artemisia Gallery which looked to portray a feminist, artistic view on women body builders. [13]
In 2007, Nicole Ferentz was named the Director of Fine Arts for the Department of Fine and Performing Arts at Loyola University Chicago. [15]
PEN Oakland – Josephine Miles Literary Award
Dykes to Watch Out For was a weekly comic strip by Alison Bechdel. The strip, which ran from 1983 to 2008, was one of the earliest ongoing representations of lesbians in popular culture and has been called "as important to new generations of lesbians as landmark novels like Rita Mae Brown's Rubyfruit Jungle (1973) and Lisa Alther's Kinflicks (1976) were to an earlier one".
Diane DiMassa is an American feminist artist, noted as creator of the alternative cartoon character Hothead Paisan, Homicidal Lesbian Terrorist, whose wild antics have been described as rage therapy for the marginalised. DiMassa is also active in oil painting and street art.
Lambda Literary Awards, also known as the "Lammys", are awarded yearly by Lambda Literary to recognize the crucial role LGBTQ writers play in shaping the world. The Lammys celebrate the very best in LGBTQ literature. The awards were instituted in 1989.
Noreen Stevens is a Canadian cartoonist, who illustrated and wrote the lesbian comic strip The Chosen Family. Her work in the field of comics began in 1984. The Chosen Family is featured in the ensemble comic book Dyke Strippers: Lesbian Cartoonists from A to Z alongside the likes of Diane DiMassa and Alison Bechdel.
Stuck Rubber Babyis a 1995 graphic novel by American cartoonist Howard Cruse. He created his debut graphic novel after a decades-long career as an underground cartoonist. It deals with homosexuality and racism in the 1960s in the southern United States, in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement. While the book is not autobiographical, it draws upon Cruse's experience of growing up in the South during this time period, including his accidental fathering of a child, as referred to in the title.
Jane's World was a comic strip by cartoonist Paige Braddock that ran from March 1998 to October 2018. Featuring lesbian and bisexual women characters, the strip stars Jane Wyatt, a young lesbian living in a trailer in Northern California with her straight male roommate, Ethan, and follows her life with her circle of friends, romances, and exes. Shortly after celebrating its 20th anniversary, publication ended with Jane marrying Dorothy.
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic is a 2006 graphic memoir by the American cartoonist Alison Bechdel, author of the comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For. It chronicles the author's childhood and youth in rural Pennsylvania, United States, focusing on her complex relationship with her father. The book addresses themes of sexual orientation, gender roles, suicide, emotional abuse, dysfunctional family life, and the role of literature in understanding oneself and one's family.
Nicole Hollander is an American cartoonist and writer. Her daily comic strip Sylvia was syndicated to newspapers nationally by Tribune Media Services.
Mary Wings is an active American cartoonist, writer, and artist. She is known for highlighting lesbian themes in her work. In 1973, she made history by releasing Come Out Comix, the first lesbian comic book. She is also known for her series of detective novels featuring lesbian heroine Emma Victor. Divine Victim, Wings' only Gothic novel, won the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Mystery in 1994.
Jennifer Camper is a cartoonist and graphic artist whose work is inspired by her own experiences as a Lebanese-American lesbian. Her work has been included in various outlets such as newspapers and magazines since the 1980s, as well as in exhibits in Europe and the United States. Furthermore, Camper is the creator and founding director of the biennial Queers and Comics conference.
Kris Kovick was an American writer, cartoonist, and printer based in California.
Robert Triptow is an American writer and artist. He is known primarily for creating gay- and bisexual-themed comics and for editing Gay Comix in the 1980s, and he was identified by underground comix pioneer Lee Marrs as "the last of the underground cartoonists."
Celeste (Celestia) West was an American librarian and lesbian author, known for her alternative viewpoints in librarianship and her authorship of books about lesbian sex and polyfidelity. She herself was polyamorous.
Rupert Kinnard also credited as Prof. I.B. Gittendowne, is an American cartoonist who created the first ongoing gay/lesbian-identified African-American comic-strip characters: the Brown Bomber and Diva Touché Flambé. Kinnard is gay and African American.
No Straight Lines is an anthology of queer comics covering a 40-year period from the late 1960s to the late 2000s. It was edited by Justin Hall and published by Fantagraphics Books on August 1, 2012.
Andrea Natalie is an American cartoonist. She is the creator of the Stonewall Riots collections and founded the Lesbian Cartoonists' Network.
Angela Bocage is a bisexual comics creator who published mainly in the 1980s and 1990s. Bocage was active in the queer comics community during these decades, publishing in collections like Gay Comix,Strip AIDS USA, and Wimmen's Comix. Bocage also created, edited, and contributed comics to Real Girl, a comics anthology published by Fantagraphics.
Jane Caminos is an American-born queer cartoonist and artist. During her college career, she became involved in activism, leading her to create paintings inspired by causes that are important to her, such as the Vietnam War and violence against women.
N. Leigh Dunlap is an American graphic designer, actor, illustrator, cartoonist and copywriter. She is best known for her cartoonist contributions named Morgan Calabrese. Throughout her career, Dunlap has published much material surrounding LGBTQ+ activism and was a winner of the 2nd Lambda Literary Award under the humor category.
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