Somnambulance

by Fiona Smyth

Overview

A comics collection by Canadian cartoonist, painter, and illustrator Fiona Smyth. Over thirty years of comics that feature Fiona's world of sexy ladies, precocious girls, and vindictive goddesses is revealed in all its feminist glory. This is recommended reading for sleepwalkers on a female planet.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781927668542
Publisher:	Koyama Press
Publication date:	05/08/2018
Pages:	368
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Fiona Smyth is a Toronto based painter, educator, illustrator, and cartoonist. Her feminist artwork has exhibited internationally. Fiona collaborated with writer and sex educator Cory Silverberg on the kids' series What Makes A Baby in 2013, and Sex Is A Funny Word in 2015, published by Seven Stories Press.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"Smyth's uncompromising feminist preoccupation with chronicling experience, painting dreams and making theory visible has resulted in a glorious and unprecedented creative life. This collection of bold marks is an iconography of sex, death, gender, desire and vulnerability that defines new benchmarks for hybrid art practice and imagined creatures. Big guts, tonnes of pussy and other hairy holes, freak fashion and politics all keep me wanting and looking." - Allyson Mitchell is a maximalist artist working in sculpture, performance, installation and film. She runs the FAG feminist art gallery and teaches Gender and Sexuality Studies at York University.

Editorial Reviews

Praise for What Makes a Baby

"Smyth’s cartoons recall the work of Todd Parr, with a bright crayon-box palette. Silverberg’s writing is informative yet sufficiently general to let adults tailor the accompanying conversations as needed. A useful springboard for conversations about childbirth, no matter the family.”— Publisher's Weekly

Praise for Sex is a Funny Word

"Sex is a Funny Word is nothing short of revolutionary. Cory Silverberg and Fiona Smyth’s newest book is brilliant in its approach to giving caregivers and educators the tools they need to talk to kids about their bodies.... Though representation of many bodies shouldn’t be revolutionary, most of our media – children’s books included – showcases white, thin bodies in ways that are often ableist, sexist, homophobic, and trans-exclusive. In this way (and many others), Silverberg and Smyth’s contribution to the dialogue is revolutionary: finally young people have a way to see all bodies (including their own body) represented. Yes." --Kristin Russo in Buzzfeed

From the Publisher