Margaret Galvan, In Visible Archives: Queer and Feminist Visual Culture in the 1980s

Margaret Galvan’s latest Eisner award-nominated book examines a body of texts that lie at the intersection of (self-)representation, activism, sexuality, gender, race, and class. These are, as the title suggests, feminist and queer multimedia collages, comics, comix, drawings, and photographs that are strategically conceptualized by the author as in/visible, that is most accessible and effective as material artifacts and yet, for the very same reason, difficult to access. This paradox and/or...