ABSTRACT
The chapter analyses two German-language comics, Patu and Antje Schrupp’s Brief History of Feminism and Katja Klengel’s Girlsplaining, both discussed as feminist works, against the backdrop of the significant influence of Liv Strömquist’s works on the German-speaking realm. The works discussed are interconnected by reclaiming and reviewing verbal and visual representations of feminist topics – the key themes and representational strategies discussed in the chapter being vulva discourse, art quotations, and humour. In following this comparative approach, the chapter sheds light on crucial developments in feminist comics, pressing feminist topics, and their (inter)cultural effect/connection as well as sociopolitical contextualisation. It lays out how these comics reflect, criticise, and even overcome various (hegemonic) discourses. The analyses are embedded in the research-project, “Visualities of Gender in German-Language Comics,” conducted by the authors at the University of Vienna and funded by the Austrian Science Fund (https://gendercomics.net">https://gendercomics.net/en/).
