ABSTRACT
The chapter explores how works by Rubin Dranger and Grennvall (today Shagerström) have shaped and been shaped by aesthetic, social, political, and cultural interactions transgressing national boundaries in a globalising world. In humoristic comics in black and white, Rubin Dranger claims space and attention for women in public life and criticises the physical demands on women’s bodies and high expectations on individual achievement in an increasingly tough working life. Åsa Grennvall has drawn from punk, goth, and do-it-yourself aesthetics in her early fanzines and comics albums about relations, women’s bodies, and violence against women. Her albums have been translated into, e.g., English, Finnish, French, and Korean. Both artists are part of the transnational wave of life narrative comics.
