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Susan E. Kirtley
Professor of English and Director of Comics Studies at Portland State University, author of the Eisner-winning "Lynda Barry: Girlhood Through the Looking Glass" and co-author of "Women in Comics" (2026).
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Oct 6, 2026
Women in Comics: Iconic Characters and Influential Creators 1923-Today with Susan E. Kirtley and Nhora Lucía Serrano (Black Dog & Leventhal, 2026)
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Rebecca BuchananHOST
So you paired The Patriot with The Working Woman, so can you talk a little bit about The Working Woman and, and that sort of archetype and, and stuff?
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19:34Susan E. KirtleyGUEST
And I think the, The Working Woman for me is such a fascinating chapter, uh, because you can look at these older comics, and you look at these newer comics, and you look at the comics across different, uh, cultures and regions, and a lot of the, um, challenges of women in the working world remain the same.
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19:53Susan E. KirtleyGUEST
So, um, you know, The Working Woman, we, we were able to dig into the idea, you know, of, of how are women in the working world represented through comics.
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Rebecca BuchananHOST
Uh, yeah, so the fashionista, can you talk a little bit about her, too, and sort of how, how she plays a- an important role in comics and comic history?