Pathways: A graphic meditation. Issue 2 (1st December 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Burdock, Maureen
• Is Part Of: Studies in comics. Volume 7:Issue 2(2016)
• Page Start: 359
• Page End: 365
• Publication Date: 2016-12-01
• Subjects: Comic books, strips, etc., in art -- History and criticism -- Periodicals; Comic books, strips, etc., in art -- Periodicals; 741.5
• DOI: 10.1386/stic.7.2.359_1
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2040-3232

Abstract

Women's stories. For a decade, I created a series of graphic fables in which women protagonists from different cultures work with their communities to eliminate gender-based violence. McFarland anthologized that series, Feminist Fables for the Twenty-First Century, in 2015. In my current work, I am continuing to focus on women's stories; specifically, I am developing autohistoriographic1 narratives, in which my own stories are intimately intertwined with the stories of my female ancestors and with cultural and historical themes. I created Pathways in the space between completing Feminist Fables and beginning this new work. Pathways shows movement towards a deeper understanding of my own stories and the creation of new lines of thought in connection with memories, ghosts, and with the more-than-human world. Drawing – a process of making lines that connect and intersect to create image-stories – is itself an act of finding or forging new pathways.