Topic: American Women Illustrators and Cartoonists

Paper details:

Your topic this week are prominent women illustrators and cartoonists from history. Pick one or a couple of artists to talk about in your paper this week. You may also speak about women as a whole in the field of illustration and comics art.

Some questions to consider but feel free to pick a topic that you enjoy:
What seems to be definitive or emblematic of the artist’s art style? Try to describe what is intriguing or remarkable in their work.

How might the artist’s work fit within the history of modern art or the history of comics and cartooning? What is its significance to the larger story of visual art in the 20th century?

What does it mean to think of comics as a part of modern and contemporary art, and how does taking comics into account change the history we might tell about modern and contemporary art?