Against Donald Duck and other revenge When someone reads a current bullet Roberta Gregory is difficult to think that Disney was an early and decisive influence making cartoons. But this is not the relationship that, at the global level, almost everyone has with Disney since childhood but a much more intimate: his father, Robert Gregory, mainly drew Donald Duck comic Walt Disney Co. for three decades, since the late '50s. Obviously his drawings were anonymous, Robert was one more than the assembly of the publisher. His daughter, born in Los Angeles in 1953, would inherit his passion for comics, but break that chain through the spaces created by both the underground comic as the feminist movement, both at its peak during the adolescence of Roberta. But the most particular is that it would just expand the two spaces, all thanks to that line volatile, organic, anti-academic, sometimes very close to the irascible doodle characteristic visual style. And his sketches have become comic was, paradoxically, thanks to the Academy: the journal of the university gave him the opportunity to publish their creations in 1974, and Roberta Feminist Funnies conceived his series of tales, and humorous style appears incorrect. "I was a cartoon based on the women's movement. The humor and the women's movement were not concepts that could be put together at the time, so I always had a slightly different way of doing things, "he said about those years. Obviously it was a pioneer in the feminist comic, because there was Wimmer's Comix, a magazine founded two years earlier by a group of women who learned of the underground logic of self and models of resistance to taxes. The image of women in this anthology collectively was an innovative revolution in the world Cartoon away from Daisy and Donald Duck female appendix, but Roberta was still missing something, so I brought over their differences. "What made me post my first comic in Wimmer's Comix was to see that the No. 1 issue of the journal was virtually straight. And I said, what happens here? So I wrote a story lesbian ... I went as well as they wanted, but at least it was a valid place to go. "The cartoon was called A Modern Romance, was published in 1974 in Wimmer's Comix and left for half the history of comic feminist, throwing down the slide different modernity. Initiation
lesbian-feminist squared
The star of A Modern Romance is Anne, a newcomer to college, disoriented and looking for a friendly environment. Begins to participate in the student movement that encourages women to give a lecture to the radical feminist Jane Watson. So far, everything seemed a story of initiation in feminism, but Roberta Gregory gives a twist to the issue and draw a cartoon with the thoughts of the students while watching conference Watson, a lesbian-fledged bun. One thinks that "it is the kind that gives feminism a bad name," another that "it is the last time I invite you to speak," and another simply exclaims "What a dyke!". Anne, at the end of the bullet, however, blushes, there are twelve hearts around it and while its very heart races, his only thought is "Oh, God." Anne realizes that there is a lesbian, but can not mention that word, sums up his life in a second and remember that I never cared deeply about the kids, but never considered the possibility of sleeping with another woman. In one picture, pint Gregory lesbophobia status of the old feminism, which unfortunately still continues in some conservative streaks reject any association with lesbianism not to "confuse things." And incidentally, with the character of Anne in A Modern Romance, comic lesbofeminista was founded in the middle of the, until then, heterosexist Wimmer's Comix. And the proposals of Gregory were expanding to create a place for smart difference between the comic. And so he made history in 1976 was the first woman to publish a collection of individual comic book format. It was called Dynamite Damsels and stars of most of the stories Phels Frieda, the successor to the adventures of Anne university. Gregory itself presents the book in a foreword to herself drawn, which clarifies that all stories are based on real events. There were complaints that are still in force, as misunderstanding and abuse of a patient's gynecologist to a lack of lesbian or women's sizes abundant meat, but everything from a corrosive sense of humor, like a satirical pamphlet. These non-fiction comics, comic subgenre's own underground, are one of the most lucid testimony on lesbofeminismo mid 70s. Also, at the beginning and end, Dynamite Damsels has fantastic stories, one of them is Superdyke (or "Supertorta"), a vengeful Amazon women and queers hit by machismo, as well as help a woman change a flat tire on your car or swept under the fridge. Maybe it's the first lesbian superhero. The it would be a detail, because at that point Gregory already had secured its place in the pioneering papers super size.
The tortona
The creation of the magazine Gay Comix in the early '80s made Roberta Gregory had a place to publish stories lesbian criticism. His vision of things as he had nothing to do with the gay chic own this decade, but that was ahead of the vision of the queer movement of the '90s. While, however, his most popular will be Bitchy Bitch, a straight woman named Midge McCracken that, always on the defensive angry, has a disagreement with the infinite world starting work, an office that functions as a microcosm of the greater part of his misadventures, involving abortion, the abuse of patriarchal power, the misalignment between women. Sitcom Lucky furious, McCracken shares some complaints against the world of its author, but it is homophobic, which allows Gregory to expose how the reactionary thought. McCracken, who in Spain was translated as The whore, like all the characters in Gregory, is a contradictory dynamic, flowing zigzag as sexual orientation and gender identity. "I always think of gender, sexuality and all that as quite fluid. I never thought of myself as a child while I grew up, for example, and have gone through the whole map myself sexually, even lived with a transgender person before it was 'fashionable', without thinking that this was something strange. I find it fascinating to see people trying to fit in compartment sometimes sex / gender in society and set to be adapted to the 'cloud', "says Gregory approaching the anarcho-feminist vision of the queer movement. And in this context arises the other side of McCracken's most famous lesbian character, almost an icon of explosion cake: Bitchy Butch, with his short hair robutez and tits falling. Deepening uncontrolled cartoon style, with the stroke out onomatopoeia side and on the verge of a nervous breakdown, Butchy, as the author affectionately called, is your cake butch gritted teeth with rage, a version lesbian guerrilla resistance that bothers: advancing front against everything that is put into its way from the religious right to anyone who insinuates traces of heteronormative ideology. "Butchy was born when a woman asked me to create a lesbian version of Bitchy Bitch for a comic book. When I showed my first story Butchy, this woman was angry and offended! These stories are some of my favorites. "Obviously, some people judge the image as the archetypal Butchy negative-bun cake, but Gregory shows that to the archetypes do not have to fight but to develop the giant invincible cartooning again. And so we can love forever.
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