Fine: A Comic About Gender (Liveright) - Softcover

Ewing, Rhea

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1631496808 ISBN 13: 9781631496806

Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2022

Synopsis

Graphic artist Rhea Ewing celebrates the incredible diversity of experiences within the transgender community with this vibrant and revealing debut

For fans of Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home and Meg-John Barker’s Queer, Fine is an essential graphic memoir about the intricacies of gender identity and expression. As Rhea Ewing neared university graduation in 2012, they became consumed by the question: What is gender?

This obsession sparked a quest in their quiet Midwest town, where they anxiously approached both friends and strangers for interviews to turn into comics. A decade later, their project has exploded into a fantastical and informative portrait of a surprisingly vast community spread across the America. Questions such as How do you identify? invited deep and honest accounts of adolescence, taking hormones, changing pronouns―and how these experiences can differ depending on culture, race and religion.

Amidst beautifully rendered scenes emerges Ewing’s own visceral story growing up in rural Kentucky, grappling with their identity as a teenager and ultimately finding themself through art―and by creating something this very fine.

About this title

About the Author

Rhea Ewing (they/them) is a comic illustrator and fine artist who graduated from University of Wisconsin–Madison with a BFA in drawing and printmaking. They currently live in California, taking artistic inspiration from the state’s diverse landscapes.

From the Back Cover

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"A significant and highly readable contribution to our understanding of the gender spectrum."
--Alison Bechdel

"Rhea Ewing has done a masterful job."
--Dylan Edwards, author of Transposes

"An incredibly valuable resource to anyone who has ever examined their own relationship (or non-relationship) to gender... I was absolutely blown away."
--Leigh Pfeffer, Host and Producer of History is Gay podcast

"A panoply of experiences from a broad swath of genders, lovingly collected, that glow with a sparkling visual and textual clarity."
--Bishakh Som, author of Spellbound and Apsara Engine

Edition details

• Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1631496808
• ISBN 13: 9781631496806
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 336