Our Comics, Ourselves: Identity, Expression, and Representation in Comic Art

Title: Our Comics, Ourselves: Identity, Expression, and Representation in Comic Art

Author: Descartes, Jan, Ethan Heitner, and Monica McKelvey, eds.

Publication: [Brooklyn, New York]: Interference Archive, 2016.

Description: Published to accompany Interference Archive's 2016 exhibition "Our Comics, Ourselves," this catalog/zine contains comic artists' responses to the curators' request for essays, commentary, and recommendations of graphic works that inspired, angered, or motivated them. One of 500 copies. First edition. Illustrated throughout in color with reproductions of comic art and related material. Stapled in pictorial card wrappers, printed in magenta and blue. 8.75 x 5.5 inches; 59, [1] pages, including wrappers. Wrappers with light edgewear and soiling and a crease at corner; clean interior. Very Good+.

The exhibition on which this zine is based presented graphic stories outside the mainstream, stories that highlighted the complexity and diversity of the human experience. After its run at the Interference Archive, it traveled to University of Connecticut and George Mason University. This zine contains contributions by: Elvis B., Paul Buhle, Leela Corman, Edie Fake, William H. Foster III, Ganzeer, Nils Hancza, John Jennings, Sandy Jimenez, Sabrina Jones, Jay Odjick, and Sophie Yanow. "Interference Document 13."