(September 2013)
Drawn & Quarterly,
2013 Series
Published in English
(Canada)
- Price
- 21.95 USD; 21.95 CAD
- Pages
- 112
- On-sale Date
- 2013-10-16
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Drawn & Quarterly
- Brand
-
D+Q
- ISBN
-
978-1-77046-126-0
- Barcode
- 9781770461260
- Editing
- ?
- Color
- colour
- Dimensions
- 17cm x 23cm
- Paper Stock
- book paper
- Binding
- smythe-sewn; hardcover
Issue Notes
The barcode itself is on the back cover, but the number is not printed.
Woman Rebel: The Margaret Sanger Story
comic story / 72 pages
- Genre
- non-fiction; biography
- Characters
- Margaret Sanger [Margaret Higgins]; Ethel Byrne [Ethel Higgins]; Michael Higgins; Anne Higgins; Anita Block; Anthony Comstock; William Sanger; Noah Slee; Emma Goldman; Daisy Mitchell; Grant Sanger; Katharine McCormick; Dr. Gregory Pincus; Dr. Min Chueh Chang; Dr. John Rock; H. G. Wells; Havelock Ellis; Big Bill Haywood (cameo); Mahatma Ghandi (cameo); Will Durant (cameo)
- Synopsis
- Margret Sanger grows up in Corning, New York, seeing her mother suffer from the effects of 18 pregnancies. She becomes a nurse and begins to campaign for contraception (still illegal in many venues) and free love. Abrasive and self-centered, she alienates many of her allies and family members, but continues in her struggle. Near the end of her life she helps fund creation of the birth control pill, and sees the Supreme Court declare contraception legal throughout the land.
- Reprints
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in The Best American Comics (Houghton Mifflin, 2006 series) #2015 ([October] 2015)
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- Keywords
- Abortion; birth control; contraception; contraceptives; Corning; family; free love; nurse; woman suffrage
Who's Who and What's What
text article / 18 pages
- Script
- Peter Bagge
- Pencils
- ? (photographs)
- Inks
- ? (photographs)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- non-fiction
- Characters
- Margaret Sanger [Margaret Higgins]; Ethel Byrne [Ethel Higgins]; Michael Higgins; Nan Higgins; Mary Higgins; Corey Albertson; William Sanger; Will Durant; Stuart Sanger; Grant Sanger; Peggy Sanger; Pat Quinlan; Carlo Tresca; E. G. Flynn; Big Bill Haywood; Havelock Ellis; Fania Mindell; Noah Slee; H. G. Wells; Otis Skinner; Katherine Houghton Hepburn; Shidzue Kato
Editing
Related Scans
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
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1.
[Title Page & Credits]
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2.
About the Cover
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3.
On Peter Bagge and Margaret Sanger
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4.
["Woman Rebel"]
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5.
Woman Rebel: The Margaret Sanger Story
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6.
Why Sanger?
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7.
Who's Who and What's What
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8.
[About the Author]
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9.
[no title indexed]
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10.
["[Woman Rebel] is fine work from an excellent cartoonist..."]
This issue was modified by
- Michael Hoskin
- Kirk House
- John Pannozzi
- Tony R. Rose
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