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Who Will Make the Pancakes

Five Stories

By: Megan Kelso

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Who Will Make the Pancakes

Five Stories

By: Megan Kelso

A suite of five brilliant comics stories united by themes of motherhood, family, and love.

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Fantagraphics Books

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ISBN 10

1683966708

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9781683966708

The Squirrel Mother

By: Megan Kelso

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Kelso's work is characterized by subject matter that fits roughly into two disparate camps: personal and semi-autobiographical stories that draw heavily on the details of her childhood and adolescence, and stories about the idea of America and American history, such as a trilogy of short pieces about Alexander Hamilton. Her work is distinguished from many of her contemporaries as much by her spare, elegant, calligraphic linework, leisurely pacing, and psychological acuity as it is by the absence of nihilism, scatology, pedantry, and formal experimentalism. Her work is charming, witty, nuanced, slightly elusive, and sharply observed. The Squirrel Mother features 15 stories of between three and twenty-two pages in full color, including two stories, "Meow Face" and "Aide de Camp," done especially for this volume. The personal stories are each self-contained but in a sense take place in the same world where similar characters inhabit different stories. The "America" stories are broader in subject matter, taking on events of political and historical significance and wrestling with ideas having to do with the American experience.

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153

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Fantagraphics Books

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1560977469

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9781560977469

Artichoke Tales

By: Megan Kelso

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Artichoke Tales

By: Megan Kelso

Artichoke Tales is a coming-of-age story about a young girl named Brigitte whose family is caught between the two warring sides of a civil war, a graphic novel that takes place in a world that echoes our own, but whose people have artichoke leaves instead of hair. Influenced in equal parts byLittle House on the Prairie, The Thorn Birds, Dharma Bums, and Cold Mountain, Kelso weaves a moving story about family amidst war. Kelso’s visual storytelling, uniquely combining delicate linework with rhythmic, musical page compositions, creates a dramatic tension between intimate, ruminative character studies and the unflinching depiction of the consequences of war and carnage, lending cohesion and resonance to a generational epic.

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233

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Fantagraphics Books

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1606993445

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9781606993446

Queen of the Black Black

By: Megan Kelso

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Queen of the Black Black

By: Megan Kelso

Megan Kelso was a classic DIY cartoonist/publisher, who crafted and self-published her popular minicomic Girlhero from 1991 to 1996. Queen of the Black Black, which collects these early Girlhero strips (as well as a few from other sources) and was originally published in a limited edition twelve years ago (now long out of print), provides an engrossing chronicle of an ambitious young cartoonist carefully developing her own unique style and approach. In this volume, Kelso scrutinizes bicycle messengers, venereal diseases, infidelity, unwanted pregnancies, temporary work assignments, family reunions, and classroom daydreams in subtle and unexpected manners, setting herself technical challenges such as depicting music in comics (the virtuoso “The Daddy Mask,” with its sensuous gray swirls of sound on the page), integrating lettering into artwork in creative ways, and generally working her way toward what would become her mature style. The title story, “Queen of the Black Black,” rendered in lush gray tones, explores the fraught relationship between the aging, demanding queen of a fairy-tale realm and a hornblower whom she takes under her wing.

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169

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Fantagraphics Books

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160699459X

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9781606994597

Fostering on the Farm

Child Placement in the Rural Midwest

By: Megan Birk

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Fostering on the Farm

Child Placement in the Rural Midwest

By: Megan Birk

From 1870 until after World War I, reformers led an effort to place children from orphanages, asylums, and children's homes with farming families. The farmers received free labor in return for providing room and board. Reformers, meanwhile, believed children learned lessons in family life, citizenry, and work habits that institutions simply could not provide. Drawing on institution records, correspondence from children and placement families, and state reports, Megan Birk scrutinizes how the farm system developed--and how the children involved may have become some of America's last indentured laborers. Between 1850 and 1900, up to one-third of farm homes contained children from outside the family. Birk reveals how the nostalgia attached to misplaced perceptions about healthy, family-based labor masked the realities of abuse, overwork, and loveless upbringings endemic in the system. She also considers how rural people cared for their own children while being bombarded with dependents from elsewhere. Finally, Birk traces how the ills associated with rural placement eventually forced reformers to transition to a system of paid foster care, adoptions, and family preservation.

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257

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University of Illinois Press

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0252097297

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9780252097294

Artichoke Tales

By: Megan Kelso

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Fantagraphics Books

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Advanced Introduction to Privacy Law

By: Megan Richardson

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Advanced Introduction to Privacy Law

By: Megan Richardson

Presenting a concise, yet wide-ranging and contemporary overview of the field, this Advanced Introduction to Privacy Law focuses on how we arrived at our privacy laws, and how the law can deal with new and emerging challenges from digital technologies, social networks and public health crises. This illuminating and interdisciplinary book demonstrates how the history of privacy law has been one of constant adaptation to emerging challenges, illustrating the primacy of the right to privacy amidst a changing social and cultural landscape.

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125

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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1788970950

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9781788970952

Good Soldiers Don't Rape

The Stories We Tell About Military Sexual Violence

By: Megan MacKenzie

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Good Soldiers Don't Rape

The Stories We Tell About Military Sexual Violence

By: Megan MacKenzie

Connects military sexual violence (MSV) to conversations about #MeToo and 'rape culture,' highlighting the misconceptions about MSV that have obstructed addressing and preventing it.

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183

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Cambridge University Press

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1009273965

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9781009273961

Finding the plot: A Maternal Approach to Madness in Literature

By: Megan Rigers

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Finding the plot: A Maternal Approach to Madness in Literature

By: Megan Rigers

Over the past fifty years, feminist literary criticism has become theoretical rather than practical, severing any relationship between literary analysis and the real lived experiences of women. An example of this disconnect is the way in which the madwoman in feminist literature has become a lauded icon of liberation, when in reality her situation would be seen as anything but empowered. Finding the Plot takes this example to task, arguing that in fact any interpretation of women’s madness as subversive reinforces the very gender stereotypes that feminist literary criticism should be calling into question.

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206

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Demeter Press

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1772581607

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9781772581607

The Scottish Legal System

By: Megan Dewart

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The Scottish Legal System

By: Megan Dewart

A course on the Scottish legal system is a compulsory part of undergraduate degrees in Scots Law. The Scottish Legal System sets out to present the 'legal system and law of Scotland as a unique and constantly changing human enterprise' and places the Scottish legal system in its broader political and social contexts. This is achieved by covering not only the central aspects of the system, such as the courts and the legal profession, but also the border areas with constitutional law and jurisprudence. This new sixth edition includes new case law on devolution and human rights issues in Scotland. This well established text provides an up-to-date treatment of all significant developments affecting the Scottish legal system.

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491

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1526506351

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9781526506351

Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body

By: Megan Milks

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Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body

By: Megan Milks

“A delightfully weird and very queer reimagining of 90s YA nostalgia.” —Autostraddle "Queer dynamite." —Kristen Arnett, author of Mostly Dead Things Finalist for the 2022 Lambda Literary Award in Transgender Fiction Meet Margaret. At age twelve, she was head detective of the mystery club Girls Can Solve Anything. Margaret and her three best friends led exciting lives solving crimes, having adventures, and laughing a lot. But now that she's entered high school, the club has disbanded, and Margaret is unmoored—she doesn't want to grow up, and she wishes her friends wouldn't either. Instead, she opts out, developing an eating disorder that quickly takes over her life. When she lands in a treatment center, Margaret finds her path to recovery twisting sideways as she pursues a string of new mysteries involving a ghost, a hidden passage, disturbing desires, and her own vexed relationship with herself. Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body reimagines nineties adolescence—mashing up girl group series, choose-your-own-adventures, and chronicles of anorexia—in a queer and trans coming-of-age tale like no other. An interrogation of girlhood and nostalgia, dysmorphia and dysphoria, this debut novel puzzles through the weird, ever-evasive questions of growing up.

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199

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Feminist Press at CUNY

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1952177812

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9781952177811

Scheherazade

Comics about Love, Treachery, Mothers & Monsters

By: Megan Kelso

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Scheherazade

Comics about Love, Treachery, Mothers & Monsters

By: Megan Kelso

A few years ago Megan Kelso noticed an explosion of young female cartoonists who were really ambitious and promising and got together with them as a very active, hands-on editor to produce Scheherazade. In Queen Scheherazade Kelso found a role model: the archetypal (female) storyteller, cheating death by enthralling her royal captor with new instalments of a vast, interconnected story. The tales in this book take on the broad human spectrum and herald a new era in the genre of the graphic novel.

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1932360549

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9781932360547

Hey Kidz! Buy This Book

A Radical Primer on Corporate and Governmental Propaganda and Artistic Activism for Short People

By: Anne Elizabeth Moore

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A Radical Primer on Corporate and Governmental Propaganda and Artistic Activism for Short People

By: Anne Elizabeth Moore

Hey Kidz! provides a solid grounding in the current media strategies that target youth as the most sought-after demographic target, and leads readers to the understanding that advertising drives most of everything they experience. The author goes on to ex

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Red Rattle Books

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1932360352

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9781932360356

Selfish is the Heart

By: Megan Hart

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Selfish is the Heart

By: Megan Hart

The national bestselling author of No Greater Pleasure delivers a new novel featuring a reluctant student of seduction. To escape an arranged marriage, Annalise Marony decides to become a Handmaiden of the Order of Solace. But she is thwarted at every turn by Cassian, a teacher of the faith, who must test her dedication. Older than most of the girls, Annalise knows that she will be expected to please a patron in pleasures of the flesh-and she is not shy about teasing Cassian. And as they both play out the game of master and student, the secrets in their souls will either tear them apart-or bind them together forever.

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Penguin

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1101443936

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9781101443934

Book's by Megan Kelso

Who Will Make the Pancakes

Who Will Make the Pancakes

The Squirrel Mother

The Squirrel Mother

Artichoke Tales

Artichoke Tales

Queen of the Black Black

Queen of the Black Black

Fostering on the Farm

Fostering on the Farm

Artichoke Tales

Artichoke Tales

Advanced Introduction to Privacy Law

Advanced Introduction to Privacy Law

Good Soldiers Don't Rape

Good Soldiers Don't Rape

Finding the plot: A Maternal Approach to Madness in Literature

Finding the plot: A Maternal Approach to Madness in Literature

The Scottish Legal System

The Scottish Legal System

Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body

Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body

Scheherazade

Scheherazade

Hey Kidz! Buy This Book

Hey Kidz! Buy This Book

Selfish is the Heart

Selfish is the Heart

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