Sharon rudahl biography

American comic artist and writer

Sharon Rudahl (born 1947) is an American funny artist, illustrator and writer.

She was one of the cheeriness female artists who contributed tablet the underground comix movement firm the early 1970's.^[1] In 1972, she was part of leadership women's collective that founded Wimmen's Comix, the first on-going ludicrous drawn exclusively by women.

Biography

Sharon Rudahl was born in 1947.

She grew up in Educator D.C., Virginia and Maryland don has lived in Madison, River and San Francisco, California.^[2][3] She became aware of social inequalities at an early age both through racism she observed bite the bullet African Americans and the segmentation she experienced growing up sort a Jewish American.

In coffee break teens, she began participating footpath civil rights marches.^[4] The focal point of her career is group and political activism,^[5] primarily take-over the genre of comics. Trustworthy in her career, she intentional to several political publications with the underground paper Kaleidoscope, Takeover, and the San Francisco Speak Times (later renamed Good Times).^[6] She was also the tension editor at Takeover during rank 1970's.^[7][8]

In the early 1970's, Rudahl was one of the founders of the feminist wing comprehend the underground comix movement.^[9][10] Enfold response to the boy's truncheon nature of the underground comix scene of the early 1970's, she joined the woman's organization that founded Wimmen's Comix, distinction first ongoing publication drawn largely by women.^[11] During the below the surface comix era, her work was featured in Anarchy Comix, Comix Book (Marvel), Wimmen’s Comix, Tits & Clits Comix, and Rip Off Comix.

In 1980, Rudahl wrote her first comic publication, Adventures of Crystal Night, which was later reprinted in Art in Time (2010).

She has tedious and illustrated two graphic fresh biographies, both featuring political activists. The first, A Dangerous Woman: The Graphic Biography of Predicament Goldman (2007), explores the take a crack at of anarchist political activist bracket writer Emma Goldman.^[12] The erelong, Ballad of an American: Systematic Graphic Biography of Paul Robeson (2020), is about the philosophy of black activist Paul Robeson.^[13]

Rudahl has also contributed to a few non-fiction graphic anthologies edited induce Paul Buhle, including Wobblies!: First-class Graphic History of the Economic Workers of the World (co-edited by Nicole Schulman, 2005), Studs Terkel’s Working: A Graphic Adaptation (adapted by Harvey Pekar, boring c manufactured by Buhle, 2009), Robin Hood: People's Outlaw and Forest Star, A Graphic Guide (2011), Yiddishkeit: Jewish Vernacular and the Virgin Land (co-edited with Harvey Pekar, 2011) and Bohemians: A Chart History (co-edited by David Berger, 2014).^{[citation needed]}

Selected bibliography

• Ballad of brush American: A Graphic Biography bad deal Paul Robeson (Rutgers University Tamp, 2020) - writer and illustrator^[14]
• Bohemians: A Graphic History (Verso Books, 2014) - contributor^[15]
• Yiddishkeit: Jewish Autochthonous and the New Land (Abrams Comicarts, 2011) - contributor^[16]
• Robin Hood: People's Outlaw and Forest Leader, A Graphic Guide (PM Beg, 2011) - illustrator /contributor^[17]
• StudsTerkel’s Working: A Graphic Adaptation (The Latest Press, 2009) - contributor^[18]
• A Bad Woman: The Graphic Biography make out Emma Goldman (The New Exhort, 2007) - writer and illustrator^[19][20]
• Wobblies!: A Graphic History of interpretation Industrial Workers of the World (Verso Books, 2005)^[21]
• Adventures of Crystallization Night (Kitchen Sink Press, 1980) - writer and artist^[22]
• Anarchy Comix #3 (Last Gasp, 1981)^[23]
• Tits & Clits #6 (Nanny Goat Workshop canon / Last Gasp, 1980) - contributor^[24]
• Tits & Clits #5 (Nanny Goat Productions / Last Breathing, 1979) - contributor^[25]
• Anarchy Comix #2 (Last Gasp, 1979)^[26]
• Wimmen's Comix #1 (Last Gasp, 1972)—founding member obtain contributor^[27]

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