Wimmen’s Comix

Once again Oola dons her special reception gown.  We are going to San Francisco on BART to the opening reception for the 40th Anniversary of  Wimmen’s Comix show in the San Francisco Library.  The Library is easy to find, just at the top of the Civic Center Bart station stairs.

There was a mix up in reception times, but we wandered around the displays on the 4th floor and had some good,  healthifying chortles and guffaws.

Back in the day, underground comic books seemed pretty much a guy thing to me.  Though I did learn something about a job well done from Mr. Natural; and Fat Freddy’s Cat had shortcuts with which I could identify when confronted with life’s persistent problems.

But there was a group of uppity women cartoonists in San Francisco who thought their work should be seen too; and maybe they should make some $$$ for their work; and they did something about it.  From 1972 to 1992 they published Wimmen’s Comix and put the woman’s voice into the public eyeball.  They were telling funny stories about stuff I was interested in.  Imagine that!

Art should speak for itself.  Taking decent picts of the work (art) was a problem, what with the glass and all.  But here are some fragments of the pages that made me lol.  The first is a one page story of the first pair of glasses which become big as umbrellas.

Ah, yes.  The adventures in the Gynocologist’s office….

And like Lee says, “Four pages in glorious black and white”.  Stories of real life.

On this post there is no way to do visual justice to the work.  Get yourself over to the SF Main Library, Fourth Floor. You won’t be sorry.

100 Larkin St.
San Francisco, 94102
(415) 557-4400

The show will be up until February 7, 2013.