@inbook{a241d645da2345908cd796bd69bd3c81,
title = "{\textquoteleft}It{\textquoteright}s the girl!{\textquoteright}: Comics, Professional Identity, Affection, Nostalgia and Embarrassment",
abstract = "This chapter explores relationships between gender, professional identity, and personal history in relation to the comic strip medium. I take an autoethnographic approach to this topic, outlining my identity as a female British library professional intensely engaged with graphic novels in the 1990s, a contemporary development in the medium at that point, and that of being a girlhood comics reader from the 1960s onwards. The chapter goes on to locate the tensions I experienced around gender and comics in a wider context in which I played a significant role, that being the development and promotion of graphic novel collections in British public libraries during 1990s and into the twenty-first century. ",
author = "Mel Gibson",
note = "Funding information: This edited volume is an outcome of the COMICS project funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union{\textquoteright}s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agree-ment no. 758502).",
year = "2023",
month = feb,
day = "20",
doi = "10.2307/j.ctv32r02hv.5",
language = "English",
isbn = "9789462703612",
series = "Studies in European Comics and Graphic Novels",
publisher = "Leuven University Press",
pages = "29--46",
editor = "Dona Pursall and {Van de Wiele}, Eva",
booktitle = "Sugar, Spice, and the Not So Nice",
address = "Belgium",
}