Fine: A Comic about Gender - Paperback

by Rhea Ewing (Author)

As graphic artist Rhea Ewing neared college graduation in 2012, they became consumed by the question: What is gender? This obsession sparked a quest in which they eagerly approached both friends and strangers in their quiet Midwest town for interviews to turn into comics. A decade later, this project exploded into a sweeping portrait of the intricacies of gender expression with interviewees from all over the country. Questions such as "How do you Identify" produced fiercely honest stories of dealing with adolescence, taking hormones, changing pronouns--and how these experiences can differ, often drastically, depending on culture, race, and religion. Amidst beautifully rendered scenes emerges Ewing's own story of growing up in rural Kentucky, grappling with their identity as a teenager, and ultimately finding themself through art--and by creating something this very fine. Tender and wise, inclusive and inviting, Fine is an indispensable account for anyone eager to define gender in their own terms.

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"A significant and highly readable contribution to our understanding of the gender spectrum."
--Alison Bechdel

"Rhea Ewing has done a masterful job."
--Dylan Edwards, author of Transposes

"An incredibly valuable resource to anyone who has ever examined their own relationship (or non-relationship) to gender... I was absolutely blown away."
--Leigh Pfeffer, Host and Producer of History is Gay podcast

"A panoply of experiences from a broad swath of genders, lovingly collected, that glow with a sparkling visual and textual clarity."
--Bishakh Som, author of Spellbound and Apsara Engine