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23rd(2021)



No Straight Lines: The Rise of Queer Comics

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Vivian KLEIMAN

  • USA
  • 2021
  • Korean Premiere
  • 79min
  • color

Korean Premiere

SYNOPSIS

Five scrappy queer comic book artists journey from DIY work and isolation to the cover of Time Magazine and the international stage, offering a fascinating window into everything from the AIDS crisis and workplace discrimination to the search for love and a good haircut. Their work and personal stories make you think about the challenges and triumphs encountered and overcome along the way.

PROGRAM NOTE

This film is a documentary about the history and significance of American queer comics. The film contains the voices of major writers who have brought a turning point in the history of queer comics including Alison Bechdel, well known for Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic in South Korea, and Jennifer Camper, the editor of an anthology comic book of queer, female and non-white writers. It was in the 1970s when queer characters started appearing in cartoons, which were full of mostly non-queer characters in the US. It was also a declaration of existence by queers tired of being hidden and misunderstood when Marie Wings published the first lesbian comic book Come Out Comix in 1973. Cartoon was a ¡°revolutionary¡± medium for queers in that they could draw ¡®themselves seen by them¡¯ with just a pen and paper. As resisters and explorers of this world, queers take advantage of cartoons as a language. Queer comics have become more sophisticated with the appearance of writers from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds. The achievements of the queer comics writers, who have made this world ¡®diverse¡¯, are condensed and revealed in the following powerful sentence in the film. ¡°We are no longer sidekicks nor side stories.¡± [Park Heejung]

Director

  • Vivian KLEIMANVivian KLEIMAN

    Vivian Kleiman is a Peabody Award-winning filmmaker whose work is noted for its cultural and stylistic diversity. A longtime producer with storied black gay filmmaker Marlon Riggs, her credits include additional cinematography on his landmark documentary Tongues Untied (1989).

Credit

  • ProducerVivian KLEIMAN, Justin HALL
  • Cast Alison BECHDEL, Jennifer CAMPER, Howard CRUSE, Rupert KINNARD, Mary WINGS
  • Cinematography Andy BLACK
  • Editor Christiane BADGLEY, Linda PECKHAM