Sugar, Spice, and the Not So Nice

Abstract

To learn about all of the papers that were presented, some of which did not end up in this collection, we refer to Julia Round's afterword in this volume, and to our digital report for Comics Forum, which features graphic renderings by John Miers and Dragana Radanovic: https://comicsforum.org/2021/06/14/symposium-report-sugar-and-spice-andthe-not-so-nice-comics-picturing-girlhood/. For inspiration from what was interchanged in the lively discussions during the conference, we wish to direct readers to our Padlet: padlet.com/eva_vandewiele/ComicsPicturingGirlhood. To keep the conversation going, we invite readers to use the hashtag #Comicspicturinggirlhood on Twitter. Both the Girlhood Conference and this volume are an outcome of the COMICS project funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant agreement No. [758502]). We warmly thank every artist and author involved in this editorial adventure.Finally, we are grateful to the directors of the series for considering our volume, and to the editors, reviewers and editorial staff at Leuven University Press for their support and feedback. The KU Leuven Fund for Fair Open Access also made it possible for us to publish this volume and circulate it widely.