Bobcat Comics

Comics created as part of the Bobcat Comics series in collaboration with researchers from the University of California Merced's Center for the Humanities.

UNRULY WOMEN & FALED PATRIARCHS

A 2-page comic exploring historian Prof. Susan Amussen research into the contradictions of Early Modern England's patriarchal structure (2023).

HOW TO READ AN AZTEC “COMIC”

A 6-page comic exploring the research of Mesoamerican scholar Felicia Rhapsody Lopez into deciphering ancient manuscripts from Central Mexico, and how colonial interpretations have limited our understanding of ancient Indigenous people. Based on Dr. Lopez' article "Women, Childbirth, and the Sticky Tamales: Nahua Rhetoric and Worldview in the Glyphic Codex Borgia." (2022)

Content warning: pregnancy, child loss, colonial violence

ALL OUR RELATIONS

A sequel comic collaboration with Dr. Felicia Lopez exploring the story of Mesoamerican "deity" Mayahuel and her relationship to the maguey plant, and Indigenous conceptions of women and mothers (2023).