Body Horror
Best Book, Chicago Public Library
2018 Lambda Literary Award Finalist
2017 Chicago Review of Books Nonfiction Award Shortlist
Read more "Body Horror"Best Book, Chicago Public Library
2018 Lambda Literary Award Finalist
2017 Chicago Review of Books Nonfiction Award Shortlist
Read more "Body Horror"Pressing Concern Books & Rekkids was founded in Chicago in 2007 by Anne Elizabeth Moore to address the lack of small press outlets that support writing, comics, and other published work by young women and nonbinary folks in the Midwestern United States. Currently based in the Catskills, Pressing Concern focuses on nonfiction text and graphics […]
Read more "Pressing Concern Books & Rekkids (2007-2021)"An NPR Best Book of 2021
“A heartfelt, funny, thought-provoking meditation on the multifaceted fallacy of the American Dream.” —Booklist (starred review)
“A unique, lovely meditation on the power of community.” —Kirkus Reviews
Read more "Gentrifier: A Memoir"Our Big Drawing was a collaborative, ephemeral project conducted with the Detroit neighborhood, Banglatown, in Summer 2018. In partnership with Power House Productions (PHP), Anne Elizabeth Moore and Melissa Mendes gathered a group of local participants—mostly youth, and mostly first- and second-generation immigrants from Bangladesh—to go on two walks through the neighborhood, separated by […]
Read more "Our Big Drawing (2018)"2019 Eisner Award
Top Ten Most Anticipated Art Book, Publishers Weekly
Read more "Sweet Little Cunt: The Graphic Work of Julie Doucet"Continuing the long-running investigative comics journalism series (previously called Ladydrawers) as a collaborative endeavor, Melissa Mendes and Anne Elizabeth Moore recently completed a 16-month series for Truthout that explores water, land, and housing rights in and around Detroit, Michigan. Through in-depth interviews, shoe-leather reporting, deep research, and brilliant, thoughtful graphics, the series seeks to explore challenges to survival […]
Read more "Water, Housing, and Land in Detroit, MI (2018)"The Letterpress Vomit Poster Series (2017) began as an organic exploration of what improvisational wood-type printing might be able to accomplish. The onomatopoeic spellings were created on the fly in the studio, with punctuation used to create visual interest. The first poster is green on white paper with an alternate red word, while the second […]
Read more "Letterpress Vomit Poster Series (2017)"Seeing Silence was a collaborative zine-making project conducted in 2016 with students in the designmatters program at ArtCenter. Participants were asked to create visual responses—on paper, transparencies, or translucent materials—to a series of prompts recalling moments they may have experienced censorship, silence, or disability. Participants were then encouraged to rework each others’ images and ideas to create something […]
Read more "Seeing Silence (2016)"The Adventure School for Ladies is an occasional, experimental graduate program that explores gender, cultural production, political engagement, and economic matters with the top ladylike scholars in the field of adventure studies. Our 2016 program was divided into two international sessions. Session I was held over a single week in Detroit, Michigan in June. We worked […]
Read more "the Adventure School for Ladies (2011-present)"Best Investigative Reporting on Sex Work 2016, Tits & Sass
“[S]imple, graphic … artfully illuminating.” —LA Times
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