This Special Edition issue is devoted to the feminist French comics magazine Ah!Nana.

For the comic book historian or women's studies major, this is a very handy one volume overview and history.

From the publisher:

Ah!Nana was the first French comic strip periodical produced by women, for women between 1976 and 1978.

Coming from the teeming galaxy of Métal Hurlant, it represented a pioneering adventure in the world of French comics. Its content freely reflected a great deal of the feminist concerns of the time, tackling the most delicate subjects of the 1970s as well as the most taboo: not just art, and fashion, but also incest, female sexuality, violence suffered by women, Nazism, transsexuality. The latter earned it a ban on sales to minors, a form of censorship prohibiting it from accessing newsstands and synonymous with condemnation.

So, Ah!Nana paved the way for a new generation of avant-garde feminists, broke stereotypes, shook up conventions, and gave a free space to renowned authors: Chantal Montellier, Florence Cestac, Nicole Claveloux, Trina Robbins, Paula Jacques and Agnès Varda.

This exceptional special issue of Métal Hurlant dedicated to Ah!Nana is a vibrant tribute to these pioneers.

Cécilia Capuana (Story and art)
Florence Cestac (Story and art)
Nicole Claveloux (Story and art)
Trina Robbins (Story and art)
Chantal Montellier (Story and art)
Keleck (Story and art)
Olivia Clavel (Story and art)
Marie-Ange le Rochais (Story and art)
Couetsch Bousset (Story)
Brouette Hurlante (Art and color)
Natacha Sicaud (Illustrations)
Blanche Delaborde (Text)
Christophe Quillien (Text)
Christine van Geen (Text)
Camille de Singly (Text)
Amandine Lach (Text)
Delphine Panique (Illustrations)
Carole Maurel (Illustrations)
Christelle Pecout (Text and illustrations)
Elizabeth Pich (Text and illustrations)
Coco (Illustrations)
Le Baba (Illustrations)
Daria Schmitt (Illustrations)
Stella Lory (Illustrations)