Marie Duval: maverick Victorian cartoonist offers the first critical appraisal of the work of Marie Duval 1847-1890), one of the most unusual, pioneering and visionary cartoonists of the later nineteenth century, focusing on new types of cultural work by women and establishing Duval as a unique but exemplary figure in a transformational period of the nineteenth century.
Simon Grennan is an internationally acclaimed contemporary artist, comics scholar and author of over forty comics and artist's books. He is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Chester.