Suzanne Kleid

It’s the well-worn, short-yet-storied line that’s become nearly cliché: "I’m not a feminist, but…"—one that’s now some kind of standard midpoint in our culture’s endless wrangling about the F word. Now "I’m not a feminist, but…" is being re-examined via comics in the forthcoming anthology The Big Feminist BUT, edited by Suzanne Kleid, Joan Reilly, and Shannon O’Leary. The anthology, which has a website, features comic artists’ takes on what the editors call the "contradictory ‘post-feminist’ playing field" we’re (apparently) living in today.

Page Turner interviewed O’Leary to learn just what it is about that big but that irks her and her co-editors, whether she thinks we really are living in a "post-feminist" playground, her picks of the best comics for comic-obsessed feminists, and (yes, it exists) sexism in the comics world. Read on for more!