You manage to treat the idea of an all-female world with an admirable degree of levity. Paste: One of the things I appreciate so much about this book is its lightness. Woman World Cover Art by Aminder Dhaliwal Self Portrait artwork by Aminder Dhaliwal Dhaliwal, who has worked as a storyboard artist and writer on the TV shows Sanjay and Craig and Steven Universe, answered our questions over email, including how her two careers influence one another and why she’s a feminist. Writer Emily Neie referred to it as “pop culture catharsis as self care,” and that’s right on. It’s also strangely soothing as it presents a world that’s removed the need for rage. It’s a weird premise around which to build a comedy, but it works.

The movie Paul Blart, Mall Cop serves as a touchstone for the early 21st century.

A single elder who remembers the world the way it was survives, available to provide insight (or occasionally misdirection) on what men and culture at large were like. Imagining a world in which the birth rate disparity between males and females continues to grow until there are no more male babies born, it takes place post-apocalypse but has an oddly sunny view on its state of things. If you have had a hard couple of weeks (or, heck, a hard existence period) what with being reminded of the outsized power of old white men, the print version of Aminder Dhaliwal’s Woman World from Drawn & Quarterly is here to help.

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