Spanjers, Rik. Comic Realism and the Maus Event: Comics and the Dynamics of World War II Remembrance. Unpublished diss. University of Amsterdam, 2019. End of Neoliberalism: Project Syndicate”. https://yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/end-neoliberalism-project-syndicate. End of Neoliberalism: Project Syndicate”. n.d. https://yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/end-neoliberalism-project-syndicate.

Mikkonen, Kai. n.d. “Remediation and the Sense of Time in Graphic Narratives”. The Rise and Reason of Comics and Graphic Literature: Critical Essays on the Form. Ed. Goggin, Joyce and Dan Hassler-Forest. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, pp. 74–87. American policy on abortion also threatens to impact on women in many other countries because “in 2017 President Trump reinstated and expanded a policy called the ‘global gag rule’ [… which] states that any overseas organization receiv[ing] US global health funding cannot even mention abortion as part of their counselling or education programs—even if the money for these particular programs does not come from the US”. https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2019/06/abortion-laws-in-the-us-10-things-you-need-to-know/. See: https://www.themarysue.com/exclusive-the-handmaids-tale-graphic-novel/. Lisa Jadwin has published a very detailed article on the context in which the novel was published the first time around which might have contributed to its success. See also Jadwin, 2009, passim. Slattery, Mary F. “What is Literary Realism?” The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Vol. 13:1, 1972, pp. 55–62.Handmaid’s Tale Video Game Revealed as June Staring Simulator”. n.d. http://syn.org.au/handmaids-tale-video-game-revealed-june-staring-simulator-p1ng/. Allardice, Lisa. “Interview with Margaret Atwood”. The Guardian. 20.20.2018. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jan/20/margaret-atwood-i-am-not-a-prophet-science-fiction-is-about-now. According to Charles Forceville in his work on “ballonics”, jagged balloon contours that are angular and asymmetrical “have more negative connotations than roundness and symmetry. Sharp, angular things are dangerous and potentially harmful, unlike rounded, smooth things. […] The idea that asymmetry in balloon-contour connotes ‘bad’ things may therefore be rooted in embodied cognition” (Forceville

Besana, Bruno. “Alain Badiou: The Problem of Subtractive Universalism”. The Scandal of Self-contradiction: Pasolini’s Multistable Subjectivities, Geographies, Traditions. Ed. Luca di Blasi. Vienna and Berlin: Verlag Turia + Kant, 2012, pp. 209–237. It's this ability to accommodate both the mundane and the fantastic that suits the graphic form to the The Handmaid's Tale's demands, as "comics and graphic novels can switch seamlessly between abstract and literal imagery," Nault says. She describes a scene late in the story to demonstrate, when Offred, the narrator, "thinks of bodies she's seen hanging on the wall. The shapes of withered seed pods in Serena Joy's flower bed become the shapes of hanging handmaids." Atwood, Margaret. “What The Handmaid’s Tale Means in the Age of Trump”. The New York Times, March 10, 2017. How do we navigate the world around us? Where do we start if we want to learn something new? Here is a reading list of non-fiction books exploring ideas that matter, including books by Margaret Atwood, Haruki Murakami, Ai Weiwei, Chelsea Manning and more.Forceville, Charles, et al. n.d. “Balloonics: The Visuals of Balloons in Comics”. In The Rise and Reason of Comics and Graphic Literature: Critical Essays on the Form, ed. Goggin, Joyce and Dan Hassler-Forest. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, pp. 56–74.