Stay tuned for tomorrow, when we’ll be showing you all the other fantastic submissions we received. And remember, you can keep up-to-date on Girl-Wonder.Org’s latest news, recs, and blogposts by following us on Facebook or Twitter!

Remember, send all submissions, questions, and baked goods to submissions@girl-wonder.org.

On March 30th, our page – along with the rest of Facebook’s pages – will roll over to the new “Timeline” format. We’re looking for a new “Cover” – the giant banner that will display at the top of the new page.

That’s where you come in. Send your original superheroine art to submissions@girl-wonder.org. The Girl-Wonder Board will select a winning image and display it with full credit to you. The admiration of millions will be yours! (Note: Girl-Wonder.Org cannot actually guarantee the admiration of millions.)

The fine print:

• Submissions are due by March 30th, 2012.
• Images should be 850 x 315 pixels and high quality files (.jpeg, .gif, or .png).
• We’re looking for original, non-copyrighted heroines, not Wonder Woman or Storm. Please see this page for examples of promotional art we’ve used in the past. Feel free to include more than one heroine, or go more abstract!
• You don’t have to include text on your submission, but if you choose to include it, please note that Facebook does not permit calls to action such as “Like this Page” or the website URL.
• Tip: We’ll be retaining our old user icon and logo, so keep that in mind when choosing a color scheme. You don’t have to stick to red and yellow, but it will be harder to make your submission work if it’s a drawing of Lime Green Lass.
• Finally, please note that Girl-Wonder.Org retains the right to use the winning image to promote the Girl-Wonder Facebook page and Girl-Wonder brand in general.

Remember, submissions (and any questions) should be sent to submissions@girl-wonder.org by March 30th, 2012. Good luck!

Unfortunately, we’ve run into some technical issues with our membership page, and nominations have not gone through. If you’d like to sign up for a membership or nominate potential Board members, please email info@girl-wonder.org. Membership fees will be waived during this process. If you’ve already paid your $5 membership, please let us know so that we can check to see if the payment’s gone through and refund it.

Extended nominations will be open until Friday, February 10th. Again, please email info@girl-wonder.org with your nominations and membership requests! We apologize for any inconvenience.

Gworg is an incorporated non-profit feminist organization dedicated to fostering an attentive, empowered comics fan community, to encouraging respect and high-quality character depiction, and to assisting the professional development of women working in the field of comics. Anyone who supports these aims is eligible to become a member, and all members are able to vote, stand for office, and nominate others to the Board.

Becoming a Director is an excellent opportunity to support and direct the progress of Girl-Wonder.org! Moreover, since Gworg is a registered non-profit organization, this also makes a great entry of volunteer work on your resume.

We will be accepting new members and Board nominations from Monday, January 9th through Monday, January 30th. Elections will be announced on Monday, February 6th. Members will then have until Monday, February 13th to vote for this year’s Gworg Board of Directors.

Click here to learn more about becoming a member and/or joining the Board!

We’re kicking things off this week with Sean’s post, Heroines, Assemble! on fun new animated series BATMAN: THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD… and a few of its problems with the portrayal of female superheroes.

As people have noticed, the site was recently infested by an endemic malware problem. After trying a bug-swatting based approach for a while, it became apparent that this approach was too reactive, and allowed for malware to persist until discovered, which is basically bad.

Because our site is very large, rooting it out instance-by-instance was becoming prohibitive, so what Betty has done is create a local (to her machine) mirror of the site which can be checked against the production (live, on the internets) version, and discrepancies may be assumed to be malware.

Unfortunately, Dreamhost’s backups left something to be desired, so some of the extensively modified php files which were responsible for look-and-feel have gone missing and need to be recreated. The good news is that this shouldn’t be too hard; bad news is that we’re going to be discovering missing php files for a while.

We apologise whole-heartedly for the mess, and would appreciate your assistance in getting the site back on its feet. In particular, if you have civicrm experience and would like to help, please contact Betty at sturdyandserviceable@gmail.com .

If you notice any issues not listed below, please let us know.

Known Problems:

- Forums users’ icons have been deleted, and will need to be re-uploaded by the users

- Blogs have had their themes deleted – all the content is there, but possibly inaccessible. Blog owners can fix this by logging in and installing a new theme. Some links/categories may be messed up in the process.

- Several links on the front page are broken.

- Sub-domains (xxxx.girl-wonder.org) should be unaffected.

Once again, we apologize for the problems, and thank you for your patience.