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Who’s up for Free Comic Book Day?

Kate Fitzsimons1 — Thu, 01 May 2008 08:32:44 +0000

As far as I’m concerned, Free Comic Book Day should be printed on every calendar in America. It’s one of my favorite holidays, and why not? A day celebrating comics, when the comic book stores give you free comics! What’s not to like?

And, after all, what are we at Girl Wonder but comic book lovers at heart? This is a holiday for us, too, why shouldn’t we claim it as our own? Why not take this day to celebrate all the things we love about comics, and all the things we hope they can become.

Free Comic Book Day is a great time to give the curious a taste of comics. And hey, while the comic shops are recruiting new readers, why not recruit new G-Wers?

So I don’t know about you, but I’m going to wear “Ask Me About Girl Wonder” proudly, and hope someone asks. I’m going to post Girl Wonder flyers proudly. I’m going to blog about my favorite woman-friendly comics and let people know Free Comic Book Day is coming. And also, I’m going enjoy all those free comics!

If this sounds interesting to you, here’s a link to the Celebrate Free Comic Book Day with Girl Wonder forum.

Pride High Wins Queer Press Grant

Rachel Edidin — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 18:59:27 +0000

Tommy Roddy and Justin Hall have been chosen as joint winners of this year’s Prism Comics Queer Press Grant. For Roddy, the money will help finance the first Pride High trade paperback – awesome news for much of the Girl-Wonder community!

http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=146336

Like if “Justice Riders” and “New Frontier” had a baby

Betty — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 06:45:13 +0000

Via boingboing, these awesome mods which their creator describes as inspired by “Gotham by Gaslight.” But whatever, I like my description better. Also, he says of his Hawkgirl: “The figure was going to be Hawkman, but I changed it to Hawkgirl in order to have another girl in the line up for balance.”

Wait a second, more than one girl? That’s crazy-talk, man!

Wonder Woman Wardrobe War

Rachel Edidin — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 01:56:52 +0000

Go check out the winners of the Wonder Woman Wardrobe War over at Project: Rooftop, with guest commentator Gail Simone (and yours truly on the judges’ panel)!

Art Auction Preview: Honor Among Punks

Rachel Edidin — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 01:03:39 +0000

If Guy Davis’s gorgeous pages piqued your interest in Baker Street, you’re in luck: Guy has also donated three signed copies of Honor Among Punks, the complete Baker Street graphic novel. As if that’s not enough, he’s also taken the time to draw a piece of character art on the first page of each book!

Front Cover:

Drawings:

BID HERE!

BID HERE!

BID HERE!

The starting bid for each trade paperback will be U.S. $15.

You’ll be able to bid on these and other items in the Girl-Wonder Art Et Cetera Auction, from October 7-14.

Spoiler Warning: Stephanie Brown at Project Rooftop

Rachel Edidin — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 19:01:48 +0000

There’s a Stephanie Brown Special up at Project Rooftop, with Yours Truly as guest reviewer. Man, this makes me want to pull out my sewing machine…

Stumptown Mid-Con Update

Rachel Edidin — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 21:04:08 +0000

WOW.

Today is the second day of Stumptown Comics Fest, Portland’s awesome hometown convention and the site of Girl-Wonder’s first-ever booth, and for the first time this weekend, I have the chance to post an update (Livia and Noah are still hard at work at the con).

Stumptown rocks. It’s full of independent comics and creators, and it’s small and friendly enough to avoid the impersonal chaos of bigger cons. If you don’t know everyone going in, you will by the end of the weekend. It draws not only the best and the brightest of Portland’s (numerous) local talents, as well as folks from all up and down the west coast. With a $5/day entrance fee, it’s also accessible to fans who might not be willing or able to shell out the heftier admission prices at larger cons.

And apparently, Stumptown Comics Fest–and it’s exhibitors, volunteers, guests, and attendees–loves Girl-Wonder. We showed up and were greeted by a volunteer who first gushed about how much he dug our site, then solemnly asked if it was okay that we’d been bumped up from a half-table to a full table. We spent Saturday talking with fans and creators, and being generally overwhelmed by their tremendously positive responses. Many had heard of the site; some had sought us out to tell us how much they enjoyed the columns, or the comics, or the forums. Those who hadn’t seemed genuinely interested in checking us out. Partway through the day, we ran back to Kinkos to replenish our rapidly disappearing stickers and fliers. Phil Foglio came to say “hi” and doodle in our sketchbook. Guest of honor Shaenon Garrity stopped by to ask if we were still taking donations for the auction (we’re not, but we made an exception, ’cause c’mon!). Amy Mebberson hung out at our table for a few hours (she’s awesome, by the way!) and drew the cutest superheroes we’d ever seen.

Stay tuned for more updates…

Art Auction Preview: Girl-Wonder Pride

Rachel Edidin — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 17:21:42 +0000

Know what’s awesome?
Pride High. It’s got characters of all genders, colors, cultures, and abilities. It’s won awards from BFLAG. And it’s the kind of good super-powered teen drama I haven’t seen since the original New Mutants.

Know what’s even awesomer?
Two of Pride High‘s signature characters, Scotch and Suravi, showing their love for some of the best girl-geekery on the world wide web!

This is a pencil drawing originally comissioned by Pride High writer Tommy Roddy; it will appear in color as a full-page ad in an upcoming issue of Pride High and shows Scotch and Suravi in t-shirts advertising, respectively, girl-wonder.org and mynerdgirl.com.

The starting bid for this item will be U.S. $25. BID HERE!

You’ll be able to bid on this and other items in Girl-Wonder’s Art Et Cetera Auction, from October 7-14, 2007!

Of course, I was already a fan of vigilantes

Betty — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 07:34:45 +0000

Linking to XKCD is generally superfluous, since those who think it’s awesome are already camped out on the rss feed, and those who don’t probably aren’t going to apreciate it the more for having it waved under their noses. That said:

Art Auction Preview: Jack and Jim

Rachel Edidin — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 23:39:33 +0000

If you know me at all, you know that Jimm Rugg’s Street Angel is pretty much my favorite comic ever. So, imagine how excited I was when I saw these: Jim’s inks over Jack Kirby pencils (or at least printouts of Jack Kirby pencils) of Wonder Woman!
Both pieces are on 11×17 bristol. They’re from Kirby’s proposal for a Wonder Woman animated series, scanned from Kirby Collector #38, and inked by Street Angel and PLAIN Janes artist Jim Rugg:

BID HERE!

The starting bid for each of these drawings will be U.S. $28. And I will be bidding against you ALL THE WAY.

You’ll be able to bid on these and other items in the Girl-Wonder Art Et Cetera Auction, from October 7-14.