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December 2, 2007

Make it work

Filed under: comic strips,Women in comics — Tags: — Caribou23 @ 4:18 pm

Hey there Project Runway fans, remember this fabulous designer from Season 3?

Well now you can follow Laura’s adventures as a superhero who helps solves women’s fashion dilemmas. The hilariously awesome guys over at Project Rungay broke the story, and they have a sneak preview of Robert Best’s art for the strip. Definitely no “serious ugly” going on here.

Keep your eyes peeled for the official mid-December launch of the strip on iVillage, and the free downloadable paper dolls. I personally find iVillage a bit obnoxious, but I adore Laura and fully plan on collecting those paper dolls.

November 5, 2007

Congratulations, Occasional Superheroine!

Filed under: Comics,Fandom,Women in comics — Tags: — Caribou23 @ 9:35 am

Valerie D’Orazio of Occasional Superheroine has announced that she’ll be the new President of Friends of Lulu in 2008!
Congratulations Valerie, I’m happy for you and I have high hopes for this new board of directors.
Get the full story over at Occasional Superheroine.

September 11, 2007

So long, Dan Slott

Filed under: Comics,Comics, I love you,Creators,Women in comics — Tags: — Caribou23 @ 12:23 pm

Dan Slott talks about his run on She-Hulk over at Newsrama.

It was Slott’s run that made me fall in love with Shulkie. I think that his version of Jen will always be what I think of when I think of She-Hulk.

So long Dan, can’t wait to see what you do next!

August 23, 2007

Up & Coming

Filed under: Gender,Women in comics — Tags: , , — Caribou23 @ 10:40 pm

Newsarama’s latest Up & Coming featured Star St. Germain, a multimedia artist who, among many other things, also draws comics. Newsarama’s interview can be found here.

Do yourself a favor and go check out more of Star’s work at her homepage, www.thisisstar.com. I really love her subtle use of color, and how the playful narratives of her illustrations are a bit reminiscent of pin-up art. But all of her work is really quite delightful, so go take a look and see for yourself.

August 17, 2007

Girls in Costumes

Filed under: Comics,Fandom,Gender,Women in comics — Tags: — Caribou23 @ 3:02 pm

CBR News writes an article trying to dispel the myths about women who show up to cons in costume: http://www.comicbookresources.com/news/newsitem.cgi?id=11647
I like that the article focuses on the fact that these women are actually comic book fans, and that some of them have put a lot of work into making their costumes. As someone who has spent hours hunched over obnoxious fabric in order to hand sew a costume (sheer fabric deserves to die a slow painful death), I can definitely appreciate these women’s hard work getting acknowledged.
But…doesn’t the article seem to focus a bit on women who are conventionally attractive? I don’t know, what do you guys think?

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