Girl-Wonder.org is a collection of sites dedicated to female characters and creators in mainstream comics. Our goals are to foster an attentive, empowered audience community and to encourage respect and high-quality character depiction within the industry.
The mascot for the site is Stephanie Brown, a recent example of this genre’s shameful mistreatment of women characters. Her fate is symbolic of much larger problems facing the superhero genre.
Project Girl Wonder explores Stephanie’s story and how it relates to misogyny in mainstream comics.
Hereville is good. It’s really good.
It?s the kind of good that makes me want to carry a copy with me at all times, just so that I can look at it every few minutes as a reminder that any world that produces books like this one is probably worth the benefit of the doubt.
Comics that can honestly be described as all-ages are few and far between. Knitting a narrative that appeals to adults and remains accessible to and appropriate for kids is no easy feat. Imbuing that story with layers of rich culture and tradition without overwhelming readers, and doing so while slyly subverting both form and trope take serious skill.
In many ways, Hereville is a classic coming-of-age story, the first adventure of a fledgling hero. It?s also a cultural narrative, steeped in the language and traditions of Orthodox Judaism. But at the same time, it?s full of contradictions and quirks that turn heroic convention topsy-turvy. It?s telling that the story begins with a friendly argument, as Mirka (the eleven-year-old heroine) and her stepmother Fruma discuss the theology of knitting.
Read Rachel’s full review at her blog InsideOut, or check out Hereville
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Latest news: May 1, 2008
Free Comic Book Day - Saturday, May 3, the day on which local comic shops across Canada and the United States give out free comic books to all visitors - is fast approaching. There’s no better day for someone to try comics, or a new genre of comics, for the first time, and no day more likely to fill comic book lovers with a renewed love of the medium. Therefore, there’s no better day to share the love of Girl Wonder!
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Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to celebrate Free Comic Book Day by going to your local comic book store and spread the joyous word. Or post about Free Comic Book Day, your favorite female-positive comics for people to look for when they go, and possibly Girl-Wonder.org.
Post or distribute one of our flyers at your local store, or wear our brand new “Ask Me About Girl Wonder” graphics on your shirt, bag or sticker - or even tape it to your back! Maybe the next little girl who comes into the store will feel a little more welcome.
Invite the comic book curious women in your life out to a store for Free Comic Books Day - after all, they’re free, what better way to try them?
We’re Girl Wonder. You, me, every one of us. Let’s take it to the streets this Free Comic Book Day and spread the love!
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Superhero comics have come a long way. The
range of female superheroes, vigilantes, and villains has
broadened considerably since earlier times. There's a lot more on
offer for feminist fans of mainstream comics.
But today's fans face a whole new set of stumbling blocks:
objectifying, inappropriately sexualised art styles; gruesome
deaths designed only to forward a male character's story; and a
generally held public opinion that superhero comics are the
domain of boys and men and therefore have no need to be
female-friendly.
We love comics. We want to see them remain a vital, energetic,
engaging, popular art form enjoyed by a range of audience groups.
If this objective is to remain viable, comics have to pick up
their game. We're here to see that they do.
One of Girl-Wonder.org's primary aims is to
get comics fans talking to each other in an environment where
everyone feels equally free to express their opinions. Toward
this end, visitors are strongly encouraged to make use of
the forums.
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features a range of t-shirt designs. You can multi-task: promote
the site and look fabulous, all in one fell swoop!
Girl-Wonder.org received a Tartie from Sequential Tart, in the
fifth
annual Tartie Awards!
Girl-Wonder.org was Yahoo's Pick of the
Day on June 20, 2006!
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