Women in Comics: A Reading List
One of the questions that most often crops up in my e-mail inbox is, "so what comics created by women do you know of?", followed shortly by, "where can I find a list of all the comics created by women?". The internet, being the vast procrastination device that is, has plenty of such lists but none of them really seem to cover everything.
Undoubtedly this is because to attempt such a list would be madness. Fortunately, that means it's right up my street...
Behold, an always in progress browsable list of comics and graphic novels, strip compilations and webcomics, all written and/or drawn by the many talented women in comics.
Please add missing books (or corrections) to the comments and I'll add them at regular intervals. Cover artists do count but I'm unsure how to categorize them...
Many thanks to Lee Grice at Small Press Big Mouth for his contributions!
Full and Uncut Interview with Alan Moore
Last month I had the fantastic experience of interviewing Alan Moore for the Independent on Sunday. Restricted in print to 1000 words and with Alan chatting for an hour on the phone, there was a whole heap of material left over.
My full and uncut interview with Grant Morrison was received so warmly, I have once more slaved over a full transcript for my fellow comic geeks. You can read the printed article here, and the full interview after the jump!
Sadly I could have done with another hour at least to expand more fully on some of my questions, but Moore is of course tremendously busy writing his novel, Jerusalem, and a good interview for the Indie was my priority. Still, I managed some of the women in comics angle!
Grant Morrison at the Edinburgh Book Festival – Full and Uncut
Grant Morrison made an appearance at the Edinburgh Book Festival this year to promote Supergods and have a Q&A session with the audience. Lots of talk about Wonder Woman, superheroes, the weaponisation of stories, risk taking, magic and the new Superman.
I did mean to publish this one not long after the interview went up, as I was sitting on it until after the newspaper publication, but I got slightly buried under other work - oops!
I've published my transcript in its entirety once more. I got a lot of good feedback on publishing the interview full and uncut though a couple of people weren't happy that I kept in Grant's tendency to ramble and his Scottishness. To be honest I feel that editing that out can often edit out the intent of what the person is actually saying (particularly for us fast talking Scots!), and while I am careful to keep my quotes up to scratch for a printed publication, it would be near impossible to edit a full transcript and be confident I wasn't misrepresenting the person.
In all my interaction with Grant Morrison the one thing I'm very sure of is his easy going manner, and that a lot of what he says (regardless of how you prefer to quote it) is both earnest and well humoured. Hopefully my interview with Alan Moore will be able to go up full and uncut too!
As always hit the jump for the full article.
About Me: Updated
Just a quick note to say that the About Me/Contact page has been updated to reflect what I'm up to and how best to get in contact with me.
My CBR column will be starting up soon which I've been working on weekly, and I'll also be posting up the Grant Morrison Book Festival coverage soon after the full interview transcript (both of which I had to sit on until after the Independent went live) as well as my take on the New 52.
Enjoy!
Exclusive: Interview with Grant Morrison & Signed Supergods Giveaway
"Who wouldn't want to see people – young and old – marching out and proud in their superhero and manga dream-costumes, all friendly and upbeat, rather than hunched and screen-tanned in the dark spitting venom? Only a bastard, that's who."
Amidst a hectic schedule of book launches, signings, and his usual writing commitments, the lovely Grant Morrison set aside some time to answer some of my own questions in his own words. I asked him about his latest release, Supergods (reviewed here), a mind-bending history of superheroes, as well as his upcoming take on a younger Superman, internet fan culture, mainstream comic appeal, and women and diversity in comics. It is hard indeed not to be infected by Grant's boundless optimism.
Additionally, I also have a signed copy of Supergods to give away. Leave a comment on this article (competition now closed!*) to be in with a chance of winning a copy of the book signed by Grant Morrison on the title page!
Hit the jump to read the interview in full.
Book Review: Supergods by Grant Morrison
"Too many business people who should have known better began to take seriously the ravings of misinformed, often barely literate malcontents who took revenge n the cruel world by dismissing everything that came their way with the same jaded, geriatric "Meh"." - Grant Morrison on the rise of the internet monster.
Comics are the perpetual teenagers of literature: misunderstood, disrespected, and never allowed to grow up. No matter how many Pulitzers, accolades, or blockbuster sales they amass, the comics - along with their readers and creators - are dismissed as adolescent in nature, only for those trapped in a nostalgic childhood they can't escape. Talk of a DC relaunch across their entire line later this year, with every title restarting at issue one, has seemingly confirmed this accusation, and led to claims of increasingly reductive storytelling. Can comics really survive in a dwindling market by rebooting iconic characters every decade?
The answer perhaps lies in Supergods, and as ever with Grant Morrison, it begins with looking at things from a completely different dimension. Morrison claims that superheroes are part of our contemporary mythology, made to be remade, able to reflect and predict the course of human lives, and all from a universe that is as real as ours. It may sound extreme, ridiculous even, but the Scotsman is keen to stress throughout that you needn't believe as he does, but to simply look at the facts.
About a Grrrl
Freelance writer. Comic geek, film addict, metal head, book worm, gamer. I sell books and write. I'd prefer to write books and sell.
This is a collection of my writing, thoughts and interesting links about my geeky interests.
Oh, and I'm not a guy. A woman reading comics still surprises some people...
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