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Feature: Laydeez do Comics

Julie Davis — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 05:12:20 +0000

Laydeez do Comics is like a combination between a book club and a series of TED talks. During meetings held after hours at San Francisco’s Cartoon Art Museum, the group gathers in a gallery to enjoy tea and cookies while being introduced to female comic artists and their works. Originally a UK-based group, Laydeez do [&hellip

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Feature: Ellen Forney’s Creativity and Crisis in Marbles

Julie Davis — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 01:00:35 +0000

At a book signing event held at the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco, cartoonist Ellen Forney began with a reading from her book, Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me, describing her experience with bipolar disorder. In the first chapter, Forney talks about getting a tattoo on her back, using vivid, sensory language. “I was [&hellip

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Review: The 40th Anniversary of Wimmen’s Comix

Julie Davis — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 06:00:11 +0000

To read the story behind the groundbreaking comics anthology Wimmen’s Comix is to be reminded of feminism’s past, and how much has (or in some cases, hasn’t) changed. In the early 1970s, while Zap and Weirdo kept on truckin’ with their counterculture stories about drugs, violence and the sexual revolution, female artists were feeling shut [&hellip

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Interview: Retro Style with Jen Oaks

Julie Davis — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 04:30:58 +0000

“I tend to just draw on what I like or what inspires me,” illustrator Jen Oaks said, “which sometimes fits in to what is popular at the moment.” That moment would definitely seem to be now. Oaks’ work falls smack dab in the center of several hot trends in graphic arts, from the prevailing preference [&hellip

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Interview: Feminist Superheroines with Maureen Burdock

Julie Davis — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 06:13:44 +0000

German-born artist Maureen Burdock has spent a lifetime using her creativity to combat gender-based violence. Brought to the United States as a child by her mother in an effort to escape domestic violence, Burdock began putting her agony and confusion into artwork by the age of eight. Her work has consistently embraced activist and feminist [&hellip

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Interview with Shaenon Garrity

Julie Davis — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 07:59:48 +0000

Shaenon Garrity is one of the great success stories in the world of webcomics. Her most popular strips — Narbonic, which ran from 2000 to 2006, and Skin Horse, which is still running — are dailies, the sort of comics that newspapers used to carry, with a new story each weekday. In short, she’s drawn [&hellip

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Jamming with Musician and Writer Abigail Young

Julie Davis — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 03:09:36 +0000

“I’m a serial hobbyist, a chronic dabbler who has yet to master anything,” said Abigail Young during our interview. That’s probably a different choice of words than most would use to describe Young’s artistic output, which includes everything from zines to yoga to writing and music. “My art of choice as a six-year-old was writing [&hellip

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Elfquest Returns for “The Final Quest”

Setsu Uzume — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 06:06:41 +0000

In the beginning, there is a dying world. The brave explorers who left their home to seek a new one crash-land on The World of Two Moons: the wrong planet. The early humans drive the elves from their home, setting the stage for eons of conflict, fear, and hatred. The immortal and semi-immortal elves live [&hellip

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Surrealist Feminism with Tyler Cohen

Julie Davis — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 06:29:07 +0000

Tyler Cohen’s comics are a melding of surrealist art, nature, dream imagery and observations about feminism and motherhood, displayed through her whimsical brushwork. “I am an observer and tend to take in a lot of information,” Cohen said. “I am always reading: often science fiction (with a bit of a prejudice toward work by women), [&hellip

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San Francisco Zine Fest 2012

Julie Davis — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 04:09:51 +0000

Even in an age when print is frequently declared dead and most media is moving toward a digital environment, print continued to thrive over Labor Day Weekend at the San Francisco Zine Fest, featuring a number of extraordinary female artists. A small-press publishing showcase of stapled-together paper, silkscreening and other DIY media, the 11th annual [&hellip

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