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How Wonder Woman is Still an Inspiring Role Model for Women

Julie Davis — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 23:49:42 +0000

Despite the title, Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines is not actually a story about comics. It’s also not about comic creators, although along the way you do get some interesting background Wonder Woman’s creator, William Moulton Marston, that sheds light on the character’s particulars, such as the golden lasso that forces you [&hellip

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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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Review: Women of the Underground: Art by Zora von Burden

Julie Davis — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 07:41:34 +0000

A collection of in-depth interviews, Women of the Underground: Art takes an inside look at the work of 24 female artists who are “cultural architects, influencing generations with art that is innovative, pushes boundaries, and dares to question, investigate and redefine society in the spirit of the underground.” Perhaps because of these general parameters, Women [&hellip

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Review: Crones for the Holidays

Setsu Uzume — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 21:30:21 +0000

Fresh from the 2012 New York International Fringe Festival, Terry Baum and Carolyn Myers (aka A Coupla Crackpot Crones) bring their newest sketch comedy and improv show, “Crones for the Holidays”, to Stage Werx in San Francisco. As Crackpot Crones’ third holiday show — after “I Hate Valentine’s Day” and “Moms!” — you know you’re [&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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