February 2012
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"If You Could Change One Thing About Comics, What...
If it counts, I wish I could change most fans. Whenever I talk about comics to somebody I feel as if they are only judging me. Every word I say is wrong.
And I think it’d be nice if noir was a more popular style in comic books.
"How I got into comics" by H. Savinien, age 25
I love heroes and heroines. I’ve loved them since before I knew superheroes existed. I read every version of Robin Hood and King Arthur and every book of mythology I could get my hands on as a kid. A boy in kindergarten told me about the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and X-Men, but my parents didn’t hold with TV, so I never got to explore them. They were geeky enough to foster it in...
Girl-Wonder Elections: Technical Issues and...
Greetings, true believers!
Unfortunately, we’ve run into some technical issues with our membership page, and nominations have not gone through. If you’d like to sign up for a membership or nominate potential Board members, please email info@girl-wonder.org. Membership fees will be waived during this process. If you’ve already paid your $5 membership, please let us know so that we can check to...
December 2011
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How I got into comics (Submitted by...
My interest in comics grew gradually over the past 3 or 4 years and is mostly the result of peer pressure. It started when I read an article listing Rob Liefeld’s worst drawings. I laughed for days but still felt as though I could never be a “comic book geek.” At roughly the same time my online friend circle widen and everyone was reading graphic novels. I would randomly ask for...
November 2011
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What is your favorite comic? (Submitted by H....
I’m not sure whether you mean here favorite comic issue, story, or title, which makes it a little tricky. I don’t follow current titles too closely. Most of my comic-book reading is done via libraries, especially since I’m the purchasing librarian at a library in a town with no comic-book shops nearby, but access to a lot of other libraries’ materials.
I tend to get fed...
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What is your favorite comic? (Submitted by...
My favorite ongoing is currently Captain America (now Captain America & Bucky), because it has been consistently well-written and well-drawn, and because Cap has been one of my favorite characters for a long time. I am always excited to see a new issue on the racks, and its one of the few books that I will brave running off between classes to pick up.
My favorite trade is certainly Marvels....
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What is your favorite comic? (Submitted by...
The first series I ever read start to finish was DC’s Impulse and it’s still my very favorite. It was funny and smart and really heartwrenching at times, and easy for a noob to get into. The art was cartoony and the writing was joyful and I was pretty bummed to discover that not all comics are that good.
Honorable mention goes to the first Blue Beetle series starring Jaime Reyes...
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If you could change one thing about comics, what...
Sorry for the hiatus, folks! We’re back, and we want to know: If you could change one thing about comics - the format, the industry, anything - what would it be?
September 2011
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Where do you get your comics? (Submitted by...
I really like the Wednesday ritual of heading down to the comic book shop (and I really like the folks at my LCS), but lately it hasn’t really fit into my schedule, so I usually wind up picking up a whole month’s worth on a Friday. I also try to buy trades at the LCS, but I will get them from Amazon if I’m in the hurry to buy my little brother a birthday present. ;)
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Where do you get your comics? (Submitted by...
I get comics from a couple of places. First, I do have an awesome local comic shop (hey Read More Comics!) where I get whatever titles I’m reading currently (I keep a subscription list there). They also list their trades at 20% off all the time, so whenever I need a trade, I usually go through them as well. I do get comics from the library, too, usually older stories that I’ve heard...
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What is your favorite comic?
It’s Monday, which means it’s time for a new question: What is your favorite comic? Is it a currently-ongoing series? Did it end years ago? Is it an indie or manga or webcomic or something else totally different from what the Big Two puts out?
And remember, past questions are always still open. We want to hear you talk about comics, ladies!
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Where do you get your comics? (Submitted by...
I get my TPBs online - either via Amazon or via BookDepository.co.uk (free shipping worldwide!). Buying trades in store in Australia is usually expensive. I set up a Standing Order with my LCS though for the new 52, which I’ve been adding to every week as new comics get released. I definitely prefer having the physical comic in my hands, but I recently bought all of “Kingdom...
How I got into Comics (Submitted by Marina)
Ok, well, I guess it all started when I was in high school. I was a girl who really liked Sonic the hedgehog and bought the comics the minute I heard about them. After, I started to see a lot of Spiderman comics here and there, I gave it some thought and bought an issue or two. Then I bought five more. Then maybe six more. So, I gradually started to get into the comic book swing. I eventually...
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Immortalized in my childhood scrapbook
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Grace loves batman.
girlslovesuperheroes:
Grace never wants to be a anything but batman most years. This year in honor of Blackest night she wants to be zombie batman.
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How I got into comics (Submitted by CosmicChaos)
The first two comics I ever read were so terrible I thought I would never read comics again (one was a Superman and I was a Superman fan). In college, my sister handed me a ton of comics as a present and said “read this”. So I gave it a chance and started with the X-Men Age of Apocalypse. I loved it so much that I became an X-Men fan and read them as fast as my sister sent them to...
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My Favourite Superhero: Kitty Pryde (Submitted by...
Kitty Pryde is easily my favourite super hero. Aside from her name (My name is also Kitty) she is cool, funny and kick arse. Plus she has a pet dragon!
I’ve always liked the fact that there was a character who was young, younger than the rest of the team, but still just as kick-arse. I liked that, because she was young, she was designed to not be sexualised...
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Where do you get your comics?
Sorry about the hiatus, folks! I’ve been in the process of moving and it’s proved more complicated than anticipated. But enough about me. This is about you!
This week we want to know: Where do you get your comics? Do you head down to the LCS every Wednesday and collect the contents of your pull list? Do you buy them digitally? Do you wait for trades? Do you borrow from friends...
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How did you get into comics? (Submitted by...
In June of 2006, I went with some friends (two of whom were comic book fangirls) to see X-Men: The Last Stand. That film, as everyone knows, was terrible, but it did succeed at rekindling my childhood, cartoon-fueled love for the X-Men. I figured there had to be comics that were better than the movie had been, so I started asking for recommendations. Back at home, a third friend jumped on board...
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Who is your favorite superhero and why? (Submitted...
I’ve had many favorite superheroes over the years. When I was a child, watching the 90s X-Men cartoon, my favorite was Storm. When I first got into comics, fresh off of the X-Men movies, my favorite was Cyclops. Jean Grey and the Beast have always been way up there, too. And my identification with She-Hulk can’t be overstated. But within months of getting into comics, one...
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How I got into comics (and why they make me angry)...
Looking back, it seems like everyone wanted me to read comics. My parents were both big readers, and both had been comic book fans as a kid. My dad loved Garfield as an adult, and I became slightly obsessed with the orange cat. My mum took me to second hand book sales every few months, and as well as novels I’d stock up on Mad Magazines (influenced by my big brother) and any comics that had...
badparsiqueer-deactivated201110 asked: How do you feel about FAAB (female assigned at birth) people submitting to this blog? I always feel very divorced from these things because...I'm not a woman, I'm genderqueer, but I did grow up FAAB and I had all of the typical "girls don't read comics" experiences. And yet -- I still feel like these spaces are not for me.
August 2011
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My Origin Story (by ladiesmakingcomics)
My “getting into comics” started as more of a series of unconnected plateaus, but I look back on those early moments of sequential-art-reading as formative in my love for the whole medium. I fell in love with newspaper comic strips when I found my dad’s old “Peanuts” paperbacks at my grandparents’ house. I started reading the daily newspapers strips, not just...
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How did you get into comics? (Submitted by...
I got into comics because a YA novelist I love, Tamora Pierce, did a miniseries for Marvel several years ago: White Tiger, featuring Angela del Toro in the title role. This was my first inkling that I liked comics at all—and soon after I couldn’t get enough of them. I branched out into Heroes for Hire, Immortal Iron Fist, and Astonishing X-Men, then dove into DC where the Batfamily and...
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Who is your favorite superhero and why? (Submitted...
I have about 800 favorite characters, but my number one is Supergirl - Kara Zor-El. In large part I love her because of what she represents: the greatest, most iconic superhero of all time, in teenage girl form. (I feel there are very few characters who can’t be improved by turning them into teenage girls. Indiana Jones, teenage girl? Yes! Sherlock Holmes, teenage girl? YES! King...
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My favorite superhero (submitted by Rebecca, age...
I think I’ve probably written half a dozen explanations for why Superman is my favorite superhero, ever since my fandom was birthed ten years ago. One of those pieces was actually my college application essay. Still, I don’t know if I’ve figured out exactly what it is about Clark that makes him special to me. But what I have noticed recently are the echoes of Superman in other...
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How I got into comics (Submitted by missdeli)
When I was little I just couldn’t get interested in superheroes- they often bored me. I never could find the appeal of them- not even the cartoons. Time passed, and I watched Batman Begins out of curiosity one day, and decided to give at least Batman characters a try. Tracked down info in general about it, got interested in more stuff of DC outside Gotham, searched in bookstores for the most...
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Who is your favorite superhero and why? (Submitted...
I’ve always liked the first Human Torch — the android. His origin story is pretty unique, for one; he didn’t start out as a hero. He was the typical movie monster—causing destruction without any real understanding of what he was doing —that found a way to redeem himself by fighting off an even bigger threat (the Sub-Mariner attacking New York). I’m a sucker for...
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how I got into comics, by Illan M. aged 38 and a...
I got into comics via Tin Tin and the Asterix and Obelix series. Women were represented by Bianca di Castafiore, Vitalstatix’s temperamental wife Impedimenta, and Geriatrix’s young and beautiful wife - whom I’ve just discovered doesn’t actually have a name. Oh well, I guess there was Cleopatra.
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How did you get into comics? (Submitted by...
The summer before my senior year of high school, a friend and I rented Batman and Robin for the lolz. It was as terrible as I remembered, but the character of Poison Ivy stuck with me, and a couple months later I decided to dress as her for Halloween. I did some research on the character online, which led me to Batman, which led me to Dick Grayson, which led me to the Teen Titans and thus the...
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How I got into comics (Submitted by...
I was never your typical girl growing up. By 4, I knew that I loved wearing dresses with pretty shoes, but often got my mom mad after ruining them playing catch with the boys, hanging upside down on the jungle gym and trodding into puddles like a crazed monster, hellbent on ruining whatever city was in my way. My dad liked it though, and often laughed as he wiped away the tears from my mudcaked...
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How Did You Get Into Comics? (Submitted by...
My love for comic books sort of started more with the excitement of superheroes and a love of history. It never bothered me that I was a girl who read comic books originally, but I was always told “only stupid people” read comics. This created a challenge for me because I was embarrassed to admit even an interest in superheroes. I first read an issue of Tales of Suspense and fell in...
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How did you get into comics? (Submitted by Kim)
I’m a girl who reads comics! I got into them just this year through my husband, who has an extensive collection — I started to help him organize it and had to make a ton of stops to read interesting titles or series… now I follow almost as many as he does :) Doctor Who, Deadpool & Uncanny X-Men are some of my faves right now, and although I don’t have nearly the history...
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Elfquest and Conan (Submitted by Nipuna)
My brother used to pick up Conan and Asterix comics from the news stand every week and I loved reading them but asked him to pick one for me. So he started bringing home Elfquests. I was 10 years old and so into them. I have read every single Elfquest and Conan comic in existence.
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How did you get into comics? (Submitted by RM)
When I was seven or eight my father decided it was safe enough to introduce me to the world of comics. He would take me to the store and buy us a big stack to read outside in the sunlight. I was having trouble learning how to write legibly, loathed the idea of the books at school with their tiny lines, but together with him I would talk and talk about all the stories I could imagine for my heroes.
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How did you get into comics? (Submitted by...
I get the feeling that I was just born into it. Growing up, my parents had an enormous collection of comic strip trades, mostly Garfield, Calvin and Hobbes and Bloom County, that I loved to look at and wonder about when I was younger. I wasn’t actually able to read very well until the 4th grade, thanks to a reading disability, so I liked comics because at the very least, I could infer what...
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How did you get into comics? (Submitted by...
I found my parents’ copies of Art Spiegelman’s Maus and the Cartoon History of the Universe on our bookshelves, and Alison Bechdel’s Dykes to Watch Out For in a church library. My brother and I read an online comic called Restaurant together when we were in elementary school. We watched superhero cartoons on Saturday mornings and hung out at the local comic shop/gamer’s...
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How did you get into comics? (Submitted by...
My friend found a copy of “Wolverine: Origin” in a library and showed it to me. I’ve been a Marvel Girl ever since.
DC Women Kicking Ass: Are you a woman who reads... →
dcwomenkickingass:
International Read Comics in Public Day will be held on Saturday, August 28th and once again I will be coordinating a concurrent Women Read Comics in Public online event. Last year’s event was very popular and I would like to double the amount of participants in this year’s.
I have a new…
I’ll be reading comics in public on August 28th. Will you?