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Womanthology: Heroic


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No. of pages 300

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Great for age 12-18 years
  • Womanthology is a large-scale anthology showcasing the works of women in comics. It is created entirely by over 140 women of all experience levels, from young girls who love to create comics all the way up to top industry professionals. All of the short stories will center around the theme for this volume - Heroic. There will also be features, such as Professional How-To's, a Kids/Teens section showcasing their works and giving tips, as well as a section dedicated to some Iconic female comic creators of the past, such as Nell Brinkley, and much more.
  • Profits of this book will go towards the Charities of GlobalGiving.org.

 

There are 300 pages in this book. This is a comic book. This book was published 2012 by Idea & Design Works .

Ann Nocenti is thrilled to be back in comics, writing CATWOMAN and KATANA for DC Comics. She wrote for Marvel Comics in the late-1980s, writing Daredevil, editing the X-Men, and creating the characters Longshot, Typhoid, Spiral, Blackheart and more. Nocenti teaches filmmaking at the Indigenous Film Circle in Norway, to Native Americans in Tulsa, and in Haiti for two years. Her journalism has appeared in Details, Utne, HEEB, Stop Smiling, PRINT, Filmmaker, Scenario, and more. She has written about Baluchistan (The Most Expensive Road Trip in the World, Best Travel Writing 2008). Her feature script Taking Chances was produced in 2009. Visit Barry online at www. barrylyga. com. Colleen Doran, in a career spanning more than twenty years, has worked on some of the greatest characters in comics, including Superman, Spider-Man, and Wonder Woman, partnered with such writers as Alan Moore and Neil Gaiman. Her books include A Distant Soil and Girl to Grrrl Manga. She has traveled and lectured extensively in Singapore, Japan, Germany, and England, and served as Artist in Residence at the Smithsonian Institute in 2006. She won a grant from the Delphi Institute to study American popular culture, and was chosen to represent the United States at the Japan/America manga/comics seminar in Tokyo. Visit her website at www. colleendoran. com. Before becoming a children's book writer, Debbie Levy was a newspaper editor and a lawyer. Her first middle-grade novel was a Junior Library Guild selection and she is also the author of many books about famous people, fascinating places and historical events. Stephanie Buscema is a freelance illustrator and cartoonist who has worked on everything from comics and children's books to rock 'n' roll art and gallery exhibitions. Stephanie has a BFA in illustration and has done work for Marvel Comics, DC Comics, Disney and Dial Books for Young Readers. Steve Niles (born June 21, 1965) is an American comic book author and novelist, known for works such as 30 Days of Night , Criminal Macabre , Simon Dark , Mystery Society and Batman: Gotham County Line . He is credited among other contemporary writers as bringing horror comics back to prominence. Fiona Staples is a comic book artist living in Calgary, Canada. She has illustrated comics such as Mystery Society , Done to Death , Secret History of the Authority: Hawksmoor , Jonah Hex , and Northlanders , and contributed covers to DV8, T. H. U. N. D. E. R. Agents, Criminal Macabre, Superman/Batman, Archie , and more. Her work on the 2009 horror series North 40 was nominated for an Eisner Award, and she took home the 2011 Shuster Award for Outstanding Cover Artist. She's currently working on the ongoing Image series Saga , with writer Brian K. Vaughan.

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