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| Wednesday, May 7th, 2008 | | 8:17 pm |
Iron Man
I have to admit, the part I enjoyed the most was making fun of Tony Stark's chest.
You know, Tony Stark's chest is 99% effective in preventing unwanted pregnancy.
Tony Stark's chest does not protect against sexually transmitted diseases.
Tony Stark's chest should not be taken by women with a history of heart problems, or women who are trying to get pregnant.
Please advise your doctor if you are taking Tony Stark's chest, as it can cause complications when combined with other medications.
Some women prefer the Today sponge to Tony Stark's chest.
Tony Stark's chest can also help clear up your skin!
The best part was when he upgraded to the newer version of Tony Stark's chest that eliminates periods. Then he had to go back to the old one because he was having hormonal problems. | | 1:18 pm |
| | Wednesday, April 30th, 2008 | | 2:07 pm |
Lulu Awards Nominations One more post today: Friends of Lulu is holding open nominations for its annual Lulu Awards, so if you know ladies or lady-friendly people in comics who deserve recognition, go nominate them. I'm going to humbly suggest that you consider Bobby Sox creator Marty Links, who recently passed away, for the Women Cartoonists Hall of Fame. The Friends of Lulu online nomination ballot is right here. Also, today's the last day of my Match It for Pratchett Strip Sale, so get in on that action while there's still time. | | 11:47 am |
New Lil Mell! Okay, okay, it's just a filler this week while Neil and I recover from the Stumptown Comics Fest. Enjoy a sampling of my thumbnail art. http://www.girlamatic.com/comics/mell.phpAnd it wouldn't be Wednesday without a new installment in The Chronicles of William Bazillion! Speaking of Stumptown, the brand-new Skin Horse minicomic won a Stumptown Trophy Award for Outstanding Small Press! How sweet is that?  I was at the party where the awards were announced, but everyone was rocking so hard that I didn't hear it announced. I only found out that I'd won something when I went into the convention hall the next morning and my trophy was waiting for me at the table. As you can see, I was gobsmacked. The trophies themselves are the tackiest secondhand trophies the good people at Stumptown could find in the greater Portland area. And ours is the best one! Bask in the glory:  Here are Jeffrey's and my initials crudely scrawled into the trophy plate by Shannon Wheeler:  And the crowning glory:  BEST TROPHY EVER. I can only hope Jeffrey is as proud as I am. Thank you, Stumptown! Oh, and if you'd like to purchase a copy of this award-winning minicomic for your own, we can make that happen. I had a great time at Stumptown, by the way. Andrew's got a great writeup here, although he mostly talks about things he ate. | | Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008 | | 10:28 am |
New Li'l Mell! Ta-da! http://www.girlamatic.com/comics/mell.phpOne of the pleasures of having different artists draw Li'l Mell is seeing everyone's interpretations of the characters. Here, for example, is Neil's rendition of Ms. Divine, the principal. Also, if there's one thing we've learned over the five years this comic has been running, it's that Mrs. Hancock will never get back on her feet. And of course there's a new installment of The Chronicles of William Bazillion! One week left in the Match It for Pratchett strip sale. If you'd like to own an original Narbonic or <http://www.skin-horse.com>Skin Horse</a> strip for a mere $25, with all proceeds going to the Alzheimer's Research Trust, email narbonic at sbcglobal dot net. This is also your last chance to vote in the Girlamatic Birthday Card Contest. Voting ends tomorrow, so if you haven't picked your favorites, do so now. And no, I don't know what the categories mean either. Oh, and I'll be at the Stumptown Comics Fest in Portland this weekend! If you're there, stop by the Couscous Collective table and say hi! Whew. Busy week. | | Wednesday, April 16th, 2008 | | 9:38 am |
| | Tuesday, April 15th, 2008 | | 4:19 pm |
Random Numbered Thoughts 1. As the hip-hop audience grays, we're inevitably going to see more focus on rap by and for the elderly, and I for one wish to get in on the coming oldcore movement early and rake in the benjamins. Therefore, I am hereby calling dibs on the rap name "Aged P." 2. Volume 25 of Knights of the Zodiac includes a chapter entitled "Ikki's Punch of Lamentation." It's the little things that make this job worthwhile. 3. As a Vassar girl turning 30, I could write the weirdest sequel to The Group. | | Wednesday, April 9th, 2008 | | 10:08 am |
| | Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008 | | 4:26 pm |
| | Wednesday, March 26th, 2008 | | 10:05 am |
New Li'l Mell! When I started Li'l Mell, five flippin' years ago, this was one of the pages I most definitely wanted to do. www.girlamatic.com/comics/mell.phpAnd look! A new installment of The Chronicles of William Bazillion! That's a heck of a lot of Nixon, is all I can say. Thanks very much to everyone who's bought Narbonic and Skin Horse strips for the Match It for Pratchett fundraiser. We've already raised over a thousand dollars, and it's not even April yet! Plenty of strips are still available (seriously, I've got a drawer full), so please email narbonic at sbcglobal dot net if you're interested in purchasing any. | | Friday, March 21st, 2008 | | 5:35 pm |
Oh, man, this week I did the funnest thing. Andrew and I went to a screening of Young Frankenstein, one of my all-time favorite movies (along with Annie Hall, The Muppet Movie, and Wings of Desire), at the beautiful Castro Theater. As if seeing Young Frankenstein on the big screen wasn't enough, it was followed by a Q&A and book signing with Gene Wilder. Gene friggin' Wilder!  As you can see, we were totally gobsmacked. I don't think I've ever seen such a big grin on Andrew's face. | | 10:07 am |
Strip Sale for Terry Pratchett As many of you nerds out there know, Terry Pratchett has been diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's. Recently, Pratchett donated half a million pounds (the website now says it's a million) to Alzheimer's research. His fans, led by writers Pat Cadigan and Corey Doctorow, are working together to match that donation. My college boyfriend turned me on to Pratchett, although I didn't really get hooked until I read Hogfather on the long flight to Ireland in my junior year abroad. At the time, Pratchett's books weren't widely available in the U.S., but they were in all the Dublin bookstores, and I became an addict; most of what little spending money I had went into those Corgi paperbacks with lumpy Josh Kirby characters crawling all over the covers. (I also drooled over the Discworld miniatures at Forbidden Planet, but never dared indulge.) I was especially affected by Small Gods and Witches Abroad, which I read over and over. And of course Good Omens, combining the mighty goth powers of Neil Gaiman with Pratchett's warm, wicked humor, gave me infinite little nerdgasms. I've read every Discworld book, I've got signed copies (and my tattered Good Omens bears the "Burn this book!" inscription from Pratchett and "Apply match here" from Gaiman), I saw "Mort" performed live at Dublin Castle, etc., etc. I'm fairly hardcore. But if you read my comics, you probably know this, because you can see the Pratchett influence. Or, to put it a little less kindly, you can see me ripping off all his jokes and good ideas for my crudely-drawn webcomics. Now it's payback time. Through the month of April, I will be selling original daily strips from my comics Narbonic and Skin Horse for the low low price of $25. All proceeds from the sale will go to The Alzheimer's Research Trust. A few quick guidelines: -- Please contact me before sending money to find out if the strip you want is available. I've sold or given away many Narbonic strips over the years, although I've still got well over a thousand. -- Each strip is drawn with archival ink on bristol and is about eleven inches long by four inches high. -- I will not sell the first Narbonic strip, the last one, the one with Helen and Dave's first kiss, or the one where Artie falls. I will not sell the first Skin Horse strip. I'm also not including Sunday strips and artwork in this sale. Everything else is up for grabs. -- Shipping and handling are included with the $25 price. -- You can purchase as many strips as you like. Interested? Email narbonic at sbcglobal dot net. Thanks! | | Wednesday, March 19th, 2008 | | 9:55 am |
New Li'l Mell! I really, really dig Neil's drawings of Mell on this page. They're some of my all-time favorite Li'l Mells. www.girlamatic.com/comics/mell.phpAnd there's a new installment in The Chronicles of William Bazillion! Now with more Nixon than ever! In other news, our minicomic The Max O'Millions Adventure Society In: The Idol of Svarbald, written by me and drawn by Andrew, got a very nice review on Midnight Fiction. Andrew's hard at work on a sequel, featuring a teenage Max O'Millions in the 1950s, hopefully to be ready in time for Stumptown next month. Also, the nomination round for The Harvey Awards closes this Friday, March 21. If you're a comics industry professional (and, yes, that includes webcartoonists), you're eligible to nominate comics for the Harveys. Click here for a text version of the ballot. You can type your nominees right into the document and send them in by email this year, which makes it easy to vote. If you're having a hard time completing your ballot, Andrew and I are not too shameless to humbly suggest that you remember the following comics that were released in 2007: BEST ANTHOLOGY Marvel Holiday Special 2007, Marvel Comics BEST SINGLE ISSUE OR STORY "Piece of Cake," by Andrew Farago, Shaenon K. Garrity & Lou Kang, Marvel Holiday Special 2007, Marvel Comics BEST ONLINE COMICS WORK (LIST TITLE AND WEBSITE URL) Smithson by Shaenon K. Garrity and Brian Moore ( http://www.smithsoncomic.com) SPECIAL AWARD FOR HUMOR IN COMICS (LIST WRITER OR ARTIST AND TITLE OF COMIC) "Piece of Cake," by Andrew Farago, Shaenon K. Garrity & Lou Kang, Marvel Holiday Special 2007, Marvel Comics *** Thanks for your consideration! | | Wednesday, March 12th, 2008 | | 9:49 am |
| | Wednesday, March 5th, 2008 | | 12:21 am |
| | Wednesday, February 27th, 2008 | | 10:44 am |
| | Saturday, February 23rd, 2008 | | 11:16 pm |
Pop-Culture References Made by Shaenon and Andrew in Conversation During One Week, 2/10/08-2/16/08 I just got curious and started writing them down. ( Read more... ) | | Thursday, February 21st, 2008 | | 10:47 am |
New William Bazillion! This just gets more and more unsettling. www.williambazillion.comAlso, I've got a new "All the Comics in the World" column up on Comixology. While you're there, check out my friend Jason T's exhaustive multi-part exploration of a single cell-phone manga in his "Manga Salad" column. | | Wednesday, February 13th, 2008 | | 3:04 pm |
| | Friday, February 8th, 2008 | | 10:25 am |
WCCAs If you write or draw a webcomic (and at this point, who doesn't?), take a minute to vote in the eternally fascinating Web Cartoonists' Choice Awards. I'm not nominated for anything, probably because I didn't do much in 2007 except for Smithson, and Smithson clearly won't be recognized for its greatness until long after Brian and I have died lonely paupers' deaths in a Victorian-style gutter. Despite that, this year's nominations are actually pretty good, so go vote and get some talented people some fake awards. Also, I forgot to mention yesterday that I've got a new "All the Comics in the World" column up on Comixology. This one is about all the original art I own. I swear eventually I'll get back to talking about All-Star Batman or something. |
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