Published in 2004
223 pages
Megan Kelso graduated in 1994 from The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. She started working in the 1990s, with the minicomic Girlhero, which won her a Xeric Foundation grant in 1993. She has since published several other projects including Queen of the Black Black and The Squirrel Mother. She was the editor of the female cartoonist anthology, Scherherazade: Stories of Love, Treachery, Mothers, and Monsters (published by Soft Skull Press). Among many other publications, Kelso had a story (which she co-created with Ron Rege) in SPX 2004. She received two Ignatz Awards in 2002. Kelso published a weekly comic strip in The New York Times Magazine titled Watergate Sue.
What is this book about?
Using the story-telling queen as a narrative model, this unique collection of work from the most fascinating female graphic artists in the world includes contributions from twenty-three artists and presents material that will appeal to comic book fans, graphic novel readers, and devotees of the “third wave” of feminism. Original.
