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Author: Mike Madrid ,
William Kuskin
Publisher: Exterminating Angel Press
Imprint: Exterminating Angel Press
Dimensions:
Width: 17.80cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.482kg
ISBN: 9781935259275
ISBN 10: 193525927
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 23 October 2014
Recommended Age: From 12 years
Audience:
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
Select Praise for Mike Madrid These 'lost' [characters] are now found--to the delight of comic book lovers everywhere. --STAN LEE Lovers of comics and strong women everywhere thank you, Mike Madrid! --TRINA ROBBINS, author of Pretty in Ink: North American Women Cartoonists 1896-2013 Madrid's meticulous and passionate research provides a window into a seemingly lost herstory of patriotism, bravery, and progressive ways of thinking about female agency and adventure. --JENNIFER K. STULLER, author of Ink-Stained Amazons and Cinematic Warriors: Superwomen in Modern Mythology Mike Madrid is doing God's work. . . . mak[ing] accessible a lost, heady land of female adventure. -- ComicsAlliance [Madrid's] engaging, conversational language is as readable as the truly dazzling comics. He has endeavored to unearth the forgotten, and what he found is ultimately unforgettable. -- BUST Magazine Sharp and lively . . . [Madrid] clearly loves this stuff. And he's enough of a historian to be able to trace the ways in which the portrayal of sirens and supergirls has echoed society's ever-changing feelings about women and sex. -- Entertainment Weekly Exciting and fraught with danger . . . Madrid presents the cream of a very ripe crop of empowered comic book [characters] and introduces them quite eloquently. -- Library Journal Provide[s] fantastic documentation of how many female characters were created during this era--some with surprisingly progressive personalities and stories to boot . . . Wholly enjoyable. -- Publishers Weekly Serious and astute . . . elaborating on history and establishing the zeitgeist perfectly . . . Highly recommended for comics fans and historians alike, these 'rarely anthologized' stories are excellent for giving girls of any age positive comic book role models to look up to. -- PopMatters As the mother of several daughters, I'm always on the lookout for books w
Author Information
Mike Madrid is the author of Divas, Dames & Daredevils: Lost Heroines of Golden Age Comics, Vixens, Vamps & Vipers: Lost Villianesses of Golden Age Comics, and The Supergirls: Fashion, Feminism, Fantasy, and the History of Comic Book Heroines, an NPR ""Best Book To Share With Your Friends"" and American Library Association Amelia Bloomer Project Notable Book. A San Francisco native and lifelong fan of comic books and popular culture, Madrid also appears in the documentary Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines and is the illustrator of Lily the Silent: The History of Arcadia. Foreword contributor William Kuskin , Ph.D., who has been described by Denver's Westword as ""kind of like Professor X of the X-Men, teaching his young mutants how to wield their superpowers,"" is Professor, Faculty Associate, and Chair of English at the University of Colorado Boulder.
