Posts tagged "female comics creators"
This is from Dydactic, a series of comics by Yolanda Cheung. I met Yolanda through TCW—she was a writer/artist on Holmes Inc. #2. She has a degree in Architecture, has taken classes in improv comedy, is currently producing a completely improvised film (as part of a series), and she loves to draw comics.
Her comics are frequently rooted in architecture, but she has a hysterical series about going to see the Whose Line is it Anyway guys in a show, and bringing them a bag of booze as a present before the show (!).
Agnes Garbowska!! Is she the busiest comics creator in Canada? I can’t answer that with absolute certainty…but her output suggests she’s definitely in the running. And her work is always kid-friendly, a rarity these days.
Her latest webcomic is a strip for Saturday Morning Webtoons, Boo Bear and Flo (written by Jack Briglio).
And there’s her webcomic, Waking Up Abbey
And there’s her webcomic, Imagination Station
And there’s her webcomic, You, Me, and Zombie.
And that’s just a small amount of the art Agnes produces each week!
Canadian comics creator Emily Ragozzino has been posting installments of her webcomic Tom Boy Tara since 2008. There’s a new update today…click through for a read (easy to go through her archives) and check out her website as well, Emily Ragozzino.
A comic book for kids and by a female creator…and a Canadian creator to boot. S’all good!
Luz Sees The Light is a graphic novel by Claudia Dávila for 8-12 years old, with a “strong environmental message”. Here’s a great review from Comic Book Daily’s Scott Vanderploeg
Faith Erin Hicks, "Friends with Boys" --and a blogpost about how she supports herself financially drawing comics.
The last couple weeks have seen similar posts from a couple of creators (Ryan Estrada had a cool graphic last week) about how they earn their living in comics, and how much. The truth seems to be that some can earn a living in comics—but through more-or-less constant work (creating secondary product, constantly going to shows, commissions, etc).
Towards the end of her post, Hicks says,
“I think as long as I am able to live my poor-but-not-destitute lifestyle, with the health care safety net, I will be happy even as I grow older. I think so. I don’t know how it would be if I became genuinely poor, if I burned through all my savings and could barely cover rent and food. For me, at this point, poor is a choice because I want to draw comics for a living. I suspect if my financial situation became desperate, I would perhaps return to animation. Hopefully it would have me.”
(Yayyy Canadian health care system—making it possible for comic book creators to live happily and healthily in poverty!)
