[LMB] OT: webcomics with women

Elvi Dalgaard elvi at vl.videotron.ca
Fri Apr 13 05:06:24 BST 2007


Well, there's Digger - the main character is a very self reliant 
female..... wombat. And it's written by Ursula Vernon. I just discovered 
it recently from one of my lists or blogs - but I guess not this list.

It can be seen up to a certain point for free, after which subscription 
charges apply. The current day's comic is always free, though. It's at 
http://www.graphicsmash.com/comics/digger.php

Elvi

Jennifer Sessions wrote:
>
>
> A general call to all listees. I'm on a panel about women and 
> webcomics for Wiscon this year, and while lots of the comics I read 
> have really great female characters, I was shocked to discover that 
> only one of the comics I read is actually written by a women- namely 
> Girl Genius by Phil and Kaja Foglio (which is entertaining to the 
> point of making me gibber with delight whenever it uploads).
>
> So my request is, are there any comics that you particularly like that 
> are written or drawn by women and or have good feminist (i.e. 
> realistic or intriguing) themes? Are there comics that especially 
> frustrate you?
>
> As a starting place for anybody who's interested here are the ones I 
> follow and enjoy:
>
> http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/cgi-bin/ggmain.cgi
> http://www.megatokyo.com/
> http://www.boltcity.com/copper/
> http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=855
> http://applegeeks.com/
> http://www.sluggy.com/
>
> thanks in advance!
>
> Jenny Sessions
> I wear the cheese, it does not wear me.
> -Joss Whedon


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