In honor of Bonnie and Lola and THE GIRL WHO WOULD BE KING we continue our 30 Days of Superheroines!
In honor of July 4th for you Americans (of which I am one) I’ve chosen the totally appropriate (but actually NOT appropriate since she’s not an American…WONDER WOMAN!
Obviously there is a nearly infinite amount of great Wonder Woman art out there…so I had to limit myself. Here are some of my favorites…
By Rebel Penguin
By Tom Bancroft (“Mary Blair Style”)
Tags: Bonnie Braverman, Lola LeFever
So it’s pretty much ALWAYS awesome to be friends with Ross, but sometimes he really pulls out ALL the goddamn stops.
Some of you that frequent the blog regularly may remember this post, in which I talked a bit about some projects I was working on and wanted to work on, and one in particular that I conceived as a television show, but realizing nobody was going to let little ole me do a TV show, turned it into a novel. It’s the novel I wrote for this NaNo last November (you may remember my daily posts on that as well).
Tessa Battle and her axe The Black Dove by Kelly Thompson
Anyway, the sketch above was a quick little sketch that I did of the main character Tessa a long ways back.
Ross, who read the novel a few months back, for my birthday did the MOST GORGEOUS DRAWING EVER of Tessa.
Tessa Battle and her axe The Black Dove by Ross Campbell (and Kelly Thompson)
I am just in heaven over this. I have to tell you guys, ever since I started wanting to do comics as a teenager I always used to want to write and draw my own comics and graphic novels, but over the last six months, working with Stephanie, Ross, and Meredith (as well as a few other wonderful artists here and there) has made me realize how much I would rather have someone else fall in love with something of mine and breath their own life into it. It’s so damn rewarding I can barely describe it. Especially when I’ve been lucky enough to work with these insanely talented people.
So…THANK YOU ROSS. YOU ARE AN ULTIMATE BADASS OF THE HIGHEST ORDER.
(Even Tessa says so).
Tags: things made of awesome
In honor of Bonnie and Lola and THE GIRL WHO WOULD BE KING we continue our 30 Days of Superheroines!
BLACK CANARY! I admit Dinah’s costume isn’t my favorite from a practicality standpoint, but in the hands of the right artist, man does it sing.
By Kathryn Hudson
By Justin Coffee
Tags: Bonnie Braverman, comics!, Lola LeFever
It’s Tuesday…you know what that means…NEW chapters for THE GIRL WHO WOULD BE KING.
You can download the new Chapters here: TGWWBK Chapters 9 & 10
Or just read below.
If you want the entire story thus far, head over to THE GIRL WHO WOULD BE KING page and download or read directly from the site.
Sharon is becoming a legitimate problem for me.
Until recently she’s been a thorn in just about everyone’s side, but she’s provided an interesting opportunity for me to do good. Returning thrown necklaces and other bits of stolen property, stopping fights before they begin, stupid little stuff. Little stuff that makes people happy and lets me see my mother in my dreams. The dreams, even if they are filled with confusion and violence and strange warnings that I don’t understand, are still time with my mother. Until Sharon I’ve been used to people somehow intrinsically understanding to leave me alone, like animals in the wild that know to only hunt the weak or injured. I think I give off something that keeps most people away from me. Like potential adoptive parents. It never mattered much to me because I was always waiting for Jasper to come and get me. Of course when I was twelve, he was eighteen and he didn’t come for me, so I gave up quickly on the fantasy. I really had tricked myself at first into believing he would come, but when he didn’t, I unpacked my bag again and went back to my regular life. It was foolish to think he would come, considering I blamed myself for the car accident; it was likely he blamed me for it too. But I guess I had hoped that he would come anyway.
When Rachael shows up at dinner with a broken wrist I know that Sharon has drawn an invisible line in the sand, and it’s up to me to step up to it. I begin tailing Rachael everywhere she goes, becoming her self-appointed guardian. I see her injury and chide myself for sitting idly by for too long; it’s time to stand up, if not for myself, then for someone else.
Tags: Bonnie Braverman, Lola LeFever, The Girl Who Would Be King
In honor of Bonnie and Lola and THE GIRL WHO WOULD BE KING we continue our 30 Days of Superheroines!
And another lady that I loved (read: was obsessed with) as a young girl watching awesome cartoons – SCARLETT!
By Mashi
In honor of Bonnie and Lola and THE GIRL WHO WOULD BE KING we continue our 30 Days of Superheroines!
I felt in the mood to do some smart tough ladies that influenced me even before I found comics – and also, in homage to my first nephew (who I meet on Tuesday!) – Luke – I give you PRINCESS LEIA:
By Jessica Hickman
She almost has a “Buffy” look to her that I kind of adore. Via DeviantArt
By Jessica Hickman
There nothing I don’t love about this! Via DeviantArt
Tags: Bonnie Braverman, Lola LeFever
In honor of Bonnie and Lola and THE GIRL WHO WOULD BE KING we continue our 30 Days of Superheroines!
Today we’ve got another great X-Man and one that I rarely feel gets her due…though I’m excited to see Brian Wood writing her these days…STORM!
And you should know before we even begin that I am totally partial to the punk rock mohawk Storm although I think that will be quickly obvious…
By Mike Maihack
This is so great because it’s so much more than just a character sketch on a page – there’s such composition to it with her engaging her powers – the black and white is totally powerful. Via Mike Maihack – Deviant Art
By Ross Campbell
I think Ross makes a really good case here for her mohawk being kinky instead of straight. Love it. Via Deviant Art/Mooncalfe
Tags: Bonnie Braverman, comics!, Lola LeFever
In honor of Bonnie and Lola and THE GIRL WHO WOULD BE KING we continue our 30 Days of Superheroines!
Our first DC Woman is up and she’s one of my absolute favorites. It’s no surprise I suppose that I found a TON of great stuff for her:
BIG BARDA!
By Ming Doyle
By Phil Noto
Man! If anyone can make that silly bikin armor work, it’s Phil Noto! via Phil Noto
In honor of Bonnie and Lola and THE GIRL WHO WOULD BE KING we continue our 30 Days of Superheroines!
So today is my birthday…which made me think I should do Rogue (a favorite)…but I have SO MANY images of Rogue that that post is going to take FOREVER.
So instead you get Psylocke, who I don’t have a ton of great ones of, but the few I have are really fantastic. Plus, Psylocke always gets screwed, the art of her is always SUPER over-sexualized…so this is a nice change of pace here.
UPDATE: I had WAY more of these than I thought I did!
By Trozos
By Ross Campbell
Fun story, Ross never used to draw Psylocke, and then he and I got talking about a project we wanted to do together that we loving refer to as “Mad Max X-Men” and I told him we definitely needed Psylocke for my plan…so he drew this up. I think he likes her more now. 
Tags: Bonnie Braverman, comics!, Lola LeFever, The Girl Who Would Be King
Hey, kids! It’s Thursday, that means another installment of THE GIRL WHO WOULD BE KING.
You can download The Girl Who Would Be King Chapters 7 & 8.
You can download The Girl Who Would Be King Chapters 1 – 8.
Or if you want to read on the blog you can read 7 & 8 below, or hit THE GIRL WHO WOULD BE KING tab at the top of the page to read the entire piece on the blog.
And you’ve all checked out the Kickstarter – RIGHT?! 
I hit the ground and go into a crouch, my hands and feet sinking slightly into the soft ground. The feeling of being alive doesn’t leave me. In fact, as the mud seeps into my shoes and through my fingers I feel somehow deeply connected to not just the earth, but to everything. The world feels big and I feel a part of it in some important unspoken way. I stay there for a long while, just feeling.
When I finally move again I put everything back to how it was and sneak back in the kitchen door and lock it up. Upstairs I take off all my clothes, careful to put both my mother’s bracelet and Jenny’s locket on the sink edge, and rinse the clothes and my shoes in the sink, so that they are only wet and not dirty. I wash my busted up hands, wincing as the water runs into the tears where the bricks cut into my knuckles. I clean off my body and then both my bracelet and Jenny’s locket. Looking inside of Jenny’s locket I see what was more important to her than anything. The locket has two pictures that are by some miracle barely damaged. They look like they could be her parents. I think of all the things I would do if only I could have a picture of my parents and Jasper.
I look up and catch a glimpse of myself in the dark mirror. I’m always shocked by how much I look like my mother – the same long arms and legs, broad shoulders, red hair, pale skin, and smattering of freckles. My eyes are dark blue like hers but my mouth is a little wider and if I grow any taller I think I’ll be taller too. I guess if I can’t have a picture it’s nice to carry her around on my face. I just wish there was some of my father in there too.
When I go back into the sleeping room I put my clothes under the bed, hoping they’ll dry a little before morning, and the last thing I do before I crawl into bed is place Jenny’s locket in her sleeping hand, cupped perfectly, as if waiting for it. I think I won’t be able to sleep with all the excitement of the night and worry about having to hide my damaged hands from the staff, but my body takes over and I’m asleep almost instantly.
I dream of my mother.
