Editor Shelly Bond left Vertigo last May, but you knew you knew she wouldn’t stay away for long. Along with Hi-Fi Colour Design founders Kristy Miller and Brian Miller, she’s dipped into her immance rolodex**to help curate Femme Magnifique, a comics anthology of 30 short stories about women trailblazers from the worlds of pop music, politics, art, and science. Inspired by current events, the anthology will be crowdsourced very soon and weight in at more than 100 pages
Bond explains that “the idea came about immediately after the election. It was the perfect time to take a missed opportunity for women and channel our collective energy into something insightful, full of positivity, that we can pass on to future generations. FEMME MAGNIFIQUE is a graphic novel anthology designed to salute not only the fearless women who toppled the status quo, but also the outstanding writers and artists who infuse their personal stories of ambition and discovery onto the comic book page.”
According to Kristy Miller “We have been lucky enough to work with amazing creators for years, and now we have this opportunity to come together and showcase women in a variety of ways. It takes the support of both men and women to help move women to the forefront, their rightful, equal place.”
The lineup:
- Michael and Laura Allred (iZombie, Madman),
- David Barnett (Calling Major Tom, The Guardian)
- Marguerite Bennett (Animosity, InSEXts)
- Corinna Bechko (Star Wars, Invisible Republic),
- Aditya Bidikar (The Skeptics),
- Philip Bond (Kill Your Boyfriend, The Invisibles),
- Tamra Bonvillain Doom Patrol, Moon Girl, Devil Dinosaur),
- Chuck Brown (Rotten Apple),
- Paige Braddock (Jane’s World, Stinky Cecil),
- Mark Buckingham (Fables) and Irma Page,
- Mike Carey (Lucifer, The Girl with All the Gifts),
- Cecil Castellucci (Moving Target: A Princess Leia Adventure, Shade, The Plain Janes),
- Elsa Charretier (Harley Quinn),
- Johnnie Christmas (Angel Catbird),
- Jamie Coe (Art Schooled),
- Tyler Crook (Harrow County),
- Rob Davis (The Motherless Oven, Doctor Who),
- Kelly Sue DeConnick (Bitch Planet, Pretty Deadly),
- Ming Doyle (Girl Over Paris, The Kitchen),
- Chynna Clugston-Flores (Blue Monday)
- Kelly Fitzpatrick (Shade, the Changing Girl, Bitch Planet),
- Chynna Clugston-Flores (Blue Monday, Lumberjanes/Gotham Academy Crossover),
- Tess Fowler (Rat Queens),
- Tee Franklin (Nailbiter: The Outfit, Love Is Love)
- Karrie Fransman (Death of An Artist, The House that Groaned),
- Kieron Gillen (Star Wars: Darth Vader, The Wicked + The Divine),
- Che Grayson (Rigamo)
- Sanford Greene (Power Man Iron Fist),
- Peter Gross (Lucifer, The Unwritten),
- Gilbert Hernandez (Love and Rockets),
- Betsy Houlton (New York Daily News),
- Megan Hutchison (Rockstars),
- Tini Howard (The Skeptics),
- Lucy Knisley (Relish, Something New),
- Eugenia Koumaki (Womanthology),
- Teddy Kristiansen (It’s A Bird, The Sandman),
- Alisa Kwitney (Token, Convergence: Batgirl, Till the Fat Lady Sings)
- Sonny Liew (The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye, Doctor Fate),
- Shawn Martinbrough (Luke Cage Noir, Thief of Thieves),
- Shawn McManus (Fables, The Sandman)
- Leah Moore (Albion),
- Kristy Miller (Birds of Prey),
- Brian Miller (Harley Quinn, Star Wars, Ziggy Stardust),
- Hope Nicholson (The Secret Loves of Geek Girls),
- Laurie Penny (The Guardian),
- Rori! (100 Women/100 Days) and Gibson Twist (Pictures of You),
- Jim Rugg (Street Angel, The Plain Janes),
- Steven T. Seagle (It’s A Bird, Big Hero 6)
- Paula 7bergen (Window Pains, contributor to Bust),
- Alison Sampson (Winnebago Graveyard, Jessica Jones),
- Bill Sienkiewicz (Elektra: Assassin),
- Gail Simone (Batgirl, Clean Room),
- Jill Thompson (Wonder Woman: The True Amazon, Scary Godmother),
- Matt Wagner (Grendel),
- Gerard Way (Doom Patrol, My Chemical Romance)
- Maris Wicks (Science Comics),
- Annie Wu (Black Canary)
- Ron Wimberly (Prince of Cats),
- Marley Zarcone (Shade, the Changing Girl)
- and more to be announced…
You can join the FEMME MAGNIFIQUE mailing list to be notified when the crowdfunding campaign launches.
Looks cool. She does have a great Rolodex, but ‘immanse’?
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