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Home » Kickwatcher & Preview: Big Feminist But kicks ass
Kickwatcher & Preview: Big Feminist But kicks ass

Kickwatcher & Preview: Big Feminist But kicks ass

11/26/2012 1:00 pm by Heidi MacDonald

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A new Kickstarter just launched this morning for THE BIG FEMINIST BUT a comics anthology of stories about women, men, attitudes and the humor and drama of those attitudes. Contributors include Jeffrey Brown, Gabrielle Bell, Lauren Weinstein, Josh Neufeld, Sarah Oleksyk, Corrine Mucha, and many more, including what may be the last published comic by the late, great Dylan Williams. The goal is $13,995, which will pay for printing and distribution and a page rate for contributors.

I’ve been lucky enough to read a preview copy, and I think this project deserves a lot of support—not just because it has a bunch of kick ass contributions. The stories inside—edited by Joan Reilly and Shannon O’Leary—aren’t just one-note lectures. Some stories are multi-layered essays as the contributors grapple with their own issues—accepting images of female power, potential spinsterhood, childlessness. Others are nuanced examinations of the power balance between women and men—or women and women. Some are just funny. Given the range of contributors, it’s no surprise that the contents are so strong, but such “theme” anthologies are often wildly uneven, and it’s a credit to editors O’Leary and Reilly that it’s such a strong, thoughtful work.

There are a couple of other reasons to support this books besides it being good comics.

1) Half of the $13,995 goal will go towards paying the contributors a fair page rate. That’s really important.

2) I’ve been part of Shannon and Joan’s journey to publish this book for three or four years. When they first started shopping it around to mainstream publishers, they got a very negative reaction to the use of the word “feminist.” In the intervening time, this word has come out of the faux “discarded ideology” doghouse it was pushed into by competing forces and become very important to the civil discourse, as basic rights that were won decades ago like contraception have, incredibly, come under attack.

So it’s time to be a feminist again. THE BIG FEMINIST BUT shows that there are as many ways to be one as there are cartoonists.

Shannon—who in the spirit of disclosure, it should be noted, is a regular Beat contributor—has given me permission to run a preview, including the story “My Horrible Heroines” by Shaenon K. Garrity, and pages by Andrice Arp and Jesse Reklaw, Corrinne Mucha, Sarah Oleksyk, and Dylan Williams. The Kickstarter has a ton of great rewards, including an animal portrait by Reilly, panties, signed books by people who aren’t in the anthology and more. So what are you waiting for?

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Heidi MacDonald

Heidi MacDonald is the founder and editor in chief of The Beat. In the past, she worked for Disney, DC Comics, Fox and Publishers Weekly. She can be heard regularly on the More To Come Podcast. She likes coffee, cats and noble struggle.

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  1. Spencer Toyama says

    11/26/2012 1:27 pm at 1:27 pm

    Looks like a great project, and launching on cyber Monday is sort of brilliant.

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  2. Alexa (Ladies Making Comics) says

    11/26/2012 1:32 pm at 1:32 pm

    Oh man, I remember when this was announced forever ago. So happy to see it’s on its way!

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  3. Shannon OLeary says

    11/26/2012 1:32 pm at 1:32 pm

    Thanks, Spencer! We couldn’t have done it without reading your incredibly informative Kickstarter 101 posts, btw :)

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  4. Jeanine Schaefer says

    11/27/2012 10:34 am at 10:34 am

    Hey, Heidi, thanks for pointing this out! So excited to see this hit its goal! :)

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