Tag: comics

• Women Writers Reading Challenge #51: The Secret History of Wonder Woman by Jill Lepore

  October 26, 2015

  Reading Challenge

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  So the early Wonder Woman? Yeah, she was kind of a badass. And she is descended from some of the most influential suffragettes and women’s rights leaders of the early twentieth century, owing debts to Margaret Sanger and Emmeline Pankhurst. Her creator also invented the lie detector (though the patented invention–the polygraph–would be created by…

• Women Writers Reading Challenge Book #19: Hark! A Vagrant by Kate Beaton

  May 13, 2015

  Reading Challenge

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  They call this book a graphic novel, which is somewhat disingenuous as its more of a collection of various comics on various subjects. Some of the comics are absolutely hilarious, and it’s clear that Kate Beaton has quite a gift for them, especially ones involving history and literature. However, I really disliked this book’s lack…