Mouse on Flower on Flickr.
iPad painting I made in Brushes.
A nice little showcase on the Womanthology Tumblr. :)
It’s been a while since Womanthology did a feature! Today we are showcasing “Swimming” written by Ashley Avard and drawn by Dani Jones! Swimming shows a girl named Olivia who struggles with her weight.
“For someone like me, who is young, relatively inexperienced—someone who it would probably be hard to break into the comics industry and get my work noticed—Womanthology was a rare and amazing opportunity.” -Ashley
Ashley contributes to pussygoesgrrr.com; a blog featuring thoughts about culture, society and sexuality. Ashley also maintains a deviant art for her artwork and writing.
Dani is an Illusustrator who has done work for many clients including Scholastic, highlights, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and many other places. She has self published several projects including her short story Frosty the Gourdman and her ongoing webcomic My Sister the freak. Dani has her work online at danidraws.com and frequently updates a blog there as well.
“I enjoyed getting to participate in Womanthology. I’m proud I got to illustrate a story so simple and subtle, yet very powerful. I think a lot of girls will be able to relate to it, and Ashley did a great job writing it.” -Dani
You can see more of Dani’s projects here as well.
First look: Womanthology
This review of Womanthology gives a nice mention to the story I illustrated. :)
The issue of female creators in comics has always been one to create some discussion but I can’t remember a time when the topic seemed to permeate the comics blogs and news sites as it did this past summer. It was within this maelstrom that creator Renae De Liz came up with the idea of creating an anthology made up of female creators. That in itself was not new - there have been other all-female anthologies. Marvel, for example, recently issued the series, Girl Comics featuring women created content. But Womanthology was not the result of an organization or a commercial comic publisher, it was the result of a grass roots effort. That effort which went from a single Tweet by organizer De Liz to a touchstone around women in comics due to it blowing away its fundraising goal on Kickstarter and raising $86,000 more than its original goal.
I’ve had the review copy of Womanthology sitting on my computer for a while and I’ve been almost afraid to go through the whole thing to write a review. With the success on Kickstarter, with the continued debate on female creators, there seemed to be so much riding on it. What if it didn’t deliver?
Happy Valentine’s Day from Zombie Bunny!
Read the Zombie Bunny comic here: http://danidraws.com/zombie-bunny
New MY SISTER THE FREAK COMIC today!
I am launching a spinoff comic called The Adventures of Captain Bacon. It is kinda completely different in style and story than the main comic, but it is a fun way to have fun with and explore the characters.
The comic is now on a new schedule - TUESDAYS and FRIDAYS! (twice the fun!)
