Grace is a monthly reading series in New York focusing on women literary writers.
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The Grace Comics Showcase ZINE!
Contents include:
From the introduction by Ariel Bordeaux:
As I have generally been focusing more on abundance than scarcity in my life, I found that I was able to really see the unique qualities that women bring to comics with more clarity. In my slideshow, I was able to demonstrate the variety and power in the work of these women artists with genuine awe and respect. These young women artists so many of whom are still in their twenties and have blazed past me in so many ways, who are on their second and third graphic novels when I have so little to show at my advanced age, these older women artists who have grown so amazing at their craft and kept at it with the added challenges of childrearing and other careers, these wild and multitalented women who also have bands, who write for TV, who dance and perform, and who are fearlessly, bravely doing all the things with their lives that I have only dreamed of, or barely dared to dip my pinky toe into. These women artists are inspiring me to push myself, and they’ve reminded me what amazing things can happen when you stay true to your own nature in your work. So in my new abundance-based awareness, now that I am able to see the dazzling brilliance of my colleagues with clarity, I am absolutely thrilled to bring together such a multitude of talented women cartoonists.
From "Mothers of Comics" by Heidi MacDonald:
The MoCCA Fest of 2006 was unlike any other comic book convention I had ever attended, and I had attended many. In my career as a comics editor and journalist, I've been to dozens and dozens of comics shows, starting when I was 15 or 16. I had been many things at these shows: a collector rifling through back issue bins, a journalist looking for interviews, an editor working for the world's largest multi-national entertainment conglomerate trying to find artists, an internet reporter. But this time it would be different. I was going as a daughter.
From "On the Subject of Being a Lady Cartoonist Novelty Act" with Carol Tyler:
I find the electricity that happens between things when they are next to each other much more exciting than exactitude - which then further inspires the development of the story and so on. I consider many things, like that space can have a texture or sound component as well as a visual one - whereas the soffit on a house next to a tree could go shuuuuk , which would then affect the interpretation of that space and lead to a modification of the formal '60-degree-line-on-a-planar-surface' solution.
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The Grace Comics Showcase ZINE!
Contents include:
- A program of NYC Events, Fall 2006: Readings by Megan Kelso, Gabrielle Bell, Allison Cole, Lauren Weinstein and FLY!!!
- Comics by Ariel Schrag, Megan Whitmarsh and Anne Elizabeth Moore & Christa Donner
- Heidi MacDonald on Mothers
- Trina Robbins, Carol Tyler, Lorna Miller and Jennifer Daydreamer on Women & Comics
- Why Did Julie Doucet Stop Drawing Comics?
- PLUS! 32 *MORE* Kick-Ass Cartoonists!!!
From the introduction by Ariel Bordeaux:
As I have generally been focusing more on abundance than scarcity in my life, I found that I was able to really see the unique qualities that women bring to comics with more clarity. In my slideshow, I was able to demonstrate the variety and power in the work of these women artists with genuine awe and respect. These young women artists so many of whom are still in their twenties and have blazed past me in so many ways, who are on their second and third graphic novels when I have so little to show at my advanced age, these older women artists who have grown so amazing at their craft and kept at it with the added challenges of childrearing and other careers, these wild and multitalented women who also have bands, who write for TV, who dance and perform, and who are fearlessly, bravely doing all the things with their lives that I have only dreamed of, or barely dared to dip my pinky toe into. These women artists are inspiring me to push myself, and they’ve reminded me what amazing things can happen when you stay true to your own nature in your work. So in my new abundance-based awareness, now that I am able to see the dazzling brilliance of my colleagues with clarity, I am absolutely thrilled to bring together such a multitude of talented women cartoonists.
From "Mothers of Comics" by Heidi MacDonald:
The MoCCA Fest of 2006 was unlike any other comic book convention I had ever attended, and I had attended many. In my career as a comics editor and journalist, I've been to dozens and dozens of comics shows, starting when I was 15 or 16. I had been many things at these shows: a collector rifling through back issue bins, a journalist looking for interviews, an editor working for the world's largest multi-national entertainment conglomerate trying to find artists, an internet reporter. But this time it would be different. I was going as a daughter.
From "On the Subject of Being a Lady Cartoonist Novelty Act" with Carol Tyler:
I find the electricity that happens between things when they are next to each other much more exciting than exactitude - which then further inspires the development of the story and so on. I consider many things, like that space can have a texture or sound component as well as a visual one - whereas the soffit on a house next to a tree could go shuuuuk , which would then affect the interpretation of that space and lead to a modification of the formal '60-degree-line-on-a-planar-surface' solution.
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