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Tuesday, 8 July 2014

The Strumpets' Calendar Issue: July

Hey everyone, July is here!
Check out this cool illustration Issue 3 co-editor Kripa Joshi did for this month in The Strumpet 2014 calendar! This calendar was one of the sweet rewards doled out to our Kickstarter supporters in our last campaign.

The Strumpet calendar features some pretty cool new holidays we should really celebrate!

For example, did you know that today is Get to Know a Cartoonist Day?!

Get ready for July 18th, which in Strumpetland is Florence Cestac Day. It is so named in honor of a truly amazing French cartoonist: Madame Cestac helped to found the incredibly influential Futuropolis publishing house, and was the first ever female President of the Angoulême Comics Festival, an enormous honor. We live for the day that her history of Futuropolis, La Veritable Histoire de Futuropolis, appears in English.

Studio visit from Lisa Rosalie Eisenberg!

Lisa Rosalie Eisenberg came all the way from Portland, Oregon to visit The Hypothetical Island, editor Ellen's comics and illustration studio in Brooklyn!

Lisa has been in all three issues of The Strumpet! She has been in two other comic anthologies; Papercutter and Bird Hurdler. Lisa currently self-publishes her comic series I Cut My Hair. She also teaches comics creation to children and teens in the Portland area!

Here is an example of Lisa's illustration! For more of Lisa's work check out her website!

Thursday, 6 March 2014

The Strumpet Loves the Feminist Zine Fair NYC at Barnard College!

Editrix Ellen here! This past weekend I had a blast at the Feminist Zine Fair at Barnard College, a great show organized by Barnard students and library personnel. I LOVE zines - the first comics I made were IN zines - and I was so pleased to see the great stuff that's out there in all its photocopied glory.

Repping for The Strumpet is always a pleasure, and I met lots of cool folks like Jennifer Camper, Edith Carron, Barnard librarian Jenna Freedman, Annie Mok and the ladies behind Happiness Comix.

I was gutted to miss the zine library tour (gotta tend the table!), but better luck next year! :)

The folks behind this great fair are trying to raise some cash to bring a zine librarian of color to an upcoming conference, The Zine Librarian Unconference. If you want to support the great work the zine librarians of Barnard College are doing to keep this amazing artform documented and available for scholarly research (not to mention artistic inspiration!), drop some dollars in their collection box - there's a whole blog post about the initiative here.

I hope to see you next year, Barnardians! Thanks for a great day.

Thursday, 30 January 2014

Strumpet Hayley Gold in the New World War 3 Illustrated!

Strumpet Hayley Gold is in the new issue of World War 3 Illustrated!

This issue, "Before and After", includes Hayley's brilliant memoir Nervosa, about her hospitalization for anorexia.

This is must-read stuff - a wrenching story of a near death experience told with Hayley's trademark interwoven page design and total honesty.

Visit World War 3 to buy this new issue - or grab your own copy of the original minicomic of Nervosa, from Hayley's Etsy. Highly recommended!

Thursday, 2 January 2014

We're Blushing! Thanks, Autostraddle!

Artwork for Autostraddle's Drawn to Comics column, by the amazing Rory Midhani

Thanks so much to Mey Rude and Autostraddle for a Drawn to Comics review of Strumpet 3 that made us blush! On behalf of our artists, thanks for spreading the word!

An excerpt:

"I’m really a fan of what The Strumpet is accomplishing. In a time when DC and Marvel comics each have less than 15% of their artist and writer positions filled by women, it’s extremely refreshing and necessary for a collection of comics like this to exist. Not only does it give readers a place where we can find creative and talented ladies who make comics, but it also gives those ladies a chance to be published and get their names out there....this is really an excellent collection, and I’m looking forward to purchasing and reading the previous volumes and any future ones that they put out."

Like I said, blush-worthy!

Well, a Strumpet's work is never done. Believe it or not, we've already got our thinking caps on for issue 4! Dig Strumpet 3? Fancy maybe contributing something yourself next time? "Like" our Facebook page and you'll be up to date on all the submission info as soon as it's announced.

Tuesday, 19 November 2013

Didn't Kickstart? Buy Yourself a Copy of The Strumpet Today!

Ever since the lovely London and NYC launches of The Strumpet 3: The Tasty Issue, we have been fielding questions on how fans who did not preorder The Strumpet 3 could grab a copy of their very own. Well, your pleas did not fall on deaf ears and we are happy to announce that you can now purchase a copy of The Strumpet 3 at our Etsy Store!