Yay Women’s Work!
- Posted by Johanna on December 21, 2006 at 4:58 pm
- Category: Webcomics
A new website has launched featuring a collective of female artists called Women’s Work. (Great name!) Press release follows.
Because a woman’s work is never done, we are pleased to announce…
Women’s Work: a brand-new website for a brand-new collective of women who work in and around the visual and literary industries.
Leigh Dragoon
Shaenon Garrity
Rachel Hartman
Lea Hernandez
Lisa Jonté
Karen Krajenbrink
Layla Lawlor
Karen Luk
Carla Speed McNeil
Rachel Nabors
Leia Weathington
Stevie WilsonWe are creators and storytellers. We’ve banded together and built ourselves a fort in our internet back yard and we invite you to come see. We have a database in which all creative types might take part, and a forum in which anyone might join the conversation.
Art before housework. In a hundred years, no one’s going to care how clean your floors were.
The site features a reference page for each contributor (with varied backgrounds and areas of work), a forum, art galleries for each artist, and a wiki database. That’s one talented lineup, with the kind of contributors that make me think “I love her work, so I’d better check out the ones I’m not familiar with.” And their taglines, about there being more important things than housework, definitely resonate with adult women.
December 21, 2006 at 11:17 pm
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December 22, 2006 at 11:00 am
Oh no! Women doing comics? Why, next thing you know, they’re writing good comics, then their books are getting “Book of the Year” from TIME magazine, and then the whole structure of society begins to crumble…
Wait, that’s already happened, except for the whole “structure of society begins to crumble” thing. Awesome group of creators, God help whoever gets in their creative way!
December 22, 2006 at 2:07 pm
“the whole structure of society begins to crumble…”
HA! Burn, baby, burn.
December 23, 2006 at 6:55 am
What does “darn socks” mean, anyway? I’ve heard the term in old movies, but never could figure it out.
December 23, 2006 at 7:11 am
When you get holes in the toes or heels of your socks, instead of throwing them out, people used to sew them up with strong thread. That’s darning.
August 29, 2007 at 2:23 am
Can you please settle an arguement-in the above photo-”Ars ante laboren domi”-is that the actress Sandra Bullock?????
Thanking you in anticipation
Lulu
August 29, 2007 at 7:10 am
I really doubt it.