In the late ’90s, a California teenager named Maggie Whorf and friends got into trouble for distributing a zine called “Whore-Hey” at their school. So
Category: near miss
Near Miss: Angel Love
I think the most amazing thing to me about Barbara Slate‘s Angel Love is that it was more or less contemporary with The Dark Knight
Near Miss: Amethyst, Princess of Gemworld
Amethyst, Princess of Gemworld should have been huge. It’s not like anyone has forgotten about it — it had a pretty big following, even before
Near Miss: The Sisterhood of Steel (1984-1986)
The Sisterhood of Steel is where the whole Near Miss project started, more or less. Writer and co-creator Christy Marx has contributed a lot to
Announcing Near Miss: Mainstream Comics for Women and Girls
This year will mark 15 years since I first started Comicsgirl and 10 since it was resurrected as a blog. To celebrate these milestones, I