Welcome, new readers! (And welcome back, if you’ve been following SuperButch for awhile)
Becky here. Barry and I had an awesome time at Rose City Comic Con last weekend–Sincerely, thank you to everyone who stopped by to pick up a minicomic or a business card!
We’ll also have copies of First Glance and Superbutch, Issue One at:
Small Press Expo in Bethesda, this weekend, table C-13
GeekGirlCon in Seattle, September 30-October 1st
However, my con-schedule and recent work-schedule have left very little time to draw without breaking my bod. So we’re taking 2 weeks off, and we’ll restart our weekly updates on Tuesday, 9/26.
Thanks for reading!
Here’s the “colors” only (no lines or lettering) of one of Becky’s “SuperButch” panels. This is from the page that we’ll be posting tomorrow. I love how cool looking Becky’s process is!
Barry Deutsch (co-plotter, writer and letterer) thought of the idea for SuperButch about 20 years ago, after reading Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold.
In addition to writing Superbutch, Barry writes and draws Hereville, a graphic novel series about “yet another 11-year-old troll-fighting Orthodox Jewish Girl.” Hereville books have been nominated for many awards, including an Eisner, and have won the Sydney Taylor Book Prize, the Oregon Book Award, and the Sybil, among others.
Barry also creates political cartoons, know variously as “Ampersand” or “Leftycartoons.” Barry’s political cartoons have won the Charles M. Schulz Award.
Barry lives in Portland, Oregon, with eight housemates, two cats, and an unknown but large number of fish. You can email him here.
Becky Hawkins (co-plotter and artist) spent much of her 20s traveling the world as a cruise ship musician. Now she makes comics in Portland with her tiny cartoon sidekick, Shoulder Angel. She is mostly known for doing watercolor cartoons on postcards. Aside from self-publishing at frenchtoastcomix.com, her work has appeared in Women’s Review of Books and anthologies such as The Strumpet, So Buttons, and Tankadere.
She was planning to stick with autobio and travel stories, but when local cartoonist Barry Deutsch asked her to collaborate on a 1940s lesbian superhero series, how could she say no?
Becky Hawkins
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No time travel allowed!
I love this. The way they’re all looking at her like when did you become a tour guide?! 😂
I love infodumping.
I just found this webcomic tonight and I’m clinging to it like a life preserver. Thank you for your hard work.
Thank you for reading! That’s lovely to hear.
Just read start to finish. Really cool comic! I love the way that the superheros are blended into a grounded historical setting, I didn’t even know it was going to be a superhero story (despite the name, I know haha) until the turtle showed up and it was a surreal “woah, so that’s what this is!” moment. I like getting surprised like that
I’m really glad you’re enjoying it! That blending you’re talking about is exactly what we’re going for.
Out of curiosity, how long do you anticipate the whole story being, when it’s finally done?