Download Girlhero by Megan Kelso (.CBR)

Girlhero by Megan Kelso – C –
Requirements: CBR reader, 13-16 Mb
Overview: Question: Why did you name your minicomic Girlhero?

KELSO: "Around the time that I started to make comics, a group of young women in Olympia and D.C. were forming “Riot grrrl.” Before this time, calling a grown woman a girl was considered demeaning. The feminists of the ‘60s and ‘70s worked very hard to be thought of as and called women because they were sick of being infantilized and disrespected by men. I remember my mother just hated it when men referred to grown women as girls. But something happened with punk and irony and feminism kind of expanding into a more complicated analysis in the mid-to-late ’80s where women re-appropriated the word “girl” and used it for their own purposes. Kind of like rappers re-appropriating “nigger.” Anyway, the word “girl” took on this coolness, this cachet at that time. And “hero” is associated with comics, so that seemed to work.

And also, I knew that I wanted to tell stories with female protagonists. I thought a lot about how women are so used to slipping inside the heads of male protagonists in books and comics and movies, but men are not as often asked to slip inside the heads of women. So “Girlhero” was kind of a statement of purpose. If you read this comic, this is what you’re getting. Girl heroes… "