Dwelling in Probabilities

I was home sick last night so I finally got around to reading the things I picked up at the MN Comic Book Association's Spring Con. I went last month with a friend who's not a comics fan, but who also wanted to go hear the amazing Trina Robbins (feminist comics historian and longtime comics writer). Robbins was doing a panel with Amy Reeder and Elizabeth Berube, which was pretty interesting. In the course of perambulation about the building, I picked up the following:
- "Impure Blood," a steampunk comic that started on the web. http://impurebloodwebcomic.com/Pages/store.html
Nice artwork, interesting characters and compelling story line, so I look forward to more of this one. Action scenes are a tad murky and hard to follow, at least in the graphic novel version, so hopefully that improves over time.
- The Womanthology Sketchbook. http://womanthology.blogspot.com/2013/06/womanthology-space.html?m=1
This is a collection of drafts and sketches by some of the artists in the original anthology. It whetted my interest so I'll need to track down the book.
- 2 copies of Trina Robbin's "Honey West" comics (same ocelot-owning female detective protagonist from the 1960s TV show). Artwork is pretty, story didn't completely grab me. http://www.trinarobbins.com/Trina_Robbins/Honey_West.html
- "Halloween Eve" drawn by Amy Reeder. http://www.imagecomics.com/news/225/
On the one hand, yay for an African-American female protagonist, on the other, the storyline is something of a head scratcher. This should be at least another book for development. The art kicks ass though.

I also talked my friend into picking up Robbin's exquisite "Brinkley Girls", Theo Nicole Lorenz's "Fat Ladies in Spaaaaace!" Coloring Book (http://nicolelorenz.com/coloringbooks/) and some work by Darla Ecklund and the "Godseeker" graphic novel (http://godseekercomic.com/about/).

And I polished off the rest of "Digger" last night and want there to be more. There is an Kickstarter out here for the omnibus version, BTW -http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1234535943/digger-omnibus
And seriously, if you read indie comics, you should be reading this one because it is awesome.

It's the last week on Kickstarter for Rachel Deering's lesbian werewolf comic "Anathema."
Check out the interview with her on Comics Alliance, kick in and spread the word to promote what looks like it will be a really interesting project. http://www.comicsalliance.com/category/previews/