Today’s an odd one. My cat is not doing well, and I’m stressed about a lot of different things both large and small. I am, however, still making progress—the agent who offered feedback on my query liked my rewritten draft, I’ve had a very helpful conversation with my friend Lucy Bellwood about making comics, and I’ve been reading Molly Ostertag’s substack series on making graphic novels. With those last two details, I can confirm that…
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Strong Female Protagonist
What if, even with your superpowers, you know you haven’t made the world a better place?
My friends Molly and Brennan have been making Strong Female Protagonist for the past two years. It’s a super-sweet webcomic which (as they put it in their byline) follows a young middle-class American with super-strength, invincibility, and a crippling sense of social injustice. When I first read it, I loved it so much that I went through all of it in under two weeks. And now they’re using Kickstarter to fund the printing of the first four chapters as a physical book.
By the time of this posting, they’ve already blown way past their original goal. This isn’t really a review, and I’m not writing this to tell you that they need your support (though I’m sure they’d love it). I’m writing this to tell you that you should take a look at this excellent webcomic and pitch in for your own copy of it. I’m certainly getting a copy. Enjoy!

