VERY successful book signing this weekend! Sold several copies of the Eisner Award-winning Complete Wimmen’s Comix, Eisner Award-nominee Pudge Girl Blimp, and Last Girl Standing.
Delicious reunion of ole farts…uh…still-producing artists: first row = Willy Mendes, Trina Robbins, Terre Richards second row = honorary muse Leslie Carbaga, Lee Marrs, Sharon Rudahl.
Special thx. to Bart’s Books and Terre, whose perseverance made it all possible.
THE FURTHER FATTENING ADVENTURES of PUDGE GIRL BLIMP
When I opened this collection I was prepared for a herstory lesson, or a trip down memory lane. But instead I encountered a radiant and utterly contemporary character—a disheveled yet sensual young woman, outwardly confused but inwardly poised, an instinctive feminist out hustling for a job, experimenting with drugs, but mainly just trying to get laid. Step aside, Lena Dunham, Amy Schumer, and Broad City. Pudge, Girl Blimp paved the way for all of you.
At last, a funny, funky, durable complex heroine who is constantly taking a fresh and satirical look at an aspect of life that is sacred to someone. Lee Marrs has given us something that usually comes only in the best novels: a funny, tragic, personal, universal, fantasized, minutely realistic view of life that sends us on our way with a much bigger and better understanding of our own lives and the possibilities around us.
– GLORIA STEINEM, feminist icon, co-founder of Ms. Magazine,co-founder of the Women’s Media Center and former sticky sweet bun addict.
LEE MARRS – 