Following an edict issued by DC Comics on February 16, today is officially the first annual Wonder Woman Day! I’m sure the timing has nothing to do with the fact that yesterday was the U.S. release date for the first-ever Wonder Woman big-screen motion picture… 😉
So how can you celebrate this momentous occasion? Well, you could head off to your local movie theater and check out this big-budget adaptation of William Moulton Marston’s Amazing Amazon. Or you could catch up on your comics reading—there are certainly tons of WW comics and trade collections available both in print and online. As I pointed out in yesterday’s post, I’ve reviewed a few Wonder Woman–related comics at the news site Comics for Sinners—you could check out one of those comics.
Or…you could download a free digital comic that’s only available right here, at StarWarp Concepts!
Heroines and Heroes is a collection of comic stories and pinups all drawn by me, dating back to my days in the early 1990s small-press movement—that age of dinosaurs in which creators like me used to make our comics by printing them out on photocopiers and then stapling them by hand. In H&H you’ll find mainstream heroes and small-press heroines, a couple of anthropomorphic bikers—and a certain member of the Justice League.
“V-A-C-A-T-I-O-N (in the Summertime)” is a three-page Wonder Woman vs. Harley Quinn story that I wrote and drew in the late ’90s as a sample for a DC Comics editor who thought I’d be a good fit for their Batman: The Animated Series comic (it didn’t work out). It’s followed by an adventure of small-presser Jeff Wood’s rabbit-eared superspy, Snowbuni; three pages from the long-canceled indie comic Motorbike Puppies; and an adventure of the indie superheroine The Blonde Avenger.
Heroines and Heroes is available for free download right now, so visit its product page for more information, including sample pages. It’s a small-press wonder!
