This news item popped up in my Google alert for Harry Potter yesterday:
Her name is forever associated with a certain boy wizard whom she created while waiting for a delayed train. Now, nearly half a billion books sold later, J.K. Rowling will be the subject on an upcoming issue of Bluewater Productions’ Female Force biography comic series.
Female Force: J.K. Rowling, scheduled for release in December, follows Rowling’s rags to riches story of a woman receiving government financial assistance through her ascendancy in becoming one of the world’s most recognizable writers.
I’ve never heard of the company or the comic series, nor am I that familiar with comics outside of Serenity and Buffy: Season 8, but this sounds awesome nonetheless. And the fact that “Female Force offers a broad examination of strong and influential women who are shaping modern history and culture” is something I can get behind.
Check out the sight for all the comics they publish. There’s even one on Stephenie Meyer!
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Female Force offers a broad examination of strong and influential women who are shaping modern history and culture. The Rowling biography is part of the Female Force sub-series called “Best Sellers.” Along with the previously announced biography of “Twilight” author Stephenie Meyer, Rowling will join two other prominent female authors to be announced next month. Those currently under consideration include Toni Morrison, Ayn Rand, Margaret Atwood, Ursula LeGuin, Harper Lee, Anne Rice, Beatrix Potter and Virginia Woolf.
A mixed bunch. Some of them I can easily see. Others, not so much. Or at least, if they’re going to include Meyer and Rice, why not Daphne DuMaurier and Agatha Christie and Margaret Mitchell? Or Helen Fielding? And how about the ones who can really write: Alice Munro and Joyce Carol Oates and Iris Murdoch and such? And how about the feminist oracles: Greer and Jong?
Alice Munro is the only name I’m familiar with of the last those three, I’m guessing she is Canadian. Lee, Potter, and Woolf all seem like solid choices, though I have no idea how interesting their private lives were/are.
I don’t want to be a downer I like the concept but the list of the already published comics was a little depressing. I like Mary Shelley personally but there’s already a beautifully illustrated children’s book about her, I would just add Rosa Luxembourg to balance out Ayn Rand.
Ayn Rand is turning in her grave.
Gwen,
How good was the Better Days comic!? I REALLY miss the Firefly universe. The potential there was staggering…. Thanks FOX…
Good thing I didn’t say Emma Goldman;)
Is Laura Ingalls Wilder on the list?
I’m most interested in what super powers they’re going to give Jo…
Superpower for Jo–well, she’s already an astounding Secret-Keeper!
Somehow, I don’t think that Laura Ingalls Wilder will make the cut, revgeorge! She’s an amazing writer, but too, well…
There is a parallel between the Little House books and HP that I have noticed: they both follow their protagonists from childhood to coming of age, and have the same third person limited omniscient viewpoint (mostly). Laura’s and Harry’s perspective change as they mature, and both authors handle this aspect brilliantly. I read all the Little House books way back in fifth grade, and enjoyed reading them again to my own children a few years ago.
Laura Ingalls Wilder should be on the list.
Me and the books go a long way. I read LHotP way back. Then discovered the entire series about 15 years ago, and read them. And I’ve kept reading them. The kicker is this: my mother-in-law is elderly and ailing and needed some distraction. I gave her the first of the books about a month ago, and there was no looking back. She loved them and consumed them at such a fast pace that now they’re all gone and has to revert back to PD James. And I’d warned her not to go through them too fast.
Deacondon, you could say the same of L.M. Montgomery’s Anne series.