Today in Comics History, June 23: Happy birthday, Becky Cloonan!

Happy birthday today to comic book writer, artist, and editor Becky Cloonan (Wonder Woman, The Kitchen, Moon Knight, Conan the Barbarian, Batgirls, The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys and many more), co-creator of Gotham Academy, Demo, American Virgin, East Coast Rising and others, and the first female artist to draw the main Batman title at DC!

"Who's Who: DC's Young Animal" from Shade the Changing Girl #9 (DC/Young Animal, August 2017), text and art by Becky Cloonan
(Click picture to large but still young animal-size)
Becky draws Harley Quinn, Harley Quinn criticizes Becky Cloonan! It's the circle of life!


from Harley Quinn (2014 series) #0 (DC, January 2014), script by Amanda Conner and Jimmy Palmiotti, pencils and inks by Becky Cloonan, colors by one'a these guys, letters by John J. Hill
Happy birthday, Becky!

Today in Comics History, November 15: Darn, I wish I was your lover

Hey, today is Sadie Hawkins Day! By tradition, a day when women ask men out for dates, dining, dancing, and a little bit o' dis 'n' dat, instead of the other way round. Seriously, these days you can do this any time, kind ladies, and I hope you do. (Waiting by my telephone.)

Sadie Hawkins Day was created and popularized by extraordinary cartoonist and terrible person Al Capp in the classic comic strip Li'l Abner.


L'il Abner (November 14, 1935), by Al Capp