WAMtastic!
The women of CWA
Freelance writer Courtney Martin, Feministing executive editor Jessica Valenti, freelance political cartoonist Mikhaela Reid (me!) and Feministing editors Samhita Mukhopadhyay and Vanessa Valenti
Full set of photos here.
Last weekend the three women of Cartoonists With Attitude (Jen Sorensen, Stephanie McMillan and Mikhaela Reid) spent the weekend in Cambridge, MA at the Center for New Words' fabulous annual Women, Action & the Media (WAM) conference. We attended fantastic panels and hang with/meet fabulous women such as the editors of Feministing.com, Bitch magazine, Campus Progress, In These Times, The American Prospect and other assorted fine publications. And we did our panel thing with a slideshow called Resistance Through Ridicule, which even featured a surprise guest, cartoonist/illustrator Jennifer Cruté.
The overall experience was, in Jen's words, completely "Wamtastic!" As you can see from these photos.
I should note that we also had drinks with the one and only creator of Big Fat Whale, CWAer Brian McFadden, but I neglected to capture him on digital film.
I will concur with Stephanie that it only took five minutes of being in the same room before Jen, Stephanie and I found ourselves talking about fonts and PhotoShop. Oh, cartoonists!
Labels: appearances, cartoonists, cwa, events, photos, WAM
6 Comments:
Hey, Jessica's breasts are present in that second picture, someone better alert Ann Althouse!
Wait, is that too much of an in-joke?
It is an in-joke, but I know the joke. For those who don't, here's what Jessica had to say.
Man, I wish I could've been there, but that would require me to travel half-way across the world (FYI, I live in Japan)
Generally, when I talk to cartoonists, I usually bring up discussions on what type of pen and paper they use, but that's just me.
We talk just as much about pen, brush and paper, but lately I haven't been using either pen or paper to create my cartoons. I've been totally digital (via a MangaStudio and PhotoShop combo) for a few months.
Nice outfit, Mikhaela. You're the snazziest of the bunch.
By the way, I think your transition from ink to pixels was pretty smooth -- the colors are a little different, but the style is the same, I think.
There'll be ample opportunity to photomograph my even goofier hair at AAEC this summer.
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