"Look inside this world and find wonder." --KATE BERNHEIMER, editor of My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me and author of The Girl Who Wouldn't Brush Her Hair Lily leads a serene life in Arcadia until the forces of Megalopolis invade. Rescued from slavery by a prince of Megalopolis, Lily is sent to retrieve a very important key. Aided by her friends, her dog Rex, and even Death herself, Lily's adventures take her from the Moons to the Bottom of the Sea, and finally back to Megalopolis, where she faces the decision of her life. Will she choose True Love and...
"Look inside this world and find wonder." --KATE BERNHEIMER, editor of My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me and author of The...
ComicsAlliance and ComicsBlend Best Comic Book of the Year BUST Magazine "Lit Pick" Recommendation Certified Cool(TM) in PREVIEWS: The Comic Shop's Catalog "Mike Madrid gives these forgotten superheroines their due. These 'lost' heroines are now found--to the delight of comic book lovers everywhere." --STAN LEE Wonder Woman, Mary Marvel, and Sheena, Queen of the Jungle ruled the pages of comic books in the 1940s, but many other heroines of the WWII era have been forgotten. Through twenty-eight full reproductions of vintage...
ComicsAlliance and ComicsBlend Best Comic Book of the Year BUST Magazine "Lit Pick" Recommendation Certifi...
"Mike Madrid is doing God's work. . . . mak ing] accessible a lost, heady land of female adventure." --ComicsAlliance Between the covers of Vixens, Vamps & Vipers, fans will rediscover the original bad girls of comics--as fierce and full of surprises as they were when the comic book industry was born. From murderous Madame Doom to He-She, dubbed by io9 as "the most unsung comic book villain ever," Mike Madrid resurrects twenty-two glorious evildoers in fully reproduced comics and explores the ways they both transcend and become ensnared in a web of cultural...
"Mike Madrid is doing God's work. . . . mak ing] accessible a lost, heady land of female adventure." --ComicsAlliance Between the co...
"Complex and gripping. . . . Newcomers to Arcadia will be captivated by the rich history, while those familiar with it will find that Sophia's legend grants them a new perspective on the earlier tales." --Publishers Weekly (starred review)
" The Lizard Princess] encourages big-picture thinking. . . . The combination of a straightforward quest complicated by hindsight, with magic, science, and meditations on the building of myths and the role of stories, makes for a book not like much else out there. . . . Gorgeously written and complex." --New York Journal...
"Complex and gripping. . . . Newcomers to Arcadia will be captivated by the rich history, while those familiar with it will find that Sophia's lege...
"Mike Madrid is doing God's work. . . . mak ing] accessible a lost, heady land of female adventure." --ComicsAlliance
"Sharp and lively . . . Madrid] clearly loves this stuff. And he's enough of a historian to be able to trace the ways in which the portrayal of sirens and supergirls has echoed society's ever-changing feelings about women and sex."--Entertainment Weekly
"A long overdue tribute to those] fabulous fighting females." --Stan Lee
Mike Madrid has become known as a champion of women in comics and as the expert in Golden Age female characters. And...
"Mike Madrid is doing God's work. . . . mak ing] accessible a lost, heady land of female adventure." --ComicsAlliance
