Superhero Girl 100

Yaaaaay Superhero Girl comic number 100!!! ... aaannnnd, hiatus. Yes, sadly, this is true, and not just a punchline. I'm currently swamped with work, and although Superhero Girl is one of my many jobs (as some of you know, it's published in The Coast, a free weekly in Halifax, Nova Scotia), it has become too time consuming to fit into my pressurized schedule. So I have asked the Coast for a bit of a break, and they have kindly agreed. Superhero Girl will return in June with new adventures, and maybe by then I'll have the time to build her a proper webpage. We'll see! So keep an eye on this website and my twitter for updates. I really appreciate all my reader support this past year, and I hope you'll rejoin me when the comic starts up again. My friend Miriam Gibson will be taking over my spot in the Coast with her bizarre and entertaining comic, Everyone's A Centaur. I hope you enjoy her work!

Otherwise, did you know I have a graphic novel coming out TODAY??? Yes! Friends With Boys, my new graphic novel from First Second, is out now! For the next week, you can read the ENTIRE comic online for free, and if you like it, I hope you will consider buying it to support me, so I can continue to make comics just for you. ;)

Upcoming events: I know for sure I will be at the Toronto Comic Arts Festival May 5th -6th. There are other events I plan to go to, but due to schedule craziness, everything is a bit up in the air.

So ... see you in June, guys!

Superhero Girl 99

Yay! Everybody loves Kevin! Kevin solves everything!

... wow, this is comic number 99! I certainly did not think I'd reach this point when I started this comic ... uh, two years ago or so. I can't remember. Anyway, cool.

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Forgot to upload the comic last night! XD TOO BUSY.

Anyway, yes, maybe you are the one who is the jerk, Superhero Girl.

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Oops! Completely forgot to upload today's Superhero Girl comic. Sorry about that. XD I'm swamped with work at the moment and really frazzled. Apologies.

Superhero Girl 95

IT'S A TRAP!

This plotline was vaguely inspired by real life events: I hung out with a group a few years back, and there was a guy in this group I couldn't stand. He would kind of pick at me, and I would argue back. I really disliked him. Later my friends said they thought we actually had the hots for each other because we were always arguing. I was like WHAT. Seriously, I could not even stand that guy.

Anyway, the point is that those Hollywood movies about two enemies falling in love is total bullplop. People who act like they dislike each other ... usually do.

(Altho I am amused by Shaun's flop sweat in panel 3. His roommate is totally harshing his game. That's the term, right? Harshing someone's game? I don't even know.)

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Happy 2012 everyone and ... OH MY GOD LOOK WHO IT IS. Yep. It's that jerkwad from way back when, the one who told Superhero Girl she was no superhero because blah blah blah. What are the odds that he'd be at the same New Year's party as Superhero Girl??? ... well, pretty good if you have a sadistic writer behind the wheel of your comic. Haha, I'd been looking for an excuse to bring him back.

Anyway, Superhero Girl's parties are clearly curse.

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So this is the last Superhero Girl comic of 2011! There will be no update next week due to Christmas and me needing the time off to ... work on other comics. XD A cartoonist's job is never done, and that's the way I like it ('cause otherwise I'm out of work, and that's bad).

Thank you so much for the amazing 2011, dear readers! You've spread word of this comic far and wide, and I hope you'll make 2012 even better. See you in the New Year!

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Professor Bear does not care for your stupid joke, Superhero Girl's roommate!

Otherwise, look, look! My new graphic novel Friends With Boys is an actual physical book now! In a few months you can even buy it yourself, hurrah!

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Bear with a monocle ... hehe.

Oh man you guys I'm so tired. I got nothin' interesting to say. Um ... go read Friends With Boys. That's where my blogging energy is going nowadays. X)

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Yes, that is a bear wearing a monocle in the last panel there. Also, FOR REALS, Superhero Girl's roommate needs a name so I should get on that. I have reasons for not giving Superhero Girl a name, but there's no reason (other than general laziness) that Roommate Girl doesn't have one. So ... soon there will be naming, I promise.

Otherwise, hey look, my website got revamped! My Wordpress knowledgeable friend Lissa put it together, and I think it looks very nice. I really just want a portfolio site to store my good artwork (for clients to find & hire me) and online comics, not a personal site that requires regular updates (I have NO TIME for that), and I think this design works well. Let me know if you have any issues with the site, I'd appreciate it! There are still a few things I need to fix up, but overall it's pretty complete. (Btw, If you would like a nice little wordpress site, you can hire Lissa too.)

And check out the guest art I did for my boyfriend Tim's online comic, One of Those Days! It's sparkly and inspired by Laputa. :D

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Superhero Girl, you have the nicest roommate! Well, at least she never noticed that hole Spectacle punched in the wall. Or the broken TV. Dunno what happened with that ....

So two things this week! One, my boyfriend Tim completely his long running (six years!) webcomic One of Those Days, so major congrats to him! Yeah, getting those first six years of drawing comics over with is pretty tough, but once you're past them, it's smooth sailing to super star comic-dom. (I am kidding.)

Two, I posted a loooong post over at the Friends With Boys site about how I write and draw my comics, so if you're interested in my process, go check it out.

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Hee! Tiny toy poodles of DOOOOOM. Man, tiny dogs .... I know making fun of them is, y'know, a thing and all, but they scare me. They are the bite-y-est things ever. I do think they'd make excellent catapult ammunition, tho. Flying balls of razor sharp teeth and fury, the ultimate weapon. The Vikings would never know what hit 'em. We're still at war with the Vikings, right?

Anyway, I had a great time at Hal-Con last weekend, and sold out of the very first run of Superhero Girl comics! Mad thanks to everyone who bought a book. It's very excellent to know readers are willing to support my self publishing attempts, and hopefully there will be more Superhero Girl books available in the future (if you're in the Halifax area, my awesome local comic shop Strange Adventures still has copies).

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Even though there's no hanky-panky going on, Superhero Girl's roommate should have put a sock on the doorknob or something. Also, I enjoy that dressing in civilian clothing means Superhero Girl just puts a zip up hoodie over her superhero costume. Doesn't even get rid of the cape or anything ...

So hey, this coming weekend, I will be at Hal-Con, Halifax's biggest science fiction/comics/other awesome stuff convention. I'm a guest, so I'll be on panels and stuff, talking up comics. I will have a table, where I'll be selling all my books as well as my self-published Superhero Girl book, and other stuff like prints, buttons and original art. So if you are native to Atlantic Canada, come to the convention and say hi! I will probably talk to you, especially if you bring me food.

Alternate Universe Superhero Girl by Mike Holmes

SURPRISE! Today's Superhero Girl comic is written and drawn by my fellow Halgonian (that's a person who lives in Halifax; yes, I know it's a weird name) cartoonist Mike Holmes! Mike and I share the comic page in The Coast (right above the phone sex ads!), and we thought it'd be hilarious to switch comics for a day. So Mike drew this very excellent Superhero Girl, and I took over his comic, True Story. The concept of Mike's comic is that people send him emails about their weird real life adventures, and he turns those stories into beautiful art! Mike's been doing his comic a lot longer than I've been doing Superhero Girl, and you can buy the True Story book collection here (or on Amazon, whichever). Here's my True Story:

I think this comic gets super-meta if you imagine the drunk guy as a grown up, drunk Aang from Avatar: The Last Airbender. O_O Whoa, deep. Anyway, we will be back to your regularly scheduled Superhero Girl next week, but enjoy the special today!

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The Origin Story continues! How Superhero Girl and Roommate Girl ended up living together. Also, Roommate Girl seems to be a baker of some kind. I was inspired by the delicious smelling bread factory down the road from where I live. Also, I was going to reveal Roommate Girl's real name in this comic, but I couldn't think of a good name for her. Oh well, next time. XD Seat of the pants comiking! It is awesome.

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I don't even know what the image on Kevin's chest is for. I think the scene went like this:

Me: Arraaagh so TIRED drawing comics ALL DAY AND NIGHT what kind of symbol should go on Kevin's chest?

Tim (boyfriend): I dunno. Maybe a "K" for Kevin?

Me: MOUNTAIN AN' RAINBOWS.

Tim: Why.

Me: BECAUSE BRAIN HURT.

Also: I promise last ninja joke for a while. The ninjas are all joked out.

Also also: Oh man, how awesome would it be to have super strength when you're moving? I hate moving! I have tiny flabby arms and can barely lift things, but if I had super strength like Superhero Girl? Maybe I'd not hate moving so much (probably not).

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The idea of ninjas at university makes me so, so happy. This is the best thing about drawing this comic: I can go wherever I want with whatever goofy idea I have.

Oh and hey, Superhero Girl has a new outfit and hair colour! After all, university is where you experiment ... with hair dye. That's when my hair colour started coming out of a box, and I haven't looked back. Can't even remember my hair's natural colour ... brown, I think. I dunno. I designed Superhero Girl's outfit to be a bit on the cute/sexy side (she's got a skirt and leggings to go with her Bjork hair), because university's also where you think about being cute/sexy sometimes for the first time in your life. Later, once you get out on your own to do your superheroing, you think practical. I don't think she'd wear a skirt now.

... I think about superhero outfits a lot. Probably too much.

Btw, my boyfriend paid this comic the highest compliment: it reminded him of Kim Possible*. Yay!

*It's his favourite show.

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Aw, Kevin. And oh hey, this is comic #80! That is more than 79 or 78 but not as many as 100. I'm looking forward to having 100 comics drawn, for some reason.

Mike Maihack (previously of the awesome Supergirl/Batgirl fancomic) drew a very nifty Superhero Girl fanart recently, which got me thinking: my birthday's coming up (it's September 29th), and fanart is a pretty awesome thing to get on your birthday. So if you're someone who enjoys any of my comics (Demonology 101, Ice, Friends With Boys or Superhero Girl) and would like to throw some love my way, fanart would be a great birthday present, hint hint. ;)

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Kevin continues his reign of Awesome ... I like the look Superhero Girl is rocking here, the long t-shirt and Ninja Turtles style headband. We're going through her past, so I'd say she's around 16 or so here, and it makes sense her style would change as she gets older. Superheroes are people too, and the outfits they wear as a teen they probably wouldn't wear as an adult. Kevin also has on something a lot more egotistical than the outfit we previously saw him in, because the world revolves around you when you're an awesome teenager. ;)

Anyway, I hope everyone's keeping up with Friends With Boys as well as this comic! I have to say, after a long period of not really having any comics online (I haven't had a regularly updated webcomic since ... 2007? That makes sense, as it's when I started getting comics published) it's a real joy to be able to share both Superhero Girl and Friends With Boys with you, internets. :D

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Oh, Kevin...

I was going to do a little blog post about DC Comics' relaunch, but I went out tonight and socialized instead, so no blog post for you guys! In the meantime, you guys can check out DC Fifty-Too, a surprisingly awesome take on the relaunch which is full of the diversity and spontaneity kind of lacking from the ... uh, actual relaunch. Especially check out my favourite, the Supergirl/Batgirl team up by Mike Maihack. I have cared not a whit for DC's relaunch (understandable, I'm not their target audience), but I would read the crap out of that Supergirl/Batgirl comic.