Tag: jill lepore
The weirdest thing about that Jill Lepore piece on A-Force
I kind of missed the tidal ebb and flow over Jill Lepore's analysis of A-Force in the New Yorker while I was at TCAF. I saw it in my feed and figured it would ignite some debate but I was misled by the title on the piece
Jill Lepore on the secret history of secret women in comics
Jill Lepore, author of The Secret History of Wonder Woman, talks about how the Amazons origins are tied up with the history of suffrage and birth control and nicely sums up the history of women in comics in a couple of paragraphs:
This fall we learn the truth about Wonder Woman
We all know that William Moulton Marston, the creator of wonder Woman, was a bit odd. He had two "wives" and he was heavy into bondage. But did you know that one of the...
