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Here are some details about Lynda Barry that didn’t appear in her autobiographical song. She’s a cartoonist whose weekly strip, “Ernie Pook’s Comeek,” was a staple of alternative newsweeklies for almost 30 years. (Next month, the publisher Drawn & Quarterly will release “Blabber Blabber Blabber,”  the first in a 10-volume retrospective series of her work.) […]

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Before Wonder Woman there was Miss Fury, the first female superhero, introduced in 1941: Miss Fury was created, written, and drawn by a woman, June TarpĂ© Mills, who published under the more sexually ambiguous TarpĂ© Mills. Had Miss Fury entered an enduring canon like DC’s, it’s possible that the template for female superheroes, as well […]

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