Strong Female Protagonist Hits Shelves with Distribution Deal

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Strong Female Protagonist Hits Shelves with Distribution Deal

Top Shelf has partnered web comic creators Brennan Lee Mulligan and Molly Ostertag to distribute a print version of Strong Female Protagonist.

Popular web comic Strong Female Protagonist has partnered with available for pre-order [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/tag/view/top%20shelf] for $19.99.

Strong Female Protagonist [http://strongfemaleprotagonist.com/issue-1/page-0/] follows Alison Green, an invulnerable and super-strong crime fighter who went by the name Mega Girl, until she decided to move on from her teenaged crime fighting and go to college. Written by Mulligan and drawn by Ostertag, Strong Female Protagonist explores social injustices as Green tries to make difference beyond just punching supervillains. The web comic has been running online since 2012, and this print edition is the first collection of the comic to be published. Strong Female Protagonist is currently on chapter 5.

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Source: Top Shelf [http://www.topshelfcomix.com/news/977]


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[Queen Michael]

Awesome! I like the comic but have problems reading things online. Definitely gonna pick this one up.

 

[Gailim]

does this affect the future chapters? or will they still be available on the site?

big fan of this comic since the beginning

 

[Davroth]

Haha, it's so weird going back to the beginning of a webcomic like that. That said, I remember reading the first two chapters a while back, and catching up makes me think this is a pretty cool project.

It reminds me of Watchmen in a weird way. The setup is kind of similar.

 

[MarlaDesat]

does this affect the future chapters? or will they still be available on the site?

big fan of this comic since the beginning

Haven't seen anything saying it would affect future chapters. I expect that if the first volume (chapter 1-4) is a success, then when they have another 200 pages ready to print they will think about doing another print collection, but that's just my speculation.

 

[DrunkenElfMage]

This is totally awesome. Strong Female Protagonist is one of those comics that when I read it, I though "This writing is TOO DAMN GOOD.Who the heck are these people?"

Nothing but goodwill for the creators.

 

[webkilla]

Reading the comics now. Wow. This is really really good

 

[the December King]

You know, I wasn't too interested in the concept when I read this article. I'm not normally interested in female protagonists.

But then, for some reason, I decided to read one of the comics.

This is some excellent writing! The flashback style, the issues surrounding a super-powered being and their impact on the world around them... this is feminism at work, concepts that transcend gender. But, the specific approach to the protagonist allows for her to still be female, and to tackle some of these issues from her perspective, too. I like it.

 

[Lotet]

Ugh! I've started reading it, I'm up to issue 3 right now.

The feels!

Muh tears!

 

[dragonswarrior]

I also just started reading SFP due to this article and HOLY SHEEEEEIIIT it's good. I am happy right now.