If you’re like me and you missed PBS‘ screening of Kristy Guevara-Flanagan‘s documentary Wonder Women!, you’re in luck, because the whole thing is up on the Independent Lens documentary minisite for your viewing pleasure.
Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines on PBS
It occurred to me after posting on Monday that my title sounded kinda familiar… Here’s why:
Wonder Women of History by Alice Marble
As Brian Cronin lays out in this installment of Comic Book Legends Revealed, Wonder Woman‘s 1940s series, by what was then All-American Publications, was graced with the #1 woman’s tennis champion as associate editor! After retiring from her historic tennis career, Alice Marble went about publicizing Wonder Woman as a icon for young girls and wrote a back-up segment in each issue celebrating notable historic women. Adorable, no? Click on the image for the full post and the full Nightingale story too!
Alice Marble had a pretty eventful retirement, later claiming that she had worked as a spy for the US government during WWII. When I was taking my first class on making comics, with cartoonist Tom Motley, I actually wound up using her as my subject! Not the greatest, but if you’re curious about Marble or my art “skills”, the story is up in full on my woefully neglected DeviantArt account:
Ms. Marble, by Me!
Bizarro Twins 
like the split panes on the bottom
well thank you! it was my first big comic, so it’s always a bit embarrassing to see it again, but it’s not so bad i guess…