Roberta Gregory – författare

Midge McCracken is the abrasive, self-destructive pessimist every office has. Not to mince words about it, she's a bitch: bitter, mistrustful, racist, and completely unfiltered in her words and thoughts (which, through the miracle of thought balloons, readers are privy to even more than Midge's coworkers). But she comes by it honestly, growing up with hateful, racist parents, suffering sexual abuse as an adolescent, experiencing an unwanted pregnancy, etc. Did we mention that this is a comedy? Gregory's unflinching sense of humour is the engine driving A Bitch's Life. This mammoth collection includes all of Roberta Gregory's riotous 'Bitchy Bitch' stories, presenting a life from childhood into middle age, following the character through multiple decades. Along the way, Gregory's wider cast of characters are introduced, notably Bitchy's suffering and insufferable coworkers: the obnoxiously cheerful Sylvia (who never met a problem that positive vibes won't cure); the upwardly mobile and power-hungry Pam (aka Bitchy's boss); the intolerant, God-fearing Marcie; her hapless friend-with-benefits, Kenny; and many more. In 1976, Roberta Gregory released Dynamite Damsels - the first underground solo comic created and self-published by a woman. After contributing regularly to the influential anthologies Wimmen's Comix and Gay Comix throughout the 1980s, she launched Naughty Bits in 1991 while working as a production artist at her publisher, Fantagraphics. It became the longest-running solo alternative comic book series by a female cartoonist, coming to an end in 2004 after an influential and pioneering 14-year, 40-issue run. The Bitchy Bitch stories remain the pinnacle of a historic career, and a highwater mark in comics and graphic novels over the past 40 years.

Just imagine! A full house of top indie comics characters, reunited in this second volume of prose fiction tales by the genius creators who first breathed life into them in the 1980s and beyond! Whether you lovingly remember these heroes and creators or are meeting them for the first time, you are in for a wild ride with this star-studded cast. They set the industry on fire in comics from indie publishing pioneers like First, AC, Capital, Charlton, Dynamite, Eclipse, Dark Horse, Fantagraphics, and Vortex. Now, more than ever, we need them to remind us how fun and exciting comics can be. Strap in for a lineup unlike any you've seen before, crashing together old school indie pioneers and the new school trendsetters who continue to build on the revolution they started. The individual stories of each character—and the first-ever crossover event bringing many of them together—will take your breath away! Strap in for an awesome lineup, a dream team with the same raw power and quirky charm as that in Volume 1…and then some! Get a load of these superstars:·       Mike Baron - Author, Nexus·       Donna Barr – Author/Illustrator, The Desert Peach·       Bill Black – Author/Illustrator, Femforce·       Mark and Vaughn Bodē – Authors/Illustrators, Cheech Wizard and Junkwaffel·       Gary Carlson – Author, Megaton·       Howard Chaykin – Author/Illustrator, "e;Shabbos Goy"e;·       Colleen Doran – Author/Illustrator, A Distant Soil·       Garth Ennis – Author, Jamie·       Steven Grant – Author, Twilight Man·       Roberta Gregory – Author/Illustrator, Bitchy Bitch·       James Artimus Owen – Author/Illustrator, Starchild·       David Quinn – Author, Faust·       Walter Simonson – Author/Illustrator, Star Slammers·       John K. Snyder III – Author/Illustrator, Fashion in Action·       Joe and Hilarie Staton – Authors (and Illustrator, Joe Staton), E-Man and Nova Kane·       Jan Strnad – Author, Dalgoda·       Ty Templeton – Author/Illustrator, Stig's Inferno·       Mark Verheiden – Author, The American·       Henry Vogel – Author, Aristocratic Xtraterrestrial Time-Traveling Thieves (aka X-Thieves)·       Mark Wheatley – Author/Illustrator, Frankenstein Mobster·       Bill Willingham – Author/Illustrator, Pantheon