Customer Reviews

Scheherazade: Stories of Love, Treachery, Mothers, and Monsters

5 star:		(1)
4 star:		(0)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

From Richard Nash, publisher:
"Anyone who buys the first printing can tear out any page from p.111 to p.117 (where the problems are clearest), mail it to Soft Skull Press,
71 Bond St.
Brooklyn NY 11217
attn. Scheherazade [don't forget the attn to line!] and we will mail you a copy of the second printing gratis."

The five stars is for the material irrespective of the printing.

A lot of the controversy can currently be found on the online message board of The Comics Journal.

I agree with other commenters that it's fantastic to have a women's anthology of comics, but the strips contained in this collection are mediocre at best, with two stories (the first and last, oddly enough) being the only memorable or well-told and rendered tales. With as many fantastic female story tellers and illustrators/comic artists putting out great work, I'd hoped for much, much better than this collection had to offer.

I love the idea of having a sequential art (or whatever you want to call comics) anthology by all-women. And I love that the introduction is written by one of the greatest feminists of my generation, Kathleen Hanna. however, besides the fact that all the stories were written by women, there was a strong common thread lacking through all the pieces (as is usually the case in most sequential art anthologies). There were some gems, and it is definitely a book that a female comic afficianado will want to have on her shelf, but it it's not hard to put it down and forget about it.