PINKRAYGUN.COM is a new website devoted to comic book fangirls.

SOUTHSIDE NEFERTITI is a comic with direct appeal to women.

The interview below was inevitable, then. Peep:


http://www.pinkraygun.com/2007/08/15/interview-mike-sales-creator-of-southside-nefertiti/

Big shouts to Lisa Fary and all the good people at her site.

Excerpts:

I listen to a lot of hip hop music and I get stories from songs, usually older songs and a lot of more politically influenced hip-hop like Ice Cube or Public Enemy. What ends up happening is that I weave these political themes with semi-feminist themes into my stories dealing with gender issues. One example is Nefertiti's partner, who is a man. Because she's one of the strongest people in the community, he gets picked on a lot and called her pet. He doesn't have any powers, but she does and they both go out and fight. It's sort of inverse in that Nefertiti is the Batman and the guy is the Robin. So he's a guy that everyone looks at as if, if it weren't for Nefertiti, he wouldn't even be out there fighting.