Nicola Scott – Celebrating Wonder Woman and Making Historia
Australian comic book artist Nicola Scott talks Wonder Woman mythology, the female gaze in comics, and her breathtaking work on Wonder Woman: Historia.
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Phil Jimenez – Greek Gods in Wonder Woman: Historia
Artist Phil Jimenez talks about designing Dionysus, Wonder Woman as resistance against toxic masculinity, and why comics are repositories of spiritual and mythological memory.
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Amazon Training: How to Play Bullets and Bracelets
Through Octavia’s training, Marston clarified some of the symbolism of Bullets and Bracelets. Like all sports, the sport was as much a mental exercise as it was a physical one.
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Bullets and Bracelets
Centuries after the Amazons landed on Paradise Island, Diana was born. On her fifteenth birthday, she pledged herself to Aphrodite’s service and received her Bracelets of Submission, made from the…
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Wonder Woman’s Magic Lasso: A Powerful Solution to a Painful Problem
Fun Fact: The Magic Lasso was not part of Wonder Woman’s original design. Marston added it as a story element to solve a problem—excessive force.
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Making a Magic Lasso
This is the story of how I made a magic lasso that imbued my life with truth, love, and so many sweet memories.
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Joye Hummel, Wonder Woman’s First Female Writer
n 1944, he hired 19-year-old Gibbs College graduate Joye Hummel as his assistant. She had been an excellent student, and Marston believed that she would understand his psychological theories while also helping him keep up with modern slang.
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Pandora
The Amazons were not the first women created by the gods. That distinction belongs to Pandora, the first woman, the “Eve” of Greek mythology.
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Love and Art: The Story of Pygmalion
In his loneliness, Pygmalion carved an ivory statue of his perfect woman and named her Galatea. He showered the figure with delicate kisses and beautiful gifts and took her to his bed. One day, after he delivered a sacrifice to Aphrodite, the goddess granted the artist’s deepest desire and breathed life into the ivory form.
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Suffrage and Submission
In Wonder Woman #1, a panel showing an Amazon woman beating back her abusers with broken chains to reclaim her personhood was indeed worth a thousand words. The image of…
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Divine Motherhood: The Birth of Princess Diana
Like all the Amazons, Queen Hippolyte enjoyed a bountiful life brimming with every happiness—save one. After centuries of personal development and self-actualization, and ruling over a thriving nation, her heart…
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Bullets, Bracelets, and Water Pistols
Bullets and Bracelets is, of course, one of Wonder Woman’s signature moves, combining her indestructible-yet-stylish jewelry and superhuman reflexes to defend against various phallic projectiles.
