The creator of the online comic series Girls with Slingshots visits the Rose O’Neill Literary House at Washington College Tuesday, February 17, to talk about the art and business of web comics. Danielle Corsetto, who has entertained hundreds of thousands of readers online since 2004, will speak at 4:30 p.m. at the Lit House, 407 Washington Avenue. The event is free and open to the public.
Danielle Corsetto’s love of cartoon strips was nurtured early on when her grandfather read “Garfield” and “Peanuts” to her. She started writing her own strips at age 8. After graduating from Shepherd College with a BFA in photography and digital imaging, she started Girls with Slingshots as a black-and-white comic published twice a week. A decade later, the strip appears in color five times a week and is compiled in books published by TopatoCo.
Girls With Slingshots revolves around two twenty-something women, Hazel and Jamie, and their adventures with friends, including a cactus named McPedro. The web-comic series focuses on ideas of romance, career struggles, friendships, and sexuality. Corsetto says the style of Girls with Slingshots is “more realistic and less stereotypical. All the characters have these unusual relationships, both romantic and platonic … that are not what you would find in, say, a sitcom, but it’s written like a sitcom. I’m trying to normalize these things that are taboo.”
More than 100,000 people visit www.girlswithslingshots.com on a daily basis to read the latest installment. Corsetto has also written several books and original graphic novels (OGNs). Her fifth OGN for Adventure Time will be published this March.
This event was organized by Rose O’Neill Literary House 2014 summer interns Julie Armstrong ’15 and Ryan Manning ’17. Already fans of Corsetto’s webcomic, they were eager to bring her to campus to share her quick wit and humor. For more information about this lecture and other Rose O’Neill Literary House events and programs, call (410) 778-7899 or email [email protected].
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