Archive for May, 2010  I was delighted to be interviewed by my
friend, Katherine Keller, for the webzine, Sequential Tart. We
talk about pop culture, superwomen, points of view, feminism,
love & ass-kicking, women mentoring women, and much more!  Also
in this issue – an article on a talk given by Trina Robbins and
Mike Madrid about the history of women and comics.  In 1960s
Britain, even before the Bond Phenomenon was ignited by film
adaptations of Ian Fleming’s novels about a rakish secret
government agent, a spy-fi woman was kicking ass in a daily news
strip. She dealt in espionage, but never worked in an official
capacity, preferring instead to handle matters on her own terms.
This woman was the extraordinary Modesty Blaise.*  At the same
time the producers of the then-fledging British television
series, The Avengers, recognized that the time was ripe for a
female adventurer of complexity, independence and sexual
sophistication – which we saw in Honor Blackman’s Dr. Catherine
Gale – O’Donnell was thinking