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You probably know many famous women actresses,but you may not have heard of the following fantastic women creators and critics of comic and graphic novels.
G.WillowWilson
Wilson read her first superhero comic at the age of 9.To her,comics are a fine reading experience.From a creator’s standpoint,Wilson thinks writing comics is challenging,different from writing essays.She has to make her story very concentrated.It’s troublesome but wonderful.Wilson currently has written the Hugo Award-winning comic book series Ms.Marvel for Marvel comics.
C.SpikeTrotman
Artist and writer C.Spike Trotman lives in Illinois.Since she founded Iron Circus Comics in 2007,she has become the region’s largest comic publisher.Her outstanding work includes the Web comic Templar,Arizona,and Poorcraft,a novel guide to simple living.She is also the first publisher to fully include crowdfunding to the small presses’ business model.
MaggieThompson
Best known to NPR audiences as the mother of Pop Culture Happy Hour’s Stephen Thompson,she used comic books to learn to read when she was 5.She and her husband,Don,devoted themselves to comic art and ended up editing ComicsBuyer’sGuide,the comic industry newspaper,a job she continued after Don’s death in 1994.
EtelkaLehoezky
Critic Etelka Lehoezky has been reviewing comics for NPR since 2013,but she has been reading them since she discovered Quimby’s store in Chicago back in the 1990s.She loves comics because they constantly pull the eyes of readers in unexpected directions.She has reviewed books for TheNewYorkTimes and TheWashingtonPost,and she writes about small businesses for Inc.magazine.
21.Why does G.Willow Wilson compare writing comics with writing essays?
A.To show she prefers the latter.
B.To show writing comics is not easy.
C.To prove she is good at writing both.
D.To prove writing comics is more distracting.
22.What do we know about C.Spike Trotman?
A.She has written the best-known works.
B.She is the first artist,writer and publisher in the UK.
C.She has created a new business way for the small presses.
D.She adopts a new model of raising funds to publish love novels.
23.Who worked with her husband on comic art according to the text?
A.G.Willow Wilson.
B.C.Spike Trotman.
C.Maggie Thompson.
D.Etelka Lehoezky.
