FEMMES FORMIDABLES

Sand Saref (whose name is a joke on the typeface "sans serif") first appeared in the January 8, 1950 edition of Will Eisner...

In the medium of cinema, tough cowgirls of one stripe or another dated back to the silent era.  In comic books, however, most of them di...

Because I've decided to start this blog by making one post apiece for each year and then starting over, I've often been forced t...

Back in 1947 no one, even Black Canary's creators, could have anticipated how significant she would become to DC Comics. As her fi...

The Spirit's most lovably larcenous adversary, Mamselle P'Gell (named after Pigalle, a disreputable area in Paris), comes clos...

Thanks to the 1990 Warren Beatty film, Breathless Mahoney is probably the best known of DICK TRACY's femmes formidables.  Unfortunat...

Though thousands of Sherlockians have worshipped at the fane of Irene Adler, the detective's one major female nemesis, I can't d...