Leila del Duca interviews Anina Bennett (Boilerplate, Heartbreakers) and Heidi MacDonald (The Beat) about Friends of Lulu, a nonprofit they created in the 1990s to help promote women readers and creators in comics. Join us for a look at how the ideas FoL promoted in 1994 helped create the explosion of comics for a more diverse audience today. Find out how 30 women meeting in a coffee shop during San Diego Comic-Con grew into a national organization that published news, comics, and a retailer handbook; organized panels and conferences; and gave out the annual Lulu Awards.
Recorded by Leila del Duca during the HelioscopePDX Mini Con, March 27th, 2021.
Heidi MacDonald: www.comicsbeat.com/author/admin/
Anina Bennett: www.bigredhair.com/
Leila del Duca: www.leiladelduca.net/