GUN STREET GIRL: Action, Magic, and Monsters in London!
A project in Southwold, Canada by Rodolfo Martinez003days
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Status: Active
Liz: solves problems by punching them! Eddie: hard-luck street magician! Prana: Liz's girlfriend (says this is all way too dangerous)!
Backers: 56
Average Daily Pledges: $157 CAD
Average Pledge Per Backer: $87 CAD
Funding: $4,879 CAD of $5,000 CAD
Dates: Mar 4th -> Apr 6th (34 days)
Project By: Rodolfo Martinez
Backers: 56
Average Daily Pledges: $157 CAD
Average Pledge Per Backer: $87 CAD
Funding: $4,879 CAD of $5,000 CAD
Dates: Mar 4th -> Apr 6th (34 days)
Project By: Rodolfo Martinez
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Latest News
Update #29: David Doub and Dusk 
April 2nd - via: kickstarter.com
Wicker Man Studios: Hi, Park Cooper here, co-manager of Wicker Man Studios, which brings you Gun Street Girl. Today, though-- because he's helping us spread the word about GSG-- we're talking to David Doub, the creator of Dusk, a Kickstarter that... (Read More)
Update #28: Jon Westhoff and the Last Comics Shop
April 1st - via: kickstarter.com
Wicker Man Studios: Hi, Park Cooper here, co-manager of Wicker Man Studios, which brings you Gun Street Girl. Today, though-- because he's helping us spread the word about GSG-- we're talking to Jon Westhoff, the co-creator, scripter, letterer of... (Read More)
Update #28: "I Hate Asparagus"
March 31st - via: kickstarter.com
For today's update, we have a non-GSG-related prose short story... It's set in the world of Barb's prose novel series Song to the Siren... ●●●●●●●●●● “I Hate Asparagus,” by Barb Lien-Cooper (based on a piece of writing... (Read More)
Update #27: “I” Is Another: Barb And Park Talk About First-Person Narration
March 30th - via: kickstarter.com
Park: Earlier today, Barb and I were talking about the craft of first-person narration… so, I thought it might be a good topic for a post. So I begin, now, by asking Barb: Who is the best writer you’ve read as far as first-person narration? Barb:... (Read More)
Update #26: Barb Talks About Writer's Block
March 29th - via: kickstarter.com
Writer's Block (by Barb) I talked in an interview once about how to deal with writer’s block… and the interviewer seemed shocked by my advice. Most writers, when they talk about dealing with writer’s block, tell you to sit at your computer and... (Read More)
Update #25: Barb Talks About Story Structure
March 28th - via: kickstarter.com
The Bell Curve (by Barb) When I was in junior high, I had a good English teacher who taught me a lot of what I now incorporate into my writing. While not a creative writing teacher per se, she taught us the elements of the short story. She taught us... (Read More)
Update #24: Barb Talks About Writing Dialogue
March 27th - via: kickstarter.com
How I Learned To Write Dialogue (by Barb) Critics and readers have told me that I have a gift for dialogue. I think maybe I do, but it wasn’t exactly something that I fell into instantly. So, I’m going to tell you how I learned to write dialogue.... (Read More)
Update #23: What If?
March 26th - via: kickstarter.com
What If? (by Barb) As a writer, one of the few questions I hate to hear is: “Where do you get your ideas?” The problem is that the question’s much too broad. If you asked me where I got the ideas for the stories in my book The Talking Cure, I... (Read More)
Update 22: Barb Answers READER questions about Gun Street Girl!
March 25th - via: kickstarter.com
Q: Where does Liz buy her boots/clothes? Barb: Well, her boots are Doc Martens, but I think that Liz, not being rich, gets some of her clothes from Oxfam, which is the British version of Goodwill. I have no idea where she gets her leather jackets,... (Read More)
Update #21: Barb and Strong Female Characters
March 24th - via: kickstarter.com
Park: Okay so let's see here... we were going to talk about director Howard Hawks-- probably especially his film The Thing From Another World... and/or Leigh Brackett... Barb: Well, I like Howard Hawks films because they have female characters I can... (Read More)
Update #20: Barb answers questions about GSG PART 1
March 23rd - via: kickstarter.com
Barb answers questions about GSG PART 1 --Can you talk a little about the Tom Waits song "Gun Street Girl"? Barb: Ah, yes. The title comes from Tom Waits' album Rain Dogs. To me, that album is very Midwestern, but in a combination of Threepenny... (Read More)
Update #19: Barb talks about EVEN MORE of the stories in Gun Street Girl volume 1:
March 22nd - via: kickstarter.com
Barb talks about EVEN MORE of the stories in Gun Street Girl volume 1: "Any World I'm Welcome To" Barb: That's the title of a Steely Dan song... I've never really felt that truly welcome in any subculture, like I've always been on the outside looking... (Read More)
Update #18: Barb talks about more of the stories in Gun Street Girl volume 1
March 21st - via: kickstarter.com
Barb talks about more of the stories in Gun Street Girl volume 1: "An Unsuitable Job for a Woman" Barb: The title is from a P. D. James novel. My idea was this: curses are usually so gender-specific, you know? Because, when curses were made,... (Read More)
Update #17: World of Wonders... and H. P. Lovecraft...
March 20th - via: kickstarter.com
World of Wonders... and H. P. Lovecraft... Park: Today, we're going to be talking a little bit about a story that we have alternatively referred to, over time, as "World of Wonders," "Curry," or just "The Microwave Story." It happens to have a very... (Read More)
Update #16: December Will Be Magic Again
March 19th - via: kickstarter.com
December Will Be Magic Again (by Barb Lien-Cooper) First, I need to talk about the novel The Go-Between by L. P. Hartley. Park and I were in a long distance relationship at that time. I'd already been diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, and... (Read More)
Update #15: Tourist Trap
March 18th - via: kickstarter.com
Tourist Trap (by Barb Lien-Cooper) Memories of Gun Street Girl tend to blend together... especially when I’m asked, “Where do you get your ideas?”I rarely get an “A-ha! moment” like on Murder, She Wrote.Instead, my mind glides from one... (Read More)
Update #14: Witchfinder General
March 17th - via: kickstarter.com
Park: Today we're going to talk about the film Witchfinder General! A film that's too scary for me to see! You can bet that Barb's seen it, though!Barb: It's so hard to remember anything about the time I was writing GSG. I loved doing it,... (Read More)
#13: Batman
March 16th - via: kickstarter.com
Batman (by Barb Lien-Cooper) I think that my earliest influence was Batman. As a child, a TV station showed old Batman ’66 reruns, which I loved. Of course, being a naïve kid, I knew nothing about camp. It was only when I saw that show as an... (Read More)
Update #12: Doctor Who and Leela
March 15th - via: kickstarter.com
Doctor Who and Leela (by Barb Lien-Cooper) I grew up in a small farm town, where Pop Culture was pretty much non-existent. So, I ended up listening to a lot of music, watching movies on cable, and watching a lot of PBS. That’s how I got into the... (Read More)
Update #11: Riding In Cars With Characters (by Ryan Howe)
March 14th - via: kickstarter.com
Riding In Cars With Characters (by Ryan Howe) It’s funny what sticks with you from story to story. There’s stylistic things like how you maybe handled shadow in a panel here, how you drew a face there, a panel composition where you drew focus... (Read More)
Update 10: It Wasn’t All Bad, Believe Me
March 13th - via: kickstarter.com
It Wasn’t All Bad, Believe Me(by Barb Lien-Cooper)I had fun writing for Sequential Tart, and a lot of fun writing Gun Street Girl.I got a ton of promo comics and DVDs still lying around my house, although I haven’t looked at most of them in... (Read More)
Update # 9: Why I Felt Insulted (And Maybe You Should Feel That Way, Too)
March 12th - via: kickstarter.com
Why I Felt Insulted (and maybe you should feel that way, too) (by Barb Lien-Cooper) When I started at Sequential Tart, I thought, “Maybe the only reason women don’t get jobs in comics is because the publishers and fans aren’t aware that women... (Read More)
Update #8: Why I Wrote Gun Street Girl
March 11th - via: kickstarter.com
Why I Wrote Gun Street Girl(by Barb Lien-Cooper)Let me take you back to when I wrote GSG.Superhero comics had gone from Grim and Gritty being an alternative to heroic comics to every last powered hero being a real jerk. I said at the time that... (Read More)
Update #7: Gun Street Girl Artist, Ryan Howe
March 10th - via: kickstarter.com
Ryan writes: It is incredibly weird to think about how long I’ve been posting art online. The very first drawing I ever posted was some Warcraft II fanart on Lothlorien, a really, really early fantasy art gallery around 1994 or 1995 maybe? And... (Read More)
Update #6: Cracker
March 9th - via: kickstarter.com
Park: Hi there-- Park Cooper here once again, husband of the writer of Gun Street Girl, Barb Lien-Cooper. Today, we're going to talk briefly about a BBC television show whose main character was somewhat of an inspiration for Gun Street Girl's... (Read More)
Update #5: Comic Books
March 8th - via: kickstarter.com
Hi there-- Park Cooper here, husband of the writer of Gun Street Girl, Barb Lien-Cooper. Barb created Gun Street Girl with artist Ryan Howe, and she wrote the stories (I helped somewhat with editing and panel layout and describing things for the... (Read More)
Update #4: Why Our Comics/Novels Do NOT Share a Universe
March 7th - via: kickstarter.com
Why Our Comics/Novels Do NOT Share a Universe (by Barb Lien-Cooper) From a really young age, I adored stories about the supernatural. I got into World Mythology when I was about eight years old. I was also a comic book reader. I read DC's comics... (Read More)
Update #3: From Comics to Novels (by Barb)
March 6th - via: kickstarter.com
From Comics to Novels (by Barb Lien-Cooper) As I mentioned previously, I left comics in favor of a job in the manga industry, where my husband and I edited and adapted manga. Oh, my, was that a breath of fresh air! The editors loved my work, my... (Read More)
Update #2: Reviews and Praise for Gun Street Girl
March 5th - via: kickstarter.com
I felt it might be a good time, right now, to share just some of our favorite reviews and praise that Gun Street Girl has gotten... ********** “Our current rave [for digital graphic novels] has to be Gun Street Girl . . . Sassy, smart, and socially... (Read More)
UPDATE #1: Fun from the Past...
March 4th - via: kickstarter.com
Hey there, Park Cooper of Wicker Man Studios here! I'm the husband of Barbara Lien-Cooper, the writer and creator of GUN STREET GIRL, along with artist Ryan Howe! We're really excited and happy to start this Kickstarter for GSG! Here (below) is a... (Read More)
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