The Brilliant Bella is a web comic about Bella, a super heroine, co-created by Thomas Morrison (writer) and Tiina Birgitta Räisänen (artist). Bella has left her home in the Paradisaical land of Avalon to come to the 1939 American city of Middleton and taken the alias of police woman Donna De Angelo to not only fight criminals, mobsters, monsters and super villains, but also finds herself inadvertently fighting the social injustices that are prevalent against women in pre World War II America.
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This was the very 1st Bella story finished last spring, 2010. Tiina and I had just met and decided to work together on a comic. I chose a very simple story just to see how it was to work with her. Let me tell you, it was great working with Tiina! She's a wonderful artist and very gracious in baring with my demands.
ReplyDeleteAbout the character, I had came up with this idea to have a female hero in 1939 America. I had this vague notion of superimposing the idealism of the superhero onto the racism and discrimination of that time. I mean women had just got the vote! They were still considered by the society at large as free domestic workers and not welcome in the work force. Many people don't know this but even Wonder Woman was the Justice Society of America's secretary! Anyway, with such a short story I didn't have a lot of space to put anything about it, so I tacked on a last page with some disparaging remarks toward women. It looks a little out of place in the story but I hope to rectify that in our future endeavors.
I hope you enjoyed it and stay tuned for more work to come! It just keeps getting better!