This is a new webcomic, and I find the pitch as reported by Karen Healey of Girls Read Comics and They’re Pissed difficult to resist:

Also invigorating: Mistress, the new webcomic hosted by Girl-Wonder.org. Author and artist Andrea M. Bell pitched it to the Board as “Jane Austen meets Die Hard“, and I was instantly adamant that this was exactly what the universe required.

Mistress is “the story of Mardigale Beauchulle and her romance with the crown prince of Raeuca, Kamreide Renlauther”, and is full of assassinations and drama and delightful hats. It updates Mondays.

The first few panels are up, and I’ve already added it the subscriptions in my feed-reader. W00t!

In the same post, Karen announces that a novel of hers has been accepted for publication. Yay for Karen! Of course, the central character is a HOYDEN.

Guardian of the Dead tells the story of young New Zealander Ellie Spencer, who discovers that certain of the creatures of Maori mythology are a) not mythological and b) fully intent on mass murder. Traumatic journeys, romance and kickbuttery ensue!

It has nothing to do with superheroes, but it does have teenagers and theatre and Tae Kwan Do and taniwha and all that other good stuff, and at the moment it looks like you will be able to read it sometime in 2010. That’s in the FUTURE.

I can hardly wait.

Categories: arts & entertainment

Tags: books & writing, hoydens