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"Complex and gripping...Newcomers to Arcadia will be captivated by
the rich history, while those familiar with it will find that
Sophia's legend grants them a new perspective on the earlier
tales." --Publishers Weekly (starred review) "[The Lizard Princess]
encourages big-picture thinking...The combination of a
straightforward quest complicated by hindsight, with magic,
science, and meditations on the building of myths and the role of
stories, makes for a book not like much else out there...Gorgeously
written and complex." --New York Journal of Books "This fantasy
quest lends a hand toward making our contemporary world a little
better."--Foreword Reviews "The impressive The Lizard Princess
continues Tod Davies' imaginative History of Arcadia series with
her trademark brilliant storytelling."--Largehearted Boy "Look
inside this world and find wonder."--Kate Bernheimer, editor of
Fairy Tale Review "Blending the magic of fairy tales with the great
existential mysteries, Tod Davies leads us into a phantasmagorical
world that resurrects the complex lore of times past with vibrant
narrative energy."--Maria Tatar, editor of The Cambridge Companion
to Fairy Tales "Imaginative." --Jack Zipes, author of The
Irresistible Fairy Tale "Innovative form and spellbinding content
...Stories, as Tod Davies's History of Arcadia novels ultimately
suggest, serve as a civilization's backbone, and it is therefore in
stories too that we can discover the potential for fundamental
change and a better society."--Marvels & Tales Bittersweet.
Lush. Human. The Lizard Princess crosses mountains, oceans,
deserts, and the Moon Itself to meet her fate and the fate of
Arcadia on the Road of the Dead. Her reward is the Key that opens
the door to the Domain of Life where wisdom trumps knowledge, as it
should in all good tales about the world, whether Arcadia's, or our
own. Tod Davies is the author of Snotty Saves the Day and Lily the
Silent, the first two books in The History of Arcadia series, as
well as the cooking memoirs Jam Today: A Diary of Cooking With What
You've Got and Jam Today Too: The Revolution Will Not Be Catered.
Unsurprisingly, her attitude toward literature is the same as her
attitude toward cooking--it's all about working with what you have
to find new ways of looking and new ways of being.
"Look inside this world and find wonder." --KATE BERNHEIMER, editor
of My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me and author of The
Girl Who Wouldn't Brush Her Hair Lily leads a serene life in
Arcadia until the forces of Megalopolis invade. Rescued from
slavery by a prince of Megalopolis, Lily is sent to retrieve a very
important key. Aided by her friends, her dog Rex, and even Death
herself, Lily's adventures take her from the Moons to the Bottom of
the Sea, and finally back to Megalopolis, where she faces the
decision of her life. Will she choose True Love and relinquish the
key to those in Power or will she risk everything for who she is
and return the key to Arcadia? Narrated by Lily's daughter, Sophia
the Wise, this is a story about a girl who learns to live by her
own light and--no matter how reluctantly--become the queen her
people need. Full of Arcadian legends, it is also a fairy tale
within a fairy tale about a troubled world not unlike our own, as
well as a beautifully illustrated sequel to Snotty Saves the Day,
which critics and booksellers hailed as "Lewis Carroll with
footnotes by Jonathan Swift," while comparing it to authors whose
work can be savored by readers of all ages: Susanna Clark, C.S.
Lewis, George Orwell, and L. Frank Baum. The History of Arcadia
series tells the story of a world that was literally formed by a
story, by one person discovering and claiming who she really is
...and of the subsequent events that led first to a deceptively
happy world, then to an inevitably tragic outcome, and finally to a
slow rebuilding of the world on foundations more deeply and
thoughtfully laid. Each book includes bonus Arcadian legends and
fairy tales, and relates how the manuscript crossed the barriers
between Arcadia and our own world to arrive at Exterminating Angel
Press. The first two novels in the series are Snotty Saves the Day
and Lily the Silent. Tod Davies lives with her husband and her two
dogs at the foot of the Rocky Mountains, in Boulder, Colorado and
in the alpine valley of Colestin, Oregon, where she discovered
Snotty Saves the Day, the first Arcadian manuscript. Illustrator
Mike Madrid is the author of Vixens, Vamps & Vipers: Lost
Villainesses of Golden Age Comics; Divas, Dames & Daredevils:
Lost Heroines of Golden Age Comics, and The Supergirls: Fashion,
Feminism, Fantasy, and the History of Comic Book Heroines.
"Mike Madrid is doing God's work. . . . mak ing] accessible a lost,
heady land of female adventure." --"ComicsAlliance"
Between the covers of "Vixens, Vamps & Vipers," fans will
rediscover the original bad girls of comics--as fierce and full of
surprises as they were when the comic book industry was born. From
murderous Madame Doom to He-She, dubbed by "io9" as "the most
unsung comic book villain ever," Mike Madrid resurrects twenty-two
glorious evildoers in fully reproduced comics and explores the ways
they both transcend and become ensnared in a web of cultural
stereotypes.
Among the deadly femme fatales, ruthless jungle queens, devious
secret agents, double-dealing criminal masterminds, and
gender-bending con artists are some of the very first women of
color in comics. These women may have been overlooked in the annals
of history, but--like their superheroine counterparts in "Divas,
Dames & Daredevils"--their influence, on popular culture and
the archenemies that thrill us today, is unmistakable.
Mike Madrid is the author of "Divas, Dames & Daredevils," a
"ComicsAlliance" and "ComicsBlend" Best Book of the Year, and "The
Supergirls," an NPR "Best Book To Share With Your Friends" and
American Library Association Amelia Bloomer Project Notable Book. A
San Francisco native and lifelong fan of comic books and popular
culture, Madrid also appears in the documentary "Wonder Women The
Untold Story of American Superheroines."
"ComicsAlliance" and "ComicsBlend" Best Comic Book of the
Year
"BUST Magazine" "Lit Pick" Recommendation
Certified Cool(TM) in "PREVIEWS: The Comic Shop's Catalog"
"Mike Madrid gives these forgotten superheroines their due. These
'lost' heroines are now found--to the delight of comic book lovers
everywhere." --STAN LEE
Wonder Woman, Mary Marvel, and Sheena, Queen of the Jungle ruled
the pages of comic books in the 1940s, but many other heroines of
the WWII era have been forgotten. Through twenty-eight full
reproductions of vintage Golden Age comics, "Divas, Dames &
Daredevils" reintroduces their ingenious abilities to mete out
justice to Nazis, aliens, and evildoers of all kinds.
Each spine-tingling chapter opens with Mike Madrid's insightful
commentary about heroines at the dawn of the comic book industry
and reveals a universe populated by extraordinary
women--superheroes, reporters, galactic warriors, daring
detectives, and ace fighter pilots--who protected America and the
world with wit and guile.
In these pages, fans will also meet heroines with striking
similarities to more modern superheroes, including The Spider
Queen, who deployed web shooters twenty years before Spider Man,
and Marga the Panther Woman, whose feral instincts and sharp claws
tore up the bad guys long before Wolverine. These women may have
been overlooked in the annals of history, but their influence on
popular culture, and the heroes we're passionate about today, is
unmistakable.
Mike Madrid is the author of "Divas, Dames & Daredevils: Lost
Heroines of Golden Age Comics" and "The Supergirls: Fashion,
Feminism, Fantasy, and the History of Comic Book Heroines," an NPR
"Best Book To Share With Your Friends" and American Library
Association Amelia Bloomer Project Notable Book. Madrid, a San
Francisco native and lifelong fan of comic books and popular
culture, also appears in the documentary "Wonder Women The Untold
Story of American Superheroines."
"Mike Madrid is doing God's work...mak[ing] accessible a lost,
heady land of female adventure." --ComicsAlliance "Sharp and lively
...[Madrid] clearly loves this stuff. And he's enough of a
historian to be able to trace the ways in which the portrayal of
sirens and supergirls has echoed society's ever-changing feelings
about women and sex."--Entertainment Weekly "A long overdue tribute
to [those] fabulous fighting females." --Stan Lee Mike Madrid has
become known as a champion of women in comics and as the expert in
Golden Age female characters. And now here is where it all began,
as informative and entertaining as ever, in a revised and updated
edition, including new illustrations and a new introduction, as
well as an afterword bringing us up-to-date on what's happening
with women in comics now. Mike Madrid is the author of Divas, Dames
& Daredevils: Lost Heroines of Golden Age Comics; Vixens, Vamps
& Vipers: Lost Villainesses of Golden Age Comics; and the
original The Supergirls: Fashion, Feminism, Fantasy, and the
History of Comic Book Heroines, an NPR "Best Book To Share With
Your Friends" and American Library Association Amelia Bloomer
Project Notable Book. A San Francisco native and lifelong fan of
comic books and popular culture, Madrid also appears in the
documentary Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American
Superheroines and is the illustrator of two of The History of
Arcadia books: Lily the Silent and The Lizard Princess.
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