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A review by claudiaswisher
Bad Girls: Sirens, Jezebels, Murderesses, Thieves, & Other Female Villains by Jane Yolen, Rebecca Guay
4.0
"Well-behaved women don't make history," or so the saying goes. Well, these women DID make history. Spies, murderers, bank robbers, mobster molls, cowgirls, pirates. They're all here.
For me the biggest surprise was Beulah Annan and Belva Gaertner...or Roxie and Velma, of CHICAGO fame. I didn't know these two characters were based on real women, or that there was a stage play CHICAGO long before the musical...loved how their stories contributed to the play.
THis isn't a true graphic novel...the only pages with traditional panels are the pages at the end of each short biography of a bad girl. The two authors, Jane Yolen and Heidi Stemple, Yolen's daughter, debate the badness of each of their characters after the story. One must have read the 2-3 page biographies in order to get the jokes and the patter. I loved how those pages let us see the mother-daughter relationship.
The illustrations are yummy and really contribute to the whole.
I thoroughly enjoyed reading about these women, who did make history
For me the biggest surprise was Beulah Annan and Belva Gaertner...or Roxie and Velma, of CHICAGO fame. I didn't know these two characters were based on real women, or that there was a stage play CHICAGO long before the musical...loved how their stories contributed to the play.
THis isn't a true graphic novel...the only pages with traditional panels are the pages at the end of each short biography of a bad girl. The two authors, Jane Yolen and Heidi Stemple, Yolen's daughter, debate the badness of each of their characters after the story. One must have read the 2-3 page biographies in order to get the jokes and the patter. I loved how those pages let us see the mother-daughter relationship.
The illustrations are yummy and really contribute to the whole.
I thoroughly enjoyed reading about these women, who did make history