![]() ![]() JUNE TARPÉ MILLS created the first female comic-book action hero - Miss Fury, the secret identity of socialite Marla Drake. You can also purchase day and weekend passes (23% off with our promo code, or even cheaper with a student discount), which will include our event on Saturday and everything else on offer! This is our last show of the year, and we’d love to see you there.Ĭan’t wait? Why not listen to our past shows as podcasts? Our latest episode comes direct from DLS NYC, as illustrator Nafisa Ferdous introduces us to Amrita Sher-Gil, a queer, feminist, Hungarian-Indian artist, writer, and art critic who left a profound impact on art despite her untimely death. Tickets are €12, and you get 23% off with our special promo code “DeadLadies23”! Each ticket covers the Dead Ladies Show plus a half-day pass to festival events on Saturday between 5-10:30pm, including workshops and panels, seminars, and other events! Please book in advance here. See below for more information on the two ladies in question, who will, as always, be presented in a messy mixture of English and German. Susan will reveal the writer and artist behind Miss Fury, and Katy will reprise the story of Germany’s first female airship pilot ( auf Deutsch this time). ![]() 99, 10245 Berlin (inside House of Music at RAW Gelände). We’re delighted to invite you to our second appearance at PodFest Berlin!įlorian, Katy, and Susan will be presenting a mini-Dead Ladies Show at the podcast festival on Saturday, October 14th starting at 8:15pm (doors open 8pm) at Noisy Rooms, Revaler Str. Read more : Podcast #68: June Tarpé Mills You can download the transcript, created by Susan, here. Read more about Andy here.Īlso available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, RadioPublic, Pocket Casts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, and Acast. We mentioned our wonderful friend Andy Horn, who introduced us to Tarpé Mills. Decades after her death in obscurity, Mills is finally getting the recognition she deserves, from a headstone for her unmarked grave to induction into the Comic Industry Hall of Fame. Then she, like her creator, largely disappeared. She was sexy and smart, and a global hit from 1941–1951, during which she appeared in 100 newspapers, millions of comic books, and on the side of several US bombers. The alter ego of socialite Marla Drake, Miss Fury wore a cursed black leopard skin and travelled the world fighting evil (mostly Nazis). In this episode, the last of Season Six, we bring you a show live from PodFest Berlin! DLS-ers Susan Stone and Katy Derbyshire joined the city’s fine and friendly podcasters at the yearly event in front of a small but perfectly formed audience.įrom that event, producer Susan brings us the fascinating story of June Tarpé Mills, a comics pioneer and the first woman to create a female superhero, Miss Fury. Show notes: Continue reading “Podcast #69: Sister Mary Ignatius Davies” If you’re in New York by any chance, put Tuesday, March 19 in your diary for Dead Ladies Show NYC. Without Sister Mary Ignatius, who died at the age of 81 in 2003, we might never have had reggae.ĭLS co-founder Katy Derbyshire tells the story of the woman known to her young charges as “Sister Iggy.” And she joins host/producer Susan Stone to introduce this episode, the first of Season Seven of the Dead Ladies Show Podcast, and to wish you all a happy International Women’s Day on March 8th!Īlso available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, RadioPublic, Pocket Casts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, and Acast. ![]() A lover of jazz and blues, she inspired hundreds of “wayward boys” to become professional musicians, including future Skatalites Tommy McCook and Don Drummond, trombonist Rico Rodriguez and the conductor Leslie Thompson. Sister Mary Ignatius, a white Jamaican Catholic nun dedicated her life to the Alpha Boys’ School in Kingston, where she taught football, cricket, boxing, table tennis and dominoes – but most importantly, music. In this episode, we bring you…the woman known as the “Mother Theresa of Reggae! ![]()
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