Sunday, January 9, 2011

Don't Call Her "GIRL Reporter"!

Jane Arden: Crime Reporter ran from 1927 to 1968, predating other female reporters like Brenda Starr: Reporter and Superman's Lois Lane by over a decade.
She's best-known as the FIRST American comic character to have a World War II-related storyline when her writers tossed out the strip's ongoing gangster plotline in a single daily strip and sent her to cover the warfront on September 25, 1939, less than a month after Germany invaded Poland!
Like most major 1930s-1950s comic characters, she was multi-media, with a radio show that ran for two years, a low-budget b-movie (that, while being pretty good, didn't do well enough to warrant a series) and comic books.
We at Atomic Kommie Comics™ feel that she deserves to return to the pop culture spotlight, so we've digitally-restored and remastered the best covers from her comic book run for a line of collectibles in our Heroines™ section for girls and women who want a strong, positive role model!
Have a look at Jane Arden: Crime Reporter, 'cause if you're doing something bad, she's looking for you!

Thursday, January 6, 2011

Vivica Anjanetta Fox

A versatile actress, Vivica A Fox is equally at home doing action scenes in Kill Bill, improv comedy in Curb Your Enthusiasm or live ballroom dancing on Dancing with the Stars!
Genre appearances include...
Junkyard Dog (Samantha Deatherage)
Scooby-Doo: Mystery Incorporated (Angel Dynamite)
Trapped: Haitian Nights (Violet Martin)
Father of Lies (Barbara Robinson)
Cover (Zahara Milton)
Loonatics Unleashed "The Cloak of Black Velvet" (Black Velvet)
Alias (Toni Cummings)
1-800-Missing (Agent Nicole Scott)
Ella Enchanted (Lucinda)
Twilight Zone [2002]"Memphis"
Kim Possible: A Sitch in Time (Future Monique)
Kill Bill: Vol 1 (Vernita Green aka CopperHead aka Jeanie Bell)
Idle Hands (Debi LeCure)
Solomon (Queen of Sheba)
Set It Off (Francesca "Frankie" Sutton)
Batman & Robin (Ms B Haven)
A Saintly Switch (Sara)
Independence Day (Jasmine Dubrow)

Check out...
Her Official WebSite
A FanSite

Sunday, January 2, 2011

Caryn Elaine Johnson

One of only three actresses* with an Oscar for an appearance in a genre film (1990's fantasy Ghost), Whoopi has an amazing list of genre credits in both tv and film.
Extremely talented, she can do everything (writing / producing / performing) except singing!
Genre appearances include...
Stream [webcast] (Jodi)
Life on Mars "Things to Do in New York When You Think You're Dead" (Brother Lovebutter)
Pinnochio 3000 (Cybernia)
A Knight in Camelot (Dr Vivien Morgan)
Golden Dreams (Calafia, the Queen of California / Narrator)
MonkeyBone (Death)
Magical Legend of the Leprechauns (Grand Banshee)
Alice in Wonderland (Cheshire Cat)
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Raindeer; The Movie (Stormella, The Evil Ice Queen)
A Christmas Carol [1997] (Spirit of Christmas Present)
Theodore Rex (Katie Coltrane)
Fatal Beauty (Rita Rizolli)
Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella [1997] (Queen Constantina)
The Lion King / The Lion King 1 1/2 (Shenzi the Hyena)
Star Trek: the Next Generation / Star Trek: Generations / Star Trek: Nemesis (Guinan)
Ghost (Oda Mae Brown)
Captain Planet & the Planeteers (Gaia / Mother Earth)
Defenders of Dynatron City (Ms. Megawatt)

Check out...
Whoopi's personal blog
A FanPage

(*Josephine Hull won the Oscar in 1950 for the fantasy Harvey, and Ruth Gordon won in 1968 for the horror tale Rosemary's Baby!)
Shenzi has also been played by Tress MacNeille in Timon & Pumba.
Gaia has also been played by Margot Kidder in The New Adventures of Captain Planet
The Queen in previous versions of Rogers & Hammerstein's Cinderella has been played by Ginger Rogers [1965] and Dorothy Stickney [1957]