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Current needs

Hey, Adventuring Enthusiasts!
As we prepare for this summer’s Comics Intensive, we’ve put together this handy list of materials we are hoping to borrow or receive as donated goods. Have any extras of the below lying around, or just wanna support us in some awesome way? Get. In. Touch. Because, for reals, we will reward you handsomely. Or beautifully. Prettily? Cutely? Hotly? Maybe “handsomely” is too gendered, implying that the giver of resources must always be masculine, accidentally supporting the continued oppression of viable feminine economies. Well, let’s just say this: we will reward you in a manner befitting your personal gender identification, and via a means that will fail to further oppress lesser average wage-earners.
  • Unlimited photocopying services
  • Bikes
  • LCD projector
  • Camera / photography services
  • Minifridge / large cooler
  • Toilet paper
  • Copy Paper
  • Bristol (400 series for preference)
  • Sketchbooks
  • Mylar / Duralar
  • Roll of butcher paper
  • Newsprint
  • Drawing pencils
  • Photo Blue Pencil
  • Erasers
  • Pencil sharpeners
  • Inking Tools
  • Sakura Opaque Marker
  • White Out (Pro White or Plaka for preference)
  • India Ink
  • Pro Black Ink
  • Sharpie Markers
  • Liner and Filler brushes
  • Nib Pens! Zebra G Nib is great!
  • Light Table
  • Long Arm Staplers
  • Staples
  • Extraneous papers and cover stock
  • Drawing boards
  • Painter’s tape
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The Most Amazing Comic You Cannot Yet Read

Hello Internet!

We at the Adventure School have decided to list, available for pre-order, our upcoming anthology, the exact contents of which are currently a mystery to both us, the creators, and you, the potential reader/enthusiast/purchaser/ giggler. Why would you want to buy it? Well let me tell you. For one, it will probably sell out. Unladylike, last summer’s anthology, did, in a matter of days. (Yes, we know we made not enough of them.*) Now you can only read it online. Which in my mind, is sort of like owning a very cute puppy that you keep at the pound. You can go visit it whenever you want but eventually the evil overlords in charge will kill it and there’s nothing you can do. For two, it will be awesome. That’s guaranteed.** And for three—and pay close attention because the awesomeness of this will amaze you—you can order one now, and for two more weeks, choose a student to help send to Adventure School. [This offer has ended. —Ed.] They’re all listed right here. It is so easy.

It’s like this (this is you talking): “I would like to own a book. Someday. Not right away, but sometime in the future, because I have commitment problems, or perhaps I don’t yet own a bookshelf. But also, I would like to donate to a worthy cause, but not world hunger or saving the whales. I hate whales, and gave the rest of my money to ending world hunger. But this last eighteen dollars should really go toward a young adventure scholar who wishes to pursue her studies in gender, race, and economic issues in comics. Yes, I’ve decided!” And then, after buying your anthology right here, a faerie flies in through the window and hands you both a cake and a pie. And then you win the lottery.

*Actually as a group we only sold one, although it did go for $175 at auction.

**Not actually guaranteed. Sorry.

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And so it begins …

The Adventure School for Ladies Comics Intensive application process has come to a close, but this shouldn’t be seen as an ending! More like a beginning! Except it is the beginning of a lot of work, so it could also been seen as an ending of those innocent carefree, salad days where you sat around all day not drawing comics, and not thinking about gender, sex-based, race-based, and economic barriers to freedom of expression, and how to make them funny.

To mourn those lost days of your pre-Comics Intensive lifestyle, we have created this coffee mug. (Also because our Director of Adventuring broke her coffee mug this morning and needs a new one.) Featuring the work of Assistant Adventurer Nicole Boyett. Only $15! Or: What? $15! That’s a lot of money! Or: Do you need one? Probably not. Do you want one? If you do, they cost $15.

Our admitted Adventurers and Mistresses will be receiving their admissions information later today, during which time we’ll also be updating our site. If you have resources to add to our in-the-works resources page, want to comment on our awesome new domain name adventureschoolforladies.com, or just had a bad day and want to be reminded that it’s probably because capitalism wants us to feel bad and lonely, leave a comment here!

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Adventure School for Ladies: Comics Intensive (the comic)

Please, rush to download the latest in Adventure School Explanatory Materials, in handy comics form! By Nicole Boyett, this handy little pamphlet in words and pictures explains what an Adventure School for Ladies is or might be, what a Comics Intensive is likely to entail, and also several unrelated facts, and additionally pictures of cats, because those go over really well on the internet. In JPG and PDF formats!*

* These are both internet things. If you do not understand them, you can come over to our house and we will hand you a piece of paper with this same information on it.

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Adventure schools, past

A word from the National Women’s History Museum on adventure schools, for ladies:

In the late 1700’s, “adventure” schools began to become popular for girls. … for the girls attending these schools in the 1700’s achieving any sort of higher learning was an adventure. These shools consisted of a single teacher who taught whatever subjects were popular at the time. Subjects mostly included music, dancing, and crafts such as needlework instead of academics. Girls would usually only attend for a few months and often the shool would close after a short while because the teacher was not able to earn enough money. Despite the lack of success achieved by adventure shools, they marked a steadily increasing interest in women’s education.