Girls With Slingshots, Vol. 3

Girls With Slingshots

by Danielle Corsetto

Volume 3 features strips #401-600, including Jameson's hair fiasco story and the tale of McPedro's missing mustache. Extras include "How to Draw Clarice and Maureen," plus a bunch of sketches and pin-ups.

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Webcomic, Fiction, Humor, LGBT, Realistic Fiction

160 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2009

About the author

Danielle Corsetto created her first comic strip when she was 8 years old, starting with a blatant rip-off of Garfield called Fat Cat.She started writing Hazelnuts in high school, the precursor to Girls With Slingshots (unbeknownst to her at the time), and ran a comic about super-slacker college kids called Ramblers in the student paper at Shepherd College (as well as popimage.com).
In October of 2004, she began Girls With Slingshots, and a couple of years later she was doing the strip full-time. It’s now updated 5 times a week at some god-awful hour.

In addition to GWS, Danielle wrote and drew The New Adventures of Bat Boy for the Weekly World News, taking the reins from Bat Boy’s kind & talented former creator Peter Bagge.

Danielle lives in Shepherdstown, West Virginia in a 230-year-old house with her two cats, Smudge and Ellie (aka Fluffy and Sprinkles) and her 9-year-old goldfish Goldie. She loves sipping tea, going for hikes, and eating local foods, because she is a filthy filthy hippie.

(Source: http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/ab...)

Reviews

[Riina · Rating 2 out of 5]

Far better than two previous volumes. As it often is with web comics, this also goes through a lot of development with author. It is remarkable, how ready-to-publish even the very first strips were, but to me after first 400 strips the story telling does also became more professional. For some reason it seemed to took some time to get major characters properly introduced.

I really liked the story arc about Jamie's starting relationship. Although Hazel has a bunch of revelations of herself, there is a lot to be annoyed about her character: Jamie's more honest to herself and others of her faults. Clarice, Maureen and Jameson had much more to their personalities as well. To be fair, there is a quit a time gap between release of the very first strip and the 600th, but it took a time to deliver a comic that I start actually to like at some level.

[Yanik · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's fun! The characters are getting deeper, the situations more interesting and the humor snappier.
I still didn't much enjoy the McPedro stuff, but ohwell.
Forwards on the nostalgia trip we go.

[Robin · Rating 5 out of 5]

Review Feb 2012:
I started reading this series after a friend sent me a copy of one of the comics. I love the diversity of the characters and watching them interact. So many of the comics made me laugh out loud and they always leave me wanting to read more.

[Sara · Rating 5 out of 5]

It started off as a boredom thing at work, a distraction, but it is hilariously written and extrememly smart and so addicting. I couldn't get enough, and over the course of a few weeks I read the entire series!

[Sarah · Rating 5 out of 5]

The story continues to engage. I really like the relationships and interactions between different characters. It's subtle but you can really see a difference in the drawing style when compared to the earlier strips.

[Bert · Rating 3 out of 5]

Started reading this webcomic in 2014. I like it and sometimes like it a lot, but some characters and story lines are... well, "a bit too much". I mean, the talking cactus who searches for his mustache that has run away, various extra-ordinary cats and kitties,...

[Sara · Rating 4 out of 5]

Danielle does a great job of establishing interesting relationships between her characters that really just make you want to keep on reading and laughing.