National Girls and Women in Sports Day Comic Recs

Today, let’s give it up for the ladies! Those bad ass, never give up, do or die ladies! 

We all have those kinds of ladies in our lives. The ones who inspire us to be even better especially if the odds are against us.

We can do it!

So in celebration of “National Girls and Women in Sports Day”, I will give my very biased favorite kick ass women in sports comic recs and in return, share your favorites by tagging us and using the hashtag #GirlsAndWomenInSportsDay. 

 

SLAM! 

Written by a retired member of the Los Angeles Derby Dolls who also happens to be one of the authors of the Disney movie Moana. 

Jennifer Chu and Maise Huff (aka Knockout and Ithinka Can on the track) have been best friends since their first day of Fresh Meat Orientation for the Eastside Roller Girls, but when they get drafted for two different teams they’ll have to figure out if the bond between them is stronger than the pull of a team when a win is on the line.

You get slammed on the track and slammed in life, and in both cases you have to take your hits and get back up again!

 

PLAY BALL

Most girls, when they get to a new school, just want to fit in. But Dashiell Brody isn’t like most girls. A natural at softball, Dashiell discovers her new school has a championship level baseball team—and Dashiell wants to play ball! One girl’s quest to play the national pastime with the boys will turn her family, her school, and her state upside down!

 

SPINNING

Tillie Walden’s Eisner Award winning graphic memoir Spinning captures what it’s like to come of age, come out, and come to terms with leaving behind everything you used to know.

It was the same every morning. Wake up, grab the ice skates, and head to the rink while the world was still dark. Weekends were spent in glitter and tights at competitions. Perform. Smile. And do it again. She was good. She won. And she hated it. For ten years, figure skating was Tillie Walden’s life. She woke before dawn for morning lessons, went straight to group practice after school, and spent weekends competing at ice rinks across the state. Skating was a central piece of her identity, her safe haven from the stress of school, bullies, and family. But as she switched schools, got into art, and fell in love with her first girlfriend, she began to question how the close-minded world of figure skating fit in with the rest of her life, and whether all the work was worth it given the reality: that she, and her friends on the team, were nowhere close to Olympic hopefuls. The more Tillie thought about it, the more Tillie realized she’d outgrown her passion―and she finally needed to find her own voice.

 

A MAP TO THE SUN

One summer day, Ren meets Luna at a beachside basketball court and a friendship is born. But when Luna moves to back to Oahu, Ren’s messages to her friend go unanswered. Years go by. Then Luna returns, hoping to rekindle their friendship. Ren is hesitant. She’s dealing with a lot, including family troubles, dropping grades, and the newly formed women’s basketball team at their high school. With Ren’s new friends and Luna all on the basketball team, the lines between their lives on and off the court begin to blur. During their first season, this diverse and endearing group of teens are challenged in ways that make them reevaluate just who and how they trust. Sloane Leong’s evocative storytelling about the lives of these young women is an ode to the dynamic nature of friendship.

Wow… I’m getting pretty pumped, how about you? If you want to help support women in sports, check out the Women’s Sports Foundation. What comics were your favorites? Do you have any to add? What women in sports would you like to mention? Let us know in the comments and we will catch you next week, same Nerd-Time, same Nerd-Channel.

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