“Welcome to New York!” went up the cry from the docks, and I gratefully returned my feet to terra firma after a choppy week-long Atlantic crossing aboard the R.M.S. Olympic; unknowing that, within a few days, I should be plunged into one of my very strangest adventures. In clearing customs, I enjoyed the novelty of …
Suffrajitsu: A Graphic Novel Celebrating The Fighting Spirit Of The Suffragettes (Konbini)
Journalist Kate Lismore of Konbini recently interviewed Tony Wolf on the inspirations and process behind the Suffrajitsu graphic novel trilogy: Kate Lismore: What inspired you about the Suffragettes to create your comic/graphic novel? Tony Wolf: I’d been fascinated by the real-life history of Mrs. Pankhurst’s Amazons for many years, so when Neal Stephenson and Mark Teppo …
Suffrajitsu goes (semi-)viral
Thanks to the recent BBC News article about the radical suffragettes’ use of the martial arts, which featured Tony Wolf’s Suffrajitsu graphic novel trilogy, popular awareness of the suffragette Amazons has reached an all-time high. The article and subsequent BBC World Service radio interview with Tony have generated over 15,000 tweets and Facebook posts over the past …
Protected: Suffrajitsu image archive
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Helena Bonham Carter on “Suffragette”, Edith Garrud and Jiujitsu
Along with rave reviews for the recent world premiere of Sarah Gavron’s Suffragette feature film comes the surprising news that Helena Bonham Carter’s character was actually named in honor of real-life suffragette jiujitsu instructor Edith Garrud. Edith Garrud makes cameo appearances in the Suffrajitsu graphic novel trilogy and is a supporting character in several of …
More Amazon adventures await via Kindle Worlds
Readers who have enjoyed the Suffrajitsu graphic novel trilogy take note; more Amazon adventures await via Kindle Worlds! Kindle Worlds is an innovative platform that allows licensed “fan fiction” and author collaborations set in various fictional worlds. Via this platform, authors are able to create and publish their own stories inspired by the adventures of Mrs. Pankhurst’s …
“If a Bold Bad Man Attacks You, Jiu-jitsu Him!”
A selection of classic jiujitsu “tricks” as women’s self-defence in this photo-feature from the Chicago Tribune of June 20, 1915.
Suffrajitsu – now in print!
The Suffrajitsu trilogy is now available in Blood and Honor, a printed collector’s edition from Jet City Comics. This new print anthology also features two other Foreworld Saga trilogies; The Dead God and Symposium. Inspired by the adventures of the real-life suffragette Bodyguard unit circa 1914, Suffrajitsu: Mrs. Pankhurst’s Amazons was written by Tony Wolf. …
Suffragette trailer
The stirring new trailer for Suffragette, the upcoming feature film (releasing in October, 2015) starring Carey Mulligan, Helena Bonham Carter and Meryl Streep. The story is set during the height of the women’s suffrage protests and a little bird tells us that it will include representatives of Mrs. Pankhurst’s martial arts-trained bodyguard team …
“Blood and Honor: The Foreworld Saga Graphic Novels” cover
Releasing on May 27 via the Kindle and also in a printed collector’s edition, Blood and Honor is a compilation of all three Suffrajitsu stories together with Symposium and The Dead God. Click here to pre-order!