The Pubcast - Interviews With Online Publishing Professionals

Molly Ostertag and Brennan Lee Mulligan are the artist and writer of Strong Female Protagonist, a webcomic that follows the adventures of a young middle-class American with super-strength, invincibility, and a crippling sense of social injustice. Dubbed by io9 one of the best webcomics of 2012, Strong Female Protagonist recently held a successful Kickstarter, achieving 762% of the requested funding needed to turn the webcomic into a trade paperback, which has since earned a distribution deal with Top Shelf. In this interview, Mulligan and Ostertag share their secret origin, how they use the superhero genre to address social issues, why they turned to Kickstarter to fund a dead tree edition of SFP, and how they're reclaiming the term "social justice warrior". This interview was recorded on November 7, 2014.