girls with slingshots

Danielle Corsetto

Danielle created her first comic strip when she was 8 years old, starting with a blatant rip-off of Garfield called Fat Cat.

She went on to create the world of Max and Jazz (a comic about the dogs in her neighborhood) in elementary school, Rae in middle school, Fried Pudding in high school and finally Hazelnuts, the precursor to Girls With Slingshots (unbeknownst to Danielle at the time), just before she left for college.

In college she did a strip called Larry and Caroline for the Hagerstown Herald-Mail Newspaper's kids section, and started Hazelnuts again. Both strips were done in ink and watercolor, and Hazelnuts became her first webcomic in 2000, featured with such creators as Scott McCloud, Steve Conley, and Steve Ince at www.thecomicreader.com.

Ramblers, an autobio comic about Danielle and her slacker super-senior college friends, appeared in her college newspaper The Picket (as well as popimage.com) for the last few years of her college career.

Finally, in October of 2004, she began Girls With Slingshots.

Danielle now does GWS five times a week and strives to keep the comic subscription- and micropayment-free, paying for the domain & workload with donations and merchandise sales. She's been a self-employed freelance cartoonist and illustrator since March 2005, and doesn't plan on wearing a nametag/khakis/uniform ever again.

In addition to GWS, Danielle writes and draws The New Adventures of Bat Boy for the Weekly World News, taking the reins from Bat Boy's kind & talented former creator Peter Bagge. She's done various little jobs in comics, and plans to expand to the wide wide world of graphic novels in the near future.

portfolio site (TOTALLY under construction!): www.daniellecorsetto.com