304 pages | Hardcover

Celebrate theempowering and inspiring women who helped create, shape, and make pop culture great, from the creator of SYFY WIRE’s FANGRRLS and the podcast “Forgotten Women of Genre”!

In every medium in popular culturefrom books,films, andvideo games tocomics, television, and animationwomen have been instrumental in creating and shaping the worlds, characters, and genres that we know and love. However, much of their hard work and innovationhasgone largely unrecognizeduntil now. With a foreword byAmerican Godsactress Yetide Badaki and essays exploring the history and transformation of pop culture’s genres and mediums,Pop Culture Pioneersexplores and pays respect to the women who played a crucial role in creating and influencing of some of the most famous worlds and characters in pop culture including:

• Directors & Producerslike Karyn Kusama (Aeon Flux, Jennifer’s Body), Denise Di Novi (co-producer ofBatman Returns,The Nightmare Before Christmas), and Jean MacCurdy (producer ofBatman: The Animated Series,Animaniacs)
• Writers & Editorslike Jeanette Khan (editor and publisher of DC Comics), Alice Bradley Sheldon (writing as James Tiptree Jr.), and Alison Bechdel (Fun Home)
• Animators & Artistslike Rebecca Sugar (Steven Universe), Noelle Stevenson (She-Ra and the Princesses of Power) and Brenda Chapman (animator and director ofBrave)
• As well asMarlene Clark (Blaxploitation actress), Roberta Williams (creator of the adventure game genre), Yvonne Blake (costume designer forSuperman), Bonnie Erickson (co-creator of Miss Piggy), and many more.