You may have noticed that we like comics, art and animation here at BadRep Towers, so some of this week’s links were apparently made JUST FOR US:

• Firstly a great piece on Japan’s Studio Ghibli, and how they’ve had real, heroic female characters for years, making deep art while Disney are still playing catch-up. (Some of BadRep argue about whether ‘Princess Mononoke’ or ‘Spirited Away’ is the better film. Everyone loves Totoro, of course.)
• New webcomic Lady Sabre and the Pirates of the Ineffable Aether! It’s Lady Space Pirates. Seriously. They couldn’t have written anything more BadRep if they’d included flying space sharks (which they might still do, given the setting!) The comic has just launched, but really – how you can not love something when the poster looks like this?
• Artist Lauren Redniss has created a truly beautiful book on the life of the first woman to win the Nobel Prize (and then another Nobel Prize), Marie Curie. Not just that, but she’s developed each page using Cyanotype – the process for making blueprints. Amazing work of art on an equally amazing scientist!
• The trailer for Pixar’s next movie got us very excited, and Amanda over at TheMarySue agrees – she’s listed 20 reasons to be excited about “Brave”.