FLYING GLORY AND THE HOUNDS OF GLORY Co-Writer Shannon Muir on being part of WEBCOMICS: WHAT'S COOKING?

Shannon Muir has felt touched by the issues surrounding the hungry and the homeless going back to her teenage years.

"The first time it really hit home for me was doing a Girl Scout canned food drive in an era where you still knocked door to door. My sister and I knocked on a door and encountered a woman with several young children and it was clear she didn't have much at all. We tried everything we could think of to apologize and go, but she insisted on coming back with this giant black and white labeled can of peaches. I've never forgotten that day."

Over the years that followed, hungry and homeless themes would show up as themes in her poetry and stories, including the webcomic FLYING GLORY AND THE HOUNDS OF GLORY; one of the members of the band/superhero team, guitarist Lucy Alvarez, lived out of a car on the streets with her father as part of her character background.

"Lucy's time on the streets in downtown Los Angeles - where I myself lived for my first thirteen years in the area - makes her very sensitive to people hurting and in trouble. This bonds her very quickly to one of the perfomers chosen as part of their stage show villain counterparts and her young child, who struggle to get by from job to job before meeting Flying Glory and her friends. Their addition to the Villains of Vengeance team further opens the mind of everyone around them, including Flying Glory. Since this spirit always exists naturally in the webcomic, when we got the offer to be a part of WEBCOMICS: WHAT'S COOKING?, it just seemed a natural thing to be a part of."

WEBCOMICS: WHAT'S COOKING? is a cookbook featuring art from a variety of webcomic artists along with a variety of recipes. Proceeds from this book are going to Feeding America (formerly America's Second Harvest) and Food Banks of Canada. The book is a project of TGT Media.

To find out the full recipe for what was made, and to obtain exclusive FLYING GLORY AND THE HOUNDS OF GLORY comic content, pre-order your copy of WEBCOMICS: WHAT'S COOKING? at http://tgtmedia.com/preorder. If you're not looking to order a cookbook but want to support webcomics creators, they are also looking for funding to cover fifty percent of the first 2000 copies printed from creative project funding platform Kickstarter at http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tr1studios/webcomics-whats-cooking.

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KEVIN PAUL SHAW BRODEN is four names of creativity you need to remember. He is an animation and comic book writer, having spent more then 15 years in and around comics and animation. Kevin got his break into the comic book art side of things working as an art assistant, and you can see his special credit inside Image Comics' SUPREME #1. Also, through the California State University Summer Arts Program, he storyboarded the music videos for "Summer Single" by John Wesley Harding (Warner Bros.), "One" by BiGod20 (Warner Bros.), and "Beestung" by Kristin Hersch (Warner Bros.).


SHANNON MUIR is an author of animation scripts, fiction, poetry, and non-fiction books about the animation industry. She's also worked in the animation field in a production capacity for several major companies.


FLYING GLORY AND THE HOUNDS OF GLORY is a webcomic, with a new black and white page generally released weekly, that follows a story of a teenager named Debra Clay and her friends as they struggle with their newfound celebrity as musicians and superheroes when they discover Debra inherited her grandmother's powers. The webcomic will celebrate its tenth anniversary in the summer of 2011.