Invisible Girl, Heroine: Chapter One, Page Fourteen

Oh, now what was in that punch?

Sigma party goers get all hot and bothered.

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More props to those of you who can look at the companion illustration and get the classical music reference (no fair cheating by looking at the attribution link).

Image found here.

Invisible Girl, Heroine: Chapter One, Page Thirteen

Meanwhile, a few miles a vast social distance away, a lovely party continues.

Arthur Kaufman plays jazz, spikes punch.

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Serious American popular music props to any of you who can figure out what young Arthur Kaufmann is playing here from the in-panel score snippets. Here is just one hint:

Image source Harvest Heart.

Invisible Girl, Heroine: Chapter One, Page Twelve

Warden Ridgeway’s shock and awe tactics work, even on this hardened younger offender.

Warden Ridgeway breaks a tough girl with a shocking demonstration

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The women-in-prison genre is often thought to have begun in the 1960s, although there are much earlier examples. This one, Caged, dates all the way back to 1950. The exploitation was always there, even back in “innocent” eras.

Source Dudes Macdougal.

Invisible Girl, Heroine: Chapter One, Page Eleven

A demonstration for the newbies.

New inmates learn the price of misconduct.

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We are drawing here on a long, if not exactly grand, cinematic tradition, the Women-in-Prison film.

Poster source Cinematic Wasteland

Invisible Girl, Heroine: Chapter One, Page Ten

Induction into the State Home for Wayward Girls is a harsh experience for these six.

The scary induction into the State Home for Wayward Girls.

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I’m pleased to note that “Wayward Girl” is a concept with an artistic heritage.

Old poster found at Coitus & Carnage.

Invisible Girl, Heroine: Chapter One, Page Nine

Meanwhile, a lovely party is beginning.

A lovely formal party is beginning at the Sigma Epsilon Chi house.

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The Sigma house also has a model. I’m not sure whether it’s kudos or shame to recognize it, but here it is.

Image source is Wikipedia.

Invisible Girl, Heroine: Chapter One, Page Eight

A glum delivery is being made to the State Home for Wayward Girls.

Six wayward girls delivered to the State Home

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This part of the State Home for Wayward Girls has a grim real-life model.

Architecture kudos to anyone who recognizes it (without peaking at the image title!).

Invisible Girl, Heroine: Chapter One, Page Seven

After a few glitches, Maureen gets her machine to work.

Maureen gets her invisibility machine to work.

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Invisibility achieved! Maureen joins the great tradition now under her own power.

Animation found at the tumblr Mothic Flights and Flutterings.

Invisible Girl, Heroine: Chapter One, Page Six

Maureen is hard at work on a science project. I don’t think it’s her honors thesis.

Maureen suffers an unconstrained failure working on a machine.

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Panel Two here has a source in a trope which is drawn on here because (1) I’m sort of immature and (2) Lon draws what I write in the scripts. The trope, ladies and gentlemen and others:

Found at the blog Weiß Aus Deutschland.

Invisible Girl, Heroine: Chapter One, Page Five

Heading out into the country beyond town, receiving more instructions.

Ulrich drives out of Pleasant Prairie and receives more instructions.

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Colonel Madder seems to have a shrewd view of the view that Emil Strangeways likely takes of himself.

Found at the tumblr Peter Zeelock 2012.