Talk:Angry Little Girls

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The following references may be useful when improving this article in the future:

Bishop, Lauren. "Angry Girl bags carry an attitude." Cincinnati Enquirer. Thursday October 21, 2004. (dead link)
NBC: Who's the Angriest Asian? Trademark Feud Leaves Community Torn
On Lela Lee - another person reports receiving a trademark challenge

When did the comic strip start?

Sources appear to give inconsistent accounts as to when the comic strip was first published. In the table below I've summarised all the sources in the document that talk about the first release dates of the animation and the comic strip.

Based on what I've read, I think work started on an animation in 1994, it was finished at some unknown time, it was most likely first screened in 1998, and the comic strip was probably first published in 2000. However, it's not certain.

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Source	Text	First release animation	First release comic strip
Washington Post 2015	"After her comic debuted in 1998 as a short film similar to “South Park,” Lee began selling merchandise"	1998	?
Seattle Times 2003	"She drew her own animations that night [after the Festival] with Crayola markers and used video-editing equipment at school to complete her first episode. The video became a comic strip six years later, in 2000."	Created 1994 but shown (?)	2000
PBS 2003	"Launched in 1996, the short films struck a massive cultural nerve..." "Today, the initial short films have expanded to a web comic series called "Angry Little Girls,"	1996	???
LA Weekly 2005	"Born in the winter of a college student’s discontent — UC Berkeley, circa 1994 — she is the brainchild of Lela Lee..." "...That night I got out my typewriting paper and Crayola crayons and drew her. I stuck her in a drawer for four years. Eventually, I turned it into a little video..." "...a collection of her “Angry Little Girls” comic strip, which has slowly but steadily been amassing a following since it appeared in its original online weekly format in the late ’90s."	1998?	"late 90s"
Washington Post 2001	"When she was a sophomore at Berkeley, she went to [the Festival]... Out came the Magic Marker. She quickly drew a girl in a red dress. Add a video camera, and a potty-mouthed sweetheart was born. But then Lee hid the tape... When she brought it out on a whim four years later to show some friends, their response shocked her... From her only animated video, "Angry Little Asian Girl," Lee started drawing the strip and launched www.angrylittleasiangirl.com in 1998."	1998?	1998?
Seattle Time 2004	"Lee created the comic in 2000 as a response to the idea that little girls should always be quiet, obedient and sweet."	???	2000
LA Times 2013	"After college, all of it — the strive-for-success home life, the back-and-forth with her mother — got poured into new cartoons. When she finished, Lee transferred the Magic Marker illustrations onto butcher paper, pinned it on corkboard and showed the work to a cinematographer. They joined forces, polished and screened "Angry Little Asian Girl, 5 Angry Episodes," at an American Cinema Tech event in 1998." "But taking what had made for a good T-shirt and a comic strip with a following proved to be a tough sell with executives."	1998	???
Link 1998	(describes public showing of four episodes of animation)	<=1998	???

HenryCrun15 (talk) 23:55, 28 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Reranking as C-class

As this article "cites more than one reliable source and is better developed in style, structure, and quality than Start-Class", it makes C-class. However, it lacks information especially on more recent events, such as the publication of books after the first, the resolution of the trademark dispute, and more recent reviews or information on its current popularity. HenryCrun15 (talk) 01:04, 29 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Your recent edits here are very impressive. I'm not sure how well the structure of the History section is working out right now. I'd put the info on its 2003 and 2005 followership before the trademark dispute, for example. Finding recent sources is indeed quite difficult as the webcomic doesn't seem to have a particular large presence anymore, though the 2015 Washington Post quote about its waning influence is really excellent. ~Maplestrip/Mable (chat) 12:34, 30 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]