Broken Frontier

Actress Betty White first gained fame as a regular on the Mary Tyler More
Show and The Golden Girls.

 But the actress, now 88, is enjoying one of the
strangest career rejuvenations ever. She brought down the house while guest
hosting Saturday Night Live and has become a popular pitchwoman on countless
TV commercials. She¹s even landed a new role in the TV series Hot in
Cleveland.
 
Now White will receive a new honor: She¹s slated to become the star of her
own comic book biography from Bluewater Productions.
 
Female Force: Betty White will hit comic book stores and online retailers
such as Amazon.com in November. The 32-page book will retail for $3.99.
 
Writer Patrick McCray, a veteran of the comics industry, traces White¹s
amazing showbiz career from her days providing voice talent for the radio
show Blondie to her return to sitcoms in Hot in Cleveland.
 
³Working on the Betty book was an honor and a blast,² McCray said. ³While
covering a new entertainer is always fun, there is something special about
profiling an icon. Not only did it allow me to savor nostalgia, it also let
me catch up on areas of pop culture that had passed me by.²
 
Todd Tennant is the artist on Female Force: Betty White. He, too, is a
veteran of the art world. Tennant is a professional illustrator with 31
years of experience. He  dove into the world of comics about 10 years ago.
He runs his own online King Kong vs. Godzilla comic series, and is the
co-creator of the graphic works King Komodo and Gigante.
 
Tennant, too, said that it was a thrill to work on bringing Betty White¹s
story to life.
 
³I remember seeing Betty White and her hubby Allen Ludden on reruns of the
original Password program after school as a kid, and grew very fond of them
even then,² Tennant said. ³Betty White as Sue Ann Nivens on the Mary Tyler
Moore show will always stand out as my strongest and fondest memory of her.
Needless to say, I was happy to be given the opportunity to attempt
illustrating Betty's fascinating personal life and her prolific career.²
 
Bluewater president and founder Darren G. Davis says the biography comics
are a way to bring new readers to comics. He added that fans of White¹s
might learn a bit more about the veteran actress by reading Female Force:
Betty White.
 
³Betty White has had such an amazing entertainment career,² Davis said.
³It¹s one that has now spanned more than 70 years. The biggest challenge
that the creative team behind this book faced was figuring out how to
include as much of this career as possible in one comic.²