One of O Magazine's Best Books of Fall 2020 One of Comics Beat's Most Anticipated Graphic
Novels for Fall 2020Writing as if in a fever dream iconic New Yorker cartoonist Marisa
Acocella channels God the Mother and all of the goddesses saints and sinners and real-life
women from our storied past in this epic retelling that begins with the Big She-Bang. The rest
as they say is herstory.Hilarious profound and (at times) profane The Big She-Bang is
virtuosic storytelling in which the rules are bent back to where they should have started in
the first place. It is abundantly clear that the past has been recorded in big books written by
a bunch of men about a bunch of men. Now Acocella challenges our understanding of humanity's
past with her own Big Book.Narrated by God the Mother The Big She-Bang celebrates the
Shevolutionaries: a goddess roster that includes Eve the Marys (Virgin Mother and Magdalene)
Persephone Sophia Isis Pope Joan the Suffragettes Gloria Steinem Tarana Burke Malala
and more. By Klieg-lighting the ways women have been erased vilified and dominated across
eons-blamed for original sin destruction betrayal witchery and other assorted (and false)
evils and ills-Acocella sets the story straight from the beginning of time to the present day.
Not to be exclusionary this new herstory features cameos from Yaldabaoth Zeus Noah and the
Rapacious Phalluses on the rampage. In the end what hangs in the balance is nothing less than
the future of humanity and Mother Earth herself.
