"Involuntary English emigrés, Carol Wood and Susan Butcher both found their families moving from Old Blighty to perhaps the most isolated metropolis in the world - Perth. Raised on a steady diet of comics, children's books, novelty songs and trash culture, the two penned comics separately as they coped with life's travails: in particular, Christian zealots, Western Australian Bluenoses and the Department of Social Services.
A chance meeting resulted in the tricky twosome teaming to plot a new effort. The result? The most culturally literate comixzine in ages. (And the rumors that surround them of rampant drug use, debauched sexual practices and strange cults are wholly unwarranted and without any basis in fact.)
Pox would have set Perth's comics scene on edge if it actually had much of one. But the Pox Girls were happy to settle for kind words from Dan Clowes, Chris Ware, and glowing writeups in Comics Edge, Comics Quarterly, Submedia Magazine and The Comics Journal.
Our Pop Paragons cleverly disguised how the whole operation was so simply done. By utilizing one photocopier, multiple toner colors, copious amounts of effort, and their social security benefits, they produced a polished presentation complete with color covers, interior inserts, and a host of other bells and whistles.
