The husband and wife creative team of Paul Tobin and Colleen Coover are getting ready to publish “The House of the Green Mask”, the third volume of their effervescent creation, that Audrey Hepburn of master thieves, “Bandette”. The series won two Eisner awards for best digital comics series in 2013 and this year. Bandette is a pert, teen-aged thief living a barely-closeted life of crime. She steals to delight herself, leaping across the rooftops of the city to tweak the noses and egos of the real bad guys.
Bandette’s setting is identifiably French — a Paris of the imagination— but it’s time period is deliberately fluid. We talk with Tobin and Coover about the pleasures of fleshing out the world around a different kind of action heroine.