Happy Ada Lovelace Day!

Today is Ada Lovelace Day 2012, a day dedicated to women in STEM fields, in honor of Ada Lovelace, the first computer programmer. Lovelace’s life, particularly her childhood and the clashes between her parents, would be a fitting origin for any modern Prometheus, and so I love looking at the way cartoonists have depicted it.

Above, of course, the Right Honourable the Countess of Lovelace’s first appearance in Kate Beaton‘s Hark! A Vagrant. It would not be her last.

But if you’re looking for something a little less long form (and a little less historically accurate) you might try The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage:

Enjoy the reading material, and make sure to check out Finding Ada.com.

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Susana Polo

Susana Polo thought she'd get her Creative Writing degree from Oberlin, work a crap job, and fake it until she made it into comics. Instead she stumbled into a great job: founding and running this very website (she's Editor at Large now, very fancy). She's spoken at events like Geek Girl Con, New York Comic Con, and Comic Book City Con, wants to get a Batwoman tattoo and write a graphic novel, and one of her canine teeth is in backwards.

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