Bagieu had planned to create a blog BD focused on thirty " audacious women " who decide to take charge of their own destiny for a long time , to be published on the official website of '' Le Monde '' . When she proposed the project to '' Le Monde '' in 2013 , the staff was very enthusiastic . When they asked Bagieu if she would really limit the project to thirty stories , Bagieu strengthened her resolve to put real work in the webcomic . Its launch was initially scheduled to coincide with the Angoulême International Comics Festival at the end of January 2016 , but '' Le Monde '' decided to advance the launch of '' Les Culottées '' by three weeks as a response to the public outcry over the all-male Grand Prix de la ville d'Angoulême nominations . Bagieu created '' Les Culottées '' so that organizations like Angoulême will " stop being able to pretend to believe that the women who have marked the history simply do not exist , " though noting that " there are unfortunately few women in the history of comics ... If you go to the Louvre , you will find quite few female artists . " A print volume of '' Les Culottées '' featuring fifteen vignettes was released in September 2016 , while a second such book was released in January 2017 . The second publication initially marked the end of the project . The French version had the subtitle '' Des Femmes Qui ne Font Que ce Qu’elles Veulent '' ( Women Who Do as They Please ) . The work was released In English in one graphic novel volume with the title '' Brazen : Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World '' . The English version has only 29 stories instead of the original 30 , as " Phoolan Devi , the Indian Queen of Bandits " was removed because it included the rape of a ten-year-old girl by her husband . '' Brazen '' has been translated into 11 languages , and each version is a little different due to local restrictions
Angoulême International Comics Festival
Angoulême International Comics Festival
Les Culottées