Game Chef , an open contest for game design based on the concept of competitive cooking shows, opened on Friday and goes until June 21st. This year’s theme is “A Different Audience” and the ingredients are “Abandon, Dragonfly, Stillness, and Dream.” Anyone can submit a game to Game Chef as long as it incorporates the…
Accolades and Imprisonment for Cartoonists in Iran
Political cartoons can be subversive, pointing out weaknesses in government organizations and leadership. Iran is a country with an especially deep cultural history of political cartooning. It’s so integral there that the municipality of Tehran even sponsors the House of Cartoon, which hosts exhibits and education in cartooning, hoping for cross-cultural events which mix Iranian cartoonists’ work…
Mighty Marvel Monday!
Welcome to another Mighty Marvel Monday! Today is a very important day for me, because it’s Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Finals, and my team, the Chicago Blackhawks, have a chance to win the cup while playing at home in Chicago for the first time since 1938. It’s a big day. Chicago is special,…
Freaky Vegan Daughter: Summer Squash Noodle Salad with Roasted Chickpeas and Dijon Balsamic Dressing
Freaky Vegan Daughter is a blog I have been running off and on over the past year. Shortly after I started the blog, I decided to move from porch sittin’, breeze blow, sweet tea sippin’ Texas to the windy, unnaturally cold, freeze your eyelashes shut city of Chicago. In that year, a hell of a…
Tiny Heads and Old Lady Sass: The League of Regrettable Superheroes
The League of Regrettable Superheroes: Half-Baked Heroes From Comic Book History Jon Morris Quirk Books June 2, 2015 The League of Regrettable Superheroes is, if you’ll forgive the joke – and there’s no reason why you should – definitely not a regrettable read.
Review: Red Sonja #16
Red Sonja #16 Gail Simone (scripter), Walter Geovanni (illustrator), Adriano Lucas, Alex Guimaraes, & Marco Lesko (colorers), Simon Bowland (letterer) Dynamite May 27, 2015 In issue #15, Red Sonja suffered under illness while others fought and battled for her. In this issue, our redheaded heroine finally faces her biggest foe to date. (Note: This review contains…