Welcome back for another edition of Mighty Marvel Monday! It’s a short and sweet link dump this week. Our largely positive review of Secret Wars: Secret Love #1 can be found here. Marvel took away two Hugos this weekend, one for Guardians of the Galaxy as Best Dramatic Presentation – Long, and one for G….
Organization, Freelancing, & Myths about Artists
When you tell the world—your parents, teachers, and friends—that you want to be an artist, they tell you that you will starve. They also don’t expect you to be good at organization. Creative means messy, moody, flaky. It means charcoal smudges on your sandwich because you’re choking it down quick to get back to that…
We’re Sick of This Beauty: All the Women in These Comics Have the Same Face
We all know the common problem with female bodies in comics: oversexualized, unrealistic, packed in tight suits, bent at unnatural angles and looking seductive even in the midst of a battle.
MAN PLUS: A Conversation/Review
MAN PLUS Titan Comics, July 8th André Lima Araújo, Arisa Rozegar, Luis Guerrero, Tom Williams Ghost in the Shell lifers J. A. Micheline and Claire Napier (that’s me!) discuss what was the first issue, but has since become just a section of Titan’s ongoing web release, of André Lima Araújo’s passion project Man Plus. Do they like it?…