Jamie Broadnax has been blogging since 2007, and in February of 2012 created Black Girl Nerds, a site for blerds (black nerds) to find fellowship around many geek fandoms. BGN has a great mission statement: “This is a website for every nerdy girl that can finally come out of the closet and tell the world…
News & Things: Suburban Zombies
Kickstarter of the Week Instead of promoting a Kickstarter this week, I’m going to point you to a radio show that needs no kickstarting. CBC’s Q with Jian Ghomeshi featured an interview this week with Kickstarter co-founder Yancy Stickler. He talks about the meteoric growth of the site, the future of arts funding, and some…
Review: The Cute Girl Network
The Cute Girl Network First Second Books MK Reed and G. Means, Joe Flood The Cute Girl Network is not a title that clearly flags a target market. It could be for pre-teen girls. It could be for teen boys, maybe? It could be for teenage girls for sure, or less than respectful young adult…
Nipple Care Tips for Matt Fraction, and also Sex Criminals
Last Wednesday night I went to a sex club and watched Matt Fraction have his nipple pierced. He fainted. The heat, he says. The club was packed to the rafters with bodies, so I believe it. The piercing was in honour of his new ongoing series, Sex Criminals. With Fraction writing, and the notorious Chip…
Fall Reading
Fall is a good time for books that will destroy your everything. It’s not winter, when disaffection can stretch on into misery. Fall? There are pumpkins to carve, fallen leaves to jump into, and forget seasonal affective disorder–there’s still enough sun to keep you from the black pit of despair we call deep winter. I read a…
News & Things: Adventures Across the 8th Dimension
Welcome back to News & Things! Today we’re travelling across the 8th Dimension to find the next Jane Foster! Read below for more! Read of the Week The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension is The Dissolve’s Movie of the Week, with new articles discussing the film’s cult following, quotability, and the mythology…
Which Comic Are You Wearing?
Cosplay is great, but sometimes it’s intimidating. Where will I wear it? How will I make it? Can I afford it, for just one con/just for one Halloween? Will the character suit me? Will people be nasty jerks about my choices? And so on! It’s hard to be a fan. There are ways to cut…
SPX: These Are a Few of My Favorite Zines
Small Press Expo 2013 was held on Sep. 14-15. For a first-time attendee like moi, SPX was an amazing experience, an intense gathering of passionate creators and fans, and contained more comics than the human mind was ever made to comprehend. (Remember the Honest Ed’s scene in Scott Pilgrim and The Infinite Sadness? It was…
BOOM! Studios Artist Submission Page: A Progress Report
Since early June, BOOM! Studios has maintained a Facebook page allowing open artist submissions. Pencilers, colorists, and inkers have presented their work for the comic publisher and fans alike to evaluate. This certainly isn’t the first or only opportunity for creators to directly show their work to publishers; portfolio reviews at conventions have been a…
News & Things: Your week in awful (and I’m not talking about Forever 21)
News MTV Geek Closes Up Shop What does it meeeean? After AOL ditched Comics Alliance earlier this year, the news that MTV Geek is headed to the blog afterlife (there’s always Internet Archive!), surely has the paid geek-blogosphere wringing hands. Splashpage will remain in operation. Steven Soderbergh’s Twitter Novella Is Now a Hardcover Book (But…