Promise you’ll come back? Go read this short comic from Kate Beaton on border guards and breaking up. And then come back. Oh hey. News Black Female Voices: bell hooks & Melissa Harris-Perry Melissa Harris-Perry and bell hooks sit down to discuss black feminism, then and now and going forward. Why Video Games Succeeded Where…
Short and Sweet (or Sour): The Frights Live On
Halloween may have come and gone but Women Write About Comics isn’t ready to let the season die (see what I did there?). Featuring tales to make you cringe and a second opinion of Pretty Deadly #1, welcome to the latest Short and Sweet (or Sour). Let’s dive in head first into the madness, shall we?…
Cute Girl Network blog tour: Rose the Roommate Tells It Like It Is
Picking up where my Cute Girl Network review left off, today we’re hearing from a character in the book–which is in shops today from First Second. Finally! There’s something of a blog tour going on from the creators behind CGN (I’d suggest you should click around a bit to find out where else they’ve been EDIT:…
Marvel on the Street Beat!
The world was all abuzz when news hit in 2009 that Disney, the Mouse that Walt built, bought Marvel Entertainment. Speculation was fast and furious that good things were on the horizon, and so far, speculation has been right. It’s been four years, and things have been percolating in the background and popping into the…
Stephanie O’Donnell interview
Stephanie O’Donnell is a long-established webcomic artist currently working with Greg Carter on Perfect Agent. You might know her work from the Original Nutty Funsters, or you may remember her post Part of the Problem on our own site a while back. Like many of our readers and featured interviewees, Stephanie is eager to demolish the…
Anne of Green Gables for Mayor! (But you can call her ‘Cordelia’)
The results to last Friday’s poll on who should replace Rob Ford (the infamous, lying, crack-smoking and friend to Etobicoke drug dealers, mayor of Toronto) are in!
I Am Captain Marvel
Captain Marvel #17 Marvel Kelly Sue DeConnick, Filipe Andrade, Jordie Bellaire In the spirit of full disclosure, I had sort of fallen off the Captain Marvel bandwagon in recent months. Not because it’s not a brilliant book, because Kelly Sue DeConnick writes the best damn Carol Danvers that I’ve ever read. Not because it’s not…
Look into the eyes of a skeleton: an analysis of frenums’ skeleton comics
I’m very sorry. In this post I’m going to be doing a lot of “explaining the joke.” I hope I don’t ruin it for you. I think humour can survive me. I want to talk to you about skeleton comics. Tumblr user and cartoonist frenums‘ bio starts like this: my name is alison i’m 16 And…
News & Things: MARVELous Edition
Welcome back to News & Things! We have a new Ms. Marvel! Luke Cage, Jessica Jones, and the Defenders are getting new live action shows! Thor and Loki’s bromance! And more! Read of the Week So what does a gal have to do to get into The Comics Journal anyway? Heidi MacDonald breaks it down….
Help Fund Fantagraphics’ 2014 Spring Season
Fantagraphics is looking to crowdfund its spring season books. The move is in response to a cash flow crunch that more and more book and comic book publishers are getting squeezed by. (Just look at book publishing, where venerable small houses are closing, merging, and holding fire sales for their backlists.) Publishers tend to run…
Steven Universe
The first female solo-created series in Cartoon Network’s 21-year history, Rebecca Sugar’s Steven Universe premieres with a lot of fanfare. Series openers “Gem Glow” and “Laser Light Cannon” drop us headfirst into Steven’s, um, universe, where the enthusiastic young boy protects Beach City alongside the mystical warriors known as the Crystal Gems—AKA Garnet, Amethyst, and…
Bonfire Night! Guy Fawkes Day. V for what?
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7exoXGUbIA&w=420&h=315] Yes! It’s Bonfire Night. Or “Guy Fawkes Day”. When we British, traditionally, make hideous effigies of a man long-dead. Then we burn them cruelly, atop large bonfires on local Primary School fields, while we stand around eating toffee apples and burning our mouths on horrible soup. There are fireworks. Ooh, aah! We don’t think…