What’s hot? Well listen– You might have picked up the hints, reader, but let me confirm – we, your contributing team, are women! Women writing about comics. We share this shocking fact in the hope that publicly being Real Nerd Girls might help you/us/everybody forget anybody was ever surprised that people could like things that…
News & Things: The Supreme Excitement of Our Time
Welcome back to News & Things! This week we’re back from Small Press Expo, have new Marvel Studios rumors, and our countdown to Halloween continues! Read of the Week Comics Alliance interviews Congressman John Lewis and Andrew Aydin about March, the autobiographical graphic novel about the Civil Rights Movement: “Each time I pick up the…
WWACRadio podcast: garage band comics with Suzy X!
WWACRadio podcast! Host Claire talks to Rookie mag cartoonist SUZY X about the Best Song Ever.
0 Shades of Grey: Female Antiheroes on TV
According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, an antihero is “a protagonist or notable figure who is conspicuously lacking in heroic qualities.” Urban Dictionary takes this definition one step further, claiming that an antihero is “a flawed hero, and therfore (sic), much more intresting (sic) then (sic) the more traditional heros (sic).” Don’t worry. You haven’t stumbled…
News & Things: Spirits
Welcome to News & Things! Hope you’re having a lucky Friday the 13th. Today we have J.K. Rowling, The Walking Dead, the return of Korra, and more! Read of the Week Stop It, Show! examines the gender disparity in British and American television writing staffs. News J.K. Rowling & Warner Bros. Plan New Harry Potter-Inspired Films…
Review: Battle of the Atom #1 & All-New X-Men #16
Battle of the Atom #1 & All-New X-Men #16 Marvel Comics Brian Michael Bendis Frank Cho & Stuart Immonen In 1980’s “Days of Future Past,” Kate Pryde travels through time to change the events that lead to her dark, Sentinel-overrun dystopian future. The year of that dystopian future? 2013. Now that 2013 is actually here—and…
Interview with Joan Reilly
Joan Reilly is a fantastically talented artist and half of the amazing team that put together an anthology discussing feminism in, and through, comics. The Big Feminist BUT: Comics About Women, Men and the IFs, ANDs & BUTs of Feminism came out July 8th and is available online. Her work has appeared in Studs Terkel’s…
News & Things: Lawyers, accountants, executives… comics.
Kickstarter of the Week Small press publisher Yeti Press has launched a Kickstarter to their operations over the next year. That may sound like it’s skirting the Kickstarter rules that Penny Arcade (almost) ran afoul of, but it doesn’t quite. The Kickstarter is aimed at taking their business to the next level, rather than funding…
Love, Marriage, and its Place in Comics
I love comic books but sometimes the industry makes me want to cry. I’m sure you’ve heard the news but, if not, read it and weep with me (note: J.H. Williams III blogged about it on his site but due to high traffic, the site is down as of this writing). There are a number…
All Star Lois Lane: Superman, icons, personhood and love
A look at All Star Superman, Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, and Clark’s current date calendar
News & Things: Lost at Sea
Welcome back to News & Things! Today we have news on Batwoman, Beatles, Bryan Lee O’Malley, and the other 25 letters of the alphabet.
News & Things: Halloween prep starts now?
Welcome to the first Tuesday edition of News & Things! Yup. More news. More things. More comics.