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…
News & Things: Woman writers, woman artists, woman gamers
It’s time once again to speak of news and other things. Today it’s all fine art, fine literature, fine video games, and lots of ladies. Kickstarter of the Week It’s time we talked about Ever, Jane: The Virtual World of Jane Austen. Simply put, it’s a Jane Austen MMORPG; as one commentator put it, The Sims online,…
Top 10: Hair. Ladies. Ladies’ Hair (Marvel)
Soon I will need to trim my hair, and so bouffants are on my mind. I don’t know about you, but eighty-five percent of my hairspiration comes from comics & comics’ surrounding suburbs. Right now I’m rocking a grown-out Major Kusanagi, f’rex. Two (three?) years ago I did the Rogue Fringe thing. Anyway there are a…
Friday Poll: The Mayor Toronto Deserves
In not so shocking news, the winner of last week’s Wonder Wouldn’t poll was Frank Miller. Out of our way, sperm bank! He’s the person you’d least like to see attached to a Wonder Woman movie in any way shape or form. And with good reason. Here’s Wonder Woman from Frank Miller’s carnival of horrors, All Star…
News & Things: Happy Halloween!
Welcome back to News & Things! Here’s our last spooktacular link roundup before the witching hour! Read on, and we’ll see you in November! Read of The Week The New Yorker is “Watching Sondheim Watch Fun Home,” and analyzes the musical based on Alison Bechdel’s renowned graphic novel: “Sondheim’s gut-wrenching ballads come to mind, from…
Tutorial: Hilarious Halloween Marvel Throwback Shirts
Way back when, I found the Bronze Age of Blogs: a blog about bronze age comics. It’s great. You can check it out in your own time. One of my favourite posts there, that I’ve come back to repeatedly, is this. An image-heavy post about Marvel’s old, ridiculous, perfect bubblegum stickers. I fell hard for them…
Interview with Hope Nicholson and Rachel Richey of the Nelvana of the Northern Lights Kickstarter
Hope Nicholson and Rachel Richey are mere hours away from seeing their Kickstarter campaign to reprint the Canadian WWII-era comics featuring Nelvana of the Northern Lights come to a close. One of the first female superheroes to hit comics, Nelvana was the creation of Canadian artist Adrian Dingle, with connections to Inuit culture and Group…
Top 10: Frightened Blonde Woman Horror Comics
The golden-haired young woman flees a dark, secluded castle on a foggy night. Her long white gown would make a Hammer Horror starlet proud, but no matter how far she runs, there’s a vampire, a werewolf, or a man-monster called–TABOO! right behind her. If you’re a fan of vintage horror comics, the kind with titles…
News & Things: He ran into my tentacles *blush*
Kickstarter of the Week This week I’ve got two horror comics anthologies to recommend. Both campaigns have reached their funding goals, but you still have time to pick up the books, and the rewards of your choice. In The Dark: So you might experience a brief moment of sticker shock. This anthology, edited by Rachel…
What’s Hot? October!
What’s Hot? Our monthly feature telling you what we’re into, outside of what you usually see us talking up. Rounded personalities? Yeah, we have’em. But it’s October! All of our contributors are on the autumn-winter spectrum! Nothing is hot! …Except soup, hot chocolate, and baked potatoes. We’re having a bit of a foodfest in this…