Double standards are not a big surprise in the comics industry. Less than 15% of the workers in the Big Two are female[1], but things get worse: when they do get a job, women earn less than men for doing the same job[2] and have to deal with harassment. And writers get more recognition than…
News & Things: Welcome to 2014!
News P. Craig Russell on Murder Mysteries Interview with Russell about the new edition of Murder Mysteries, his collaboration with Neil Gaiman about the murder of an angel in heaven. Fantagraphics to Publish Massive: Gay Erotic Manga and the Men Who Make It Anne Ishii and Graham Kolbeins talk about their upcoming anthology and Japan’s gay manga…
Shiapologyscape 2014
Yesterday, noted plagiarist Shia Labeouf hired a skywriting company to publicly apologize to noted nonplagiarist Daniel Clowes. It was a bold move from this shameless copier–the only question is, who did he steal it from? (No, his sincerity is not in question. We know he’s not sincere.) Because we can’t answer that definitively, we put together…
