Fairy tales, mythology, and nursery rhymes have unstoppable longevity. The stories are ancient and they never die, they simply change with the times. Nursery Rhyme Comics furthers this evolution by revamping the images that accompany the rhymes.Most rhymes are so old that we can only guess what their origins were. Common beliefs about the real…
Get Your Game On Wednesday
6th graders win start-up game event with a game that teaches coding Need some inspiration today? These two girls have been coding for two years and decided to make this game because they found a lack of games to teach coding to middle schoolers. The Gaming in Color documentary is now available The feature length…
Alan Grant On His New Black Hearted Press Book, with John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra
Exciting news out of Glasgow, where independent comics publisher Black Hearted Press has announced an upcoming comic by creators John Wagner, Alan Grant, and Carlos Ezquerra. The first official details will be released at this year’s Glasgow Comic Con in July, and the comic is scheduled for publication in July 2015. I was lucky enough…
Academic Secret Identities: Being She-Hulk or Batgirl
Elizabeth Coody is back with her second guest post for Comics Academe! Pitching and drafting this before the Goyer commentary made waves, Elizabeth’s looking at She-Hulk from the perspective that makes most sense to her. Find Elizabeth’s previous Comics Academe entry Christianity, Comics, and the Classroom here, and enjoy the applied fandom below!
The Making of ‘She Makes Comics’
With several months to go until its estimated January 2015 delivery date, production for the documentary She Makes Comics is well underway, and director Marisa Stotter has spent the last little while staring at hours of raw footage. After rounds of interviews at the recent Emerald City Comic Con and with the San Diego Comic…
Kids Comic Award Nominees
The Second Annual Kids Comic Awards will take place at this year’s Kid’s Read Comics! in Ann Arbor, Michigan on June 21st. It’s exciting to see some of the nominees on the list (hello Fairy Tale Comics, The Big Wet Balloon, and Gronk). What are everyone’s thoughts on the nominees? Were any great kid’s comics…
Spring Reading 2014
Wonderful Wizard of Oz Eric Shanower and Skottie Young Marvel Comics After a long, cold winter filled with grey skies (like the grey plains of Kansas), nothing feels better than a road trip in warm weather. Dorothy and her friends have the ultimate on-the-road adventure in the land of Oz, and anyone is invited to…
#YesAllWomen including geeks
This weekend’s response to Elliot Rodger’s killing spree has been a strong and controversial online testimony to the how “yes, all women” have been harassed or made to feel unsafe by men around us. The Twitter #YesAllWomen hashtag has been opening up conversations in light of a tragedy perpetrated by someone who killed six people…
Mighty Marvel Monday: Questionable Directorial Choices
Let’s bask in the glory of today’s alliteration: Memorial Day Mighty Marvel Monday! Hope everyone (in the US) is enjoying a day off. Unless, of course, you’ve been waiting with baited breath for me to round up this week’s Marvel-exclusive news for you: Marvel Cleans House on Directors Marvel fans let out a collective chorus…
Pole Dancing Adventures’ author talks about sexuality, prejudice and comics
Pole Dancing Adventures is a webcomic by Leen Isabel. It is a fun and light read that shares some straight-from-life situations related to pole dance. The updates are generally one or two panels, and vary from instructional, to motivational to comical. You can see that Leen is in love with her art. This makes the…
Archery! Comics! Shooting Lines: Amy’s Answers
Amy Kennebec responded to my request for personal stories about how a love of archery’s been supported by genre pop culture. How does her path compare to yours? Thanks Amy! I got into the archery “concept” ages ago. When I was a kid, caught up in the idea of medieval weapons; the fact a longbow…
The Berenstain Bears: Feminist or Anti Feminist?
The Berenstain Bear books bring up all sorts of warm memories. Those bears live the life I wish I had (treehouses and honeycomb, anyone?). The stories may be past their glory days but there are no other books with the same look or feel. The illustrations were how our house seemed to me when I…