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Plz Diversify Your Panels (and everything else, k?)
In the wake of BookCon’s scramble to offer a more diverse panel after internet backlash, a new movement has risen.
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June 26, 2014
Interview: Magical Intern Pretty Risa!
Magical Girls! We love them! Of course we do! And with a very senshi summer looming, this is the perfect time to look at some current magical girl output. What’s your favourite? What do you wish we would look at? Be it manga, OEL, webcomics or fantastic hardback printed-to-last graphic ...
My Week in Comics Events, Part 2: Party Time
Long before it hit the shops, everyone was talking about Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie’s new Image Comics series The Wicked + The Divine, about gods who incarnate into the bodies of teenagers and become pop stars for two years before dying. It’s mortality, youth, fame, glamour, and myth all ...
Wonder Woman Newspaper Comics Collected
A few years after Wonder Woman appeared on the comic scene she was featured in her very own newspaper strip. It ran from May 1 1943 until December 1 1944 and was written by William Moulton Marston, with art by Harry G Peters. And now for the first time ever those strips are available in a ...
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Stephen King and Women’s Words
Mr. Mercedes Stephen King Scribner Spoilers. Beware. Mr. Mercedes focuses on the consequences of ignoring what women have to say.
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The Thursday Book Beat: YA & Crime/Mystery Imprints Close Their Doors For Good
The YA and Crime/Mystery Imprints at Angry Robot Books Close Their Doors for Good Last week, we reported the demise of the two imprints from Angry Robot Books. It’s an unfortunate situation especially for the authors who have books cancelled as a result of this. Hopefully their stories ...
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741.5: Your Right To Deadpool
I could be standing behind the glass-front counter at my retail comic shop job, or behind the formica circulation desk the library where I serve as assistant manager, young adult services coordinator, and overseer of graphic novel collection development, but the parent will always be the same: ...
