Monday again, Marvel again!
Webcomic Profile: Kylie of TransGirlNextDoor
There are a few webcomics I follow religiously — Kylie’s TransGirlNextDoor is one of them. Started in November of 2013, the comic depicts everyday life as a trans woman. Her art is hilarious and colorful and brings joy to my life, and only leave me wishing there were more comics about being trans. Kylie works as a…
Dear NYCC ’14
Dear NYCC ’14, I’ll admit it. I was the girl looking through my fingers, cringing to my soul at the “I LOVE BIG CANS” banners of you previous incarnation. I wasn’t angry then, just… embarrassed for you. You were the guy in that teen movie, selling out your real friends to look cool for the…
Reel Geek Girl: Big Hero 6
Big Hero 6 (2014) Written by Don Hall & Jordan Roberts Directed by Don Hall & Chris Williams Starring Scott Adsit, Ryan Potter, T.J. Miller Walt Disney Studios/Marvel Entertainment PG, 108 minutes Disney and Marvel teamed up to bring Big Hero 6 to the screen. It is the first joint venture for the two companies…
Reading Diaries: Legends, Betrayal, and Revenge
Welcome back to WWAC’s Reading Diaries, an informal chat about the books we’ve been loving — and not loving — in the past month. Sarah: I’m currently reading Hamlet’s Hit Points by Robin D. Laws. It’s a book on breaking story beats down in order to be better at role-playing and telling stories in general….
Cast Update: World of Warcraft Movie Cast to Include Two Women
During Blizzcon this past weekend, the Warcraft movie panel announced the cast for the upcoming film adaption of World of Warcraft and it includes two fabulous female actors! The panel was hosted by the Nerdist’s Chris Harwick and featured the film’s director, Duncan Jones, Christ Metsen (Blizzard Senior VP of Story and Franchise Development) and Bill Westenhofer…
Multifarious: But the art of it
The rise of curation in popular culture Has the curator supplanted the creator in popular imagination? The Globe and Mail examines the rise of curation as a profession and an art form. The curator’s job has been, among other things, to find the through line. She provides a practical function, telling us who to trust…
R/W: Doing it Better
How to write? How to edit? How to history? This week’s literary links go instructive. Wonder Woman: The Weird True Story Sarah Kerr reviews two of the laterst Wonder Woman books in conversation with each other: The Secret History of Wonder Woman from Jill Lepore, and Wonder Woman Unbound by Tim Hanley. Wonder Woman was one…
Selling Comics
The Comics Journal published “Letter to a Young Cartoonist“. James Sturm, co-founder of the Center for Cartoon Studies, published this comic at Medium’s The Nib. The conversation got going in earnest: blah blah blah comics money audience… authenticity? Spike Trotman’s thoughts on twitter (excerpts below) and Brandon Graham’s redraw of Sturm’s strip are some notable current-pro responses. The…
Kickstarter of the Week: Flame Con
The folks at Geeks OUT think the Northeast needs a con that helps bring the LGTBQ community, people of every size, gender identity and expression, age, color and type, together to get geeky, expressing what makes each of us different, special, and awesome.
Ghost Then and Now: The Reporter is Dead, Long Live the Superheroine
The Dark Horse Comics/Team CGW character Ghost, also known as Elisa Cameron, made her debut in Comics’ Greatest World in 1993. She reappeared in a special in 1994 that developed into a series in 1995. It ran for thirty-six issues before being re-launched in 1998 for another twenty-two issues. In 2012, Kelly-Sue DeConnick and Phil…
The DC Daily Planet – Divergence! Wait, no.
Look, I know there’s only one real piece of news out of the DC PR machine today, but there’s more to talk about that just The Rock’s Shazam movie, and whether or not it’ll be independent from the rest of the DC oeuvre, okay? (As a side note, do you ever find you self-trend specific…
