The first thing you have to know about me is that I’m a bit of a dork for Halloween. The second is that I always bite off more than I can chew. So when my six year old son, Little Dude, told me he wanted to be Groot from Guardians of the Galaxy for Halloween…
The Thursday Book Beat: Changes Are Coming For HarperCollins Canada & Ghomeshi Dropped by PRH
Changes Are Coming To HarperCollins Canada Plenty of people are confused about what the recent announcements regarding HarperCollins Canada mean, but Publisher’s Weekly has done a fine job at explaining. Two major things have happened: President and CEO, David Kent, will be leaving HarperCollins Canada by the end of the year; HarperCollins will be closing its HC Canada warehouse…
The Twin Peaks Log: S.1 E.4
Welcome to our biweekly roundtable of Twin Peaks where we are working our way through every. Single. Episode. Some of us are regulars and some of us newbies, but none of our experiences are the same. So get yourself a damn fine cup of coffee, watch along with us, and feel free to chime in…
Top Five Alternative Superman Stories We Wished Existed
Superman is a character who seems to solve most of his problems with logic through an easy going grin and/or punching nouns. What happens when we dedicate standalone stories to issues people deal with on a regular basis? More importantly, what happens when someone like Superman has to deal with these issues? Stuff happens. Lots…
Staff Picks: Movies
Big Hero 6 Directed by Don Hall, Chris Williams Starring: Genesis Rodriguez, Jamie Chung, Alan Tudyk, T.J. Miller Disney PG, 108 min. If I only see one movie next month, it will probably be about brilliant robotics prodigy Hiro Hamada. I love animated movies. I love Marvel comics. So an animated movie based on a…
Picture This: Maria van Lieshout
Maria van Lieshout is a children’s author/illustrator that is creating fresh, sleek, genre defiant picture books and is the subject of this month’s Picture This. Van Lieshout grew up in Oegstgeest, a small town in Holland, which by all appearances is an absolutely lovely place. After high school she attended The George Washington University in…
Day of the DEVs
This year’s Day of the DEVs festival hosted by Double Fine and IAM8BIT took place this past weekend in San Francisco. The free, all ages event showcased indie games, art and music. The line at #dayofthedevs (don’t worry, it moved fast) pic.twitter.com/AvcAe3LxBs — Doctor Popular (@DocPop) November 2, 2014 Outside of the bldng was…
Chicago Zinester Interview: Meghan Ansbach
I had the recent pleasure of exchanging emails with Jersey Shore native, now-Chicagoan zinester Meghan Ansbach. I came across her zine “Everything is Better in Chicago” and adored her way of sharing her thought process on the page.
Get Your Game On Wednesday
The annual Jack Vasel Memorial Fund Auction is live In time for the holidays! The auction being hosted at the Board Game Geek website raises funds for the The Jack Vasel Memorial Fund. The fund raises and distributes funds to help gamers in their hour of need. When Tom Vasel, lost his son in 2011, the…
M|O|O|N Knight: Electronic Sounds To Commit Hyperviolence To
The relaunch of Moon Knight by Warren Ellis, Declan Shalvey, and Jordie Bellaire has been critically acclaimed for good reason. Getting rid of the inaccurately portrayed mental illness Marc Spector had been shackled with, and shedding his supporting cast in favor of different characters and drone equipment, has worked out in Moon Knight’s favor. The…
[GIFs] A Trip Down Fear Street: Switched #31
Despite the end of Halloween, the Fear Street reread project is going strong — keeping the horror alive all year long! Tagline A mind is a terrible thing to lose. Synopsis Two best friends, Nicole and Lucy, learn how to switch bodies with one another, but Nicole learns some dark secrets about her best friend!…
#WWACTV Presents Diversity and Whitewashing on Television: Whitewashing 101 (1)
This is a four part series looking at the representation of race on television both in terms of how far we’ve come and what we have yet to accomplish. What Is Whitewashing and Why Should We Care? Whitewashing is what we call it when characters who are originally non-white (people of colour) are recast or rebooted as white….