(Trigger warning: child abuse, sexual abuse) On June 10th, Deirdre Saoirse Moen published an email from Moira Greyland, Marion Zimmer Bradley’s daughter. In the email she states that her mother molested her from the age of three until the age of twelve.
Review: Fast Friends (NSFW)
Fast Friends Writer: Dale Lazarov Artist: Michael Broderick Dale Lazarov bills his work as “smart, wholesome, gay comics smut,” and that it is. Fast Friends, like Sticky and Manly is a wordless, erotic comic that balances poignant slice of life narrative with marathon sex.
This Week’s NYT Bestseller List
Most people know that the New York Times has a weekly best sellers list for books, but they also have top 10 best sellers for graphic novels, hard cover and paperback, and manga as well.
The DC Daily Planet: Payment Plans, Perfidious Profligates, and Premieres
Everybody’s buzzing about DC this week, and for once, it’s for something done absolutely right. Let’s check in and see what the fuss is about, shall we?
DC Changes Creator Contracts: Better Deal or Better Business?
This week DC announced significant changes to their creator payments, and more visible a shift for fans, colorist credits will be added to comic book covers. The additional changes to DC’s creator contracts are less discernable as being positive without us being privy to actual sales numbers, percentages, and dollar amounts. Time will tell if this new…
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.
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 novels, we (and you!) should…
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 wrapped up into one stylish…
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…
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.
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 will find homes elsewhere.
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: looking at their phone, occasionally glancing over the…
