I’m not currently a member of an archery club. That sits poorly with me. I don’t even like saying it. Archery means a lot to me. (I’ll get to the comics.) When I was two years old, Maid Marian and her Merry Men started showing on CBBC. At the time, that was the BBC slot…
TCAF Screening — Lost Heroes: The Untold Story of Canadian Superheroes
My TCAF weekend started last night with a free screening of the new documentary, Lost Heroes. The film seeks to bring to light the forgotten history of Canadian superheroes from the Golden Age and beyond. Outside of Canada, the names Alpha Flight and Captain Canuck might ring bells, but Nelvana, Johnny Canuck, Northern Guard, The…
Fail Better: Organizing Your Space!
I am not a naturally organized person. I didn’t come out of the womb with a organizer in one hand and a smartphone in the other. But between my day job, school, and running, WWAC, I’ve had to get organized. More or less. Now I’m the kind of person who leaves irate notes to coworkers,…
Buffalo Minotaurs! Or Buffalotaurs? Minoffalo?
Manifest Destiny Chris Dingess, Matthew Roberts, Owen Gieni, and Pat Brousseau Image Comics Until reading this, I never gave Lewis and Clark much thought. There was that IMAX movie about their expedition a few years ago but it seemed like the whole thing was pretty dry. Just two guys walking slowly across the country with a…
BookCon Gives Itself a New, Inclusive Look With Diverse Line Up
As we’ve reported in the past, BookCon experienced controversy the last few weeks due to its lack of diversity in its guest list, as well as with a kids lit panel that featured an all white male line up. Well, we have good news: BookCon has finally diversified! It only took a lot of angry tweets,…
Local Gaming Shop Review: Giga Bites Cafe, Marietta, GA
Giga-Bites Cafe 2197 Roswell Rd, STE 101 Marietta Ga 30062 (770) 578-1497 This week has been full of marvelous synergy for me. I wrote a Retrospective on Superior Spider-Man; the day after, comiXology puts the title on sale! A little background on how this review came to pass: Saturday the 26th, I went to…
Top Ten Comic Book Geniuses
There are plenty of characters in the world of DC and Marvel who have powers to punch through steel reinforced walls, read minds, and fly—but what about good old ingenuity? How about the geniuses that help save the world or make it their life’s mission to destroy it? What is genius and what role does it…
The New Wonder Woman and Greek Mythology
Wonder Woman’s current run is rich with greek mythology. Before, Diana was born from clay and her mother Hippolyta’s desire to have a daughter. In 2011, though, DC Comics revamped its entire universe, that now is called the New 52. In this new take on the character by writer Brian Azzarello and artist Cliff Chiang,…
News & Things: Women On Lists
25 Awesome Women in Video Gaming Den of Geek’s list “aims to show the breadth of occupations held by women in the gaming industry.” Renowned Silver Age Artist, Dick Ayers, Dies at 90 A talented inker who helped set the feel for many Silver Age comics, including Ghost Rider. Call Girl of Cthulu Screening…
Sfé Monster talks about his genderqueer webcomics
Sfé R. Monster is a cartoonist focused on the internet. With the help of social media, he has gathered around him an audience very concerned with queer and genderqueer issues. His readers want to see another side of the stories available in mainstream media. His previous works include Seven Stories From The Sea, a heartbreaking…
TOONBooks: Interview with Francoise Mouly
For an excellent introduction to graphic novels, or heck, reading at all, TOON Books has you covered. TOON Books was founded by Françoise Mouly as an alternative to Easy Readers. For the uninitiated, Easy Readers are beginner level books that break dialogue and storyline down to the equivalent of caveman grunts. Think “see Spot run….
Stop The Presses! Shailene Woodley is NOT a Feminist…
…And, unfortunately, she doesn’t know what that quite means — given her answer in a TIME interview published yesterday. The piece doesn’t start out all that well when it mentions other female celebs who’ve either branded themselves with the label or shunned it completely, as though it was the hottest trend right now: to be or not to…