February 16, 2015

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What We’re Playing: February

February 16, 2015

The winter chugs along, making staying inside gaming a better and better idea. Not that we need an excuse to spend the days rolling dice and wielding controllers. What are you all playing?

Comics

I return! Like a bad penny. Or Cassie Lang, because everyone agrees her death was basically fridging and stupid anyway. And now without further ado: This week(ish) in Marvel Above the Fold Probably the biggest headline, but just in case you missed it, Marvel and Sony have finally reached a ...

Art & Design, Opinion

What Jonathan Jones Gets Wrong About Comics

February 16, 2015

…Pretty much everything. On the Guardian‘s Art and Design blog, art critic Jonathan Jones slammed the art of “the comic-book universe” for being “banal” and “lack[ing]…ambition and verve.” A reasonable criticism, if he’d given evidence ...

Comics

Women As Superheroes: A Comic Drawing Workshop to Celebrate 40 Years of The Feminist Library

February 16, 2015

A free comic workshop led by artists Sally Jane Thompson, Rachael Smith, and Karen Rubins in London at The Feminist Library? I’d signed up faster than you can say sequential-art-salon-in-Southwark.

Comics

Review: 2000AD, Prog 1917

February 16, 2015

2000AD, Prog 1917 Writers: Various Artists: Various Rebellion Two stories come to an end in this week’s prog: one just in time, and one too soon. The former is “Ulysses Sweet, Maniac for Hire: Psycho-Therapist” (writer: Guy Adams; artists: Paul Marshall and Chris Blythe), which relied too ...

Comics, Con Diaries

Con Diaries: Local Scenes, Balcony Views, and Why I’m a True Believer

February 16, 2015

Over this winter, Andy Oliver has been publishing State of the Small Press Nation, a look at the sudden abundance of cartoonist shows around Britain, wondering what that swell in numbers means–for the exhibitors and for the scene in general. It’s interesting stuff with views and experiences ...

February 16, 2015

What We’re Playing: February

Mighty Marvel Monday

What Jonathan Jones Gets Wrong About Comics

Women As Superheroes: A Comic Drawing Workshop to Celebrate 40 Years of The Feminist Library

Review: 2000AD, Prog 1917

Con Diaries: Local Scenes, Balcony Views, and Why I’m a True Believer

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