Continuing to prove that “Every month is Black Comics Month,” Dean “Tee” Vixen will be moderating the Diversity in Comics panel at this weekend’s Special Edition: NYC convention. #BlackComicsMonth got its start in February 2015 when Vixen started the hashtag to coincide with Black History Month. As the hashtag found traction, she realized that 28…
Reading Under the New Moon: Murakami’s Magical Realism in The Strange Library
The Strange Library Haruki Murakami Knopf December 2, 2014 The Strange Library combines two things that I love dearly: libraries and strange supernatural occurrences. The story begins with a boy returning his books to the library. When he asks the librarian for help finding more books, she directs him to a confined room in the…
Living her Dream: Kristi McDowell Chats About Gamer Girl & Vixen
What do you get when you combine a long time dream and a love of comics and fanfiction with a great writing partner and creative team and a desire to see more diversity in comics? You get Gamer Girl & Vixen, an up and coming comic about two super villains (because super heroes are dull!) whose…
Mad Max and The Tribe: Who Killed the Patriarchy? Men Who Love in a World Gone Wrong
Post-Apocalyptica is easily mistakable for a genre designed to uphold and deify patriarchy. Looking at the classics of the genre, your Mad Maxes, your Hokuto No Kens, Double Dragons, even your Tripods, it’s plain that a man with a downturned mouth is the icon we’ve made most obvious. And the MRAs grumbling about Furiosa’s imagined…
The Twin Peaks Log: S.2 E.10
We seem to have hit a slow patch as far as Twin Peaking goes. The middle of Season Two is well-known for being less exciting than all of the others parts of TP, and it’s hard to come up with much to say about these episodes. With that in mind, we are bumping the Log…
Dominique Pamplemousse: An Alluring, Thoughtful Noir Adventure
Welcome to An Adventure in Small Games, a monthly series focused on games that cost less than $20, ideally less than $10. In this series Eve Golden Woods will focus on the indie game and what it has to offer the world of gaming.
Get Your Game On Wednesday
Howdy Wednesday readers! I hope your week is cruising along. If you’re lucky enough to live in the Columbus, Ohio area, remember that this weekend is the Origins Game Fair. Get out and play some games! Women’s National Teams included EA SPORTS FIFA 16 For the first time ever, 12 Women’s National Teams will…
X-RAY SPOTTED: XCOM 2 Announced
The glorious relaunch of X-COM: UFO Defense, XCOM: Enemy Unknown, was easily one of the most well-regarded games of 2012. An isometric grid-based tactical game initially released on PC and consoles, the player was the commanding officer of Earth’s last line of defense against an invading alien army with sinister designs on the planet and…
Fail Better: Fake Geek Girls BE YOU
When I was younger, I bought into the Fake Geek Girl thing pretty hard. I didn’t know anybody who observably read comics, nobody at all, and to get into my local comic shop I had to take this journey: Down an alley of dilapidated commerce, turn right, into another small alley where you can see…
On Writing Women’s Lives: Michelle Tea, Eileen Myles, and Jill Soloway in Discussion
A couple of weeks ago I went to the Jewish Contemporary Museum in San Francisco to hear a roundtable discussion between three terrific women writers: Michelle Tea (Rent Girl, Coal to Diamonds: A Memoir; co-creator of the performance art collective Sister Spit), Eileen Myles (Not Me, Chelsea Girls, Inferno) and Jill Soloway (creator of new…
Human Rights in Mexico: Graphic Novelized
A new graphic nonfiction series is being released by Front Line Defenders (a group devoted to combating violence against human right advocates worldwide). The series debut is La Lucha: The Story of Lucha Castro and Human Rights in Mexico and was released by Verso Books on May 29th of this year. Written and illustrated by…
Review: The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina #3 or Sabrina’s Purity4Satan Campaign
A conversation between Claire and Ginnis on Chilling Adventures of Sabrina #3 Archie Horror Script: Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa Art: Robert Hack, Jack Morelli Cover: Robert Hack Lettering: Jack Morelli Warning: Contains Spoilers for Sabrina #3