As time continues to march on, we edge closer to what’s gonna be a gonzo award season with the Emmys. Find out about the snubs, the apologies, the new shows, and more!
Quaranzines Will Keep Us Connected: An Interview with Jenna Freedman
When I first started working on this project in those wild, precious, before-the-Pandemic times, I visited several zine libraries in person and online, and talked to the librarians, barefoot and degree-d alike, who run them. During this process, I quickly began hearing familiar names come up in conversation. Zine communities can often be niche and…
INTERVIEW: Marco Finnegan Reimagines LA’s Zoot Suit Riots With a SciFi Twist in Lizard in a Zoot Suit
Set in the 1940s against the backdrop of The Sleepy Lagoon murder and the subsequent Zoot Suit Riots in LA, Latinx cartoonist Marco Finnegan explores history, racism, and classism in his new young adult graphic novel, Lizard in a Zoot Suit from Learner Publishing Group. Despite the zoot suit being a major element of Black and…
2020 Hugo Awards Reviews: Novels – Part 3
Welcome to the final post in a series examining the contenders in the main prose categories for the Hugo Awards. So far, the Best Novel selection has shown an interesting set of recurring themes along with some stark contrasts. Two of the finalists, Seanan McGuire’s Middlegame and Alix E. Harrow’s The Ten Thousand Doors of…
REVIEW: Fence: Rivals Still Misses the Point
The GLAAD-nominated series Fence! by C. S. Pacat and Johanna the Mad returns in graphic novel format as Fence: Rivals, collecting four chapters about King’s Row Academy’s practice match against the school that knocked them out of the State Championships last year. This new volume further develops the relationships that were set up earlier in…
DC PUBWATCH – July 2020 Edition
Welcome to the July and SDCC@home edition of the DC Pubwatch! This month we bid a fond farewell to the antics of one James Olsen with Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen #12 and cover the news that came out of a very different version of San Diego Comic-Con.
Celebrating Vivica A. Fox and David DeCoteau’s B-Movie Empire
In honor of Vivica A. Fox‘s birthday, I wanted to take a deep dive into her Lifetime movie catalogue with director David DeCoteau — because why not?
REVIEW: Rolled & Told Volume 2: Merrily We Roleplay Along
Make a Wisdom [Perception] check to see what’s in store for Rolled & Told Volume 2. This amazing blend of one-shot adventures, comics, essays, art and playable characters is an excellent reference for anyone wanting to use homebrew content for their role playing games (RPG). As a player and a novice Games Master (GM), Rolled…
REVIEW: Anastasia: Part Two Calls for a Cut On all Hollywood Misogynists
The concluding volume of Europe Comics’, Anastasia, a story of a young starlet who has successfully climbed the glass mountain called Hollywood, only to find that it’s pretty hollow at the top, packs in a lot of emotion and a lot of truth about the horrors of the movie business, aided by stunning art to…
2020 Hugo Awards Reviews: Novels – Part 2
Continuing our reviews of the 2020 Hugo Awards finalists in the Best Novel category, we move on to Middlegame by Seanan McGuire and The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow.
Archie Comics Pubwatch: July 2020
Welcome to the Archie Comics Pubwatch for the month of July! I’m Lisa reporting from a corner booth at Pop’s Chock’lit Shoppe, and here’s this month’s news! In this month’s Archie Comics Pubwatch, a plethora of tie-in products have been announced, a new Madame Satan One-Shot is coming in October, and Katy Keene ends its run…