A moment after closing Graeme McMillan’s article in The Hollywood Reporter detailing the shadow cast by irregularities in this year’s Eisner Awards voting process, I received a notification that a new email had arrived. “Hi Wendy and gang,” it began, and proceeded to inform me of plans for tonight’s virtual Eisner Awards ceremony, culminating in…
ComicCon@Home: Lights, Camera, LGBTQI-Identity! Never Alone
Looks like I’ve found myself drawn to the LGBTQIA+ panels at ComicCon@Home. I covered one on Thursday, and here I am reporting on another on Friday.
LGBTQ Characters on Television – What’s Next? ComicCon@Home Panel
Since I’ve come to Canada, I’ve had time to get more in tune with my queer self, and it’s coincided with finding more positive LGBTQ+ representation in pop culture. There are more LGBTQ characters on our screens now—in film, and in television—but we still have a long way to go. At SDCC’s ComicCon@Home, actors Jamie…
ComicCon@Home Teaching With Comics Panels Roundup
Hello! You may have noticed that there was not a Comics Academe this month, and that was because we elected to save this spot to review the Comics Studies and comics education panels at SDCC’s Comic Con @ Home. Well…some of them.
Wonder Woman: Tempest Tossed Provides Choppy Representation
Wonder Woman: Tempest Tossed by writer Laurie Halse Anderson, artist Leila del Duca, colorist Kelly Fitzpatrick, and letterer Saida Temofonte is a new but not entirely different telling of the story of Diana, Princess of the Amazons, and it is ambitious. This coming-of-age story for the would-be Wonder Woman brings her out of Themyscira and…
ComicCon@Home Day Two: Seeking Truth, X-Men, and the Afrofuturism Way
A virtual comic convention is convenient for many reasons, including the opportunity to plan other things around your convention day, instead of having it consume your day completely. Too bad I forgot about that timezone difference, which messed up all my careful organization! Things got a bit livelier for day two of ComicCon@Home. Here are…
2020 Hugo Awards Reviews: Novellas – Part 3
Welcome to the third and final part in a series of articles looking at the works in competition for the Best Novella category at the Hugo Awards.
