Warning: Spoilers below! In a recent strip of the long-running webcomic Questionable Content, a thunderstruck Tai immediately knelt on the floor of the Coffee of Doom and proposed to her girlfriend, Dora, after Dora stated, point blank and without hesitation, that she’d close her coffee shop immediately and follow Tai if Tai had to move elsewhere….
Hot Odds: A Look Into Flame Con’s Decision-Making
There were almost eight hundred applications to exhibit at Flame Con this year, but less than 200 were selected—and they were not necessarily the exhibitors fans would expect. That’s because Flame Con, an incredibly popular LGBTQ+ fan convention run by Geeks OUT, put a lottery in place to aid the assignment of tables, a decision…
“Main thing is, I kept drawing:” Mort Gerberg’s Cartoons on Display at the NYHS
Mort Gerberg Cartoons: A New Yorker’s Perspective New York Historical Society February 15-May 5 Accompanying the opening cluster of images in this exhibit, Mort Gerberg is quoted saying that a lot of his early work was unremarkable, but that the “main thing is, I kept drawing.” That aspect of Gerberg’s philosophy is amply conveyed through…
Project GraphicBio: Interview with Dr. Candida Rifkind
Professor Candida Rifkind has recently concluded a years-long project called Project GraphicBio at University of Winnipeg. Funded in part by a 2015-18 Insight Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, she studied biographies in graphic form, with various groups of students for several semesters. I first heard about the project through…
Dogears: History, Finances, and Cats Bring Us New Fantasies
In a world filled with far too many great books, it’s hard to figure out what to pick up next. Luckily, Bookmarked is here to help in your search with “Dogears,” bite-sized book reviews from our growing TBR piles. Check out what we’ve been reading this past month, and see if you can find your next…
We’ve Read Multiple Works by These Women and You Should Too!
The other week, author Shannon Hale shared the following on Twitter: In writing workshops I ask the men, "Can you think of 5 women writers that you've read multiple books of theirs?" Most cannot. Then I ask the women, "Can you think of 5 men writers that you've read multiple books of theirs?" The question…
In the Light of a Dying Sun: The Vela from Serial Box
In The Vela, which will be released by Serial Box starting March 6th, we are introduced to an ex-military sniper who is teamed up with a seemingly spoiled politician’s kid to investigate whatever happened to the Vela: a refugee ship that has gone off the radar. The story takes place in a solar system with…
An Intimate Glimpse at Brenda Starr at the Society of Illustrators in NYC
“Brenda Starr: Reporter: The Art of Dale Messick” Curators: Laura Rohrman, R. Robert Pollak, Richard Berenson, and Anelle Miller January 3-March 23, 2019 Society of Illustrators, New York In 1940, Dale Messick’s newspaper comic strip Brenda Starr: Reporter debuted, telling the adventures of an intrepid and glamorous investigative journalist. It would run for several decades,…
Dogears: Poets and Dreamers Rule All Possible Worlds
In a world filled with far too many great books, it’s hard to figure out what to pick up next. Luckily, Bookmarked is here to help in your search with “Dogears,” bite-sized book reviews from our growing TBR piles. Check out what we’ve been reading this past month, and see if you can find your next…
WWAC’s Favorite Big Press Comics of 2018
Well, the corpses of Christmas Trees are littering the sidewalk and all the champagne bottles have been popped, so as we usher in 2019 it seems the perfect time for quiet reflection. But not on New Year’s Resolutions, silly. On comic books! WWAC has rounded up its contributors to share their favorite big press comics…
A Fantastic Introduction to Ann Leckie’s Fantasy
The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie comes out in February 2019, and it is excellent. It’s been gathering starred reviews from multiple sources ahead of its publication, which is not too surprising for the author of the critically acclaimed Ancillary Justice and other fantastic speculative fiction novels. What is surprising, however, is that The Raven…
To All The Cons We’ve Loved This Year
We all have different criteria for what makes a convention. Some people love the huge rush of large venues like SDCC. Some like quieter, smaller things. With 2018’s convention season having finally wound down, we figured it’d be a good idea to talk about which con each of us liked best, and why.
