Not news, not commentary (not exactly), all promotion. Check out this essay and video, The Bent Bullet, on the assassination of John F. Kennedy, by Eric Lensherr. Kickstarter of the Week Cautionary Fables and Fairy Tales: Africa Edition is an interesting project. Editor Kel McDonald is looking for $20,000 to pay artists and ship books….
Sleeper is Coming to the Big Screen
Surely you’ve heard–Matt Damon and Ben Affleck’s Pearl Street films will produce an adaptation of Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips’s Sleeper. Shawn Ryan (The Shield) and David Weiner (Last Resort) will script; as of yet, no director is attached. Damon, Affleck and partner Jennifer Todd will have a direct hand in the project as executive…
News & Things: It’s a terrible life. You’re a terrible life.
Kickstarter Indiegogo of the Week Rachel Halpern wants your help launching Inscription Magazine, a free, online fiction magazine for teens. They want to publish high quality YA fiction with diverse characters, by diverse authors: “It’s hard to be a teen. Young adult fiction helped a lot of us get through it. But not everyone is equally…
News & Things: Feminism(s)
Promise you’ll come back? Go read this short comic from Kate Beaton on border guards and breaking up. And then come back. Oh hey. News Black Female Voices: bell hooks & Melissa Harris-Perry Melissa Harris-Perry and bell hooks sit down to discuss black feminism, then and now and going forward. Why Video Games Succeeded Where…
Help Fund Fantagraphics’ 2014 Spring Season
Fantagraphics is looking to crowdfund its spring season books. The move is in response to a cash flow crunch that more and more book and comic book publishers are getting squeezed by. (Just look at book publishing, where venerable small houses are closing, merging, and holding fire sales for their backlists.) Publishers tend to run…
News & Things: Woman writers, woman artists, woman gamers
It’s time once again to speak of news and other things. Today it’s all fine art, fine literature, fine video games, and lots of ladies. Kickstarter of the Week It’s time we talked about Ever, Jane: The Virtual World of Jane Austen. Simply put, it’s a Jane Austen MMORPG; as one commentator put it, The Sims online,…
Friday Poll: The Mayor Toronto Deserves
In not so shocking news, the winner of last week’s Wonder Wouldn’t poll was Frank Miller. Out of our way, sperm bank! He’s the person you’d least like to see attached to a Wonder Woman movie in any way shape or form. And with good reason. Here’s Wonder Woman from Frank Miller’s carnival of horrors, All Star…
News & Things: He ran into my tentacles *blush*
Kickstarter of the Week This week I’ve got two horror comics anthologies to recommend. Both campaigns have reached their funding goals, but you still have time to pick up the books, and the rewards of your choice. In The Dark: So you might experience a brief moment of sticker shock. This anthology, edited by Rachel…
Fail Better: Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash
Christina: “You should write about money. I need serious money advice.” Note: My qualifications for giving financial advice are that I’ve effed up my life enough times that I’ve received loads of financial advice, and am happy to share it now with you. I’m assuming that if you’re in desperate enough straits to ask ME…
Wonder Woman Movies You Just Wouldn’t
The winner of last week’s poll is… the inimitable Ellen Ripley! That’s right WWAC readers, your final-final girl is she. Ripley blew away the competition, but to be fair, I disqualified Sarah Connor (on the basis of her role shifting through the Terminator series), so it might not have been a clean fight. Recount? Sorry, what’s…
News & Things: Are you a girl? Are you a lobster? A sexy lobster?
Kickstarter of the Week Do you want more Bee and PuppyCat? Of course you do. Wait, you don’t know what Bee and PuppyCat is? Shame. Shaaaame. So, it’s a popular cartoon short created by Natasha Allegri, and produced by Frederator/Cartoon Hangover. They’re the lovely souls responsible for Fairly Odd Parents and Adventure Time, respectively. In…
Looking for a few good writers!
Are you a regular Women Write About Comics reader who’d like to join in on the fun? A feminist (social) media geek who wants to expand her platform? A recent graduate who wants to flex her social media and writing muscles? Then you might be who we’re looking for.