Hello and welcome back to another edition of Previously on Comics! Kate here to catch you up on what you might have missed in the weeks leading up to ECCC. Let’s catch up together, shall we? I’ve been travelling the past couple weeks so I know I’m behind on this, but I was ecstatic to…
Put Some Character In Your Wardrobe: Dress Like Your Faves
Today a friend of mine told me “I like your boots, they remind me of Sherlock Holmes.” I was properly chuffed. This had been my thought process when I bought them: “It’s a cool look” swiftly followed the Holmes statement. It was rather gratifying to have someone say it out loud though. I mean, I…
Pull Lists: What Informs The Making of One, Then?
Pull lists! We were talking about them and then I forgot. Did you? You can remind yourself right here: part one (why do they exist and when did you learn about it); part two (do you have a pull list right now). This is parts three and four, where we discuss (and please do join…
Black Comix Returns
The Black Comix Returns Kickstarter has just a few days to go, but it has already more than doubled its funding goals. Unsurprising, considering the success of the first volume, published seven years earlier. If you’re lucky, you might find a copy of the latter on Amazon for a cool $300. As of writing this…
Review: R. Sikoryak’s Terms and Conditions
Terms and Conditions R. Sikoryak Drawn & Quarterly TPB March 7, 2017 Disclaimer: Terms and Conditions was reviewed with a copy provided by the publisher. Many elementary school students, when confronted with a chunk of text beyond their previously experienced reading level, are advised to break up said text in order to make it easier…
Previously on Comics: Yuri On…Youngblood?
Hello all, this is Kayleigh with the last “Previously on Comics” for February! I’m writing this at the end of a busy weekend, after hosting my very own Galentine’s Day party, making bachelorette party plans with my Wedding Issue co-writer Rebecca, and somehow finding the time to finish Neil Gaiman’s Norse Mythology. I hope you all…
Crime and Patience: Witchblade Animated
Witchblade Animated was never an animated product. It was, as were many things from the Image founders’ personal studios and the American comic book industry of the later ’90s in general, a cypher, a simulacrum of a possibility or alternate reality. “Wouldn’t it be cool if there was a Witchblade cartoon (eventually there was) just…
What is Journalism? A Review of Rolling Blackouts
Rolling Blackouts: Dispatches from Turkey, Syria, and Iraq Sarah Glidden Drawn + Quarterly October 2016 A review copy was provided by the publisher. What is journalism? This is the primary question cartoonist Sarah Glidden pursued while traveling through Turkey, Iraq and Syria in 2010. Glidden’s friends and co-founders of The Seattle Globalist, Sarah Stuteville and…
Happy Trans Lesbian of Colour: Why Sera Matters
It should be easy to imagine how important representation in the media is for trans people. Sadly, in comics, 2016 saw the active removal of a lot of trans representation, and some very poor cash-ins on the community too. One such removal was Sera, a trans woman of color in a lovely, committed relationship with…
Being Seen Through Hawkeye’s Ponytail
As you may or may not know, my hair is just past my shoulders, and if it’s down (as in not tied up) there isn’t all that much I can successfully do without it ending up with it either my mouth, my eyes, or caught up in something. The potential for me doing anything particularly…
TV to Comics: Who is Supergirl?
Most of us know the basics. Supergirl is Superman’s cousin from Krypton, another survivor from that doomed planet. But who is she really? This is a question I’ve been asked many times since the TV show premiered two years ago, along with “Where do I start?” This column will help to answer both those questions,…
Odyssey of the Amazons is a Throwback, All Right
Odyssey of the Amazons #1 Kevin Grevioux (story and script), Ryan Benjamin (pencils), Richard Friend (inks), Tony Washington (colours), Tony Aviña (colours pp21-24) DC Comics January 2017 It’s great that DC is making an effort to provide more and different Wonder Woman content in her seventy-fifth year. Legends of Wonder Woman and Bombshells, not to…
