Comics Academe: How Do You Teach Comics?
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- September 12, 2014
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Copter Crash: Isabel Fall and the Transgender SF Debate3
- Bookmarked, Essays, News, Opinion
- January 20, 2020
On New Year’s Day, the latest issue of the digital science fiction magazine Clarkesworld went live. The line-up included a mixture of established talents and new names; in the latter category was Isabel Fall, who contributed a story entitled “I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter.” Isabell Fall’s piece was available on the website for
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The Art of Birds of Prey0
- Art & Design, Essays
- January 14, 2020
If you have read my work on WWAC, you will know that visual culture is my ‘thing’. By that I mean, I’m all about the art, especially how pop culture riffs on famous artists and plays with their iconic images. Late last year, DC released original character art for Birds of Prey. I was already
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Remembering Charlee Jacob: This Symbiotic Fascination0
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- January 14, 2020
Having spent years charting a landscape of atrocity, degradation and twisted ecstasy across her short fiction, as discussed in the previous post in this series, Charlee Jacob made her debut as a novelist in 1997 with This Symbiotic Fascination. This novel tells the story of two employees at an electronics shop, Tawne Delaney and Arcan Tyler;
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Casting Call: Why a Mixed-Race Kate Bishop in Hawkeye Makes Sense0
- Television and Film, Essays
- December 31, 2019
When I saw that Hailee Steinfield was the frontrunner to play Kate Bishop in Disney+’s Hawkeye, I messaged everyone I knew about it. Finally, someone like me was going to play an Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) hero: a mixed race Filipinx person who fell into the “ambiguously brown” category. While my excitement was not universal
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What’s a Homestuck Fandom After the Epilogues?8
- Comics, Essays, Indie & Small Press, Webcomics
- December 26, 2019
Let me tell you about Homestuck. Homestuck is a webcomic, first published by Andrew Hussie in April 2009. The comic consists of static captioned images, animated GIFs, Flash pages with music and animation, and interactive “walk-around Flashes” recalling early-2000s video games. The story follows a group of internet friends who play a beta version of
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A Tarnished Legacy: The End of Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Sword and Sorceress2
- Bookmarked, Essays
- December 24, 2019
Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Sword and Sorceress, the once-influential anthology series that was founded in 1984, saw its thirty-fourth and final instalment this year. The series managed to survive a number of significant setbacks: one was the death of original editor Marion Zimmer Bradley in 1999; another was publisher DAW dropping the series with the 2004
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"Bismuth" and Steven Universe's Racial Coding Problem
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- August 30, 2016
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Copter Crash: Isabel Fall and the Transgender SF Debate
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Remembering Charlee Jacob: This Symbiotic Fascination
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What's a Homestuck Fandom After the Epilogues?
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- December 26, 2019