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Newspaper Comics: How We Met Them and Where We’d Like to See Them Go

April 11, 2015

For many of us Millennials and older, newspaper comics were our first experience with sequential art. But that may be changing. While school and alternative newspaper comics used to be a way for cartoonists to break into making comics professionally or to having a syndicated strip, these days, ...

Bande Dessinée, Comic Strips, Comics, Roundtables

Where I Began: Kids’ Comics That Left Impressions

April 7, 2015

B & V & Lex Makes Three I read my first comic book when I was six or seven years old. It was a Betty & Veronica Double Digest, and I first noticed it sitting on a newsstand at the grocery store. I asked my Grandma if I could read it, thinking she would say no. (B&V may have been ...

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Teenage Eternity: Buffy the Vampire Slayer Turns 18

April 4, 2015

This year, Buffy the Vampire Slayer turns eighteen. It’s finally graduated high school and has set off for UC Sunnydale to ultimately wash out and become a full time supernatural hero. Oh well, Buffy the College Years were never quite as fun as Buffy on the unlimited budget of adolescent ...

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Cinderella! It Can Do Magic, Believe It Or Not: Feminist Fominist Foo! [GIFS]

March 30, 2015

Disney’s live action reboot of Cinderella is being billed as a feminist retelling of the classic tale, where Ella “isn’t just waiting for her prince” and demands to be accepted on her own terms. However, the movie’s apparent message that soldiering through mistreatment with a stiff upper lip is ...

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The Twin Peaks Log: S.2 E.6

March 26, 2015

Annie It’s interesting to see Cooper upset with himself because his extra-jurisdictional adventures endangered Audrey, and of course got a bunch of people killed at One-Eyed Jack’s. He mentions that this isn’t the first time someone’s been hurt because he stepped outside his bounds. But hey, ...

Comics, Roundtables

YA Bloggers Read Gotham Academy, A Roundtable

March 25, 2015

At the start of the year, I thought about the ways in which comics could market itself more successfully to a wider audience. More specifically, how can Marvel and DC Comics sell certain titles to an audience that isn’t already tapped into comics (or at least into their vast universes) ...

Opinion, Roundtables

March Roundtable: Kids and Games

March 19, 2015

Welcome to the next installment of the Game Section’s monthly roundtable! Growing up is weird. Gaming can be strange. The games children play? Often truly bizarre. This month we talked about games we played as children. Apparently we all know our way around a solo board game or two. What ...

Comics, Opinion, Roundtables

Compulsive Reading: Some Notes On How We Read Mental Health

March 17, 2015

Megan Purdy asks the questions in this round table discussion responding to several comics tackling mental illness, and its resultant behaviours. Sara Lautman’s comic Some Notes on Compulsive Hair Pulling is beautiful and affecting. The comic is about Lautman’s struggle with trichotillomania: ...

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Jem Jam: “Battle of the Bands” and “Starbright: Part 1”

March 12, 2015

2015 marks the 30th anniversary of Jem, the beloved 80s cartoon series. Jem and the Holograms have never been bigger, as 2015 will also see the release of a live action film based on the show, a new comic book series published by IDW, and a continuing line of collectible fashion dolls from ...

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Life Geek: Bookshelfies Edition

March 6, 2015

Do you know exactly where all your books are located? When you go over to someone’s house for the first time, do you zero in on their book collection in order to determine if you are kindred spirits? Is loaning a book to someone a silent act of genuine trust for you? If you answered yes ...

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Newspaper Comics: How We Met Them and Where We’d Like to See Them Go

Where I Began: Kids’ Comics That Left Impressions

Teenage Eternity: Buffy the Vampire Slayer Turns 18

Cinderella! It Can Do Magic, Believe It Or Not: Feminist Fominist Foo! [GIFS]

The Twin Peaks Log: S.2 E.6

YA Bloggers Read Gotham Academy, A Roundtable

March Roundtable: Kids and Games

Compulsive Reading: Some Notes On How We Read Mental Health

Jem Jam: “Battle of the Bands” and “Starbright: Part 1”

Life Geek: Bookshelfies Edition

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