Opinion

My First Comic: Snikt, Bub 1
- Comics, Essays, Opinion
- July 13, 2018
Honestly, comics have been a part of my life for so long that the details on where and when they first came in are fuzzy. They were one of the tools my cousin used to help encourage me to read, so I’m sure that I have a different, literal first, but the first one I
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We Attract Our Mirror Image – An Exploration of the Law of Attraction in Anya’s Ghost 0
- Essays, Opinion
- July 13, 2018
Ghosted Friendships soured. Familial ties broken. Lovers lost. Over and over, people would either slowly fade away or they’d ghost completely. People have walked into my life, stayed for a short while, then vanish just as quickly as they had arrived. He or she ghosted. Why? This was something I always used to ask myself
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Marvel’s Witches: A Charmless Comic That Is Criminally Vulgar 2
- Comics, Opinion, Reviews
- July 3, 2018
I built the foundations of an ongoing essay feature on my belief in the viability of knockoffs as a creative beginning. It’s not a conviction I’ve lost, but I never said that all knockoffs are good to have around or that they must be more interesting than not. The knockoff, like the fanfiction, is a
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Tips for Reading Comics Aloud 0
- Comics, Lists, Opinion
- June 28, 2018
My home is filled with comics, graphic novels, and books about comics and graphic novels. My kid has thus been surrounded by comics her whole life, though it was only last year, when she was three, that I started reading them aloud to her. Though comics are often referred to as “kids’ stuff,” they can
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Praise Carol and Pass the Apocrypha!0
- Comics, Opinion, Reviews
- June 27, 2018
The Gospel of Carol: Radical Teen Study Edition John S. Troutman Troutcave Comics The Gospel of Carol traces the life of Carol, the daughter of God, her brothers Thomas and Jesus, and her sister Miriam. She, not Jesus, is the Messiah, but people aren’t as willing to receive the Word of God from a woman
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My Boyfriend Is a Bear: The Consequences of Fat-Shaming in Comics 0
- Essays, Opinion
- June 25, 2018
We tend to avoid mirrors after we see that the number on the scale has ticked upward. Even if your body hasn’t visibly changed in shape, numbers seem like an immutable fact. There is a certain pressure surrounding the scale, which breeds an obsession with everyone else’s numbers. Then come the diets, the reluctant exercise,
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