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YA Bloggers Read Gotham Academy, A Roundtable
- Comics, Roundtables
- 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) but who would love some of their current
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Farewell, Girls With Slingshots
- Webcomics
- March 25, 2015
Girls With Slingshots Danielle Corsetto (W & A) girlswithslingshots.com
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Quick Change Cosplay: Jem Jamming Around
- Cosplay
- March 25, 2015
It is eight o’clock in the morning, and your fellow geek calls you up and announces a last-minute con she has decided to attend. Obviously, you have to go with her, but what to wear? It is now time to perform your own superhuman feat and put together an acceptable geek outfit from easily found
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Rubens Won’t Save You: You Don’t Get to Use Art History to Justify Violence Against Women in Comics
- Art & Design, Comics, Essays
- March 24, 2015
Content warning: we’re talking rape imagery and rape culture. You’re in an elegant gallery, looking up at a statue of a woman and a man. The man has his arms around the woman. Her face is contorted in fear. Tears stream from her eyes. “Wow,” think you, the art critic. “What an emotionally raw and
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We Must, We Must…Support Janelle Asselin’s Kickstarter for Romance Comics Anthology!
- Comics
- March 24, 2015
How perfectly serendipitous. I recently interviewed the amazing Jacque Nodell, a romance comic historian, about her site Sequential Crush and her research in romance comics. When I asked her if she thought there was a current romance genre in comics, she said while there are comics with “romantic elements and romantic fare from overseas, such
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Secondhand Memories and Cell Phone Novels: An Interview with Takatsu
- Interviews
- March 24, 2015
Technological advances, the invention of the internet, and the so-called “Digital Revolution” have undoubtedly impacted our daily lives. The ways in which we communicate with one another have drastically changed since my birth in the 1980s. The internet has especially helped to bring about the global “democratization of knowledge” and information, which has lead to
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Rat Queens Wins GLAAD Media Award
- Comics
- March 24, 2015
The GLAAD Media Awards, granted by the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, recognize and honor media for their fair, accurate and inclusive representations of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community and the issues that affect their lives. Each year, they honor excellence in print and digital media, television, movies and comic books. This
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Comics On Your Digital Bookshelf: Scribd is Not the App it Could Be
- Comics
- March 23, 2015
I originally signed up for Scribd last summer. I knew a couple people who used it already for its unlimited ebooks, as well as a similar service, Oyster. I initially went with Scribd, though, because in addition to unlimited ebooks it offered audiobooks too. I love audiobooks but I do not love the price of
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Legenderry: Red Sonja #2 or What Happens When You Give Red Sonja a Rocket Launcher
- Comics
- March 23, 2015
Legenderry: Red Sonja #2 Marc Andreyko (w) Aneke (a) Sergio Fernandez Davila (c) Dynamite March 18, 2015
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Con Diaries: London Super Comic Con
- Comics, Con Diaries
- March 23, 2015
My first impression of my second year at London Super Comic Con was that the programming seemed, for a lack of a better word, very dudely. A lot of time was given to Avatar Press and Max Brooks, and not much time to more obviously inclusive publishers or creators. Even the brief moderated portion of
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Tank Girl Is Back! 21st Century Tank Girl Gets Serialized
- Comics
- March 22, 2015
Titan Comics has announced that they are serializing 21st Century Tank Girl!
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Oni Press Announces Open Submissions for May
- Comics
- March 21, 2015
Get your comic book pitches ready; Oni Press is on the hunt for new talent!
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A Comics Creator Harassed Me On Twitter and I Don’t Want to Say His Name
- Essays
- March 21, 2015
A comics creator harassed me for months on Twitter and I don’t want to say his name. It wasn’t even that bad, is what I’ve always told myself; more an endless stream of Well Actually and gaslighting than threats of harm. It wasn’t even that bad, is what I tell myself, wishing I hadn’t let
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The DC Daily Planet: The Artist Speaks
- Comics
- March 20, 2015
Happy Friday, crusaders! I have my first fight tomorrow, so please excuse my flighty cut-week brain, even if you don’t excuse some of DC’s and DC-adjacent behavior this week. The big news, of course, is that cover, and the outcry surrounding first its reveal and then the news of its cancellation. Listen, maybe you really,
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The Hidden Message of Saga, or, Why We Can’t Help But Love It
During the last few years, I have read tons of books, and just a few of them had what I call a “magic wardrobe” effect. You might have experienced it too: you open the book, time collapses, and you’re suddenly on the last page and the clock displays 4am. There is some distinctive type of
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The Spider-Gwen Playlist You’ve Always Wanted
- Comics
- March 20, 2015
We finally got our Spider-Gwen series and the first issue was fantastic! While reading it, I couldn’t help but get a vibe that could only be explained as a rock and hip hop fusion. Urban angst with an arrogant bass. Of course, I decided to make you all the essential Spider-Gwen playlist for your reading enjoyment. You’re
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