I was into video games before it was cool. In 1994, I was six years old, and my favourite pastime was watching my babysitter, a teenage boy named Mark, play games on our home PC. It was a huge, white, clunky thing that ran Windows 3.1 and was mostly purchased so my dad could play…
Of Mice & Men Singer Is Not Getting Better
On October 11, 2016 front-man for metalcore band Of Mice & Men Austin Carlile announced that the band would be cutting their European tour short due to complications of his Marfan Syndrome. Many fans responded by wishing him well, and sharing their hopes that he’d get better soon. Carlile responded by explaining that “you don’t…
Trading Outpost: Fight! Fight! Fight!
Hello, it’s The Trading Outpost—bonus tapes for The Trades, a podcast about comics and comics adjacent topics! With me, FST, is Aaron LaRoche. We recorded this episode before the US election, so if you would like to travel back to a more innocent time to hear Aaron and I squabble about if you should sign your…
Melanie Gillman’s Stage Dreams: A Story of Queer Romance and Espionage!
There is a great deficit of happy stories about queer and trans people, so it’s extra exciting to find an artist that creates them. Melanie Gillman has been a champion of such stories, and has been building impressive body of work. They currently draw As the Crow Flies, a webcomic about a queer 13 year old navigating the…
The Last Resurrection and Millennial Adolescence
Content warning: this article discusses fictional portrayals of rape, incest, necrophilia and Nazi atrocities, along with a whole lot of religious insensitivity.
Thursday Book Beat: Life Lessons From Anne of Green Gables, Gilmore Girl Withdrawals and New GRRM?
Hi book lovers hope your week has been filled with holiday cheer no matter what you celebrate and good vibes whether you celebrate or not! I am compiling a list of books I must read over my winter break, including Swing Time by Zadie Smith and the novel the movie Arrival was based on, Story of Your…
Comic Arts Brooklyn 2016: A Nice Thing to Have
Comic Arts Brooklyn is for one-day only–blink and you miss it. It’s set up in a basketball court in Williamsburg’s The Shrine Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. Without the heaps of people streaming in and out or sitting outside on the stairs, you might think it’s a school. It’s more boxy than it…
Where In the World is Bodhi Rook?
2016 started off as a farcical mess of a year and quickly descended into something much more awful than anyone anticipated. Despite this, however, I have tried to remain hopeful–after all, this is the future where we get a new Star Wars movie every year. That is one bright spot in the sea of troubles…
When Koike Wrote Logan: X-Men Unlimited #50’s Missed Chances
X-Men Unlimited #50 Koike Kazuo, Koji Kengo, Paul Smith, Brad Anderson Marvel Comics, 2003 Koike Kazuo writing Wolverine is a thought too good to sound too good to be true. You have to believe in it, before you read it. You need to believe that good things can come from good ideas. But it was not…
Reel Geek Girl: Disney’s Moana
Moana Starring: Auli’i Cravalho and Dwayne Johnson Directed by: Ron Clements, Don Hall, John Musker and Chris Williams Disney, PG November 2016 Moana is the 56th Disney Animated film, and it is a visually stunning piece, showcasing the wonder and beauty of the Pacific Islands. The trailers and synopses online are sadly out of date…
Dogears: Velvet Wrapped Steel and Homicidal Royals
The Mothers Brit Bennett Riverhead Books October 11, 2016 Disclaimer: An Advanced Reader’s Copy (ARC) of the book was provided by the publisher for an honest review. I found out about this book while reading the October 2016 issue of Vogue. Lupita Nyong’o was on the cover looking gorgeous as usual, and I came across…
Comics Academe: Hellos and Hildebrand
Editors Note: I am pleased to introduce the first article by a new Comics Academe contributor, Tiffany Babb, who will be sharing with us the view from inside academia, and specifically, the how she tackles the common academic dilemma of how to study comics when your institutional program does not have a comics studies program. Since…
