After a rocky series 6 and 7, Doctor Who’s triumphant 50th anniversary special seemed to presage a return to the heights of Steven Moffat’s first year as showrunner. In retrospect, perhaps there was no way for him to live up to those renewed expectations
Awesome Comics Awards: Voting Begins now!
With fifteen categories and loads of great nominations for each, we’ve decided to spread the polls out over the next few days. We want all of these fine comics and comics creators get your full attention. Today, we’re starting big, with Awesome Ongoing Print Comic, Awesome Colourist, and Awesome Penciller. Vote, share, comment!
US Court Rules Holmes is Public Domain–now I can write him into my sexy dinosaur stories
All of the Sherlock Holmes canon is finally recognized as public domain in all of the places! We must therefore prepare ourselves for the coming rash of gonzo Holmes adpatations. Sort of. Maybe. Effectively, this means that anybody can write about Sherlock Holmes, but they might have to leave out some details that were added in later…
Pichelli’s name almost disappears from USM book
Double standards are not a big surprise in the comics industry. Less than 15% of the workers in the Big Two are female[1], but things get worse: when they do get a job, women earn less than men for doing the same job[2] and have to deal with harassment. And writers get more recognition than…
News & Things: Welcome to 2014!
News P. Craig Russell on Murder Mysteries Interview with Russell about the new edition of Murder Mysteries, his collaboration with Neil Gaiman about the murder of an angel in heaven. Fantagraphics to Publish Massive: Gay Erotic Manga and the Men Who Make It Anne Ishii and Graham Kolbeins talk about their upcoming anthology and Japan’s gay manga…
Shiapologyscape 2014
Yesterday, noted plagiarist Shia Labeouf hired a skywriting company to publicly apologize to noted nonplagiarist Daniel Clowes. It was a bold move from this shameless copier–the only question is, who did he steal it from? (No, his sincerity is not in question. We know he’s not sincere.) Because we can’t answer that definitively, we put together…
New Year’s Resolutions And Other Promises From WWAC
Indeed much like the cyclical nature of comic book storytelling, tradition trumps necessity as we reflect on the past year and undertake the dubious task of creating New Year’s resolutions. Gym memberships have lapsed about as many times as Earth’s Green Lanterns, manuscripts have been started and left unfinished like the many deaths of Jean…
News & Things: Goodbye 2013
News Marvel Halts Sales of Periodical Comics in Bookstores Marvel has decided to stop selling single issue monthly comics in bookstores. They will continue to sell graphic novels in bookstores, and both graphic novels and monthly comics within the direct market. Top Ten Female Writers to Watch in 2014 For Books Sake wants you to…
Detective Comics #27: A celebration of nipples and claws and laziness
Batman first appeared in Detective Comics #27, in May of 1939. He wasn’t quite the Batman we know today–he carried a gun, he had no backstory to speak of (it wouldn’t come until November)–but the seeds were there. It’s a significant moment in comics history and, thanks to animated and live action interpretations, in pop…
What I gave my family for Christmas and why you should care
I am one of those: the relative who gives you presents you wouldn’t have asked for, in the hope that you will discover that you should have. In a prose family, I give comics. But I don’t give them willy-nilly; I give them because I love them, to people whom I love, in the hope…
Gal Gadot on Gazongas
It started when Zack Snyder announced that Wonder Woman would be appearing in the sequel to his Man of Steel, the highly polarizing Superman movie from 2013. As eager as fans may be to see their favorite costumed heroes showing up on the big screen, they are seemingly ten times harder to please. The moaning and…
Alan Turing Pardoned, Pussy Riot Given Amnesty–gee, thanks patriarchy!
On Christmas Eve, Elizabeth Windsor issued a royal pardon, only the fourth of her reign. Long-deceased WW2 codebreaker and international science hero Alan Turing was being pardoned for, well, being gay. For his crimes, Turing was offered a choice between two punishments: chemical castration and imprisonment. He chose castration and suffered greatly because of it. The estrogen…