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The Pregnant Belly: A Narrative Prison for Mother and Child

June 24, 2015

I’ve been pregnant twice. I won’t say I loved being pregnant. There were definitely down sides to the reproductive process, though compared to some my pregnancies were relatively easy. I do not say that to brag. Pregnancy is a frightening thing. A dangerous thing. According to the ...

Comics

Gin & Kate Review IDW’s X-Files Season 10 Volume 3: How One Scene Ruined An Entire Volume

June 18, 2015

The X-Files: Season 10, Vol. 3 Joe Harris (scripter), Matthew Dow Smith (illustrator), Jordie Bellaire (colorist), Robbie Robbins, Neil Uyetake, & Chris Mowry (letterer) IDW December 2, 2014 The anticipation for The X-Files continues to grow. David Duchovny admitted that the new script made ...

Bande Dessinée, Comics, Essays, Opinion

I’m Not Charlie, and Neither are You. So Who ARE You? Where’s Your Stand?

June 1, 2015

Using cartooning to provoke and punish people makes cartooning an instrument of cruelty. It’s easy to say that nothing can devalue or tarnish a form of art or a medium, but it’s harder to sit down your human emotions and sense of connection and tell it that a scene isn’t souring and widely ...

Opinion

Fat Hate at Lilly P: When Cartooning is Used For Evil

May 26, 2015

Lilly Pulitzer! Not usually our bailiwick. An American clothing brand for the modern-day Jackie O throwback, if Jackie were more of a follower and went for ditsy prints instead of block colour. But they’ve gone and brought cartooning into their PR yard, and they’ve used it for evil, and that ...

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Why We Switched From Trigger Warnings to Content Warnings

May 4, 2015

The modern world thrives on labels, categories, and vast organizational structures that reduce friction between the billions and billions of us crowding this tiny rock (I blame Aristotle and an assortment of other historic labellers). But more often than not, we humans love labels: introvert, ...

Bande Dessinée, Comics, Opinion, Webcomics

Do Not Read In Public: Let’s Talk About Sex (In Comics)

May 1, 2015

Content Warning: Discussion and depiction of sexuality. So I’m just a girl in a comic book store. I’m aimlessly walking around, letting my gaze go from cover to cover, waiting for something to catch my eye. I glance over a shitload of caped crusaders, lots of skintight catsuits, a couple of ...

Comics, Essays, Opinion, Webcomics, Zines

How We Are Sick: Diagnosis

March 31, 2015

Maybe I’m dying.

Comics, Manga, Opinion

Cute Is Not Always Safe! Cover Stories: Judge a Book on Whether You’d Buy It

February 17, 2015

This time on Cover Stories, where we judge a book by the first face it presents… Ani-Imo: Volume 1 Haruko Kurumatani Yen Press The spine White! White looks clean and stands out. It’s confident. The font choices are all cute and the colour scheme is pleasant. I love a very round ...

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Fifty Shades of Otome: A Mobile Market of Devotion or Defilement?

February 9, 2015

I can’t recall how I became interested in mobile otome games—I think it began with a game that was on sale on Steam. It renewed my interest in visual novels in general and eventually led me to the mobile market to further whet my palate. For those not aware, “otome gēmu” (pronounced ...

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Shall We Date?

February 5, 2015

Once upon a time, our games editor, Al, asked if any of us would like to play and write about Japanese dating games or “otome.” Otome are story-based romance games largely targeted at a female, heterosexual audience. The player role-plays as the ambiguous main female character whose ...

Content Warning

The Pregnant Belly: A Narrative Prison for Mother and Child

Gin & Kate Review IDW’s X-Files Season 10 Volume 3: How One Scene Ruined An Entire Volume

I’m Not Charlie, and Neither are You. So Who ARE You? Where’s Your Stand?

Fat Hate at Lilly P: When Cartooning is Used For Evil

Why We Switched From Trigger Warnings to Content Warnings

Do Not Read In Public: Let’s Talk About Sex (In Comics)

How We Are Sick: Diagnosis

Cute Is Not Always Safe! Cover Stories: Judge a Book on Whether You’d Buy It

Fifty Shades of Otome: A Mobile Market of Devotion or Defilement?

Shall We Date?

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