Once upon a time, I wanted to be a fashion designer. I was constantly sketching ideas, collecting fabric samples, and chopping up my sister’s Vogue and Bazaar. I was infatuated with Christy Turlington and Linda Evangelista and the original supermodels. I dreamed of visiting the runways of Paris. As with many of my childhood obsessions,
READ MOREA week ago, I was presenting original research at the first annual Comics Studies Society Conference. My paper, “The Blue Age of Comic Books,” was about the digitization of comic books and comic book culture (you can read an early version here). “Blue Age” is a theoretical framework because it draws from my personal experience
READ MOREBecause we live life on hard mode, we naturally decided to use column #2 to dig into the most difficult to define point on our triangle: fashion. In simplest terms, we’re defining fashion as building designs from the ground up rather than duplicating or reworking real world outfits. That doesn’t mean runway versus rack, though!
READ MOREIt’s 2017, and Marvel’s 1994 teen comic Generation X is back! But with only one of the characters who was on the original team. Jubilee, who was a founding member of Generation X: 90s Edition now leads a new team of young mutants who must learn about their powers and battle a variety of evils.
READ MOREJust about anything with Emma Frost looking her diva best is going to make me pause, which is how I stumbled upon Chris Panda. I wanna badly one day to draw an Emma frost comics just to make her the best of outfits #fashionheroes pic.twitter.com/YnTpYWD9YF — Chris Panda (@ChrisPandArt) March 22, 2017 Continue scrolling through
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