Thug Kitchen: Eat Like You Give a F*ck Thug Kitchen Rodale Books This dirty-talking compendium of vegan recipes is out October 7 and I cannot wait! I love all of their inventive recipes (like putting nectarines in spaghetti, yum!) and can always use another great cookbook. The pictures are stunning and will make you want…
Dogears: Rock Bottom, No Skin in the Game
Skin Game Jim Butcher Penguin I have to admit that, at this point, I’m mostly reading the Dresden Files out of a combination of inertia and completism. The sheen and new car smell have been rubbed off by the criticism Butcher has received about the sexism of his main character (which I disagree with) and…
August Staff Picks: Books
The Magician’s Land Lev Grossman Viking Adult Release Date: August 5 The final book in The Magicians trilogy is coming! What will Quentin Coldwater do now that he’s been banished back to Earth? Will he find a cunning way to maneuver back into Fillory? Will he apply his magical know-how to his regular life? Will…
Love, Lizzie: A Secret Diary Review
In 2012, The Lizzie Bennet Diaries (fondly known as LBD) brought the familiar and beloved novel Pride and Prejudice to a relatively new online platform as a webseries, and the results were nothing less than extraordinary. Jane Austen’s characters shifted into grad students, aspiring fashion designers, medical students, and CEOs, their lives and uncertainties closer…
#RomanceRevisited Caption Contest: We Have a Winner!
For the inaugural #RomanceRevisited caption this contest, our readers successfully summoned their inner Golden Age romance comic writers and crafted some truly superb submissions. Captions for our consideration were so appropriately bizarre, we could have sworn at least one of you wrote First Love Illustrated #88. Having received the most likes, here is the winning entry!
Death Comes for Archie: Life With Archie #36
Life With Archie #36 Paul Kupperberg (W), Pat Kennedy, Tim Kennedy, Jim Amash (A) Archie Comics Life With Archie # 36 opens slow, with the eponymous everyteen hero, Archie Andrews, looking back on his life and adventures in Riverdale. Life With Archie is not the Double Digests you might remember, it’s an adventure book, heavy…
Caption This Contest: #RomanceRevisited
Ah, romance comics. Is there any genre of comics that are more consistently baffling than those books of the Golden and Silver Age? We think not! And yet we are asking you, dear readers, to interject your own bit of crazy into these already guffaw-inducing comics with a caption this contest! We are even offering…
Disney’s Enchanted 2: Down the Manhole Again?
Disney has announced that they’re doing a sequel to their popular 2007 film, Enchanted. For those who haven’t seen it in a while, or for those who were too young to catch all the details – the film was a playful send up of Disney’s very own princess films. Giselle, a musical, animal-loving storybook princess finds…
Review: Fast Friends (NSFW)
Fast Friends Writer: Dale Lazarov Artist: Michael Broderick Dale Lazarov bills his work as “smart, wholesome, gay comics smut,” and that it is. Fast Friends, like Sticky and Manly is a wordless, erotic comic that balances poignant slice of life narrative with marathon sex.
My Week in Comics Events, Part 1: (Super)Hero with 1000 Faces
Last week Monday, I attended the (Super)Hero with 1000 Faces event at the British Library. The event was associated with the Library’s Comics Unmasked exhibit, which focuses on themes of rebellion and anarchy in British comics. The lineup was a mix of academics and creative professionals: Drs. Sarah Zaidan and Will Brooker in the first…
Reading Diaries: Legends, Flirts, and Fire
What have you been reading? What did you start and then never finish? Reading for work? For pleasure? Megan: I’m a big one for that–my patience is wearing thinner and thinner over the years, and I’m finding novellas and short stories a good fit for my surly-reader< nature. I recently read In The Tall Grass by Steven King and his son…
em est at TCAF
Mangaka em est, AKA Maki Satoh, made her reputation with three collections of yaoi stories and work in Japanese Boy’s Love magazines, but it’s already clear that her career is going to be anything but typical.