Comments on: You Minx, you.

By: Michiko

Michiko — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 13:13:24 +0000

Halo! Hot picture alert! If Paris Hilton is your fave, then I have a website for you to see. Who wants it?

By: willhines.net

willhines.net — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 03:22:02 +0000

[...] I’ve been reading this amazingly thorough (maybe TOO thorough as I tend to skim) blog of the comics industry: Journalista!. Lots of great stuff, including comics-related events across the country — very many in NYC.Yesterday’s entry had a lot about comics created by women for women, inspired by DC Comic’s announcement of their Minx line. Talking about “men vs. women” in any creative field is a drag, but comics’ male-to-female ratio makes Fortune 500 CEOs seem practically co-ed, so I think it’s worth talking about. Heidi McDonald has a good essay about it, and she separately posts a hilarious pair of Wonder Woman drawings — one by a man, one by a woman. [...]

By: Paul Levitz talks sense?! « Picture Poetry

Paul Levitz talks sense?! « Picture Poetry — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 17:03:23 +0000

[...] But now, we’re almost at the situation where the question has turned into “what is the next opportunity out there?” You have this tremendous freedom of moment for creative people from other media to ours. You have people showing a willingness to sample comics about subject matter that would have been laughed out of the room a few years before. There’s an ability to promote and publicize those projects in ways that were unimaginable a couple of years ago, and giving you a chance to reach your audience. But still, I feel that the largest challenge is the challenge to the creative community – what do you do with this opportunity? What can you create? Is there the American humor strip that can have the power of an Asterix and simultaneously reflect the nature of popular culture, politics, and yet do it in a way that appeals to both adults and children and sells millions and millions of copies with each edition? [...]

By: Foot2Mouth - A Mouth Kicking Comics and Gaming News Source » Blog Archive » What We’re Reading this Week – (special Thursday Update #2) The Plain Janes

Fri, 18 May 2007 01:38:23 +0000

[...] DC’s new Minx line is intended to target teenage or tween girls with Manga sized books NOT containing super heroes. (It’s okay if you’re not comfortable with the name ‘Minx’ some people weren’t) In fact if you didn’t already know it, you might not realize at all that the books are owned by DC. And that’s okay. [...]

By: one diverse comic book nation » 2006: The Year That Was In Diversity In Comics

Mon, 01 Jan 2007 02:02:54 +0000

[...] Regardless of the controversy, the launch of Minx is a bold new move that everybody, in the long run, hopes will succeed. Heidi MacDonald at THE BEAT reported, “Minx is a momentous undertaking by DC because they have set aside a quarter of a mil buckaroos to market a new line of graphic novels. $250,000 is small in the larger scheme, but far from chump change in the historically parsimonious comics field, and by teaming with Alloy Marketing, DC has proven they’re serious. No one has EVER done anything like this in mainstream comics before. Marvel doesn’t have two pennies to rub together towards outside marketing, and according to Paul Levitz this is their biggest outside marketing expenditure in 30 years. It’s also something of a tacit admission that traditional comics marketing doesn’t reach the outside world in a targeted, modern way. In the real world, marketing isn’t sending out press releases, it’s partnering, pacting, blasting, placing and so on.” [...]

By: Dr. Peter A. Maresco

Dr. Peter A. Maresco — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 16:42:05 +0000

I am a marketing professor conducting research into product placement in comics. I am especially interested in the new Minx series with regard to the way in which it is scheduled to be marketed?

Can you help me locate comics, Magna, etc. that contain consumer products embedded in their story lines?

Thanks.

Peter A. Maresco, Ph.D.
The John F. (Jack) Welch College of Business
Sacred Heart University
Fairfield, CT 06825-1000

By: MangaBlog » Blog Archive » MangaBlogCast #20 is up!

MangaBlog » Blog Archive » MangaBlogCast #20 is up! — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 14:12:30 +0000

[...] Newsarama interview with Karen Berger David Welsh on reinventing the wheel Lengthy post at The Beat, with awesome comment thread [...]

By: Lisa Jonté

Lisa Jonté — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 21:46:58 +0000

PS, Thomas Gerhardt is a man after my withered, black heart.

That is all.

By: Lisa Jonté

Lisa Jonté — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 21:26:32 +0000

So, these focus groups I’ve been hearing so much about, do we know if they were actually comprised of the target demo? There are a lot of assumptions going around, but I’ve seen no hard data.

Now many people were in these groups? 2? 20? 200?

What were their genders? Male? Female? Both? If both, what was the percentage of the gender spread?

How old were these people?

Answers to these questions might go a long way to explaining some of what seems so inexplicable. And considering how heavily DC seems to be relying on the results from these focus groups, I think it’s not an unreasonable set of questions to ask.

By: Erik Scott

Erik Scott — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 19:20:37 +0000

It’s amazing to me in all this anger towards lack of female creators in the launch of this line that maybe, just maybe, the pitches that were received just weren’t interesting or at a certain quality level to be accepted.

It also amazes me that people jump to conclusions, without any specific evidence either way, that certain creators were or weren’t approached and that maybe some of these creators didn’t want to submit a pitch to DC this go around for this line of books.

I’ve yet to see substantiative list (and doubt I or we ever will offically) from DC of who was or was not solictied to put in pitches and who was either denied from DC’s side or who passed from the creator’s side.

I find it hard to believe that a line that his being headed by two of the more prominent females in the major comic publishing industry are purposely leaving out female creators as some sort of continuation of industry misogyny.

Couldn’t it just be that they’re printing the best pitches they got in accordance with whatever mission statement they have for this new imprint, regardless of gender?

Or is everything suddenly atuomatically a conspiracy against some group of people?

By: Paploo

Paploo — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 17:39:00 +0000

http://www.girlstoriescomics.com/sample01.html I like this stuff quite a bit…. looks like her work will be coming out from Henry Holt quite soon http://www.girlstoriescomics.com/sample05.html

By: Paploo

Paploo — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 17:34:43 +0000

http://adistantsoil.com/blog/?p=902 And then there’s Colleen Doran’s How to Draw Shojo manga book coming from North Light Books, who also published Lea Hernandez’s Manga Secrets [which is well worth any fans time as it's not just draw pretty people, but MAKE COMICS with said people]. They didn’t have trouble finding female creators working in a style popular with female fans.

By: The Beat

The Beat — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 17:31:59 +0000

I forgot about Lauren Weinstein, as well.

By: Paploo

Paploo — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 17:30:13 +0000

http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6332851.html And neither could HarperCollins for that matter, who signed a 4-book deal for young readers with Jill Thompson quite awhile back.

By: Paploo

Paploo — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 17:03:31 +0000

http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6339176.html It’s also worth noting that Simon&Schuster had no problem finding a female cartoonist for their Young Adult imprint. Hope Larson is creating not one, but TWO works for the publisher, starting with Chiggers, planned for a 2008 release. Hope’s LJ features assorted previews and such btw

http://hopelarson.livejournal.com/113972.html