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All the podcasts of San Diego 2017 with Three Women in a Hotel Room and more

07/28/2017 5:00 pm by Heidi MacDonald

All the podcasts of San Diego 2017 with Three Women in a Hotel Room and more

You’re probably as sick of San Diego Comic-Con as we are, but in case you missed any of our podcasts from the show, here’s the definitive guide! First, Brigid Alverson, Deb Aoki and The Beat Herself reunited for “Three Women in a Hotel Room” – a sorta daily podcast of our impressions of the show, […]

Filed Under: News, SDCC '17 Tagged With: #comiccon, brigid alverson, calvin reid, david steinberger, deb aoki, jackson publick, john ridley, karen berger, kate fitzsimons, ken plume, kurt hassler, Landis Blair, Nidhi Chanani, nilah magruder, Podcasts, SDCC, sdcc '17, tillie walden

CXC 2017 in Columbus announces 24 guests including Pilkey, Walden and DeConnick

05/23/2017 3:15 pm by Heidi MacDonald

CXC 2017 in Columbus announces 24 guests including Pilkey, Walden and DeConnick

CXC, the ambitious third year comics festival located in Columbus, OH, just announced its 2017 guest list, 24 creators from an eclectic swath of the comics world; I picked three names in the headline to express that, including bestselling children’s author Dav “Captain Underpants” Pilkey, wunderkind Tillie Walden, and Image Comics/Milkfed mainstay Kelly Sue DeConnick. CXC is run in […]

Filed Under: CAFs, Indie Comics, News Tagged With: Ann Marie Fleming, Ann Nocenti, Chris Sprouse, connor willumsen, cxc '17, Dana Simpson, Darrin Bell, Dav Pilkey, Derf Backderf, emil ferris, Howard Cruse, indie comics events, jennifer holm, Judd Winick, Kat Fajardo, katie skelly, Kelly Sue DeConnick, kevin huizenga, Kyle Baker, Laura Park, leslie stein, Lilli Carré and Alexander Stewart, Matt Fraction, mimi pond, nilah magruder, Peter Bagge, tillie walden

A year of free comics: Nilah Magruder’s M.F.K

01/10/2017 11:00 am by Rosie Knight

A year of free comics: Nilah Magruder’s M.F.K

Dwayne McDuffie award winner Nilah Magruder’s M.F.K is a sprawling epic, filled with dynamic characters, ridiculously wonderful art. M.F.K is a completely unique take on the classic action adventure. In short it’s really really fantastic.    In a sand swept post-apocalyptic world we meet Abbie, recently bereaved she’s just trying to get her mothers ashes home, but […]

Filed Under: Comics, Free Comics, Webcomics Tagged With: a year of free comics, Comics, nilah magruder, Webcomics

The Comic That Changed My Life

12/27/2016 7:40 pm by Rosie Knight

The Comic That Changed My Life

Comics have always been a huge part of my life, from my questionable six year old speculator phase (when I was convinced that any issue #1 was a prospective goldmine) to my pretentious preteen obsessions with the “great works” of comics (feverishly studying anything labeled with the words “sequential storytelling”). But it wasn’t until I […]

Filed Under: Comics, Commentary, Culture Tagged With: Comics, James F Wright, kelly thompson, Kieron Gillen, nilah magruder, ronald wimberly

Is Nilah Magruder the first African-American woman to write for Marvel?

09/07/2016 3:00 pm by Heidi MacDonald

Is Nilah Magruder the first African-American woman to write for Marvel?

There was a lot of buzz a few months ago when it was announced that esteemed writer Roxane Gay and poet Yona Harvey would be writing World of Wakanda, a spin-off of the Black Panther universe. Both writers were recruited by author Ta-Nehisi Coates, and their hiring partially answered criticism that Marvel had never hired […]

Filed Under: Marvel Tagged With: a year of marvels, marvel infinite comics, nilah magruder, Rocket Raccoon, Siya Oum, tippy toes

Nilah Magruder wins the first Dwayne McDuffie Diversity Award for M.F.K.

03/02/2015 9:30 am by Heidi MacDonald

Nilah Magruder wins the first Dwayne McDuffie Diversity Award for M.F.K.

As announced this weekend, the first Dwayne McDuffie Diversity Award was given out, and the winner was Nilah Magruder for her webcomic M.F.K.

Disclosure: I was one of the judges for this award. And I couldn’t be happier that Magruder won.

Filed Under: Awards, Top News, Webcomics Tagged With: Awards, Dwayne McDuffie, M.F.K., nilah magruder, Top News, Webcomics

First ever McDuffie Award for Diversity finalists are announced

02/18/2015 4:30 pm by Heidi MacDonald

First ever McDuffie Award for Diversity finalists are announced

The finalists for the inaugural Dwayne McDuffie Award for Diversity Award have just been announced (disclosure: I am honored to have been one of the judges) and they are: Hex11 by Lisa K. Weber and Kelly Sue Milano (HexComics) M.F.K. by Nilah Magruder Ms. Marvel by G. Willow Wilson and Adrian Alphona (Marvel) The Shadow […]

Filed Under: Awards, Top News Tagged With: adrian aphona, bilquis everly, david walker, diversity dwayne mcduffie awards for diversity, G. Willow Wilson, Gene Luen Yang, Hex11, kelly sue milano, lisa k weber, M.F.K., Ms Marvel, nilah magruder, shadow hero, shaft, Sonny Liew

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