Sociology

A few months ago Marvel announced that 2010 would see a big push for some events built around women -- as characters, as creators, and as readers. Here's one of the first projects out...

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcrqHYPKUMo&hl=en_US&fs=1&&w=480&h=295] It's about time cartoonists got embroiled in the fun, easy-to-understand debate over health insurance currently going on. Julia Wertz , author of Fart Party, appears on Time.Com explaining that she has a disease...

Have we been quoting him too much? Anyway, whatever, a video of a sand painting prompts McCloud to ponder the decade about to pass: We’re getting close to the end of a decade and a...

Fangirls now have bragging rights over fanboys, as TWILIGHT: NEW MOON shattered the opening day box office record -- previously held by THE DARK KNIGHT -- with $72.7 million. It also set a midnight...

At Fourth Letter, Esther Inglis-Arkell becomes enraged by female comics characters who stand around and explain why they wear skimpy costumes. And I heard the justification about how Canary’s outfit was in tribute to...

While going around the internet over just the last 24 hours, the following images turned up, all fine examples of the "Brokeback" aka "Show your ass AND your tits" pose, which all male fantasy...

UPDATE: Above, the cover to the Juice cover story (Thanks, Steve Stahl.)Johanna comments on a particularly dopey "trick your woman into liking comics" article entitled Can women learn to enjoy comics?: Kate Dacey...

R. Crumb's appearance at Virginia Commonwealth University last week has led to a campus controversy, with his comments on rape and misogyny igniting complaints from students and statements from officials: Timothy Patterson, a Richmond College...

WYTV in Youngstown, Ohio, reportsthat students at Slippery Rock University, located in western Pennsylvania, are upset about a recent "K Chronicles" cartoon written and drawn by Keith Knight.  In the strip Knight satirizes the...

No sooner has Rich Johnston noted that much-loved and admired Amanda Conner was the first woman to make Wizard Magazine Top 10 artists list—to much huzzahing and rejoicing—than it was noted, via CB Cebulski's...

This long article in the NY Times Magazine talks about Carl Jung's mysterious Red Book, a journal he worked on for years which contained his most profound ideas but which has never been published...

Cheryl Lynn Eaton is blogging for Bleeding Cool . And here's the Flickr group, which is the must-see of the show.