Sociology

It started when James Sturm from CCS, presented a slideshow on children's book illustrator Virginia Lee Burton on the feminist blog DoubleXX. Sturm proposed that Burton might be a lost link in the early...

Yow, two great-sounding anthologies in one day? This one will be online, but covers a topic that has been, as yet, little covered by comics (or most of the media.) ACT-I-VATE announces THE IRAQ...

A new anthology dealing with gender issues has been announced, and it's called The Big Feminist BUT. It's edited by Suzanne Kleid (The Believer Magazine), Joan Reilly (Deep Six Studio), and Shannon O’Leary (PET...

Holy shit, have people really been PREDICTING this pandemic thing? You'd think so, based on this 12 page comic on preparing for a flu epidemic, produced by the Seattle & King County Public Health...

Ryan at Comicsfodder rounds up all the things that Marvel and DC have done lately to show that they don't take female readers very seriously, and points out something we've noted ourselves: I've never really...

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKKOzsTDJkY&hl=en&fs=1&w=425&h=344] SECRET IDENTITIES, a new superhero anthology by Asian creators examining various aspects of Asian culture and stereotyping, has been putting out videos to promote the book...here's the latest one. The book hits stores...

Wired looks at the secrets of your friendly neighborhood comic shop clerks.

What is it about DC's Batwoman character that headline writers just seem to adore? Take a single bare AP story about Kathy Kane taking over as the lead character in DETECTIVE COMICS for a...

GIvane all the talk over stereotyped casting and racial images going on here at The Beat of late, we wanted to draw attention to two panels at NYCC this weekend, both concerning SECRET...

Over at 4th Letter, David Brothers is posting daily articles on Black History Month: While there are often interconnecting themes, I try to keep each post to its own specific subject. Later in the month...

We made an oblique reference to the controversy over the casting of the AVATAR; THE LAST AIRBENDER movie the other day, but noted cartoonist Derek Kirk Kim has a rather impassioned take on it...

Thank God, a NEW controversy! Last week, Bill Willingham penned a piece for Big Hollywood, a newish website dedicated to presenting a more conservative view of the entertainment industry. The piece was entitled: Superheroes:...