Women in Comics!
Writer Hudson Phillips runs a "women in Comics" roundtable:
I recently had a conversation with 5 brilliant, creative, funny women who are up and coming (if not already established) in the world of comics. I...
Open source dumbass program
This has been going around in email and blogs, and we're not really going to get into it too much, but apparently this dude started something at a SF con where men who wanted...
Where the girls are
Various notes and comments on various aspects of women in comics over the past few days.
§ Reminder: It's always someone's first convention panel!. Huffington Post's Michelle Kung:
I began the fest with a...
Special Report: Women who Kick Ass by Steve Bunche
Special Beat Correspondent Steve Bunche went to the closely-watched "Women Who Kick Ass" panel and explains what happened:
Is there any more tired panel that gets regularly dusted off at comics conventions than the totally-beside-the-point...
How DO women do it?
Follow up: Colleen Doran on her panel-mate:
PS: I’m sorry, I can’t help myself…”constantly blowing us away with the most outrageous and provocative titles?”Yes, I used to do Power Pack and Louise created it.Utterly...
“Possibly the most ridiculous panel description ever”
Laura Hudson spots a real howler from the NYCC panel descriptions:
Friday7:00 PM-8:00 PM1E15Girls Who Kick AssHow do the ladies creating comics do it? They're constantly blowing usaway with the most outrageous and provocative titles....
Dave Sim responds
Talon helpfully faxed our post on Dave Sim's current output to the non-internet using creatorand reports Sim's response:
"I have never commented unfavourably about women, my opposition is directed toward feminism and the way it...
More on the origins of 20-something superhero fans
Our experiment in parsing the superhero trends of today ended in disarray as the discussion devolved into the kind of sock puppetry and name calling we find so odious. However, it did spawn a...
Brave & the Bold: This is the way it is
When Marc Oliver Frisch asked why Brave and the Bold by Mark Waid and George Perez had been sliding in sales, it seemed to touch a nerve, and Graeme at Blogorama kept the ball...
What’s hot at MySpace!
CBR takes a look at comics on MySpace and concludes that Marvel is very buzy there. However the most popular cartoonist on MySpace is a Seattle-based animator named Siya who has over 47K "adds":
In...
The rise of the manga
This is the moment of manga. I mean, I know you all knew that, but it's not just a fast growing comic book category; when people look back at Aught Nostalgia, this well...
Remembrance of Werthams Past
David Hajdu's The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America has been getting a great deal of press. The story of how the government investigated then all but destroyed comics,...
