“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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Getting boys to read
Must reading: Brave Kristy Valenti starts a methodology-based (or as much as it can be based) series entitled Gender and Reading Habits . In...
Bin Laden doesn’t like cartoons
On the fifth anniversary of the start of America's dumbest war ever, Public Enemy #1 Osama bin Laden reportedly dissed the Mohammed cartoons in...
If Obama goes to Comic-Con will he look like this?
Many rumors abound that democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama might show up at this summer's San Diego Comic-con. Obama, an avowed comics reader at...
Blog roll: Canadians, blaxploitation
Don MacPherson talks about DC's decision to print only one price on its comics for the US and Canada. The move has made Canadian...
Kick-ass comics women of the 70s
http://www.youtube.com/v/HIFiuIV67u0
This YouTube video has a weighty theme:
The American civil rights movement opened possibilities of empowerment to a new generation. Feminism simply extended that to...
