Homosexuality in Comics
CBR starts a comprehensive series by Emmett Furey:
Parts I and II will introduce the nine participants. Part I features Marc Andreyko, Lillian Diaz-Przbyl, Devin...
Oldsters don’t think it’s funny
A new study backs up the idea that older folks just don't think things are as funny as the whippersnappers:
It's no laughing matter: a...
Male virgins rampant in Japan
According to one survey, almost 1 in 4 Japanese men between 30-34 is a virgin:
"There are 11 percent of people who gave an invalid...
We’re not just imagining these things, you know
Old Disney Rejection Letter via Boing Boing.
UPDATE: to those who thought this was not a form letter --- nope, it was SOP.
Fanthropology
Damn if that name hadn't already been taken for a blog we would so steal it! Anyhoo, our ongoing study of the state of...
Thunderbirds are STILL GO!
A few days ago we were fretting that THUNDERBIRD fandom might be dying out/. The evidence? An excessive number of Geocities pages and dead...
Zombies keep on coming
People -- specifically John Jakala -- continue to wonder why this doesn't bother me. While I can see the "line muddying" issue that some...
Nymphet creator speaks
The controversy over NYMPHET, the planned American version of Kaoru Watashiya's KODOMO NO JIKAN ust keeps going. Now Watashiya-san has addressed the controversy...
PRoN frolic with children’s books causes ruckus in Singapore
It seems that a copy of HOW TO MAKE MONEY LIKE A PORN STAR, the controversial graphic novel by Neil Strass and Bernard Chang,...
Douglas Wolk two-fer
Our esteemed comics journo compatriot Douglas Wolk has two new pieces up:
Over at Salon he interviews cartoonist Berke Beathed, whose "Opus" just started running...
Anime bigger than sex?
Compete looks at what people are searching for in Wikipedia, and the results may surprise you:
Anime (26%)
There is a tremendous amount of interest...
