Is Image just a bunch of white dudes? Yes and no…
As soon as the above triumphal tableau from Image Expo was posted, just after Princess Leia presented Scott Snyder with his medal, I knew...
Mike Dawson on George Orwell and the Disney Princesses
Mike Dawson of Troop 142 fame—whose new GN this year, Angie Bongiolatti (Secret Acres) should be much talked about— has a daughter and now...
Scott Lobdell: I apologize to MariNaomi
When I first read MariNaomi's story of the guy who was sexually harassing on that panel, I thought he was an asshole and should...
Cartoonist sexually harassed on a panel in front of a room full of people
In all of the recent talk about sexual harassment in comics, many of the responses to well-documented incidents in bars has been "Oh, I...
Demographics: Wonder Woman Around the World
With the announcement of Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman by Warner Bros., I wondered just how popular is Wonder Woman around the world and...
Demographics: Comics Readers Almost 45% Women Now and How Publishers Stack Up
At the beginning of each month I take a survey of all of the self-identifying comic fans on Facebook, looking at the changes from...
Facebook Demographics: Different Publishers, Different Fans
For all of these posts I've tried to instill the idea that there isn't a simple comic fan. While it might mostly be men,...
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits, 11/19/13 – Sexual Harassment Edition
In the words of NY Times bestselling author Mariah Huehner, "Women don’t exist for you to approve of or to make you feel better about the shitty way the world works. We don’t exist for you at all. We exist for ourselves. And we’re going to keep demanding for our rightful place in the world whether you like it or not."
Another must read: Whit Taylor ‘On Being a Black Female “Indie” Cartoonist’
There's that social context for indie comics I was talking about a while ago. Following a twitter exchange, Ignatz nominee Whit Taylor expands on...
Facebook Demographics: Female Characters Beget Female Fans
Much has been made over this past week over Marvel's announcement about a new Ms. Marvel. The usual nutwings took to the internet to...
Comics have hit puberty…and it’s not pretty
For the last few weeks, a story has been going around, recounted by artist Tess Fowler, about how a comics pro seemed to be...
So what does a gal have to do to get into The Comics Journal...
Over 1578 pages of material, the last three issues of The Comics Journal included 11 pages by or about women cartoonists. Is this exclusion hurting diversity in comics or just the dying breath of pap pap comics?
