Sociology

Over the weekend there was a kerfuffle or two! Are you shocked? These involved comic cons which had promotions that seemed to forget that about 40% of the con going audience is now female.

I'm happy to report that Sequart's SHE MAKES COMICS documentary has been fully funded and reached a first stretch goal of making a special...

As you may have recalled, Ridley is actually one those big comics fans in Hollywood and spent a while writing comics for Wildstorm, including a run on the Authority, the mini-series Razor's Edge: Warblade, and The American Way. The latter is a book that really deserves to be on more comics reading lists—an 8 issue mini-series drawn by Georges Jeanty and Karl Story that has similar themes to Darwyn Cooke's New Frontier about the cold war and superheroes, but treats them with a much harsher view. The book follows the government's development of the Civil Defense Corps, a pr-driven team of superheroes introduced in the early 60s, and the turmoil that stem from the first African-American member in the Civil Rights era. A lot of comics mini-series have tried to be "the Next Watchmen" and The American Way is one of the few series that takes that tired "What if superheroes really existed???" idea and gives it a take based on the real world and not the imagined one.

How does gender break down for some of the more popular "indie" graphic novels versus mainstream graphic novels vs the average? And it's clear, there's a difference. Taking 17 various graphic novels (and if folks add suggestions in comments, I'll be happy to add upon this) I looked at men and women who were fans in the United States. I tried to stick to actual graphic novels, or books that have been long out of print and thus a complete graphic novel is how it's now consumed.

While we don’t have any market research, the eyes don’t lie. If you go to conventions and comic book stores, more and more female...

Does sex really sell? We all know it does, but marketing dude Spencer Chen has a post at Techcrunch that suggests Booth Babes Don’t...

Alison Baker is co-publisher of Monkeybrain Comics and I think it's no secret that her super-power is bering super smart: when she isn't promoting...

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 of Troop 142 fame—whose new GN this year, Angie Bongiolatti (Secret Acres) should be much talked about— has a daughter and now...

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...

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...

With the announcement of Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman by Warner Bros., I wondered just how popular is Wonder Woman around the world and...