Comics industry stands against harassment with #standwithchelseacain hashtag
Writer Chelsea Cain received overwhelming support after quitting Twitter yesterday, a cool t-shirt went on sale, and a bizarre truther movement sprang up. All you need to know about the current comics controversy!
Marvel’s Sana Amanat returns to the White House — that’s good, right?
Recently Marvel's Director of Content Development Sana Amanat met the President of the United States during a Women’s History Month event. Evidently she liked the White House so much she returned yesterday for...
Anti-Wertham comic from the 40s found in library collection
Prof. Carol Tilley, who previously revealed that anti-comics crusaderDr. Fredric Wertham's research wasn't all that is at it again. While rummaging through the archives at the Billy Ireland Library she found an unknown comic...
The artist who made the vagina kayak is coming to North America despite jail...
Rokudenashiko (aka Megumi Igarashi) is a Japanese artist best known for creating a kayak that was based on a 3D scan of...an intimate part of her body. And she paddled around in it. Happily. The Japanese government was somehow offended by this and prosecuted her for obscenity—the trial has taken place and a verdict has not been rendered yet.
Her memoir What Is Obscenity? The Story of a Good For Nothing Artist and Her Pussy, will be published this spring by Koyama Press, and she's coming to North America for a series of lectures and signings sponsored by arts organizations and free speech advocacy groups. And appearing at TCAF. So you will be able to hear all about her travels and canoeing*** in person.
‘This One Summer’ removed from a Florida school and under investigation
Here we go again. A parent in Seminole County, Fla. found that her nine year old brought home This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki and thought it was way too adult...
One MIllion Moms objects to Lucifer hitting the all you can eat breadsticks at...
Hm, a TV show called Lucifer. I was wondering when someone would object to a network TV show named after Satan, and sure enough One Million Moms took up the challenge:
FOX's new drama "Lucifer"...
Twitter bans indie cartoonist who fought back against abusive tweets
UPDATE: Gfrorer's account has been reinstated but I'll leave this up as a cautionary tale.
Twitter has had a harassment problem for a long time. Like, a loooooooong time. Something about the impersonal format gives...
Chris Ware battles for graphic literature with “Why I Love Comics”
It seems that Chris Ware, the genius behind Building Stories and other structural comics masterpieces, and Hajime Isayama, the Attack on Titan creator we wrote about a few posts ago, share some of the...
New owners appear to have wiped The Palm’s once cartoon-covered walls
The famous murals at New York's Palm restaurant appear to be gone.
NO a school did not ban a cute Wonder Woman lunchbox
Was that letter everyone linked to about a sweet Wonder Woman lunchbox getting banned at a child's school real? Or are we all just sheeple who believe everything we read on the internet?
Ms. Marvel wins Hugo Award amid controversy
The Hugo Awards, honoring the best in science fiction, were presented this weekend surrounded by a nebula of controversy. Amy Wallace has a lengthy write-up at Wired explaining everything, but the short version is......
Two arrested in apparent gun threat at the Pokémon World Championships
With cons and fan events growing in popularity, and shooting an almost everyday occurrence here in the US, one wonders if there will ever be an "incident" at a con. Well here's one that MAY have been thwarted. It seems two invited participants in the Pokémon World Championships were arrested after making some online threats and showing up armed to the teeth:
