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....
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...
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...
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:
New Black Lightning Archive: DC, Tony Isabella Reconcile
"Dogs and cats, living together!" - that's what immediately popped into my mind yesterday when I read Tony Isabella praising DC on Facebook for...
The weirdest thing about that Jill Lepore piece on A-Force
I kind of missed the tidal ebb and flow over Jill Lepore's analysis of A-Force in the New Yorker while I was at TCAF. I saw it in my feed and figured it would ignite some debate but I was misled by the title on the piece
Challenged Books update: Persepolis, Saga, Drama and Palomar
It's National Library week, and it's time for the annual list of most challenged books. Graphic novels are making the list pretty frequently, and...
Rio Rancho school library review committee rules to keep Palomar on the shelves
Gilbert Hernandez's Palomar—a masterpiece of small town life, longing and the search for love—survived a challenge and will remain on the shelves at the school library in Rio Rancho, NM Betsy Gomez reports for the CBLDF.
Rio Rancho mom “incredibly disturbed” by finding “Palomar” in school library
Sadly I can't embed the local news scare quotes story here but the transcript is almost as good. A mother in Rio Rancho, NM found her son had checked out Gilbert Hernandez' PALOMAR from the school library, and then things got dangerous!
Thanks, Obamacomics!
A graphic novel has become Exhibit A in the latest Obamacare controversy.
Clear, simple, understandable, useful - those are just a few of the words...
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