Tag: Batgirl
Discussion Points: Line-Wide Crossovers are Great for Sales, Awful for New Readers
On my lunch break today, I decided to catch up on a few books I had fallen behind on. Among them was Silk. I picked...
RIP Yvonne Craig
Actress/dancer Yvonne Craig has passed away at age 78, following a battle with breast cancer. Her official site has her obituary. Of course, she will always be known for playing Batgirl in the Batman TV series, but she was also a dancer (as shown by her role as the Orion slave girl Marta in Star Trek) and a lovely person who made many appearances at conventions over the years. Reading her obituary makes it clear that she lived a very full life.
SDCC ’15: Bengal on The Narrative of Action and Influences in Manga
Bengal is a comics artist residing in Reims, France. His published work includes Naja, Luminae, and Meka published in the US by Magnetic Press and Batgirl: Endgame and Batgirl Annual #3 (not published at the time of this interview). On the last day of San Diego Comic-Con 2015, I had the good fortune to chat with Bengal, tucked in the back of the very busy Magnetic Press booth.
SDCC ’15: We talk cape snaps, controversy and cons with the Batgirl of Burnside...
At SDCC '15 I talked with the Burnside Batgirl crew about their creative origins, how the look that launched a thousand cosplays came to be, how to handle creative criticism, and their earliest con experiences.
First Batman: Arkham Knight DLC Detailed
Play as Batgirl in Arkham Knight's first post launch DLC on July 14.
A Month Of Venturing Into The DC You: Week Four
Here we go, it's the final week! Let's cut straight to the chase and talk DC's Week 4 of their "DC You" initiative.
After last...
Rebel Rebel: Babs Tarr Shows off Livewire Re-Design for Batgirl
Livewire, the ass-kicking electro-magnetic supervillain is coming to the DC You next month in Cameron Stewart and Babs Tarr's Batgirl #42. The character, who was...
DC Comics pulls controversial Batgirl variant cover at the creative team’s wish
A controversial variant cover of Batgirl has been pulled following objections—including objections raised by the book's creative team.
The Art of Batgirl and Where We Go From Here
This is obviously prefaced with a heaping helping of “what the hell does a straight white male know about these issues?”. The simple truth:...
Bandette’s Coover and Tobin Talk about Digital Comics Going into Print [Interview]
One of the real breakout comics of 2013 was Bandette, from the husband and wife team Colleen Coover and Paul Tobin. A digital comic...
24 Hours of Halloween: Mike Maihack’s Batgirl/Supergirl
Mike Maihack (Cleopatra in Space) is someone I consider one of the progenitors of the "cutecore" movement in comics. I know I'm the only...
