Tag: Top News
Mahou Shounen Breakfast Club and “the toxic ever present white gaze.”
There's no question but that in American culture the predominant view is one that is rich, white, male, straight and Christian. And while "The male gaze" is pretty well known, we're getting to learn about the "white gaze" as well. Have you ever wondered what it looks like? Now we know. Except it’s from peace loving New Zealand AND America.
Good luck to Tom Spurgeon on his halfway cross country move
Tom Spurgeon is relocating from New Mexico to Columbus, OH this week. I can only imagine how stressful that is—some tweets posts about...
Los Angeles Times Book Prize graphic novel nominees announced
Awards season is barreling along now. And here are the nominees for the LA Times Book Prizes, which added a graphic novel category several years back. It's a prestigious literary prize, and the winners over the years—Duncan the Wonder Dog, Finder, Today is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life among them—have definitely lived up to the billing. This year's five books chosen include what I would almost call the usual suspects for 2014:
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits 3/5/15: Area woman finds comics are not as she remembered
It would be easy to mock this Jen Teasdale-style column in the Norfolk Daily News where a woman goes to find some comics in her local bookstore but finds only superheroes and not Little Lulu, but I think there is a lesson in it. The tone is not the anger you sometimes find —"That's not MY Aquaman!"—but rather curiosity.
Power of fan tweets unlocks thrilling new Avengers trailer
After using the powers of social media to unlock a new trailer, we see the Avengers in a hopeless battle against Ultron! He's only one robot, what is the problem??? Nice character moments for the Black Widow and Cap, as we see the Avengers facing a host of CGI adversaries, and a ton of CGI building coming crashing down! And I nuanced take on the aqua/orange color scheme of all movies with a more roin's egg blue and light bisque patina.
Art Spiegelman’s Wordless has its final NYC performance March 13th
Wordless! is a collaboration between artist Art Spiegelman and musician Phillip Johnston—but it's really about Frans Masereel, Lynd Ward, and Milt Gross. The...
All-New By Its Cover #2 (February 2015)
The column that judges a book by its cover, focusing on the month's best-designed comic covers. For the month's best-illustrated comic covers, see Best...
Chast, Pastis and Price nominated for The Reuben Award
This year's nominees for "Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year” have been announced by the National Cartoonists Society and they are Roz Chast, Stephen Pastis...
Laura Terry’s Graveyard Shakes to be published by Scholastic
Laura Terry is a cartoonist, a graduate of Pratt and the Center for Cartoon Studies and a former Xeric Grant winner (for Overboard). And now she's had an original graphic noverl called Graveyard Shakes picked up by Scholastic. The cover looks great and the synopsis which you can read below also sounds very appealing. What interests me most about this deal is that, generally speaking, Laura Terry is unknown outside of minicomics circles, and this never appeared online as a webcomic, but she's had a whole GN picked up for publishing by one of the most successful publishers in the business.
Awesome Horrible Comics of the 80s and Beyond
Every era of publishing has had awful comics. Though we live in a golden age, they walk among us even now. But horrible comic...
Women and children conquered The Walking Dead in 2014 graphic novel sales
Brian Hibbs has posted his annual Bookscan analysis—charting actual sales of books that report to Nielsen’s Bookscan sales charts. while Bookscan numbers are not...
Irish teen starts social media campaign to get Comic-Con badge
I'm surprised we don't see more of these stories in the media, but perhaps this is just the start. It seems a 13-year-old lad...
