Coming Out In Comics
Happy National Coming Out Day! Thank you SO much to everyone who offered stories–your bravery, diversity, talent, humor, and love makes me proud all over again to be part of the queer comics community....
View ArticleLove Your (Drawn) Body Day
This post is for Keely, whose idea it was, and without whom I would likely have let both Love Your Body Day and Fat Talk Free Week slip by without noticing. But! Luckily for me (and you), Keely is more...
View ArticleManhunter to End with #38
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View ArticleMemoirs of an Invisible Woman
Today, the president of Dark Horse walked past another female editor and my (adjoining) offices and stopped to call in that he’d just learned that we don’t exist, because someone else (I didn’t catch...
View Article“Females” vs. “Heroes”
The following is an excerpt of Wizard Fan Awards categories and contestants, cut and pasted for your edutainment: 21) FAVORITE HERO: Batman (DC) (Details) Spider-Man (Marvel) (Details) Captain America...
View ArticleBehind Closed Doors
Recently, Val D’Orazio asked a lot of comics pros the following question: “Do you think the comic book industry, and its principal players, should be subject to the sort of public scrutiny and (at...
View ArticleLip Service
Feeling drab and dowdy? Tearing your hair out in search of a stylin’ new look for SDCC? Worry no more, true believers, because, as it turns out, Marvel wants to help you look stylish! For the gents,...
View ArticleMeet the New Boss
The interwebs have been all a-flutter of late with the news that Disney is buying Marvel Entertainment. Everyone’s got their panties (and the tights beneath) bunched up with worry, wondering if...
View ArticleAn Open Letter to Fred Van Lente
Dear Mr. Van Lente, Coercing someone into having sex with you by pretending to be someone else is rape—ethically and legally. Coercing someone into making out with you by pretending to be someone else...
View ArticleA Happier Note
Dear Jen Van Meter, Thank you for doing more with one post to raise the level of discourse in the comics community than the whole blogosphere could manage in years, and for owning your work and...
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