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Evie Nagy’s PW article “ What a Girl Wants is Often a Comic ” presents a great overview of comics and the girls who love them. Dark Horse, Slave Labor Graphics, and Oni Press are doing a bang up job of creating stories that range in appeal to everyone from the Hannah Montana mall crowd to the ...
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THE BEAT —
§ G. Willow Wilson interview fellow Verti-scribe, Hell-of-Famer Peter Milligan whose resurgent with two graphic novels and an ongoing on tap, QUotable:
GWW: This is from an internet commentator who actually calls himself ‘TheChangingMan’: What is your take on Rimbaud Syndrome–that feeling that all the deeply personal and artistically ground-breaking work one ever creates is a by-product of youth, and that once it is used up there’s no going back?
PM: I certainly think that this is a common feeling. And I think that a lot of our present culture is built around that notion. I myself ...
WEBCOMICSTOCK and some other news
COMIXTALK —
CONVENTIONS
Later in March of this year be sure to make it to WEBCOMICSTOCK -- okay they're calling it Webcomic Weekend but really it's gonna be like WEBCOMICSTOCK. Actually I don't think any of us are old enough to appreciate that lame pun so maybe Webcomic Weekend was a better choice after all. Go check out Gary's post for the most currentest-y details to date on this soon-to-be an oh-yeah-I-was-there kind of event.
HALF PIXEL (minus Scott Kurtz) hits Katsucon in Arlington VA this weekend.
Scott Kurtz writes about his experiences at the recent New York ...
Feb 17th - Comics and Manga Edition
When Fangirls Attack —
Comics Dear Publishers: Girls Read Comics, Too Warren Worthington III: Female by Proxy Sex Element: Just Because the Men Are Dead Doesn't Mean that Cheesecake Has to Be I ♥ Finder The Male Gaze and the Female Superhero The Representation of Women in Comics panel: Chelsea thought it was dumb and then I agreed with her. NYCC 09: Women in Comics Panel Representation of Women in Comics Manga Commentary Why “Boys Before Flowers” Sets Feminism Back ...
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