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Posted by comicbookgoddess on August 16th 2008 · Comment(1)

In honor of the return of When Fangirls Attack, I am making a devious post of links that wouldn’t be linked directly, but can inspire posts that will be. So read! Get angry! Blog! Troll!

Comics Waiting Room 3.0 Reviews: COMIC ARTIST’S PHOTO REFERENCE: WOMEN AND GIRLS

Pictures of Real Women to use when drawing? They’re not hyper-thin, but at least the sample pictures are definitely stingy on the plus-side. Of course, so are traditional comic book women. Which is kind of the point…

Rob Zombie’s Werewolf Women Of The S.S. Comic Book Cover!

Umm. I don’t really know what to say about it. But SOMEBODY has to. So, here it is. Go for it.

San Diego Comic-Con 2008 - A woman’s perspective . | CollectionDX

Posted for the novelty value. This is a woman who didn’t seem to have any problems with oversexed idiots at SDCC.

Portrayal of women in comics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This and the link of women comics creators should probably be a perma-link on most of our personal blogs.

The Hackenblog » Middle-aged women in comics shops rock

Just because I hadn’t seen this last year. Yes, they do.

Bored now! See you later!

Links for July 27th through August 18th

Posted by Betty on August 11th 2008 · No Comments

A selection of links for July 27th through August 18th:

• Women in science - A compendium of female scientists in fiction, mostly SF, at the moment. I assume it's so short because it's a work in progress, not because there are only several dozen female scientists in fiction.
• Sir Nils Olav the Penguin Inspects His Troops - Did you know that a penguin is an honorary member and Col.-in-Chief of the Norwegian King's Guard? Yeah, me neither, somehow.
• Drawing-board confessional: 22 unflattering moments from autobiographical comics - When you make a comic about your life, I always thought you were supposed to leave out the nosepicking.
• Revealed: one third of Brooklyn Museum’s Coptic collection is fake - The title says it all. There's something schadenfreudelicious in learning that even the experts can be duped.
• Imperial Alpacas - via Cute Overload, this youtube video is about forty seconds of editing away from pure genius. (warning, video)

Links for July 21st through July 27th

Posted by Betty on July 27th 2008 · No Comments

A selection of links for July 21st through July 27th:

• A Critique of Muslim Women in Comic Books - Part two here. You will almost certainly find yourself unfamiliar with some of the characters.
• The comic Bardo Thodol - Via metafilter, the Tibetan Book of the Dead in comic form. I bet the original doesn't have layout this bad, though.
• The racial truth inside fiction's lie - Using the X-men to talk about racism and prejudice is old hat, but Mikhail Lyubansky wants to talk about how X-men gets it wrong.
• Video - Ill Doctrine explains why 'you're racist' is a losing move.

Links for July 14th through July 15th

Posted by Betty on July 21st 2008 · No Comments

A selection of links from the internets.

• Free comics? - Why yes! Although they are in PDF, a file format I regard as ‘like html, except suck.’
• Obligatory penis linking - I know what Freud would say about me, but what would he say about the culture that produced this? I hope the NSFW goes without saying.
• Black Feminist Legacies - A post of Black feminists, most of whom I hear very little about in the mainstream discussions of feminism.
• Women face bias worldwide - The UNHCR says, among other things, that rape within marriage is still legal in 53 countries. Your barf bag is in the seat-pocket in front of you.

Hyatt at ComicCon: Where They Want To Destroy Marriages

Posted by KPhoebe on July 18th 2008 · No Comments

SAN DIEGO — A $125,000 donation in support of an anti-gay marriage initiative by a San Diego hotelier has drawn the ire of gay and lesbian activists and local labor unions who are now calling for a boycott.

Organizers held a news conference in front of the Manchester Grand Hyatt, near Seaport Village, on Thursday. A coalition of LGBT community leaders and the labor movement spoke out against Doug Manchester, who contributed a donation in support of Proposition 8, which would allow only men and women to marry in the state of California. The group opposes the ballot measure because it threatens the recent state Supreme Court decision that allows marriage between men and women.

Another day, another bigot - but one where comics fans definitely have a chance to make their feelings known. If you’re going to San Diego Comic Con, you may want to consider the homophobia of the Hyatt’s owner and his active opposition to the establishment of legal marriage between same-sex couples* before drinking at the Hyatt (or the Mariott, also owned by Manchester).

Chris Butcher makes his opinion clear.

Tom Spurgeon points out some of the ways people try to justify continued patronage.

And Lisa Jonte asks you to collect receipts from the other bars you patronise.

* I don’t GET these people. “We want to protect marriage: by delegalising a whole bunch of them!”

(Cross-posted to GRC)

Spot the Goof: Neil Gaiman

Posted by KPhoebe on June 30th 2008 · No Comments

Maddy and I are off to Brazil in a few minutes. Well, we’re off to New York where we change planes. But basically, we’re off to Brazil together. She has the disarming smile. I have the unlikely facial hair. We’re like Green Arrow and Speedy, only without the boxing glove arrows, the costumes, the similarity of gender and… okay, not really a good analogy, but what the hell, we’re hitting the road. Or we will if the car turns up.

It’s a better analogy than he thinks!

This is in all ways a totally fantastic image, but Roy Harper hasn’t been Speedy since the 70s. Mia Dearden deserves her due!

World’s Greatest Detective, Indeed.

Posted by Poison Ivory on June 21st 2008 · Comment(1)

David Willis of Shortpacked! weighs in on Stephanie Brown’s return. (You may recall his take on her death a year ago.) Well put, Mr. Willis.

Plus, a bonus sketch!

India’s Creative Comic Economy

Posted by KPhoebe on June 10th 2008 · No Comments

A nice overview of Virgin Comics from Current TV, with the interesting tack of examining them as part of India’s burgeoning creative economy.

(Warning: Video)

Current Comics Events

Posted by Betty on May 9th 2008 · No Comments

ECBACC, the East Coast Black Age of Comics Convention ‘08 is May 16 and 17 in Phillidelphia.  (Nichelle Nichols is Guest of honour, you guys: I squeaked.)

Nominations are now open for the Lulu awards, which will be handed out at the MoCCA festival in New York City, on June 7.

And in a somewhat more tenuous connection, the Met exhibit, Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy is showing us that superhero costumes don’t really look that dorky after you imagine Superman with a fishing-net and some coke bottles on his head.

Can’t wait for FCBD?

Posted by Betty on May 2nd 2008 · Comment(1)

Get your preview from Cul de Sac, which promises such delights as MANGALOID WARS X: GIANT SPAZZOID ZOMBIE ROBOTS INVADE! and “Big Lulu”