Posted by Betty on July 21st 2008 · No Comments
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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.
Posted by KPhoebe on July 18th 2008 · No Comments
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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)
Posted by Poison Ivory on June 21st 2008 · Comment(1)
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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!
Posted by KPhoebe on June 10th 2008 · No Comments
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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)
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Posted by Betty on May 9th 2008 · No Comments
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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.
Posted by Betty on May 2nd 2008 · Comment(1)
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Get your preview from Cul de Sac, which promises such delights as MANGALOID WARS X: GIANT SPAZZOID ZOMBIE ROBOTS INVADE! and “Big Lulu”
Posted by Kate Fitzsimons1 on May 1st 2008 · No Comments
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As far as I’m concerned, Free Comic Book Day should be printed on every calendar in America. It’s one of my favorite holidays, and why not? A day celebrating comics, when the comic book stores give you free comics! What’s not to like?
And, after all, what are we at Girl Wonder but comic book lovers at heart? This is a holiday for us, too, why shouldn’t we claim it as our own? Why not take this day to celebrate all the things we <i>love</i> about comics, and all the things we hope they can become.
Free Comic Book Day is a great time to give the curious a taste of comics. And hey, while the comic shops are recruiting new readers, why not recruit new G-Wers?
So I don’t know about you, but I’m going to wear “Ask Me About Girl Wonder” proudly, and hope someone asks. I’m going to post Girl Wonder flyers proudly. I’m going to blog about my favorite woman-friendly comics and let people know Free Comic Book Day is coming. And also, I’m going enjoy all those free comics!
If this sounds interesting to you, here’s a link to the Celebrate Free Comic Book Day with Girl Wonder forum.
Posted by Caribou23 on April 23rd 2008 · Comments(2)
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The original post can be found here, although it’s a bit convoluted with all of the edits. Basically, here is the gist of it:
At Penguicon, we had buttons to give away. There were two small buttons, one for each camp: A green button that said, “YES, you may” and a red button that said “NO, you may not.” And anyone who had those buttons on, whether you knew them or not, was someone you could approach and ask:
“Excuse me, but may I touch your breasts?”
AHEM.
This comment rather sums up my feelings on this particular proposal:
“My body does not exist in the binary of SOME GUY’S ACCESS TO IT.”
Here is a brilliant satire of the initial proposal
And here is a round-up of links that have documented the responses.
Posted by Rachel Edidin on April 14th 2008 · No Comments
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(via THE BEAT)Cartoonist and art teacher Phoebe Gloeckner has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, which she’ll use to work on a graphic novel about a Mexican girl murdered in Ciudad Juarez. At ImageText last month, Gloeckner was one of the keynote speakers, and she discussed both the project and the heartwrenching research that had gone into it. It’s going to be a phenomenal book.Congratulations, Phoebe!