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)
June 10, 2008
May 9, 2008
Current Comics Events
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.
May 1, 2008
Who’s up for Free Comic Book Day?
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.
April 14, 2008
Guggenheim for Gloeckner
(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!
March 27, 2008
February 14, 2008
Comics Black History Month
David Brothers is writing daily posts this February for his Black History Month at the excellent 4th Letter.
Of particular interest to Girl-Wonder.org readers (though it’s all great) might be this entry, where he ponders the lack of reaction to the death of Orpheus, in comparison to that for the Spoiler:
Why is Orpheus forgotten and why is Spoiler an icon? Maybe it’s the cynic in me, but this sounds familiar.
I’m not trying to diss anyone here. It’s just an interesting little comparison that I thought of while I was mulling the two characters over in my head.
I think it boils down to this: Spoiler is much, much more marketable than Orpheus is. If vigilantes were real, and Spoiler went out like she did? It’d be a 24 hour news cycle with breaking updates from various talking heads, constant news tickers, and the whole shebang. She’d be Jonbenet Ramsey, Natalee Holloway, Laci Peterson, and Chandra Levy all in one, with a side of Patty Hearst.
Orpheus… not so much. History bears this out. Crimes against black people just don’t get a lot of media attention, unless it’s something either a) totally outlandish or b) talked about enough that the media can’t get away with ignoring it.
February 11, 2008
Pride High Wins Queer Press Grant
Tommy Roddy and Justin Hall have been chosen as joint winners of this year’s Prism Comics Queer Press Grant. For Roddy, the money will help finance the first Pride High trade paperback – awesome news for much of the Girl-Wonder community!
http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=146336
February 4, 2008
Introducing Sequential Heart
One of the Super-Top-Secret projects I’ve been hard at work on has finally made its public debut!.
An update since the article was written: We’ve now donated over a hundred comics to organizations in and around Portland and have developed ongoing relationships with several of those. With luck, our website will be up and running within the next week or so, at which point we’re hoping to see an explosion of both requests and donations.
Rock on!
December 3, 2007
Queer Comics Controversy Bingo!
Disclaimer This bingo card is not meant to replace or, indeed be used in, actual debate. Instead it is merely designed to amuse and inform, in a lighthearted presentation of the most common arguments against having queer characters in comics.
http://ragnell.blogspot.com/2007/12/never-thought-i-say-this-but.html
ETA: Feel free to use, link, or distribute this image in any way you see fit.
November 5, 2007
Congratulations, Occasional Superheroine!
Valerie D’Orazio of Occasional Superheroine has announced that she’ll be the new President of Friends of Lulu in 2008!
Congratulations Valerie, I’m happy for you and I have high hopes for this new board of directors.
Get the full story over at Occasional Superheroine.
Unimpressed.
With this:
Ahem.
Let’s get the facts out.
It’s not a weird lighting issue in the image.
It’s not a coloring error.
Vixen is not a freakin’ white woman.
Found via Racialicious.