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!
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.
According to an article at NewsOK.com, Oklahoma residents–even those who don’t usually read comics–are proud as punch of their adopted Norse god (but then, who wouldn’t be?).
I like being the bearer of good news.
And so, I bring this bit of good news to your attention:
Pride High has attracted blind and visually impaired fans with the positive portrayal of a super-powered member of their community. Suravi, whose name means “sun” in Sanskrit, is a radiant solar blaster with the most powerful attack of her 5-kid squad. Many of her fans have had to rely on commentary from sighted friends to keep with her story. Not anymore! The Braille version of Pride High #1 was recently released! The comic was adapted into short story format by Pride High fan John D. Taylor and transcribed by the LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired. The Braille adaptation for Issue 2 is currently in production.
The actual embossed Braille cover is protected by the original issue’s cover art on flat paper:
Spider-man tells it like it is and gives the facts about Planned Parenthood and pregnancy.
Uhh, wow. Spider-man does a better job at giving helpful information to kids about sex than most sex educators in the U.S. do today.
Kids, we’ve got to figure out how to get Spider-man in the classroom again.
Cat and Girl is one of my all-time favorite webcomics. It is hysterically funny. It is disgustingly erudite. It is the kind of comic strip that makes people with English degrees laugh until they cry. And this week’s strip is made of pure, distilled brilliant.
I’m hoping to make this a weekly thing, if I can manage; I think I can, but I can’t promise I’ll always have links to go with my Things.
But, a brief explanation, to inaugurate this set of Things: It’s very simple, really. I am not, by nature, a compulsively irritated person. I want to like the stuff I read, and I try to keep an eye out for the stuff I like, and when it turns out I’m right, I’m happy. I Like Things.
This is a small set (three to five, no more, no less) of Things I Like. These will often be Things I don’t feel get enough notice, so I’m going to show them to you in hopes that you’ll like them too and want to give them the notice they deserve.
The Luna Brothers announce THE SWORD for Image. Billed as a mix of Asian kung-fu cinema and Western fantasy (picture KILL BILL crossed with HIGHLANDER and that seems about right), it stars a 20-year-old female college student named Dara Brighton and, like all Luna Bros. productions, looks absolutely beautiful.
YOTSUBA&!, by Kiyohiko Azuma, the guy who’s responsible for AZUMANGA DAIOH. The continuing adventures of a charmingly odd little girl named Yotsuba. Cute, whimsical, but full of heart and fun, and the fourth volume just came out a week or two ago.
COPPOLA’S DRACULA, a full novella you can read for free online, by Kim Newman. Technically it’s set in his ANNO DRACULA alternate universe, but you don’t need to have read those (utterly wonderful) books to enjoy this tale of how the filming of DRACULA could have gone. I love vampire stories, and this one hits all my favorite notes.
These are a few Things I Like. Let me know what you think.
I’ll admit it. I have a terrible brain-crush on Francesco Marciuliano. I want to start an imaginary indie rock band with him, and take him to movies, and gaze into his eyes over coffee while we discuss our favorite euphmisms, and generally be his platonic girlfriend.
For you poor benighted souls who don’t know who Francesco Marciuliano is (and shame, shame, shame on you!), he’s the genius behind Sally Forth, one of the best comic strips currently in syndication.
“Okay,” you may say, “But what has triggered this sudden outpouring of love?” Well, I’ve just discovered Francesco Marciuliano’s blog, Francesco Explains It All, and it is even more brilliant than I could ever have guessed.
I mean, Jane Austen’s Summer Newsletter? The man is a genius.
Interview with Tony Bedard over at Sequential Tart.
I’m stoked about this. Supergirl is one of those characters that I’ve always wanted to like, but I’ve been put off by Kara’s missing ribs and that crotch-length fluttery thing that I think is a skirt?
My favorite part of the interview:
But the point of the book isn’t how she looks in her skirt. It’s that growing up and finding your role in the world is hard to do, but that making the right choices is ultimately the most rewarding thing to do.
Wait a minute, back up here! Did he just say…that how a female character looks doesn’t matter? And that maybe, just maybe…the things she says and does and thinks matter more? Zoh. My. God. No way.
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