Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Wednesday, July 29th

EA Games and the Bounty on Booth Babes


#EAFail Link Roundup


Booth Babe Hauls off on Dante’s Fiasco


Sexist EA Games Objectify Women at Comic Con


Just lust: San Diego Booth Babe Bounty


EA Stupidity Makes Major News Outlet


San Diego Comic Con


Comic-Con


Comic Con Offers Attendees Rare Glimpse at Women


Twilight: Con and Con


362 days until Comic Con 2010


more boys vs. girls at san diego comic-con


Misc.


Reviews 23. 04. 2009.


Comics by women


Gotham City Sirens: Sharp Dialog, Plain Femme Fatales


Comic Retailers Guide on how NOT to get females into your store


Roundtable| Girls and Fandom


The lesbian moments of Wonder Woman part 2


Let Venus Wear Her Girdle, Damn It. (OOCWTVG)


Miley Cyrus confirms rumor: Girls want heroes!


Obscure superhero history: Looking to recognize a pioneer in the field…


Comics by Women: July 29th, 2009


Yet Another “What Women Want” Post


Capitol South- Comic Men


Women in Comics: Spike


Sharing Some Links About Women in Fantasy Art


This week’s reviews…good news, good news


So I hear people read Marvel Comics. Why?


Hey you know what’s awesome? Torture. Also, women’s legs.


are you kidding me?


Manga:


Comic-Con: Women in Manga


I’m too old for this: SDCC Day 3


Race and comics:


Black Superheroes on the web


John Smith: A respectable Black Sidekick


Animated Bronze Tiger


Pop Mythology, Buying and Selling: A Report From the First Asian American Comic Con


CCI: The Black Panel


Tintin creator was dogged by charges of anti Semitism, racism


The Return of McDuffie: Spider-man, Milestone, the DCBU and San Diego


Ablism and comics:


Reviews Part 7: what makes a good (comic) story edition


Monday, July 27, 2009

Monday July 27th - Comic-Con Edition! (Well, not entirely.)

(Note that not all of the Comic-con items are strictly comics-related, but I figure they are relevant to our interests...)

EA GAMES

EA puts sexual bounty on the heads of its own booth babes

A Night with the Hottest Girl at Comic-Con. Dinner, Booty & More.

Booth truths.

What NOT To Do At SDCC

#053 “Target Market”

EA games invites convention attendees to sexually harass ‘booth babes’

New IGN Contest: No Girls Allowed

EA Fail: How To Alienate Female Gamers

Sexism and the EA/Dante’s Inferno - ‘Sin to Win’ Contest

SDCC: EA to prostitute its booth babes for you, the customer

What the HELL, EA Games?

Dopey dogooders target EA over booth babe promotion (#EAFail)

Misogyny Marketing: EA Pimps Booth Babes for Dante’s Inferno Game

Yet another missive from the “misogyny in IT” department

Harass booth babes at Comic-Con, win prizes from EA

EA Lust – too sexy for Comic Con?

EA’s Big Success at Comic-Con This Year? Alienating Women Gamers

EA Games pimp out booth babes at Comic-Con, the Internet explodes

EA Apologizes, sort of…

TWILIGHT:

SDCC ‘09 | There’s trouble in Camp Twilight

Super Edward (Female Creators Roundtable)

Kevin Smith and The Haters of Twilight

Camp Twilight packs its tents

WONDER WOMAN:

Inaugural post, or why I don't like Wonder Woman

Wonder McDonnell (OOCWVG)

BATGIRL:

Who Will Step Into Batgirl's Pointy-Eared Fetishwear?

Miley Cyrus to Play Batgirl in Dark Knight Sequel?

MISCELLANY:

7 Women Who Will Rock Comic-Con

Reasons I Wish I Were At SDCC

The Girls’ Guide to Comic Con 2009

Sigourney Weaver, Eliza Dushku, Elizabeth Mitchell, Zoe Saldana talk action heroines at EW Comic-Con panel

Buffy, Uhura, Ripley: Kick-ass women slay Comic-Con

Zoe Saldana on the Wonder Woman film

SDCC 09: Marvelous Women of Marvel Comics

Robot Six Roundtable, Women Make Comics T-shirts and More!

Comics by Women

Women Make Comics…dammit!

New Gears of War comic features new female character named Alex

Gears of War Comic Features Female Character

Did I Miss Something?

Fresh 10 Female Comic-Book Characters

SDCC ‘09 | Fantagraphics to publish complete Nancy

Del Rey to Publish Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Graphic Novel

Swallowing the Earth

Thursday, July 23, 2009

Thursday July 23rd, Part Two

MISCELLANY:

Comics by Women: July 15th, 2009

Comics by Women: July 22nd, 2009

ORACLE: YEAR ONE (and John Ostrander)

Just a little sigh

"The Case of the __________ Syndicate": Nancy Drew and Batman

Say it ain't so, Gail, say it ain't so....

Is This NY Daily News Cartoon Sexist?

Women in Comics: Amy Kim Kibuishi

Becoming the Villainess by Jeannine Hall Gailey

The First Daughter takes her turn as superhero

Antiheroines: Vanessa Davis

Tamara Drewe to become movie

Bomb Queen Vol. 1 - WMD (NSFW images)

Graphic Novel Review: Wonderland

Fun with Fallacies…Volume 1: Garth Ennis

Bloody Pulp: 9 Months

Adam Warren Week: A Dirty Pair of Lovely Angels

It Came From the NYPL: Little Orphan Annie vol. 1

Darna is NOT a 'Rip-off" of Wonder Woman

Marvel unveils Spider-Woman trailer

Lip Service

Nomad: Girl Without a World #1 by... Marvel?

DC Divas?

Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse

The Grand Unified Theory of Cheetahs

Miriam Libicki talks comics, art, and Judaism

RACE ISSUES IN COMICS:

Pop Mythology, Buying and Selling: A Report from the First Asian American Comic Con

Nelson Mandela: The Authorized Comic Book

Why they messing with your mind

SEXUAL ORIENTATION ISSUES IN COMICS:

I can’t believe I missed this one

So What Was Marvel Comics First Gay Kiss Then Anyway?

Thursday July 23rd, Part One

(I've got a bit of a backlog, so I'm dividing things up into two posts to make things a bit more readable.)

MARVEL DIVAS

New Monica - the Marvel Diva

Bravely Going Where Everyone Had Gone Before!

WONDER WOMAN

Super Wonder Frontier (OOCWVG)

Wonder Woman movie is in production. But who will it star?

Ryan Reynolds as Green Lantern: Fine, but where's my Wonder Woman?

Wait, I never told you this?

Bound to Blog: Wonder Woman #12

Morrison fascinated by ‘contradictions and complexities’ of Wonder Woman

SCARY FANGIRLS, COMIC-CON AND TWILIGHT COMICS, OH MY!

Why are Fangirls Scary?

The Geek Beat: The Unofficial Girl's Guide to Comic Con

Is Comic-Con Anti-Fangirl?

TWILIGHT graphic novel due from Yen Press

Twilight Manga Announced

Twilight Comic… For The Win?

Roundtable | Girls and fandom

Brace yourselves for....

Girls and Fandom

Twilight: Con and Con

GREEN LANTERN

Ways To Save Green Lantern

Tricia Helfer talks Green Lantern: First Flight

BLACK WIDOW

Widow Maker: Paul Cornell Tells Black Widow's DEADLY ORIGIN

Cornell Talks "Black Widow: Deadly Origin"

WHO WEARS SHORT-SHORTS? (SUPERGIRL WEARS SHORT-SHORTS!)

Supergirl's new (under)clothes: Does a change of shorts mark a feminist shift for a comic book icon or are pants just pants?

That’s Hardly Super, Supergirl

A Post About Shorts And Supergirl…You May Think You Know Where I’m Going With This…But Read It Anyway…

Supergirl’s Guide to short skirts and the active lifestyle

Why Supergirl’s shorts aren’t “patriarchal” (I do not think that word means what you think it means)

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Tuesday, July 14th

Misc.

Golden Age Black Canary- Kicking Ass from Page One

The Latest in Comics

Reviews Part 4: the slowly catching up edition


Guys love lesbians. Well, most lesbians. Well. Femmes.


Wonder Woman #32 & 33

Green Arrow/Black Canary #22


Rage and squee- this is how my comic reviews are this week

Giving Back to the Man Who Gave Us Oracle

Girl Wonder, but not Wonder Girl.


Wait, what?


Unbound: Gina Biggs on romance and independence

So Cry, Cry Baby! Women in Comics

Exclusive first look at new Princess Diana comic book

Sexism

Feminism comes to comics...not.


Radical New Ideas to Change The Industry Forever and Other Tales


Alternate Cover: Marvel Divas


Psych Ward: Pepper Potts


Sunday Brunch: 7/5/08



She's a Supergirl, and Supergirls don't hide.

Supergirl: Cosmic Adventures- Production Art...part 11- The End


Cosmic Adventures: Supergirl Production Info


I hear everybody's talking about those red shorts...



SDCC and the Big Bad Fangirl

Will Twilight Ruin This Years Comic Con?

Girls cause Comic Con Consternation

Female Fans Prepare to Trample Men at Comic Con


Why Must Twilight Obsessed Women Ruin Comic-Con for Avatar Obsessed Men
?

Attack of the 50 Foot Fangirls

Why are Fangirls Scary?


girls at Comic Con! yuck!

Sexism Used to 'Create Buzz' For SD Comic-Con


More women at Comic-Con 2009: June Foray, Women in Manga, Women of Marvel, Emily The Strange

Race Issues in Comics:

Working the Edge of a Problem: Comics and Race in the United States

Graphic Novel Review: Bayou Vol. 1


DC Comics Become Dhimmi Comics



Sexual Orientation Issues in Comics:

First mainstream gay comic kiss, Perez? Hardly.

Holden Caulfield, Gay Superheroes and The Death of the Author

Gays in Comics: From Northstar to Shatterstar

homosexuality in comics


Tuesday, July 07, 2009

Tuesday, July 7th

GEN Presents: Eisners 2009


George Perez, the zenith of Wonder Woman’s career


There’s no way an outfit like this can stay in place!


One Last Bike Shorts Post


Supergirl Cosmic Adventures- Production Art…Part 9


Comics Round up


Week of 7/8/09


That Archie Guy Gets Around


Supergirls: a history of comic book heroines


In Reterospect, #53 wasn’t so bad (NSFW)


Power Girl #2


Red Sonja #44 and #45


Marvel Divas/ Gotham City Sirens


Girly Comics: Marvel Divas


Girly Comics: Gotham City Sirens


The Best Idea for a DC-Marvel crossover that we’ll never see


Manga


A review in four parts: Part 1, manga


Race Issues in Comics


Facepalm time


Black Superheroes on the web


1950’s Comic Code Pushed for Institutionalized Bigotry!


Bring on the Black Bad Guys Round 2


Sexual orientation issues in comics


Gay characters in Comic Books


Lots of thoughts about superheroes kissing


Breaking: Incredible Shatterstar news!


Hey, what’s this lesbian doing in my Detective Comics?


The lesbian moments of Wonder Woman


Also Of Interest:


Can I tell you something? I just don’t get this.



Wednesday, July 01, 2009

Wednesday, July 1st

The Supergirl Shorts Saga Continues...


WHAT!! More Bike Shorts Talk!


Let There Be Bike Shorts: A Profile in Comic Geek Courage.


Super Girl’s Super Shorts



Comic Conventions


Events: LGBT Comics Signing, Girls Read Comics Project


Comic Convention Hookups


Heroes Con Saves the Day


Johanna’s MOCCA Anthologies: Side B, Secret Identities, Ghost Comics



Won-Won-Wondeeeerrr Woman!


Look! It moves! #5 By Adi Tantimedh- Makes You Wonder-Wonder-Wonder

Wonder Woman is Not Lame


Babs’ Review of Wonder Woman #33



Misc.

The Source: Matt Idleson Talks About the Super Books


Power Girl Variant #2 and Matching Statue


Power Girl #2 Review


My wonderful job- also, reviews!


Double DC Coverage #14


Marvel Divas Preview is totally cute


Happy Birthday, Comicsgirl!


Comics by Women: July 1st, 2009


The Craziest Costume Changes in Comics


A Woman’s Thought on Female Action Figures


Northlanders #18- A review


Why Stuff like the LA “Girl’s Guide to Comic Con” bugs me



Manga


Hikaru No Go books 13-15- Recommended



Race issues and sexual orientation issues in comics


Monet St. Croix- The Black Mutant Supergirl


Peter David, Self Identity and Hispanic Superheroes


The Museum of Uncut Funk


The Trevor Von Eeden Interview


White Guy Breaks Down Racism in Video Games and Comics!!


Headlines I Hate: When Mainstream News Covers Comics



Also of Interest


Geek Feminism


Beyond the Twins: Another Look at “Revenge of The Fallen’s” Character Flaws