Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Thursday, February 11th

LGBT Issues in Comics

Why Anti-Opression Is Serious Business


When Politics and Privilege meet Comics, Part One--Transgender Issues

Gay Characters in Writing

Drawn Together


Interview with Perry Moore


Captain America Vs Fox News

Quesada responds as Captain America's Tea Party controversy gains steam

Captain America is a Political Character

Captain America Tea Party Controversy


Why Marvel Owes No Apologies for Captain America's 'Tea Party'

Taking a Comic Too Far? Marvel Displays Racism and Ignorance

If anyone can ID the enemy, it’s Captain America

Tea Bagger reference to be taken out of Captain America book

Somone Bring That Dead Horse Over

Manga

Digital Harlequin Manga: The Apartment, Millionaire Husband

Del Rey Chibis: Yozakura Quartet 5, Minima! 4, Dragon Eye 7 and 8

Not Strictly Comics

The Last Airbender Trailer - And Other Thoughts

Different Day. Same Sh*t

Sexcapism


POC Issues in Comics

Black Future Month ‘10: The Stereotype

Black Future Month '10: Jay Potts


Black + Aqualad = Blaqualad?

Whatever happened to Chocolate Thunder?

Captain America #143 Is The Most Seventies Comic Book EVER

Superhero Stuff

Marvel (Fan)Girls


............ wow.

Women in Comics

Q&A #58 Who is your favorite legacy character?

Comic reviewwwws!

JSA All Stars #3 Preview

Birds of Prey Begins - Oracle and Canary's first team-up

DC in March

Gender and Cartooning in Chicago


Hey, That's My Cape!: Abracadabra 2-10-10

Artist's hobby becomes livelihood


10 Graphic Novels You Should Pick Up with "Twilight"


Book(s) of the Month: Firestar and Birds of Prey: Of Like Minds

Review: Newave!: The Underground Mini Comix of the 1980s

Typo’s Best: Hal Jordan, Ladies Man.

...Just Add Pink!


She Has No Head! - Discovering The Unknown

Lorendiac's Lists: Timeline of First and Final Appearances of Every Supergirl, Superwoman, Etc. (5th Draft)

Human Proportions in Comics


Religion and Science Fiction: Women and Their Portrayal in Comics ...

women and transgendered members of the comics community

Wonder Woman


Wonder Woman: A Comic Book Character Shows the Way - Community

Bitch, you run in heels.

Sunday, February 07, 2010

Sunday February 7th: Part Two

Ableism in comics:

Fantastic Four 575 Postbag - on the subject of "retard"

Chromatic Casting:

tl;dr in defense of chromatic (re)casting

Conventions:

The Safety Dance: Helping End Sexual Harassment at Conventions

Idle Thoughts

Ending Sexual Harrasment at cons

DC Covers:

The "babes" of the Justice League

Did the comic artist boob with this image?

Comic Book Cover Artists

Oh hey, look at this stupid thing.

LGBTQ:

The gay cartoonists who had the last laugh

Gluey Tart: Madness

Milestone Forever:

Puffy is Good, but Milestone Is Forever

Milestone Forever: Being Post-Racial Before It Was Cool

Milestone Forever

Number Crunching: Milestone Forever #1

Misc:

Campus Ghost Story [Comic Review]

Everything You Know About The Amazons Is Wrong

Aging, Technology, and the Funnies

Indie Comic Spotlight: Ross Campbell

Not strictly comics:

Whitewashing in Young Adult literature

The true story of MLK and Lt. Uhura

Adios Ugly Betty

Avatar and Twilight: Native Representation on screen 2.0

The Last Airbender or The Last Straw?, or How Loraine Became a Fan Activist

Is there 'hope' in Hollywood?

Black stars don’t mean Hollywood is color-blind

Top Black Characters in Science Fiction

wear your love like heaven

Barbie and G.I. Joe: Inscribing Gender Norms on Toys

Race and Diversity in comics:

George Wallace Segregationist Comic from the 1960s

Race & Comics

Bring On The Black Good Guys (And Gals)

Black Future Month ‘10: Proclamation

The Racial Politics of Riverdale: Why an Interracial Kiss Is Still a Big Deal

Black Future Month ‘10: Ron “D-pi” Wimberly

Race & Comics Roundup: Archie’s Romance, Milestone’s Return & The Great Ten

Black Future Month ‘10: Paris/Tokyo

Why Ebony White Isn’t Sassy

Should I really like Bruce Wayne?

Separate And Unequal: A Mule And Forty Acres Of My Own, Part Nine: What, Me Angry?

SuperHeroStuff

SuperHeroStuff.com

Fangirls Make a Difference With Offensive Ad Copy

And they wonder why some women are reluctant to get into comics...


Just to prove this isn't an isolated incident...

Twilight:

Twilight Manga: a reality check

Twi-lite: graphic adaptation of Twilight loses ‘baggage’ and Robert Pattinson

Wonder Woman:

Crows’ Feat

(untitled)

Sunday February 7th: Part One

This batch is a little big, so I'm splitting it into two posts for easier reading.

Women and Gender in Comics:

Media Monday Spotlight – Jo Chen, Comic Artist

Exclusive: Addressing Issues - An Interview with Valerie D'Orazio

I did not work on Marvel’s Girl Comics and never even heard of it.

Is Donna Troy the first superhero to join the Justice League who doesn't even have a superhero name?

no question

Review: Graylight

Q&A #57 What legacy character would you invent, if given the chance?

Frederick native cartoons for a living

Th3rd World Hopes Artist Appeals to MORTAL INSTRUMENTS Fans

One reason why we love Dinah

Review: Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms

Tuesday quickies

This Week IN Comics: Three Remarkably Sexist Reasons Girls Should Read Comic Books

Cliff Chiang teams with actress Helen Slater for a Supergirl story

Psst … Marvel? This Name Is a Really Bad Idea

just because it's not a good band name

Carol's drinking

Male Bonding in Superhero Comics, Part 1: Old Friends, Teammates, and Frenemies

Two Lady Dangers

Hope Larson shows you how it's done

Straight for the art | Faith Erin Hick's Lost sketch

Ich bin ein Avenger #2: Spider-Woman

She-Hulk turns 30!

Location, Location, Location

All the World's a Stage for Zatanna Beginning In May

Children of Birds of Prey

This is a tiny game piece that features Aquaman’s wife vomiting acid blood.

brief thoughts on Marvel Heartbreakers

Contino leaves The Pulse; whither Comicon?

A Damn Scribbling Woman: an Interview with Jennifer K. Stuller about Ink-Stained Amazons

Gotham City Sirens #8 review & spoilers

A Look at Black Canary figures: Mattel vs DCD

Sunday, January 24, 2010

Sunday, January 24th

Girls Drawing Girls:

'Girls Drawing Girls' Is Strong Enough For Superman, Made By Women

Straight for the art | Girls Drawing Girls

LGBTQ in comics:

Really, IDW? Orson Scott Card?

Assistant Managing Editor of Notre Dame's Observer Resigns Over Gay Cartoon Flap

Northstar gets some action in Nation X #2

Dear, Penny Arcade

Reviews: Blink, Cownt Tales, Fearless Dawn and Spandex

Marvel "Her-Oes":

GUEST COLUMN: Katie Doyle on 'Her-Oes' 

Hey, girls, a comic just for you!

MLK Day comics:

MLK Day "Special"

Libraries Keep MLK's Crucial Comic Book

Not comics:

Extraordinary Measures? Yellowface? via Roger Ebert

Asians and Indians on TV

Publisher whitens another heroine of color

POCs in comics:

Chromatic Comics

Separate And Unequal

NOCs (Nerds of Color)

Racism, Stereotypes and Comic Books Part 2: The Blackquel

Twilight:

Twilight: The Graphic Novel to bow with 350,000-copy first printing [Updated]

Twilight Graphic Novel Details, Preview Available

The Big One:Twilight GN gets 350,000 first printing

Women and gender in comics:

Review: The Life and Times of Martha Washington in the Twenty-First Century

All My Darling Daughters – Recommended

Every Lady Scientist Who Ever Did Anything (until recently)

The Annotated Anita Blake: The Laughing Corpse: Executioner #3

Felicia Day Talks About 'The Guild' Comic

Do the Math: Sometimes You Get What You Ask For

Kate Beaton Nails Manchild Mannerisms In The Year 2063

Wherein I am a creepy comic geek:

Comics Time: Detective Comics #854-860

She Has No Head! - Spotlight: Eleanor Davis

2010 April Marvel Cover Solicits In Three Sentences Or Less…

I think this Twilight thing is really going to catch on.

Girl comics

Marvel: Your Universe*

2010 April DC Cover Solicits In Three Sentences Or Less…

The Fifth Color - Forward into the Past! Marvel in April '10

Vixenification Fails 1. JSA All-Stars

Worst of the Worst: Ultimatum

Top 10 Women in Comics last Decade

Lois Lane, super heroine, role model or... sex symbol?!?

Wonder Woman:

STAR-SPANGLED PANTIES: RUMBLE IN THE WONDER - MARKETING SMACKDOWN!

Comics Grinder: Wonder Woman

xxxHOLic:

xxxHOLiC Roundtable: Art Nouveau Meets The Twilight Zone

xxxHOLiC Roundtable: On the Pleasures of Comeuppance Theater


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Haiti:

Filip Sablik: “Proactive, Not Reactive”

Charity Art Sale for Haiti Relief

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Tuesday, January 19th

Birds of Prey

Simone is Ready to Fly (Again) with the Birds of Prey

Your Mileage May Vary: Birds of Prey


Birds of a Feather


There’s a room of shadows that get so dark, brother…

LGBT Issues Comics

Howard Cruse E Bay Auction


Compilation of LGBT Comics


Holding out for some Her-Oes

Excusive: Her-Oes Hit Marvel


Marvel's 'Her-Oes' Brings Superheroines Back To High School.


To Be Excited Or To Not Be Excited, That Is The Question


Her-Oes hit Marvel. Feminist Comic Fans Ready To Hit Marvel Editorial.

Her-Oes? (and being a girl and liking comics just got that much harder)


Marvel’s Her-Oes – Teenage Female Superhero Comic Actually Written By A Woman


Marvel Wants Dames

Oracle vs. The JLA, three rounds

Oracle's Tenure with the JLA, Part 1: Recruitment


Oracle's Tenure with the JLA, Part 2: Introductions

Oracle's Tenure with the JLA, Part 3: Issues


Manga

All My Darling Daughters- Reccomended


Danielle Leigh's Reading Diary -- Yaoi Sunday!


xxxHolic Roundtable: The Beauty of Ink and the Power of Yuko


xxxHOLiC Roundtable: In Which Kinukitty Natters on AT GREAT LENGTH


Misc

New law could block access to anime, manga and slash fan sites in Australia


'One Piece' Mousepad Shatters What's Left Of My Innocence


New Readers Start Here:

Tank Girl: The Odyssey

Fables- Legends In Exile

Young Justice - A League of Their Own

Not Strictly Comics

Possibly Unpopular Fandom Opinion time!


Project 880 vs Avatar


Race Issues in Comics

New Black Comics Blog, Upcoming Book


Four on the Floor


From Aya to Zapt!: 24 Graphic Novels for African American History Month


A Very Brief MLK Day Post

Rock Against Racism


Mistakes of Past History #1


Stephanie Brown vs. the World Round 5789

Super Mega Batgirl Review the Sixth


o what suffering the editors hath wrought


the links contain scans as well


Since everyone's posting about Steph's, uh, "Dark Time"


Women and Gender in Comics

Fourcast! 29: Talking About Comics Internet

The Supergirls: Fashion, Feminism, Fantasy and the History of Comic Book Heroines Review

Comic Review Party Time


Remembering BoHoS: A conversation with Maggie Whorf

Q&A #56 What cancelled series would you like to have back?

The Annotated Anita Blake: The Laughing Corpse: Executioner #3

Review: The Life and Times of Martha Washington in the Twenty-First Century

She Has No Head!- Spotlight: Eleanor Davis


Mainstream Comics: What's With All The Rape?


Reading Women #3: C. Tyler’s
You’ll Never Know—Book 1: A Good and Decent Man

Whiteout Volume 1



As an extra thing:I've run across a few links and communities that helps one use their love of comics and fandom to help with the crisis in Haiti. This is a worthy pursuit, so I figured we should advertise them here. Anyone who knows of any other such things, feel free to mail us and we'll link 'em:


Heroes 4 Haiti Auctions Goes Live


Heroes For Haiti Announced


HelpHaiti


Comics Fandom & Industry Helping Haiti


Comics Fandom & Industry Helping Haiti

Saturday, January 16, 2010

Saturday, January 16th

Birds of Prey:

Now That I Think About It...

More Joy Day 2010: Birds of Prey Picspam



Disability in comics:

Transcontinental Disability Choir: Disability in Comics -- A Discussion


LGBT in comics:

Comics nominees announced for 21st annual GLAAD Media Awards

GLAAD announces comic book picks of 2009

GLAAD Media Awards comics nominees announced

Coming out in comics: more amazonian happenings

Peter David, X-Factor and the gay kiss that changed the game

Award-Winning LGBT Graphic Novel Miniseries Continues With New Release


Miscellaneous issues in comics:

Graphic Gems

Race Discourse: Bringing Anxiety Attacks Since The Beginning of Time


Not strictly comics:

On the difference between Good Dogs and Dogs That Need a Newspaper Smack.


Race in comics/superhero movies:

i just like this icon. hundred is scruffy and pouty!

in relation to my post yesterday about captain america

starring fyvush finkel as krusty the clown


Women and gender in comics:

Welcome to the Star Sapphires

Chris vs. Previews: January 2010

Review: Pigling: A Cinderella Story

Mostly I just wanted to do a post with "Buffygate" in the headline

Batgirl #6: Play-by-Play

Hey, You’ve Got Your Feminism In My Michael Chabon! Barf.

5 Female Voices in Manga Criticism

Female Political Superheroes Comic Books

Yes. Another sexism and comics rant.

She Has No Head! - What About Coveleski?

funnybook of the week: January 6, 2010


Zenescope's "Girl of the Month" contest:

Zenescope announces Girl of the Month 2010 contest

PR: What Not to Do: Exploiting Models

Rich Johnston To Enter Zenescope’s Girl Of The Month 2010

Zenescope’s “Girl of the Month” contest gets some attention — UPDATED WITH PICS!!!

Monday, January 11, 2010

Monday, January 11th

DAR:

Erika Moen's webcomic DAR comes to a close today

DAR Webcomic Ends Today

Comic Showcase: DAR, A Super Girly Top Secret Comic Diary by Erica Moen [Girl Comics]

Fandom and comics:

Your fandom is not Fandom

The difference between manga and comics

LGBT in comics:

Gaiety in Comics

Gluey Tart: Dining Bar Akira

From Headrack to Claude: Collected Gay Comics by Howard Cruse (Nifty Kitsch Press)

Northstar, the X-Men's Bossy Bottom, Has A New Boyfriend. Here's What Comes Next

Gluey Tart: Age Called Blue

Not comics:

When Will White People Stop Making Movies Like "Avatar"?

How A Thorough De-Gazing Saved CBS's 'The Big Bang Theory'

Race in comics:

From Aya to Zapt!: 24 Graphic Novels for African American History Month

Icon #1

Why Will Smith Should Play Captain America

Women and gender in comics:

Let's Not See This In 2010: Comics Trends That Need To Go Away This Year

Spotlight on: Putting things that explode near your junk

Hiatus sucks

On Caricaturing Women

Women In Comics—The Gail Simone Interview

from the files of ongoing series i only see in my dreams

SNL stars gather for Diary of a Teenage Girl fundraiser

Summing up the Decade in Manga

7 Things About Yotsuba&! 7

Girl Comics #2 Cover Debut - EXCLUSIVE

"We want to her to be a really powerful female character, you know, a role model for young women. What you got?"

500th post: In praise of Supergirls

Comics of the week!

Fun with Romance Comics: A Confusing Lesson in Morality

Hope Larson’s Mercury

I want some Valkyries

Black Widow ongoing kicks off in April

Your Mileage May Vary - Blake Lively as Carol Ferris

Superheroine "Real Dolls" on eBay

Zatanna through the ages by Dustin Nguyen

Women in Comics Week

Reviews of some recent and upcoming comics

Wonder Woman:

AMAZONS ATTACK - THE QUEEN'S CHAMPION, PHILLIPUS OF THEMYSCIRA

'Wonder Woman, I Hardly Knew You'

I won't even come CLOSE to everything that's wrong with this picture...

This is getting old.

The Week In Ink: January 6, 2009

Blackest Night Wonder Woman #2 (Spoilers)

Monday, December 28, 2009

Monday Dec. 28th, 2009 (Post-holidays post!)

Batwoman:

Rucka and Williams working on a new Batwoman title for next year

SHE HAS NO HEAD! - The Superhero Comic I’ve Been Waiting For

Disability in comics:

20 Science Fiction Characters Who Got Their Legs Back

DC Superfriends #22

The Transcontinental Disability Choir: A Wizard Did It!

Girl Comics:

She Has No Head! - A Feminist Dialogue About Girl Comics (aka Feminists Talk About Stuff)

You And I Until The Day We Die

Marvel Comics' New Year's Resolution: Draw In Women

Marvel announces "Girl Comic's"

LGBT in comics:

Gay In The Comics

Gayface and Blackface

There's Always Been Gays In Comics. They Just Happened To Be Terrible Stereotypes + Gay Bashing Victims

Dragon Age comic out in March, written by raging homophobe Orson Scott Card

Miscellaneous:

Toronto editorial cartoonist still on no-fly list

Not comics:

Man on Man: The New Gay Romance ...

Gluey Tart: eManporn on Kindle

The Expired Feminism of Joss Whedon

Race in comics:

On the Intricate Subtleties of Racism

The Original Johnson is Ready to Rumble

Women and gender in comics:

Okay, okay we get it. Can we talk about something else now?

Taylor Swift is totally gonna play Supergirl, you guys!

Only One Wish

The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For reviewed by Tom Crippen
The Gallery Becky Cloonan

*Drawn to You — Best of 2009

Comic-book stories show another Africa

Some Lesser Known Women of Early Comics

One of the most sexist mangas Ive ever read

Why Don't Female Superhero Films Work?

Thursday, December 17, 2009

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Special "Girl Comics" Edition Post!

The comics blogosphere seems to really like this topic, so it's getting its own post!

Exclusive: Marvel announces GIRL COMICS

Girl Comics

What If…Women Could Write and Draw Comics?

Marvel’s Girl Comics Announced

Marvel to publish Girl Comics anthology next year

And lo, there came… GIRL COMICS

Marvel introduces "Girl Comics"

Girl, you know it's true.

Of course She-Hulk is stronger than Iron Man. But there's no way she woulda beat The Hulk.

Comics Interweb - You Have The Ability To Inspire Great Joy

Marvel Announces Comics For Girls By Girls

Marvel to publish 'Girl Comics'

Girl Comics

Marvel announces “Girl Comics”, target comic audience still male

Marvel Announces Girl Comics

Marvel announces Girl Comics!

Marvel Announces Girl Comics

Girl Comics

New Women's Anthology

Gambling 101

Marvel announces GIRL COMICS!

Marvel Announces Comics For Girls By Girls

In reading a lot reactions to the "Girl Comics" announcement...

Wednesday December 16th

Ghost World:

Gluey Tart: Ghost World Roundtable

GIVING UP THE GHOST: Ghost World Roundtable

Gossip Girl:

Gossip Girl, Gossip Girl, does whatever a gossip will....

Gossip Girl Manga Preview

LGBT in comics:

'A fictional character announcing that he’s gay should not be national news'

US: DADT Policy addressed in Detective Comics Feat. Batwoman

Miscellaneous:

Hanukkah Special: The Top Ten Jewish Comic Characters

Not comics:
Women in the Seats but Not Behind the Camera
"Fuck Them": Times Critic On Hollywood, Women, & Why Romantic Comedies Suck

Race in comics:

Encyclopedia Brown.

A Mule And Forty Acres Of My Own, Part Eight: O Brothers And Sisters, Where Art Thou?

Women in comics:

Jean Grey, X-Men’s X-Sexiest Lady: Why Comic Books Are Sexy Part One

Gates on "World's Finest" and "Supergirl"

Read Lady Action for Free Online

The PoP! Fangirl of the Month - December 2009

Comic Book Girls: Super Hero Squad and Nomad

Public Service Announcement: Kate Beaton can do poignant too

French artist draws attention to women's killings in Mexico

What Women Like Part 1

Family Circus: Since Grandma has been here we haven't sent Daddy out for fried chicken or burgers even ONCE!

Ellen Degeneres Next Up For 'Female Force' Comic Book Bio

Marvel Family... Thoughts?

A Happier Note

EXCLUSIVE: Valerie D’Orazio Writes Punisher MAX Comic (UPDATED)

Bad things about Models Inc.

Female, Muslim and Mutant: Muslim Women in Comics

She Has No Head! - Your Context Is Showing

Wonder Woman:

Wonder Woman to mark milestone 600th issue (surprise?)

Wonder Woman (dvd) Review