I’ve been working on this review for a while, and it’s been giving me a lot of trouble, because when I try to express my thoughts on Barry Deutsch’s Hereville: How Mirka Got Her Sword, I usually end up bouncing up and down and making enthusiastic noises of inarticulate glee. These are behaviors that are [...]
April 30th, 2008
Categories: Reviews . Author: Rachel Edidin . Comments: 2 Comments
Phew–that was a lot of con. Today was more intense at the table, and I hardly had any time to wander. Now, I am entirely braindead, so again, just a handful of notes before I crash. Proper write-up and forum thread tomorrow.
-No matter how cool you are, Sky McCloud is probably way cooler than you.
-It [...]
April 27th, 2008
Categories: Creators, conventions, fandom . Author: Rachel Edidin . Comments: No Comments
Today, I got up way the hell too early in the morning (after staying up way the hell too late) to table for Girl-Wonder at Stumptown Comics Fest.
Now, I am utterly exhausted, and I have to be at the awards ceremony / Saturday afterparty in a bit under an hour, so I’m just gonna post [...]
April 26th, 2008
Categories: Creators, Girl-Wonder, conventions, fandom, general . Author: Rachel Edidin . Comments: No Comments
For your amusement and enlightenment, I’d like to take this opportunity to present an honest-to-fuck panel description from the good folks at NYCC:
“Girls Who Kick Ass: How do the ladies creating comics do it? They’re constantly blowing us away with the most outrageous and provocative titles. Jenna Jameson (Shadow Hunter), Colleen Doran (Distant Soil, Reign [...]
April 10th, 2008
Categories: Creators, Publishing, conventions, fandom, invisible women, media, rant, women in comics . Author: Rachel Edidin . Comments: 1 Comment
“You can take the girl out of academia, but you can’t take the academia out of the girl.” -Kate Corrigan, B.P.R.D.
One of my worse-kept dirty secrets is that I do academic research for fun. My friends and colleagues give me a fair amount of shit for this, and I cheerfully counter with the above. It’s [...]
April 8th, 2008
Categories: Personal, academia, general comics, writing . Author: Rachel Edidin . Comments: No Comments
Today is April Fool’s Day.
It’s also the first day of Sexual Assault Awareness Month.
Last year, I recognized this month with a series of semiweekly posts about sexual violence in comics and real life. I’m not going to drag myself back over that ground this year: it is tremendously difficult and draining, and I don’t have [...]
April 1st, 2008
Categories: SAAM, activism, feminist stuff . Author: Rachel Edidin . Comments: 1 Comment