The following is an excerpt of Wizard Fan Awards categories and contestants, cut and pasted for your edutainment: 21) FAVORITE HERO: Batman (DC) (Details) Spider-Man (Marvel) (Details) Captain America (Marvel) (Details) Superman (DC) (Details) Hellboy (Dark Horse) (Details) 22) FAVORITE VILLAIN: Skrull Queen/Spider-Woman (Secret Invasion) (Details) Dr. Hurt (Batman) (Details) The Joker (Joker) (Details) Brainiac [...]
January 10th, 2009
Categories: characters, fandom, feminist stuff, general comics, invisible women, media, Superheroes . Author: Rachel Edidin . Comments: No Comments
Remember that little letter-writing campaign I proposed a few days back? It’s grown. I’m proud to announce a new, ongoing part of Girl-Wonder’s work: CAHP, the Con Anti-Harassment Project. The CAHP’s goal is to help make conventions safer, more fun, and more accessible by encouraging organizers to establish, articulate, and act upon clear anti-harassment policies. [...]
August 21st, 2008
Categories: activism, conventions, fandom, feminist stuff, Girl-Wonder . Author: Rachel Edidin . Comments: 1 Comment
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 [...]
April 27th, 2008
Categories: conventions, Creators, 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 [...]
April 26th, 2008
Categories: conventions, Creators, fandom, general, Girl-Wonder . 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, [...]
April 10th, 2008
Categories: conventions, Creators, fandom, invisible women, media, Publishing, rant, women in comics . Author: Rachel Edidin . Comments: 1 Comment
Ladies, Gentlemen, and Persons Who Identify as Neither of the Preceding or Reject Binary Gender Designations Altogether, Happy New Year! This is the time traditionally set for making resolutions for improving one’s behavior, and since mine has (of course) been exemplary (aside from that split infinitive two words back), I’ve decided to suggest resolutions that [...]
January 1st, 2008
Categories: activism, Creators, fandom, general comics . Author: Rachel Edidin . Comments: No Comments
I’m back on my feet (if a bit wobbly), so Inside Out will shortly return to regularly scheduled programming. Every once in a while, you get a chance to see first-hand how awesome people can be. I’ve had plenty in the last couple months, but none so incredible as organizing the Girl-Wonder Art Et Cetera [...]
September 25th, 2007
Categories: Creators, fandom, Girl-Wonder, meta . Author: Rachel Edidin . Comments: No Comments
This week, I answer your questions! Because I know stuff! Some, anyway… Linkara asks: What do you feel Dark Horse’s primary market is? I.E. Marvel and DC are primarily superhero stories, Image is a mixture of superheroes plus various other genres usually related to scifi or crime. One of my favorite things about Dark Horse [...]
August 28th, 2007
Categories: Books, characters, Creators, fandom, Personal, Publishing, Questions . Author: Rachel Edidin . Comments: No Comments
This week’s Inside Out is a guest column by the wildy brilliant Katherine Keller, Editrix in Chief of Sequential Tart. Next week, I’ll be back with the gory details of why I missed Comic-Con–which are nowhere near as cool as what Katherine has to say here: So, I’m trying to put into words why I [...]
July 29th, 2007
Categories: fandom, Guest Column, Superheroes . Author: Rachel Edidin . Comments: No Comments
Oh, my! I am awash with blushy pride, for the fine folk of The Hathor Legacy have awarded Inside Out a Thinking Blogger Award! The deal with Thinking Blogger Awards is as follows: 1. If, and only if, you get tagged, write a post with links to 5 blogs that make you think, 2. Link [...]
July 17th, 2007
Categories: blogging, fandom, meta, Personal . Author: Rachel Edidin . Comments: No Comments