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 [...]
Today, the president of Dark Horse walked past another female editor and my (adjoining) offices and stopped to call in that he’d just learned that we don’t exist, because someone else (I didn’t catch who) has been going on about how there are no women in comics. In retrospect, I should have asked if that [...]
In the last week, a plethora of bloggers have linked to and/or mirrored this post, which discusses the issue of harassment at ComiCon International. Many have shared personal stories; others have expressed their general problems with the general indifference they’ve seen toward harassment and assault at conventions. Let me make one thing abundantly clear: by [...]
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, [...]