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Our first podcast! Our SECOND interview with Hannah Chapman of Comic Book...
Here at Women Write About Comics we’re unfailingly organised – mostly. Each moving through local comic connections Megan B and Claire both arranged interviews with Comic Book Slumber Party’s Hannah...
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Mark Millar and the inadvisable comparison
To follow up on my previous post regarding Mark Millar’s recently publicised thoughts on rape as plot device– 1: Harry Potter and the Heavily Female Fandom Nearly Headless Nick, or Nicholas de...
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Which Comic Are You Wearing?
Cosplay is great, but sometimes it’s intimidating. Where will I wear it? How will I make it? Can I afford it, for just one con/just for one Halloween? Will the character suit me? Will people be nasty...
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Short and Sweet (or Sour): It’s a Blood Bath in Here
Welcome to Short and Sweet (or Sour), where women who read comics write about the comics they’ve read. In our first outing, the lovely Claire Napier and I review some of the roughest and toughest...
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Tutorial: Hilarious Halloween Marvel Throwback Shirts
Way back when, I found the Bronze Age of Blogs: a blog about bronze age comics. It’s great. You can check it out in your own time. One of my favourite posts there, that I’ve come back to repeatedly, is...
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I Am Captain Marvel
Captain Marvel #17 Marvel Kelly Sue DeConnick, Filipe Andrade, Jordie Bellaire In the spirit of full disclosure, I had sort of fallen off the Captain Marvel bandwagon in recent months. Not because it’s...
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Last Minute Gift Guide 2: Stuff and things
Wait, you’re STILL shopping? Girl, I thought we had you covered with that last round of recommendations. Oh, you’re looking for some seeing-you-after-Christmas-so-I-can-be-horrendously-late gifts! Well...
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Friday Poll: Your Favourite Cultural Plagiarism Scandals
It’s been a newsy kind of week. Power-play harassment isn’t the kind of news we want to have fun with, so this week’s poll is all about plagiaristic reminiscing: literary and artistic Ghosts of...
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What I gave my family for Christmas and why you should care
I am one of those: the relative who gives you presents you wouldn’t have asked for, in the hope that you will discover that you should have. In a prose family, I give comics. But I don’t give them...
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Store Review: Alakazam Comics
Alakazam Comics Phone: (949) 854-3744 Email: alakazamcomics@aol.com Address: 4237 Campus Drive, Suite B162, Irvine, California, 92612 USA Nestled between a bakery and a lunch place in the strip mall...
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Review: Cyborg 009 graphic novel, Archaia, 2013
Cyborg 009 F. J. DeSanto, Bradley Cramp, Marcus To, Ian Herring Published by Archaia, 2013 I don’t hate it. But this book feels rushed off its feet; a recap for old hands, not a reboot for new eyes....
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Friday Poll! Yays & Nays of Free Comic Book Day 2014
Free Comic Book Day! It’s not for a while yet, but most (all?) of the available titles have been released. Do you know where your Local Comic Shop is? Do you know which titles they’ll be getting in?...
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Let’s leave Britney alone: More Alan Moore commentary
I started reading Alan Moore’s Last Interview and I thought, good grief. This is one mean, sneering, long-winded guy. I finished reading Alan Moore’s Last Interview and I thought, oh boy. I never want...
View ArticlePondering Pull Lists, Part One: Why? What? Really?
We couldn't have said it any better. pic.twitter.com/faPdRAuRcT — Atlas Comics (@AtlasComics) January 11, 2017 Pull lists. What a notion! A non-binding agreement with a supplier of goods, a supplier of...
View ArticleALL GROWN UP: Image’s Bad Girls at 25
Image Comics was founded 25 years ago—you may have noticed all the commemorative parties they’ve been having. It was a shot in the arm to the American comic book industry, a nice load of amphetamine...
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