If you’ve been following comics or the comics media sphere for a bit, you probably already know that beloved writer Mark Waid has come under some pretty harsh and entirely justified criticism for his collaboration with JG Jones at BOOM!, Strange Fruit. You can read J.A. Micheline’s take on it at Women Write About Comics […]
The Indie Rock Kama Sutra
When you finally prove friends and family wrong and they see that your insufferable knowledge of indie rock hasn’t actually prevented you from getting a date, we want you to be prepared for your first time the same way you would get ready for going to Pitchfork. Here are thirteen indie rock bands you can […]
How Dependent is the Growth of Comics on the Direct Market?
The subject of the future is on the minds of quite a few writers about comics these days, and Women Write About Comics is hosting a Blog Carnival based off of a question posed by Loser City’s Nick Hanover: Is it possible for comics to grow sustainably if the direct market continues to dominate distribution? […]
101 Artists to Listen to Before You Die is a Beautiful Guide to Popular Music
I have yet to find a way to immerse myself in the comics medium to the degree necessary to provide quality contextual criticism without simultaneously diving into the excrement that is comics industry politics. I tell myself this is the way of things, that looking critically at a finished sausage means looking critically at the […]
Boom and Image Hypocrisy Pushes Comics Backward
It’s been an incredible few years for Boom and Image. Titles like Lumberjanes, Sex Criminals, Teen Dog, Wicked + Divine, Bee and Puppycat, Saga, the Boom Box 2014 Mix Tape, Zero… I think you get the point. Many of the best monthly titles are being produced by these two companies, and I would argue that […]
SXSW Film: 2015 Jury Award Winners
Morgan Davis has been covering a ton of the films at SXSW 2015 (catch up on it all here), but we would be remiss if we didn’t cover SXSW Film’s 2015 Jury Award Winners Films at SXSW 2015 receiving Jury Awards were selected from the Documentary Feature Competition and Narrative Feature categories (Audience Awards will […]
Poetry Magazine Rattle Expects Cover Artists to Work on Spec
Update and a response from Rattle at the bottom. Poetry isn’t the big money game it once was, but there are still a few magazines that command a bit of respect, paying their contributors for poems and running contests that could help fund the lifestyle of a writer alongside adjunct teaching gigs or copywriting. […]
Fantasy Sports Combines Everything I Love… and Basketball
Now that I’m pushing thirty years old, I think I have finally overcome many of the negative stereotypes our society associates with someone who would self-identify as a nerd. I know how to dress myself pretty well, have the ability to discern when someone I’m talking with is nowhere near as enthusiastic about something as […]
Poetry: Moebius Strip by Shea Hennum
This week has seen a column on superhero-inspired poetry and a review of a comics poetry anthology, so Shea Hennum’s “Moebius Strip” felt like the perfect addition to the mix. Moebius Strip Shea Hennum She was my two-page splash, My panel one, My gutter, my caption. My bombastic exposition and overwritten fiction. She was my […]
Between the Panels there is Light and there is Music: A Review of INK BRICK No. 2
INK BRICK is an anthology of comics poetry; if you’re curious about poetry inspired by/written about comics, consider checking out our latest Split 7-Inch feature examining Missing You, Metropolis and MultiVerse. DANIEL ELKIN: The English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley defined poetry as “a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.” Later, T. S. Eliot said of the […]