Mindy Newell
Mindy’s taking the week off to help with some significant family emergencies regarding both her parents. We wish them both a speedy recovery, and look forward to seeing Mindy’s return next week.
Mindy’s taking the week off to help with some significant family emergencies regarding both her parents. We wish them both a speedy recovery, and look forward to seeing Mindy’s return next week.
Mikhaela Reid is working on what she calls an "alternate reality cartoon" series for Lambda Legal (a national organization committed to achieving full recognition of the civil rights of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgender people and those with HIV through impact litigation, education and public policy work) imagining what life might be like in a…
I think the Green Hornet is starting to believe his own press clippings. The Green Hornet is a hero who pretends to be a villain. By day he’s Britt Reid, publisher of Chicago’s The Daily Sentinel newspaper. At night, Britt dresses up as the Green Hornet and pretends to be the secret crime boss of…
A sad fact of a writer’s life is writer’s block. That’s when you sit down and look at the blank page or the empty screen and go “I’ve got nothin’.” Some form of that can happen every time you start to write. The really bad version can go on for a long time, maybe for…
Our pal Denny O’Neil is under the weather this week – and if you live east of the Mississippi, you know that’s a lot of weather to be under right now. He should be back here next week, same Bat-time, same Bat-site. Yes, we really said that. Get well soon, Denny!
As if to offer a bookend to last week’s column about Neil Gaiman and creativity, Amazon delivered Alison Bechdel’s new book, Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama. A companion to her harrowing and brilliant previous book, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, which was about her father’s life in the closet and eventual suicide, Are…
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Sending Mindy my best vibes to get through this.
Thanks, Martha!