Hey everyone! With so many nonprofits needing a helping hand during this crazy pandemic, today is a special #GivingTuesday! It’s a day to shine a light on charities and remind us all to show them some love through donations (which, by the way, are usually tax-deductible). If you have the funds and whant to help…
If you love comics, you should love the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, which fights for your right to read comics without the threat of censorship. And now, the good folks at Humble Bundle have curated a fantastic collection including comics like Lumberjanes, Saga and Attack on Titan, all to support comic creators and businesses…
Copyright lawsuits are hard to endure,
but if you help us out, then you’re part of the cure.
ItÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂs been quite a while since IÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂve plopped my butt down on an airline seat. There are several reasons for this, the primary one being I loathe being treated like shit. As we have seen from all too many recent incidents, once onboard airplane employees have complete control over your fate. If you do not…
I hate writing about this. I hate having to write about this so frequently. But this is the world we live in. As my ol’ pal Martha Thomases wrote a couple days ago, I tend to have a thing about free speech. I’m an absolutist. In my fevered brain, I figure we don’t have free…
Who decides what is pornography? Who gets to stop people from seeing it? And why do they bother? A Utah state senator got a bill passed declaring pornography a public health crisis. It’s been a while since I’ve been in Utah, but I was in New York City a couple days ago and I figure…
Once again, retailer extraordinaire Dennis Barger is involved in some amazing debates and discussions within our industry. The last time his name came up we discussed the over-sexualization of the Powerpuff Girls. This time, it’s a far less provocative topic. Already well-covered by Bleeding Cool, the recent plight of pencilers revolves around the cost of…
Next week is Banned Books Week! This means now is your chance to take everything you learned in our 8-Week #ChallengedChallenge and use that knowledge to fight the good fight. Let every one know about why banning and challenging books is bad. Maybe even go to your local library or book store and find a…
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi is our penultimate book in the ComicMix Challenged Challenge — and probably our favorite book of the bunch. This is a first hand account of Marjane’s childhood in pre- and post-revolutionary Iran. This graphic novel not only takes the roots of very serious current events issue and breaks it down so…
It’s Week Four, which means we are at the half-way mark of the ComicMix Challenged Challenge. This week we take on The Graveyard Book Vol. 1, the graphic novel based on Neil Gaiman’s novel of the same name. This witty and compelling story was enhanced by P. Craig Russell’s graphic adaptation which includes amazing artwork…
For week #3 of the ComicMix Challenged Challenge, we discuss This One Summer by Jillian Tamaki & Mariko Tamaki. This Caldecott Medal winner was challenged because some over-conscended parents didn’t bother to read the book jacket, assumed this ages 12 & up recommended book was meant for their young readers. Duh! So, yeah, we talk…
Welcome to Week 1 of the ComicMix Challenged Challenge, where we take a different book on the CBLDF’s list of the most challenged & banned comic books for young readers and we break down the reasons why it might be on the list. We also give it a quick review and discuss some of the…
