Imagine that you find yourself far away from home. You’re in a room with six other people, five of whom are strangers to you. Also in the room are enormous piles of books and magazines. All of them comics. You have three and a half days to read all the books and magazines and establish…
Sunday is the longest day of the year. If the rain holds off, we will enjoy the most sunlight possible. I was thinking about this when I read a few recent news stories about our beloved comic book industry. The most amazing was a group of articles in the Arts and Leisure section of the…
Attention all you Left Coast comic fans, with a love for the ladies! At the upcoming Long Beach Comic Con, you can attend the 2010 LuLu Awards. Brought to you by the recently reinvigorated Friends Of Lulu, the LuLu’s celebrate female creators in comics, and gives them a boost within the community in hopes to…
Friends of Lulu, the organization dedicated to increasing the involvement of girls and women in comics, as both professionals and consumers, held their annual Lulu Awards at the New York Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art on Saturday, June 7. Until now, the awards have been presented during the San Diego Comic-Con. This is the…
The comics blogosphere is spreading the word quite effectively about the current situation of Rachel Nabors, who’s facing a dental bill of up to $25,000 to correct a serious jaw problem. Nabors, a Friends of Lulu Kim Yale award winner, doesn’t have any health insurance. As Theresa Tschetter notes, Rachel "has her own business… She…
Via Heidi at The Beat, the newest Friends of Lulu anthology has been formally announced. The Girls’ Guide to Guys’ Stuff has a whole bunch of contributors both new and well-known, from A (Elizabeth Argull) to Y (Shayna Yates) — sorry, no "Z" surnames spotted — with each contributor presenting her take on "men and…
