[EDITOR’S NOTE: In previous editions of ComicMix Six, our contributors have given you their lists of comics’ top political campaigns, the best and worst movies based on comics, and even a few reasons why a Skrull invasion isn’t anything to worry about. This week, ComicMix Media Goddess Martha Thomases ranks some of comics’ most desirable…
What do women want? Sigmund Freud thought he knew, but we all know about him. After a few decades of feminism, itâs become clearer that the best way to find out what women want is⦠to ask them. Sex and Sensibility Edited By Liza Donelly Hachette/Twelve, April 2008, $22.99 Donelly is a noted single-panel cartoonist…
Blue Pills By Frederik Peeters; translated by Anjali Singh Houghton Mifflin, January 2008, $18.95 This is another one of those semi-autobiographical graphic novels; I’m not going to assume that this is all “true” (whatever that means), but I will note that Peeters’s bio says that he lives with his girlfriend, her son, and their daughter…
It used to be, if you wanted to reach for the comic art form for your sex education you had to send a couple bucks to those want ads in the back of the cheesy magazines for “Comics – the Kind Men Like!” That stuff was a bit distorted; well, in the case of the…
A recent post on BoingBoing regarding comics based on the lives of sex workers has led to an interesting interview with Peter S. Conrad, a writer and artist whose latest project involves turning sex workers’ stories into comic strips. The interview, along with the four-page strip titled "Going Back" can be found at The Reverse…
