When I was in Friends of Lulu, one of the main incentives to keep up membership was the opportunity to vote in the annual Lulu Awards, given to women of distinction whose contributions to comics kept getting ignored year after year by the major comics awards. Now an era appears to have come to an…
Back when my ex-husband and I were first getting heavily involved in online comics fandom and attending lots of conventions, there weren’t a lot of women con-goers, so we all tended to stand out a bit and more or less gravitate towards one another. As I recall there weren’t a lot of “booth babes” in…
Maybe it’s because of Women’s History Month, or maybe it’s the time of (wo)man. But for those of us who like to idealize (rather than fetishize or objectify) women superheroes, there’s a lot of good stuff online right now. Besides getting their fill of Buffy and Wonder Woman, readers can linger over Alan Kistler’s exhaustive…
Friends of Lulu has been a visible player in the comics world for about fifteen years now. Like many organizations, it’s had its share of controversy. It’s also helped give visibility and voice to a lot of talented writers and artists in an industry where, until very recently, one of the most frequently asked questions…
What better way to celebrate International Women’s Day than by announcing that political cartoonists Stephanie McMillan, Mikhaela Reid and Jen Sorensen will be the panelists on a session about women’s comics to be held on Day 2 of the Women, Action & the Media conference in Cambridge, MA on April 1? No foolin’, the panel…
Tomorrow marks the start of Women’s History Month (with March 8 being International Women’s Day), so it’s probably a good time to mention that I’m one of those double-x chromosome types. That fact automatically puts me, along with the majority of the population, in the category of non-default, of Other. Which always confused me; how…
For as long as there has been a comics’ press, people have been wondering why there aren’t more women reading comics. And often those people wondering are, themselves, women: Maggie Thompson (who in 1960 co-published Harbinger, one of the first comics-themed fanzines back), The Beat‘s Heidi MacDonald, Trina Robbins (whom I’ve loved since the days…
As mentioned here on ComicMix back on February 12, Cheryl Lynn has been busy creating a new and very needed comics organization. The website is now live and ready for your participation! The Ormes Society, named after the legendary pioneering cartoonist of color Jackie Ormes, is an organization dedicated to supporting black female comic creators…
Cheryl Lynn is seeking like-minded individuals to help establish the Ormes Society, named for Zelda "Jackie" Ormes, the first nationally syndicated black woman cartoonist. Cheryl "was ecstatic to receive a few e-mails about my initial search for black female comic creators from people who wanted to add names to my list. Unfortunately, I hit a…
Former DC editorial assistant Valerie D’Orazio, who caused quite the stir late last year with her multi-post series "Goodbye to Comics," has written her second post about Supergirl wherein she expounds upon her belief that the best way to change a System for the better is from without, not within, particularly if the System perpetuates…
Cheryl Lynn decides to commemorate Black History Month by making "a list of all of the fabulous black women writers, artists and editors I know of who are kicking ass and taking names at Marvel, MAX, DC, MINX, CMX, Vertigo, Wildstorm, Image, Dark Horse, Oni Press, Fantagraphics, First Second, Avatar, SLG, Devil’s Due, Drawn &…
