srsly, fuck Urban Outfitters.
CONCURRED. Not buying anything else from them ever.
I take no credit for any of this, all I did was assemble them togetha’.
Hellooo friends, I was just handed a couple of useful links from a talented friend, and seeing some posts on Facebook and around the internets inspired me to share them all with you in this handy place.
Bookmark them all, or…
*Sunglasses* YEEEEEAAAHHHHH
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DC Comics held its first New 52 panel at Comic-Con International, in San Diego, with more panels focused on the line-wide September relaunch to follow throughout the weekend….
“The words I heard in the beginning were ‘scared, worried, nervous,” [Dan] DiDio said of the New 52 initiative. He then…
Couldn’t have said it better myself. Now, it is time to draw.
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So I started a Tribe Gaga account! Seems like a cool concept, so hopefully it will pick up in popularity. Check it out:
That link about praising children got me to thinking about how we treat artists. Well, everything leads me back on to art eventually.
I often hear people talk about how artists either got it or they don’t. An innate talent that they’re born with.
What a bunch of crap, says I!
Anyone with the…
Sing it sister, sing it!
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Whenever I complain about how females are portrayed in mainstream superhero comics, inevitably half a dozen people pop up to tell me this:
“Men are idealized in comics, too.”
Yes. Yes they are. I am aware of this. While I think the idealism is harmful, that isn’t actually what I have a problem…
THIS x 1 million. Also, reading so much about this kind of stuff makes me want to draw comics. Time to bust all up in that paper!
If you haven’t been around this blog very long, let me let you in on an important fact about me. I love the Golden Age heroes. Oh sure a lot of the stories were badly written and the art merely passable a lot of the time (though I have my gods and goddess of Golden Age artists), but the characters they came up with back then were so earnest, whizz-bang, over the top. They were throwing everything at the wall to see what stuck. It was the glorious kind of raw creative energy you get when poor 20-somethings are trying to make a quick buck when the economy is depressed and/or they fled genocide in their home country.
Miss America is one of my favorite old Timely heroes. Her first solo title issue was drawn by Pauline Loth, which in addition to comics, featured text stories and articles of interest to teen girls—some even written by female military personnel! She was revived briefly in the 1970s, and for Marvel’s 70th Anniversary got her own one-shot special written by Jen Van Meter. (Also, apparently she made an appearance in a 2006 miniseries where she said bigoted shit, but I’m going to chalk that up to sloppy writing automatically making anyone over the age of 60 a racist). She was cute and fun and she wore glasses even while superheroing. Miss America was due for a revival, even in name only.
How on earth could they get it so wrong?
This is the sort of shit that makes me wonder: Why??? Why do I even bother with comics?
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