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Monday Morning Runaround – Photographic Proof

Published Mon, 27 Jan 2014 07:00:06 -0600

PHOTOGRAPHIC PROOF

Jackie Estrada's Kickstarter to fund Comic Book People, a hardcover book of photographs of comic folk taken through the seventies and eighties is being funded by all sorts of folks. Including those who might even appear in the book…

I just backed Comic Book People: Photographs from SDCC in the 1970s and 1980s on @Kickstarter http://t.co/1JWsur1Q15

— Dave Gibbons (@davegibbons90) January 27, 2014

THE WHEDON WITH ALL THE FOLLOWERS

How to make Mike Carey's day over his new book, The Girl With All The Gifts.

Finally had time to read a book. Turned out to be just a teeny bit perfect. Sigh… pic.twitter.com/FxsAHnRpTb

— Joss Whedon (@josswhedon) January 26, 2014

Mike Carey: Joss Whedon read my book. And he liked it a lot. In fact, he said it was "a teeny bit perfect". I'm just going to say that again in block capitals with unnecessary full stops. JOSS. WHEDON. READ. MY. BOOK!!!

BUZZREAD

Buzzfeed reports on a teenage girl bullied online and sent death threats for creating a comic book.

For now, Jamie plans on trying to get her life back to normal as much possible and put the comic — and all of the vitriol that it inspired — behind her. She's currently in the process of getting registered with the school district of her county so she can get field experience and work with children. Someone from Chicago approached her via Twitter to ask permission to use her comic as an instructive tool. Someday she plans to come back to the internet.

MIXING OF META NARRATIVES

DC Women Kicking Ass looks at the bizarre mixing of cartoon styles when portraying superheroes on Valentine's Day Cards in a way that most multimedia brands would scream high heaven at…

But when you take the traditional comic versions of male characters and combine them with "girlyfied" versions of the female characters I feel it sends a concerning message to both boys and girls by "othering" the female characters. While Superman and Hal Jordan looks "life-like" (as much as a comic rendition can) and stoic. The female characters have cartoon like faces and are smiling. Why the difference?

And The Comics Beat gets heat for linking to it. And kicks back.

Guess what trolls, I was "gender baiting" before most of you were born, except then it was called "examining gender/social roles." The rise of the internet and social media means everyone is allowed to call out shit when they see it (good) but it also means gangs of trollish thread derailers who obfuscate the points being discussed with thinly-veiled paternalism and mansplaining.

If you don't like it, go somewhere else. PLEASE. I will continue to examine this question and if you're not interested, tough titty. MY website, MY rules.

ALL FIRED UP

The Phoenix Weekly Comic is all-but-giving a six issue subscription away for one pound sterling… if you live in the UK. Bargain!

CHO BUSINESS