Christina Blanch Archives

I'd like to thank those who engaged in interviews this year on Bleeding Cool again for sharing their perspective and wisdom with us, and with our readers. Here are some of the highlights from the interviews of 2014 from myself, Rich Johnston, Dan Wickline, Adi Tantimedh, Alex Wilson, Nikolai Fomich, and Jeremy Konrad: With Fred Van Lente:[...]

Harry Houdini #2, talks with Christina Blanch about The Damnation of Charlie Wormwood #2, both on sale Nov 12 ANTHONY DEL COL & CONOR McCREERY: The trope of the financially put-upon hero making a bad choice because of money needs is a classic one, but Damnation gives it a twist in that Charlie is, or should[...]

Nancy Collins, writer of Vampirella, talks with Christina Blanch about The Damnation of Charlie Wormwood #1, both came out this week. Nancy Collins: So, Christina, after using comic books as teaching aids as part of CAPE (Comics Association of Professionals and Educators), how does it feel to actually be writing one? Is this your first comic[...]

Christina Blanch, writer of The Damnation of Charlie Wormwood, talks with Anthony Del Col about Sherlock Holmes vs Harry Houdini, both on sale Oct 1 CHRISTINA BLANCH: How did this mash-up come about? Did Dynamite approach you or did you come up with the idea? ANTHONY DEL COL: Dynamite approached Conor McCreery and I with the concept[...]

Byron Brewer talked with one of the series writers/creators Christina Blanch about the series and where it is headed. BYRON BREWER: Christina, how did Damnation of Charlie Wormwood make the jump from Thrillbent to Dynamite? CHRISTINA BLANCH: It's all thanks to Nick Barrucci of Dynamite We were chatting at a con and we started talking about the[...]

Now the series by Christina Blanch, Chris Carr and Chee is getting to see print with a cover by Francesco Francavilla thanks to Dynamite The book will make it's debut on October 1st, but the final order cutoff is coming up early next week so Dynamite has sent over the first 10 pages to preview…[...]

Paul Levitz moderated a panel on the depiction of women in comics at Baltimore Comic Con this year on Friday with panelists Gail Simone, Dave Gibbons, Marguerite Bennett, Adam Hughes, Christina Blanch, and Thom Zahler. Levitz opened by pointing out that whether a character is depicted as sexy or sexualized in comics is a very old[...]

Almost a month ago it was announced that the Thrillbent webcomic The Damnation of Charlie Wormwood by Christina Blanch, Chris Carr, Chee and Troy Peteri was being collected by Dynamite Now Byron Brewer caught up with Blanch and asked about the transition from digital to print and how it might change things. BYRON BREWER: Christina, how did Damnation of Charlie Wormwood make the[...]

And then came The Damnation of Charlie Wormwood digitally from Thrillbent… and now in print from Dynamite. The webcomic by Christina Blanch, Chris Carr, Chee and Troy Peteri is being collected by Dynamite and published with covers by Chee (Wake The Dead) and Francesco Francavilla (Afterlife With Archie). Co-creators Blanch and Carr originally launched the series via[...]

Massive Open Online Comics Courses: the wave of the future? When pioneered by Christina Blanch, a doctoral candidate in Anthropology at Ball State University, the first course was so astonishingly successful that it surprised even Blanch The first course's topic in 2013, "Gender Through Comics", brought in a number of comics pros to speak about[...]

Christina Blanch, the organizer of the massively successful free open-access online comics course "Super MOOC": "Gender Through Comic Books", will be running a second course from March 10th to August 19th 2014 and registration is currently open This course will be entitled "Social Issues Through Comic Books" The first MOOC Blanch ran engaged over 7000[...]