Tag Archive | "women"

Comics: Women at the British Comic Awards

Friday, November 30, 2012

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I have been thinking a lot about women, comics and sexism in the past few months, working out thoughts, ideas and gearing up to write something. This was not how I intended my first piece on the issue to be. Earlier in the week, the Forbidden Planet International blog carried a short interview with comics [...]

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In praise of. . . Corinne Mucha

Friday, October 5, 2012

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                            A recent discovery: Corinne Mucha is the bee’s knees. It began with the Ignatz-nominated ‘The Monkey in the Basement and other Delusions’ and continued with ‘It Doesn’t Exist’ and ‘My Every Single Thought’. Ostensibly these come under the umbrella of ‘mini-comics’, [...]

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Womanthology

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

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I’ve been meaning to post a link to the Womanthology project since I first heard of it. Like a lot of independent arts projects at the moment it is using the Kickstarter process to raise investment to help get it off the ground, with investors rewarded for their contribution. The project aims, as you might [...]

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The unkindest cut of all

Monday, August 16, 2010

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Gentlemen, you may wish to look away now, or at the very least cross your legs and wince in empathy, while any ladies who’ve had to put up with a philandering man may be making significant glances towards the knife block in the kitchen (unfaithful men who act like pigs beware!) – it seems long [...]

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Female illustrators

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

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BoingBoing points us towards a new art blog by Leif Peng, called Female Illustrators of the mid-20th Century. It isn’t specifically comics art, but it is, as the title implies, shining a light on women artists, most of whom I’ve not come across before and as is the way with this kind of thing it [...]

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Women in graphic novels

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

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tihkalcat has an interesting short piece on graphic novels, produced as a video essay for a media theory class, concentrating on women in the comics medium and especially on the autobiographical approach. I’m not sure I agree with it all and the fact that graphic novels can create enlightenment and knowledge on a subject as [...]

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Women in Comics conference

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

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Sarah Lightman kindly sends us a heads-up on the Women in Comics one-day conference which is scheduled for Sunday October 25th at Murray Edwards College New Hall in Cambridge: “A one day conference, ‘Women in Comics’ will take place on the 25th October 2009. With its unique collection of 20th Century Women’s Art, The New [...]

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