Mariner Books
Review time! with Calling Dr. Laura
Hey, look – another Portland comic artist! What are the odds?
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What I bought – 23 January 2013
And now let us believe in the long year that is given to us, new, untouched, full of things that have never been. (Rainier Maria Rilke)
Flippin’ through Previews – January 2013
So the wheel turns back around, and a fresh catalog of Previews arrives on my doorstep. Issue #292 is here!
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Flippin’ through Previews – October 2012
I will never be so jaded about comics that I don’t enjoy a good stroll through Previews! It’s time for catalog #289!
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She Has No Head! – Ladies Comics Project: Phase II, Part One
Even after spending the last year plus writing She Has No Head!, a column about women and comics, I continue to have a real interest in and curiosity about women and comics, and specifically why women do and don’t read comics and what they do and don’t respond to as readers when they do read. With those thoughts and inspiration from both an old (hilarious) Laura Hudson piece and a more recent interesting Greg Burgas piece, the idea of The Ladies Comics Project was born. The premise is simple – pull together some great ladies from as many age groups and walks of life as I could reasonably manage, women both familiar and not with comics, and give them a comic book to read and have them report back.
The results, like in the first Ladies Comics Project, which you can read more about here, here, and here, are fascinating. Phase I challenged a lot of thoughts I had about women in comics, while confirming others. One of the biggest revelations was how interested ladies I knew were in reading a comic and participating in this project and that is one thing that has definitely held true for Phase II – in which 18 of the original 19 women immediately got on board for a second round along with a whole new group of ladies. In fact, I had so much interest (our ladies reading has gone from 19 to 32) that you’re going to get Ladies Comics Project Phase II in four parts, from today through the end of February. So come back every Monday to read more.
Illustration for Ladies Comics Project: Phase II, Part One by Tara Tara Abbamondi
