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Mon, 17 Jun 2013 11:39:30 -0700

Hodor.

DC Women Kicking Ass: The Brilliance of DC Comics' Marketing Synergy!

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 10:35:59 -0700

DC Women Kicking Ass: The Brilliance of DC Comics' Marketing Synergy!:

Man of Steel is the biggest non Batman superhero hit movie they’ve had in … I don’t know how many years. And the movie did really well in the demographics drawing in a demographic of 44% women. Compare that to Ironman 3 whose opening weekend had an audience that was 31% female audience.

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korranation: Another exciting announcement has...

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 09:38:49 -0700

korranation:

Another exciting announcement has arrived!

Original Music from Book 1 by the uber-talented Track Team will be released on July 16th.

Check out an exclusive track, “Republic City Under Attack” RIGHT HERE.

AND THEN PRE-ORDER THE ALBUM HERE!

Full article via WSJ

Hodor.

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 15:39:37 -0700

Enough said.

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Mon, 03 Jun 2013 12:49:28 -0700

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Mon, 03 Jun 2013 12:37:39 -0700

I haven’t read the books, so I have no idea what is coming...

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 12:33:09 -0700

I haven’t read the books, so I have no idea what is coming outside what has happened on the show, but I’m convinced the end of “Game of Thrones” is basically going to look like this, only with less lasers, more blood, probably more nudity, and yeah a bit more bleak.

kellysue: I’ve got three things I’ve got to get turned in...

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 11:16:05 -0700

kellysue:

I’ve got three things I’ve got to get turned in today, two kids to get fed and dressed and a bag to pack and a flight to catch, so I can’t respond to this the way I’d like, but I’m putting it here so I don’t forget.

I also need to let my temper subside a bit. If I were to reply right now I’d resort to name-calling and insults and we all know there’s no ground to be gained there.

Instead, when I’m not shaking anymore, I’ll recount my career trajectory AGAIN. [Magazine writer/research assistant—>comic reviewer—>7 years /10K+ pages adapting manga into English—>anthology shorts—>co-writing gigs—>one-shots—>minis—->ongoings]

Maybe I’ll get Alejandro Arbona to attest—AGAIN!—that I was blind-submitted for my first gig at Marvel. I’ll offer that if you’re looking for Men to Credit for My Career, you should look first to Neil Gaiman, Warren Ellis, Peter Rose, Steve Niles and Jamie Rich — all of whom were responsible for making introductions or getting me chances to submit my work well before Matt Fraction had any pull in the industry. (I’ll also state in no uncertain terms that I wasn’t sleeping with any of those men, because I know, dear Anon, that is your next assumption.) Or Brian Bendis, who had championed my work in a way I will never be able to adequately thank him for. (Ditto Steve Wacker.)

(Also not sleeping with Brian or Steve, just so we’re clear.)

Maybe I’ll ponder why it isn’t Fraction who’s considered to have benefited from nepotism. After all, more than 10 years ago now, Matt Fraction was my plus one to Joe Quesada’s 40th birthday party and it was me who sent copies of Last of the Independents to Joe and Axel. I mean, clearly, it was those gestures that got Fraction his career — certainly not the merit of his work, right? I mean, come on — those Hawkeye Eisner noms are part mine, right?

(I can’t imagine how sick Fraction must be of hearing me tell that story. But I bet it’s not half as sick of it as I am.)

(The first person I met in the industry was Wil Rosado. Through him, the first editors I met were Andy Ball, who’s since moved on, and Joey Cavalieri. Just in case anybody wants to make a chart. This would be… maybe 4 years before I met Fraction, Gillen, Ellis, McKelvie et al on the WEF.)

Okay, deep breath.

Bendis is going to tell me that I shouldn’t acknowledge this, that I’m feeling trolls, but here’s the pickle: people deny that this happens. We’re told that the insults to our dignity working women face are in our imagination, that it’s a thing of sexy Mad Men past. It’s WOMEN who make this a thing, right? (Hysterical, don’t you know.) We’re to the point where I meet young women who won’t identify as feminists because the struggle is over and it’s only a thing if you make it one.

Bullshit.

It’s not a natural assumption to leap to the conclusion that I got my job because of my marriage. It’s the product of deeply-ingrained sexist thinking. I can name for you a half a dozen men who did, in fact, get their first big two gigs because of who they knew and their dignity and their qualifications have never been called into question. I’m lucky if I go a week.

I was recently directed to a post on a snake pit of a message board (what was I thinking, even going to look?) by a man I’d known as long as I’d known my husband, a man I’d met at the same time—a man who had felt free to ask professional favors of me on multiple occasions—who was lamenting how “easily” I’d gotten to where I was because of Fraction. When friends of mine pointed him to my CV, he half-apologized because he had no idea. Apparently he thought Marvel—a publicly-owned company—was in the habit of handing out gigs to freelancer’s wives just for kicks. Then he threw up the bit about it being a natural assumption.

I would say simply ‘fuck that guy’ and chalk it up to his not being half as smart as he thinks he is, but here’s the thing:

That guy has daughters.

For them, and for my daughter and for your daughter, I am going to occasionally shine a light on these things… even though it both enrages and embarrasses me.

I don’t know if it’s the right call, but I know that ‘ignore it and it’ll go away’ isn’t working.

I need to figure out a way to contain my outrage enough to talk about it in a way that doesn’t attack, but invites dudes like Anon to rethink their ‘natural assumptions’ without setting myself up as an uppity bitch that they’re invested in proving wrong.

I… I clearly don’t know how to do that right now. But I’m going to figure it out.

Later.

Right now, the kids need breakfast and my son has questions about the xenomorph that can’t wait another second.

I’m out.

mcastimovies: #DoctorWho and #WinniethePooh #mashup from...

Mon, 27 May 2013 16:20:55 -0700

mcastimovies:

#DoctorWho and #WinniethePooh #mashup from @jhewitt127

goteamjosh: ispeakinhaiku: kev-n: keyofmgy: candlehat: t...

Sun, 26 May 2013 20:21:30 -0700

goteamjosh:

ispeakinhaiku:

kev-n:

keyofmgy:

candlehat:

thejediwalking:

Look Sir…
Droids

LAUGHING MY HEAD OFF OH MY GOD

THE PHOTO I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR SINCE I WAS THIRTEEN

these are the droids were looking for

*sobs*

Strax is my hero.

Fri, 24 May 2013 12:28:05 -0700

Strax is my hero.

"We [Fraction and his wife, Kelly Sue DeConnick] were pregnant at the time, and while I was out there..."

Fri, 24 May 2013 11:06:32 -0700

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We [Fraction and his wife, Kelly Sue DeConnick] were pregnant at the time, and while I was out there I started to realize that if I had a daughter, there would come a day when I would have to apologize to her for my profession. I would have to apologize for the way it treats and speaks to women readers, and the way it treats its female characters.

I knew that if we had a daughter, because I know my wife and I know the kind of girl she wants to raise and I know the kind of girl I want to raise, she was going to look at what I did for a living and want to know how the fuck I could stomach it. How could I sell her out like that?” Fraction continued. “That conversation is still coming, and I’m bracing for it in the way that some dads brace for their daughter’s first date or boyfriend. I became acutely aware that I had sort of done that thing that lots of privileged hetero cisgendered white dudes do. ‘I’m cool with women, and that’s enough.’ It’s not enough. It’s embarrassing to say, because we somehow have attached shame to learning and evolving our opinions, culturally, but I became aware that there was a deficiency of and to women in my work, and all I could do at that moment was take care of my side of the street.

”

- Writer Matt Fraction on his role on expanding the profile of female characters in the Marvel Universe. (via goodmanw)

sanjayandcraig: nickelodeon: MAY 25 on Nick USA!!!! IT’S...

Fri, 24 May 2013 11:05:44 -0700

sanjayandcraig:

nickelodeon:

MAY 25 on Nick USA!!!!

IT’S COMING!!

Guys! Are you craving an new Saturday morning cartoon? I thought so. Well, get ready for the unabashed awesomeness that is Sanjay and Craig! Premiering this weekend!

sanjayandcraig: May 25th. 10:30am/9:30c. SPOILER: Neither...

Fri, 24 May 2013 10:40:41 -0700

sanjayandcraig:

May 25th. 10:30am/9:30c.

SPOILER: Neither Sanjay nor Craig gets beheaded in the first season.

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Fri, 10 May 2013 17:08:12 -0700

Awesome new Google Doodle today in honor of Saul Bass’...

Wed, 08 May 2013 10:56:46 -0700

Awesome new Google Doodle today in honor of Saul Bass’ 93rd Birthday

A little piece I like to call ‘The Aftermath of Free Comic...

Sun, 05 May 2013 13:30:00 -0700

A little piece I like to call ‘The Aftermath of Free Comic Book Day.” Time to get reading!

Of course the Ood were Jedi! That explains so much!

Sat, 04 May 2013 11:00:00 -0700

Of course the Ood were Jedi! That explains so much!

sigfodr: What if the Starks didn’t make stupid...

Fri, 03 May 2013 10:51:53 -0700

sigfodr:

What if the Starks didn’t make stupid decisions? x

“Okay, I won’t trust you then”

Truth.

Glen Weldon, Writr: This is Krypto. He is Awesome. These are Facts.

Fri, 03 May 2013 10:44:59 -0700

Glen Weldon, Writr: This is Krypto. He is Awesome. These are Facts.:

glenweldon:

Wrote a semi-fictionalized account of a conversation I had with my editor during the writing of Superman: The Unauthorized Biography, in which I lose my valiant fight to devote several pages of the book to the arrant awesomeness that is Krypto.

I can understand Normals not getting Krypto….