Canadian Comic book artist Gisele Lagace was stopped at the U.S. border and denied entry when she admitted she was entering the U.S. to do commission work at this weekend's C2E2 in Chicago. From her Facebook post about the incident: Welp, no C2E2 for me. Was refused entry at the border. They ... > Continue Reading
Comic Books
Yasiel Puig is ready to bash Glenn’s head in
Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Yasiel Puig received a prop from the TV show The Walking Dead. It's a replica of Lucille, the baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire used by Negan to kill Glenn. I stopped reading The Walking Dead comic with issue #100. It was the issue that Negan killed Glenn with the ... > Continue Reading
So you want to punch a Nazi in the face?
Some people are actually talking about whether it's ethical to punch a Nazi in the face. It started when a protester punched white separatist Richard Spencer in the face. Some described it as punching a Nazi in the face. People on the control-left got a kick out of this video. Many of them ... > Continue Reading
Carrie Fisher 1956 – 2016
From the Los Angeles Times: Actress and writer Carrie Fisher, who rose to global fame as the trail-blazing intergalactic heroine Princess Leia in the “Star Wars” franchise and later went on to establish herself as an author and screenwriter with an acerbic comic flair, has died. Fisher suffered ... > Continue Reading
Gail Simone’s new policy on writing comics
Comic book writer Gail Simone went to Twitter today to share her new policy about the comic books she will write in the future: I am not writing any more comics without LGBTQ and poc characters, period. It's weird we have to even make that declaration. — GAIL SIMONE (@GailSimone) December 8, ... > Continue Reading
There is a new Superman and he is Chinese
I haven't been following what's going on in the world of comic books these days, especially superhero comic books. Movies have taken the place of actual comic books when it comes to superhero storytelling. It would seem that I've been missing a lot. For instance, Superman is now ... > Continue Reading
