Comments on: Comic Book Noise 56 is online

By: James Meeley

James Meeley — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 03:50:19 +0000

Very cool stuff. I just wanted to mention that you left out one very important blog in your list. Comics Fairplay: http://comicsfairplay.blogspot.com

It’s my wife’s blog and it one of the longer running comic blogs around, especially from a woman’s point of view. I’d like to invite you (and everyone else who reads this) to check her place out. It’s updates pretty regularly. Thanks!

By: Redhead Fangirl

Redhead Fangirl — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 18:16:33 +0000

Thanks for the mention and link! It is much appreciated. My entire goal, as a librarian and female comic blogger, is to get more women interested in comics and present my redhead-librarian- view. And nice words for Shelly- a fellow librarian blogger!

By: one diverse comic book nation » Women And Comic Books

one diverse comic book nation » Women And Comic Books — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 05:28:07 +0000

[...] Another thing that needs to happen is that the comic book industry needs to not function under the assumption that all readers are men. Their marketing is done almost exclusively toward men. For example, let’s look at DC’s recent diversity push. Was it really necessary to describe Batwoman as a “buxom lipstick lesbian?” Who does that appeal to? Obviously, the straight men…and, not wanting to make assumptions, lesbian fans who are into buxom lipstick lesbians. Publishers need to talk to women fans out there about what it is that appeals to them. Now, I’m not going to pretend to know what women want in comic books because, as much as I can guess and as much as I try to get my women friends who are not into comic books into comic books, I just don’t know, but, I was struck by something that Derek Coward said in his Comic Book Noise podcast when he devoted a podcast to women in comics. He said, “Women readers want compelling interesting stories with appealing art work…simple as that…while I’m at it, get what men want? Compelling interesting stories with appealing art work…Every person have different things that they consider compelling, interesting and appealing. Don’t make assumptions based on sex, race or any of those other things people want to use to classify people with.” Well said. [...]

By: Administrator

Administrator — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 01:04:08 +0000

About Heroes is one of my favorite podcasts and I’ll tell anyone who will listen that they should check it out.

By: Nick

Nick — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 23:24:04 +0000

Thanks again for giving About Heroes a shout out, everybody was kinda tired the last podcast cause Chicago-Con wore US OUT, lol. Two more eps are coming soon as a way of making up, also Darick Robertson is gonna be on one of these answering questions. I’ll try to give you a shout out in the podcast. Like the 45 minute podcast format you got going, so many go to long and are hard to take the time to listen.