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October 3, 2012
Jean Tumblrs and Draws Stuff: Womanthology: Heroic Book Auction
Please be so kind to reblog! :D
In order to raise some money for my friend Renae De Liz’s extensive medical bills, Jody Houser and I decided to put a signed copy of Womanthology up for auction and I tracked down as many of our fellow Womanthology contributors as I could find at Comic Con this…
A great cause and a wonderful, one-of-a-kind copy of a book I am very proud to have been part of.
October 2, 2012
gatothenovice:
coelasquid:
snoozlebee:
leidis:
penciltests:
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“Lilo and Stitch” 2002
Deleted Scene
Lilo plays a trick on the tourists.
IF YOU LIVED HERE YOU’D UNDERSTAND
I desperately need to understand
WHY
WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY
Was this scene cut from the movie??!!
Fucking christ, do you know what this would have done? What this would have meant to SO MANY people?? The truth of this is devastating. And to think it almost found it’s way into a DISNEY film??
The inclusion of this scene alone would have made it the greatest animated feature the company ever produced. Easily. And if you think that’s hyperbolic clearly you don’t understand.
No, really, if anyone knows why this was cut PLEASE let me know.
oh man WHY WOULD they cut this, this is so great, holy MOLY
It was clearly something the crew was very reluctant to get rid of if it made it all the way to rough-clean (and in a few scenes clean!), fully inbetweened animation. That is like, thousands and thousands of dollars and weeks (months?!) of labour. Maybe a reluctant producer decided they would alienate their white middle-class American audiences by making them feel “too guilty” and pressed them to drop it? It’s unfortunate, it’s one of the most honest accounts of racism in a Disney movie (which is why it’s believable that someone got uncomfortable and made a case to get it chopped)
Designing entertainment by committee for maximum marketability is probably the most heartbreaking process in Hollywood.
That is amazing.
I can’t believe what I just saw. This would only have made a near-perfect film a little bit BETTER than perfect.
comicbooksawesome:
gailsimone:
helenabertinellihuntress:
“Wel...
“Well, we get the most upset at others when they mirror what we hate about ourselves.”
A brief history of the complicated friendship that existed between Barbara Gordon and Helena Bertinelli.
I always LIKED that it wasn’t easy for them at first, I think it made them much more believable when they did finally open themselves to trust each other.
And now you’re just some series that I used to KNOOOOOW!
I so badly want a book like this to exist again, and it just doesn’t. Birds of Prey currently is a wonderful book, it’s great, but it’s a very different animal and sometimes I just want to read a book about superheroines who love each other as friends and sisters.
Why is this so hard? Why is this so threatening to some?
It still had all the asskicking, it still had all the fun stuff. But the women loved each other. Bromances are so common in comics it’s practically a cliche, but BOP was nearly alone in offering all these actual female FRIENDSHIPS going at the same time in a single superhero comic.
I don’t need to write it, I just want it to EXIST so I can read the damn thing.
marvelentertainment:
A battle broke out at Dragon*Con!
Photo by...
A battle broke out at Dragon*Con!
Photo by Judy Stephens
(Source: marvel.com)
It is so clear to me that I NEED TO GO TO DRAGON*CON.
helenabertinellihuntress:
“Well, we get the most upset at...
“Well, we get the most upset at others when they mirror what we hate about ourselves.”
A brief history of the complicated friendship that existed between Barbara Gordon and Helena Bertinelli.
I always LIKED that it wasn’t easy for them at first, I think it made them much more believable when they did finally open themselves to trust each other.
Programming Note Worth Mentioning!
At this year’s wonderful GEEK GIRL CON in Seattle, I had the pleasure to be on a panel regarding the portrayal of disability in comics. It was one of the best panels I’ve ever seen, let alone been on, not because of me, but because of the quality, passion, wit and knowledge of the moderator and guests.
It was a joy just to mostly sit back and listen to these people.
It was moderated by my friend Day Al-Mohamed, and paneled by the wonderful actress (and another friend I love) Teal Sherer, and writer/activists Liz Henry and Lawrence Carter-Long.
It was such a lively panel, full of hilarious jokes by all the panelists, especially Liz and Lawrence. A lot of fun was made of the ‘inspiring disabled person,’ trope, and rightly so, but there definitely WAS a lot to be inspired by with these hilarious, take-no-bullshit panelists for other reasons entirely. I can’t remember ever just wanting a panel to go on and on like this one. It was honest and smart and funny and just pretty goddamned great.
The funniest panelist was activist/writer Lawrence Carter-Long, who said so much smart, biting stuff that I could barely process it all. I became a fan that day and sought him out to talk to him more later. I asked what he had in the pipeline, and he told me that Turner Classic Movies had asked him to co-host a series of movies in October, every Tuesday for the entire month, showing films that portrayed people with disabilities, or featured actors with disabilities.
That starts tonight. And knowing Lawrence, my guess is that this is going to be AMAZING.
Lawrence didn’t just pick well-known stuff like, “The Miracle Worker,” there are obscurities and some films that probably raise a lot of eyebrows.
In all, there are, I think, twenty films in the series. It starts tonight, I’ve been waiting for this since he first told me about it. Please check your local listings and spread the word, this is a very cool event for film buffs and those interested in fairness in the media. I think you’re going to want to see this.
The series is called THE PROJECTED IMAGE. It starts tonight and runs every Tuesday this month. Please spread the word and make this a huge success!
Lawrence Carter-Long’s twitter is @LCarterLong . He’s a fascinating guy with a knack for storytelling, I suspect he’s going to be great at this.
I’m swiping this small excerpt from today’s L.A. Times, which did a story about this today. It’s worth reading the whole thing.
“The festival marks the seventh series from TCM to examine how different cultural and ethnic groups have been portrayed in film. Several of these earlier series showcased movies in which white actors were cast in nonwhite leads (Katharine Hepburn as a Chinese peasant; Burt Lancaster as an Apache chief). In later films, however, after the prospect of actors performing in blackface, yellowface, or brownface became less palatable within Hollywood, one sees a dramatic shift away from these types of “creative casting.”
Not so with this series. The featured films span from 1927 to ‘87, and if anything, one notices more disabled actors in the earlier films. There’s Harold Russell, who lost his hands as an Army instructor during World War II, playing a disabled veteran in 1946’s “The Best Years of Our Lives.” Two years later, Susan Peters, who was paralyzed from the waist down in a hunting accident, plays a conniving matriarch in the noir thriller “Sign of the Ram.”
“She’s literally hell on wheels in this thing,” says Carter-Long. “If the industry could do something like that in 1948, you have to ask, why aren’t they doing it now?”“
October 1, 2012
uristmcdorf:
Just be honest for now: Please Look (And Quickly!)misterjmonsters:
gailsimone:
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Just be honest for now: Please Look (And Quickly!)
I have talked a little bit about this in the past.
NO ONE wants to make comics more than my talented friend Larime.
Now, here’s the deal. Larime is an extremely talented artist and writer. He is severely disabled, he has to write and draw with his mouth.
Seriously, people.
I don’t often share kickstarters, but this one is worth it. Here is an artist and creator who can create art of this quality WITH HIS MOUTH. And he is being INCREDIBLY generous with the kickstarter rewards. Pledge $1. $1, which is like 70p in UK money and won’t even buy you a bag of crisps, and you get a digital copy of issue 1 of the comic. Pledge a mere $5, which is about enough for a cup of coffee, and you get both a digital and a print copy, which will be quite a rare thing to own if the comic takes off.
And just a reminder, THIS is what the artwork looks like.
Larime Taylor. Extremely talented artist. Ridiculously generous kickstarter. Something you’ll WISH you were involved in if you don’t put your name down to at least give him $1.
Well said, beautifully said!
Half an hour left!
Holy Jebus!
You guys added almost $2500 to mouth-artist (that’s how he describes what he does!) Larime’s serial killer kickstarter comic project in just TWO HOURS.
You guys are amazing. I’ve spoken to Larime and he is incredibly moved by your generosity. He can’t believe it. I know it’s helping him to know that there ARE people out there who care.
Just wow.
Thank you again!
There are just two hours left on this thing. Take a look, if you haven’t yet!
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1644376829/dark-zoey/posts
THANK YOU AGAIN.
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