Friday Links Starts Robbing Banks.
The Wired talks about Matt Fraction and writing realistic sex into comics with the new title Sex Criminals.
“They do what any young, fun, sex-having sexy persons would do after discovering their sex-having freezes time and space,” says Fraction. “They start robbing banks.”
Kat Mayo at The Drum writes about the way that romance novels (and the women who read them) get sneered at regularly (often in the name of “feminism”) by journalists who actually don’t know anything about the genre with Dear Columnists, Romance Fiction Is Not Your Bitch. The comments made me cranky.
Meanwhile, a comics commentator receives rape threats after she critiques a Teen Titans cover. Her original post is well worth reading, as it sums up just about everything that’s wrong with the lack of foresight in current policy at DC Comics. If you can’t be bothered to design a Teen Titans comic to appeal to actual current teenagers (and in particular, teenage girls, who represented a substantial part of the massive audience for the Teen Titans animated series a few years ago), then what is the point of you?
On a personal note, I was very pleased that E Catherine Tobler, one of the first people to speak out publicly in the wave of dissent against the SFWA Bulletin this year, was so very encouraged by the content of the recent issue that I edited.
And speaking of SFWA, Maggie Hogarth weighed in on recent Hugo debate via honey badger cartoons.
Greg Rucka blasts the fake geek girl myth.
After Sue Townsend’s recent death, a reprint of her powerful essay about what poverty really means.
