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You know what I dislike? When I see comics or movies or cartoons (especially cartoons in comics,) where a person is crying, and what they look like is someone who is either kind of sad or perfectly composed...with water leaking from their eyes. Many trails of water, or a single, perfect trail ( Read more... )

Went to a comics store today and bought a collection of Art Spiegelman's sketchbooks (creator of Maus) as well as a comic called Ashrel, which is in French. I bought it because the art is very, very cool. (And now I know why it was familiar! The artist is a popular Harry Potter fanartist!) It has a character called Chandras in it who has a bitchin ( Read more... )

Caught sight of this bit of enraging comic book sexism on several people's LJs. Seems that Joe Quesada from Marvel answered a reader complaint about sexism in Marvel Comics on his blog, with this bit of douchebaggery:

I’m going to go on a limb here and assume you’re a Marvel reader. It’s an assumption I’m making based upon the fact that you’re ( Read more... )