If you follow me on Twitter (@geeky_vixen), you’ve seen me talk a lot about being a female comics fan. I’m going to attempt to organize those thoughts here, and thankfully I’m a lot calmer than when I initially wrote those tweets. To give you a little background, most of it was in response to discussions … Continue reading
In 1983, Pacific Comics published a five-volume comic set that featured a retrospective of Bernie Wrightson’s work. (Is it Berni or Bernie? I feel like it’s Bernie, but there’s a certain period in his life that he went by Berni. When I met him, it was Bernie.) Pacific Comics is one of my favorite indie … Continue reading
I succeed and fail at HeroesCon every year. By that I mean I am always successful at having a good time and acquiring nifty things for the collection, but I fail miserably at doing everything I want to do over the course of three days. And therein lies the beauty of HeroesCon. If you’ve never … Continue reading
If you follow me on Twitter or are friends with me on Facebook, you know that the thing I am most excited about at the moment is my upcoming excursion to Chicago and C2E2 (4/25-27). The Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo (C2E2 for short) is only a few years old, but ReedPop has cemented the show … Continue reading
So I’m taking an online class called “Creativity: Music to My Ears“, led by Tina Seelig, a Stanford professor who is dedicated to the notion that anyone can be creative, that it’s not a talent some possess innately. It started today, and after watching the first 20-minute lecture, I am incredibly inspired. One of the … Continue reading
So this week’s topic is a little, um, open. So listen, my children, and you shall hear about the time I totally embarrassed myself by being a total fangirl. Let’s go back to June 2010, my first HeroesCon. I was ecstatic to go as press for Pendragon’s Post, since this was my first big convention. … Continue reading
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