Women Write About Comics start their series on colorists and their importance in comics with an essay on color and coloring by Marissa Louise. “I love black and white drawing. When it is well done it has exceptional life, keen reduction, and strong emotive qualities. But line isn’t […]
One night, dressed as a black panther for a costume party, socialite Marla Drake sees a fugitive from justice and leaps from her car and into action for the first time as Miss Fury, the first female superhero created by a woman. Marla Drake had inherited a magical, […]
Susan Braudy writes a very in-depth piece on her experience of writing on the Women’s Liberation movement and Feminism for Playboy in 1969. “Almost as soon as I arrived in Manhattan to seek my fortune, I backed into a knuckle-bruising battle with Playboy’s Hugh Hefner. My new city-slick […]
When I was a lad no older than ten, I was pretty sure I was going to become an archaeologist. This assumption regarding my future profession was based pretty much entirely on having just seen Raiders of the Lost Ark and figuring that the career would lend an […]
At Beth Loves Bollywood, the Gutter’s own Beth reviews Manmohan Desai’s Kismat. “I’m on a mission to watch all of Manmohan Desai’s movies before the end of this academic semester, and unless one of the remainders* turns out to be absolute duds, Kismat is taking the prize for the worst […]
At Tor.com, Chris Lough writes about the problems with J.K. Rowling’s “The History of Magic of North America.” “Fiction is a story we create, and history is a story we find, but the opposite is also true, and this makes the structure of both very similar. In this […]