Tag: family

“7 Ways Gilmore Girls Got Women Right”

“Gilmore Girls probably owes its failure to attract widespread acclaim despite running for seven seasons to the traditional cultural devaluation of female-driven genre media, whether it comes in the form of Young Adult fiction, women’s fiction, or female-led Hollywood narratives. Given that Gilmore combined elements of all of the above, it’s no […]

RIP, Bil Keane

Cartoonist Bil Keane has passed away. He was most famous for his long-running comic strip, The Family Circus.  Lynda Barry movingly remembers Keane.  The AV Club has an overview of Keane’s career.  The Belated Nerd has posted panels from Keane’s less well-known Channel Chuckles gag strip.

The Kids Are All Right

Despite my whinging last month, I do in fact both read and love a lot of young adult Romance.  I  may not be fond of the ‘Supernatural Boyfriend of the Week’ subgenre (and no, Stephanie Meyer did not invent it; it’s been out there for decades), but that […]