The History of Webcomics
Shaenon Garrity tries to chart “The History of Webcomics” from 1985 to the “Age of This Whole App Thing” at The Comics Journal.
Meet the Author Who Outsells Rowling, Dickens and Patterson
AbeBooks has a nice profile of Georgette Heyer, a writer of all kinds of fiction, but most influential as an author of Regency romances. The profile includes a gallery of covers from her books.
Romance Fiction, Romance Fact
Today on “Romance Fiction, Romance Fact,” Linda Holmes takes apart a recent hand-wringing essay in which Susan Quilliam fears for the sexual health of woman who read romance. “Quilliam discusses a bunch of research, some of which indicates that reading romance novels is correlated with happy relationships, and […]
“Hi, I’m Twilight. And I’m True Blood.”
Twilight and True Blood have an animated Barbie off. (via Cinema Junkie)
Superman’s Ex-Girlfriend, Lana Lang
Unofficial, Unsanctioned, Unsolicited–Colleen Coover’s “Superman’s Ex-Girlfriend Lana Lang!”
Badass Women of the Pulp Era
14 Badass Women of the Pulp Era from around the world.
The Cultural Gutter 