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Amazing image! It took me a second to realize they were two people - very cool. (via http://blog.shaunmanning.com/)

Interview with Sarah Glidden at Bad at Sports - here’s an excerpt!

How did your new project, Rolling Blackouts come about? Was the initial idea influenced by the current state and erosion of US international reporting?

The project was something I had been thinking of for a long time. Right around the same time that I started making comics, three good friends of mine started a non-profit multi-media journalism collective called the Common Language Project. They formed in part as a reaction to their own dissatisfaction with that erosion of international reporting you mentioned. There we were in our mid 20s and our country–which has always been very involved in global affairs–was involved in international issues in a more intense and violent way than we had seen during our lives. We were in the middle of two expensive and disastrous wars, a collapsing economy, and a handful of other tense conflicts and relationships with other groups and governments. Instead of expanding coverage of these issues, American journalism seemed to be turning inward. There are a bunch of reasons for this, of course. The business model the news media had been using for almost a century wasn’t working anymore, and it couldn’t adapt. Foreign bureaus and investigative reporting were the first things that newspapers cut to save money. International reporting still exists, it’s just that there is much less of it and there are fewer people doing it.

(READ MORE: Meanwhile…On Comics Journalism and an Interview with Sarah Glidden : Bad at Sports)

Underwire by Jennifer Hayden
http://www.act-i-vate.com/creators?id=37

Essay and Interview by John Seven

Jennifer Hayden’s “Underwire” is an entirely honest slice of life that probably benefits from first hand experience as a parent, but it isn’t mandatory. “Underwire” might even be revelatory in its depiction a typical moment out between a mother and daughter and the extreme tension that a watercress sandwich can cause on one side of the interaction, while on the other, a sweet and naive satisfaction mixed with hopefulness.

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Q: In your experience, do you think comics have done much to explore parenting as a topic?

A: Not what I’ve seen so far. The Sunday strips have done it, but in a very rated-G way. I’m not rated G. I think comics in this country have historically been for kids and adolescent boys and sometimes adolescent girls and sometimes young men. Now we’re seeing great stuff from some young and not-so-young women, but it’s still directed to a younger age group. Parenting would not be the right subject for this audience. But as autobiographical comics take off, and as more people of all ages read comics and as the artists age, I think we’ll see more on parenting all the time. My take on parenting is that it’s part of my development as an individual and it’s just as sick and twisted and off-color as the rest of my life has been.

(READ MORE: Greylock Arts: .Comics › Underwire by Jennifer Hayden)

What parenting comics would you recommend?

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From Detective Comics #2 (published March 1937)

Art by Joe Shuster, writing by Jerry Siegel, from the ‘Slam Bradley’ strip

I love this! Make sure to read the text in the box. (Yeah, I’m sure gladiators were only in it for the love of battle, ha-ha-ha.)

I was trawling for more info on Habibi, and stumbled on this illustrated review. Neat!

‘HABIBI’: The Illustrated Review of Craig Thompson’s ornate new epic - Comic Riffs - The Washington Post

Week of Cool Comic Book Moments – The Fall and Rise of Rikard the Brave | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources

You Will Never Look At Mario The Same Way Again

Not even in the face of Armageddon. Never compromise.

- Rorschach, Watchmen

A Birdsong Shatters the Still by Ted May & Jeff Wilson

8 May 2013

When Jeff first sent me the story for this, he didn’t feel it was complete. I’d bugged him about whether he had any more stories for comics and he sent it to me saying “this is all I’ve got.” But as I read it, I began to really feel it. He had intended on making it into a more developed story, but once we got it sketched into comics form, it felt complete on it’s own. So here it is. Our ode to teen revelation and regret. And it’s probably the most Iron Maiden shirts I’ll ever draw in a single comic. Enjoy.

Nominated for a 2013 Eisner award for Best Short Story, A Birdsong Shatters the Still was originally featured on the pages of Injury no.4, published in 2012 by Ted May & Alternative Comics. It was originally going to be self published, but Marc Arsenault offered to split the price of the run in order to print more copies.

(READ MORE: A Birdsong Shatters the Still « what things do)

In case you thought it was only comics that unnecessarily sexed up female characters, fear not: It happens in all media — and the newest guilty party is Disney. On Saturday, the studio inducted Merida of the Pixar film Brave as the 11th Disney Princess. More accurately, it inducted some alternate-reality Merida who’s thinner, wears her dress off her shoulder and exposes more cleavage. A redesign of the character appeared on the corporation’s website in advance of the induction at Disney World, and faster than you can say “Wonder Woman’s pants,” someone launched a Change.org petition, which is now approaching 200,000 signatures. Disney removed the images of the redesigned Merida, not that it matters; the Internet never forgets.

(via The not-so-Brave makeover and subtle backpedaling | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment)