"Death" by Ariela Kristantina
Interview: Ed Brubaker on Velvet, his new comic book series with Steve Epting: “I loved the idea of flipping the typical male-oriented spy story, and doing one about a woman who was also a mature, middle-aged woman.”
Interview: NPR's Hansi Lo Wang was interviewing Gene Luen Yang, creator of the graphic novels American Born Chinese and Boxers and Saints, who is now reviving The Green Turtle, making his Chinese heritage more apparent.
News: Total digital comics sales rose to $90 million in 2013, up from $70 million the previous year.
Attack of the purse snatchers: GeekFeminism examines gender and bag policies in U.S. comic book stores. It's an interesting piece. "What could a clerk at a comic book store possibly say to a new female customer to make her feel as alien and unwelcome as possible? Would it be some sort of overtly sexist slur, or an inappropriate comment about her appearance? Or could it perhaps be something as presumably innocuous as: "I’m going to need to take your bag before you go any further."
NPR's Codeswitch recently ran a segment on The Green Turtle, the first Asian superhero created in the United States back in the 1940s. Here's the entire run of The Green Turtle on the amazing Digital Comic Museum, which hosts public domain Golden Age comics. If you want to know more about Chu F. Hing, the artist behind the original Green Turtle, here's an extensively researched biography on the astounding Chinese American Eyes blog, which covers "famous, forgotten, well-known, and obscure visual artists of Chinese descent in the United States." American Eyes has four posts on the art of Chu F. Hing: The Art of Chu F. Hing, Part 1: one-page features; The Art of Chu F. Hing, Part 2: covers and stories for various publishers; The Art of Chu F. Hing, Part 3: Marvel Comics; The Art of Chu F. Hing, Part 4: the Green Turtle.
Gotham is one of several comics-based shows on the cover of the special Comic-Con issue of TV Guide, but seriously, who buys TV Guide any more?
The New Thor Is a Big Deal, But Not Because She’s a Woman
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