Mo Willems was at this year’s meeting of the National Cartoonists Society, talking up the universality of comics. It bothered him, said the bestselling creator of Knuffle Bunny, the Elephant and Piggie series, and Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the…
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At CAM: Storytime!
Posted by Shaenon Garrity on June 30th, 2010 at 3:45 PMUp now at the Cartoon Art Museum: Storytime!, a fantastic show of comics for kids. Seriously, this is one of the good ones. The museum put a lot of effort into representing as wide a range of children’s comics,…
The Strangest Pictures I Have Seen #3
Posted by Shaenon Garrity on June 11th, 2010 at 5:38 PMI didn’t get into comic books until my teens. When I say that I grew up reading comics, this week’s entry is the kind of comic I’m talking about. I was nerdy, painfully earnest, and born in the 1970s, and…
BL Roundtable: Conclusions: Men Doing Makeouts
Posted by Shaenon Garrity on June 11th, 2010 at 12:03 AMI feel like I said my piece in my initial essay, but I just want to agree with Kinukitty on one crucial point: Weiss Kreuz really does suck. I’d like to see an academic paper on the phenomenon of crappy properties that inspire insanely devoted and creative fandoms; there are a ton of webcomics like that, too, and you can argue that Twilight falls into that category for a significant portion of its fans. It’s like the poor quality of the original work, rather than turning fans off, inspires them to even greater heights of devotion as they try to repair its flaws while retaining whatever tiny, buried seed of interest drew them to it in the first place. It’s kind of inspiring.
Opening shots by Shaenon Garrity, Noah Berlatsky and Kinukitty; Sidebar by Dirk Deppey; and conclusions by Berlatsky, Kinukitty and Deppey.
BL Roundtable: Do we really need to spill this much ink over the question of whether girls like porn?
Posted by Shaenon Garrity on June 9th, 2010 at 12:01 AMIt’s fun when people get all intellectual about porn. I’m impressed by the level of research and familiarity with the subject matter in most of these papers—with a few exceptions, like Mark McHarry’s “Boys in Love in Boys’ Love,” which seems to think that yaoi is mostly shota—but at the same time there’s a running sense of the academic protesting too much. Do we really need to spill this much ink over the question of whether girls like porn?
Maybe we do.
Beetle Bailey at the Cartoon Art Museum
Posted by Shaenon Garrity on May 26th, 2010 at 3:05 PMJust up at the Cartoon Art Museum: Sixty Years of Beetle Bailey, a massive retrospective covering everything from the earliest strips featuring Beetle as a layabout college student to…well, you know, the ones where he’s in the Army. I’d…
The Strangest Pictures I Have Seen #2
Posted by Shaenon Garrity on May 25th, 2010 at 12:31 PMThat’s right, I’m posting more comics from the Garrity/Farago Memorial Library. Ready?
Little Lulu
by Marge
Lately I’ve been reading a ton of John Stanley. Between the Dark Horse Little Lulu reprints and the whole John Stanley Library project,…
The Strangest Pictures I Have Seen
Posted by Shaenon Garrity on May 17th, 2010 at 5:55 PMOkay, that’s it. I’m starting a weekly column. Right here, right now. It is called THE STRANGEST PICTURES I HAVE SEEN, because that was the nerdiest yet most accurate title I could think of. And what I am going to…
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