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Cartoonist Alison Bechdel is probably best known for what has been dubbed the Bechdel Test, a measure of the representation of women in film and other fiction that asks simply whether a work features at least two women who talk to each other about something other than a man Alison Bechdel used it in her[...]

Dan Slott as Spider-Man Erik Larsen… I mean I can see what they were going for. And Erik Larsen as Savage Dragon is much better. Jim Lee… I mean top left is certainly a version of Jim Lee I have met. But Jim Lee as the X-Men is much more fun. I mean, that is Scott Snyder, t just is. That[...]

Ryan Utterback was in the news last year, campaigning for the North Kansas City School District to remove gay-themed books from school libraries, including the graphic novel Fun Home by Alison Bechdel But it has now been reported by local media that in December, he was charged over allegations of child molestation and domestic assault[...]

Which yesterday seemed to just be a comics site explaining a comics reference with Alison Bechdel on Rick And Morty in a way that Google's new SEO folk really seemed to like Welcome all, to the daily Lying In The Gutters a long-running run around the day before and the day ahead You can sign[...]

Maker (comics creator, Bent Con). Getting some info and news out of the way to start, Maker pointed out there is a Kickstarter for his latest project, Myth, and Amber Garza broke the news that after their first highly successful Flame Con, a LGBTQ Comic Con in New York City, the event will be returning next[...]

Alison Bechdel, comic book creator of Fun Home, Are You My Mother, Dykes To Watch Out For and accidental creator of The Bechdel Test for the portrayal of women in fiction, is one of this year's twenty-one receivers of the MacArthur Genius Grant received by twenty-one people this year, worth $625,000 over five years. The award[...]

There are far more than Essential 8 Women Working in Comics, but I think this is a good beginning. Alison Bechdel The South Carolina House of Representatives recently cut funding for the College at Charleston to punish the school for selecting Alison Bechdel's comic memoir Fun Home for a summer reading program Bechdel's incredible, award-winning, best selling[...]

Which, coincidentally, is exactly the same sum the college spent on a program that saw the College of Charleston assign Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel to incoming freshmen last summer Rep Garry Smith made the proposal is quoted as explaining "I understand diversity and academic freedom… This is purely promotion of a lifestyle[...]

But my favorite time you helped me out was by announcing "The Allocation" totals 5 minutes before you closed on a Friday and that we had to put a strategy in place by Monday to place 2D orders to make up for your failures in production or ordering. STAGE FRIGHT The difficulties of putting Alison Bechdel's Fun[...]

And Howard Chaykin's upcoming Shadow series from Dynamite is set in the continuity as a prequel to his 1986 mini-series. Bleeding Cool favourite Thunder Brother: Soap Division by Paul Brainey gets a sixth issue, and he's stopping his regular web update to support the print edition. The fuss about Alison Bechdel's Fun Home being included on a freshman[...]

But if you you need an extra special reason to go, here are a few. Tonight at 7.30pm they are hosting a talk with Oliver Jeffers for Neither Here Nor There. On Friday the 12th, they are launching the book and the exhibition of famed cartoonist Steven Appleby's Guide To Life. With the Phoenix comic, they have a[...]

Greg Baldino writes for Bleeding Cool A different kind of comic con came to Chicago this past weekend as the University of Chicago hosted Comics: Philosophy and Practice, a three-day academic conference that hosted the biggest names in the history of alternative comics and graphic novels. The roster of guests is literally the Who's Who of[...]

As the comics industry comes to grips with what will be coming to stores in April and May, there is one book likely to smash sales record that's not from the New 52, or an Avengers Vs X-Men tie in. Alison Bechdel's Are You My Mother is her follow up to Fun Home, and has a[...]