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“Captain Marvel” and the real history of women’s aviation
One of the ways writer Kelly Sue DeConnick is developing the new Captain Marvel is by giving her firm links to the history and culture of women’s aviation. This approach combines the real world and...
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Mindy Newell: Fly Girls
Kelly Sue DeConnick rocks! Women had made their mark as pilots well before World War II. Amelia Earhart, Jacqueline Cochran, Nancy Harkness Love, Bessie Coleman, and Harriet Quimby were some of the...
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Mindy Newell: The Right Stuff
There is a wonderful thing happening for me and other girls and women who read comics. A new hero has appeared. As frequent readers of this column should remember, Kara Zor-el, Supergirl, was the...
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Mike Gold’s Top 9 of 2012
It’s the end of the year, so it’s time for still another mindless list of favorites – maintaining a cloying, egotistical annual tradition throughout the media. Once again, here are my self-imposed...
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Enter To Win a Signed Copy of “Hawkeye” #7 by Donating to the Red Cross
First off, let my introduce myself. I’m Sara. Normally you don’t hear from me because I work behind the scenes, helping keep the technology that runs ComicMix running, writing code to implement new...
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Kelly Sue DeConnick Explains Who’s To Blame For Lack Of Female Superheroes
http://badassdigest.com/2013/02/26/marvel-comics-writer-explains-whos-to-blame-for-lack-of-female-superheroes/ Spoiler: it’s you. And the publishers, because they don’t make it easy for new readers.
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In response to Kelly Sue DeConnick…
Kelly Sue DeConnick posted this on her Tumblr this morning. Reading the question I was saddened and angered but not surprised. In industries that have a history of being a boys club, it’s not unusual...
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Mindy Newell: Duck And Cover
The bullshit never stops. What is it about some men? Did Mommy keep obsessive charts about their every urination and bowel movement during toilet training, marking down the time and size and color and...
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Dynamite Furthers Red Sonja’s Legend
Art: Frank Thorne Art: Frank Thorne In addition to the new Red Sonja comic book launch with superstar writer Gail Simone, Dynamite Entertainment has announced a new series, Legends of Red Sonja with...
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Mindy Newell: Morpheus Laughs
I had the weirdest dream last night. Like all – or most dreams – it was a jumbled mix. And some of the details are getting lost as the day goes on. But I do remember that I was in the midst of writing...
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MINDY NEWELL: You Say You Want A Resolution…
Well, 2014 is six days old, and though I’m not too maudlin about it, I’m glad 2013 is over. It wasn’t my worst year ever – that was pretty much 2006, though 2009 does come close, for reasons that I’m...
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Martha Thomases: Gifting Comics
Hanukkah is halfway over and Christmas is next week. Traditionally, columnists with no ideas use this as an opportunity to recommend gift ideas that, ideally, benefits themselves, their families or...
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Martha Thomases: She Walks! She Talks! She Makes Comics!
In the early 1970s, when I was in college, I went to hear Gloria Steinem speak. The modern version of the feminism movement was still in its early stages. My memory of the talk is fuzzy, but I...
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I’d like to welcome Molly Jackson to the cacophonous, crazy, crackling, close comradeship that is the corral of ComicMix columnists. Molly’s first piece is on Star Trek: Voyager. She, like, me is a...
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Ed Catto: You’re Number One
I always thought that more you know about something, the better you are at evaluating it. For example, movie critics who understand films, filmmaking and film-history evaluate movies more effectively...
View ArticleMartha Thomases: The Usual Gang
Are you watching the last season of Mad Men? It’s our last chance to see Jon Hamm in so many crisp suits – at least for a while. It’s also a weird sort of time travel, at least for me. I figure that...
View ArticleEd Catto: Look Who’s Talking … or Who Should Be
It can be a pretty disappointing world out there. So often, our real word heroes stumble and reveal they are less than what they appeared to be. We see it all the time with politicians in whom we had...
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Mike Gold: Four Comics Things That Piss Me Off
Number One: Bitch Planet Bitch Planet ran only five issues. I know it’s coming back in a new mini-series story arc thingy, but nobody – not even Valentina De Landro and Kelly Sue DeConnick – have any...
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Joe Corallo: Knowing Your Place
The other day at a comic shop I saw a flier for the upcoming Patsy Walker, A.K.A. Hellcat! #1. It was advertised having writer Kate Leth and artist Brittney Williams attached. I think it’s great that...
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Mike Gold: Looking Forward
In these waning days of 2015, our media tends to look backward at all the great stuff that came down during the previous year. That’s because there’s damn little that happens between Christmas Eve and...
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Molly Jackson’s Brunch – With a Side of Comics!
I was out with some friends for brunch this past weekend. Brunch is a standard weekend event in the NYC area now, and it seems like a month rarely passes where I don’t have brunch plans on the...
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Joe Corallo: Critical Thinking
Last week I picked up a copy of Motor Crush #1, the new Image comic with all the buzz, created by the team that brought us the Batgirl of Burnside, including Brenden Fletcher, Babs Tarr, and Cameron...
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