tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-308461482011-07-28T17:20:59.365-04:00The younger people are invited to snicker.megshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17507782207499308746noreply@blogger.comBlogger181100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30846148.post-30080581023501395052007-01-18T12:00:00.000-05:002007-01-18T12:46:00.939-05:00

Don't expect me to get in the habit of this regular posting nonsense, but I couldn't pass up pointing out today's Commissioned.Commissioned is often about RPGs, especially table top D&D stuff. There are a few rotating storylines dealing with different campaigns, as well as comics about O and his friends. I've only seen O in the role of DM in the comics and some of the humor comes from his

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On a much more fun note, I helped a guy ask his girl to marry him. You know, it's Shake and Wed and I helped.When I first discussed marriage with my now husband (short story - met on internet doing webcomics, but he was older canadian, no clue, meet in San Diego and oh SHOOT), I specifically said "No Penny Arcade." But he did ask me in front of webcomics people at the Keenspot booth at our

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Gosh, I haven't updated here in a while. Some holiday break, right?So for some reason, it's Webcomics Awards season. Yes, the "controversial" (read: not really) Web Cartoonist's Choice Awards are up and at 'em again. They've moved up the date and decided to scale back their advertising of the awards at the same time. I finally saw one person link a week ago, but as it was in livejournal and I

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There is so much wrong with the latest Shortpacked! storyline, I don't know where to start. Not that it's not hilarious (because most of the wrongness is the kind I enjoy, mytaste kthx bye), but it's a little scary how close parody is from the parodied. Or how close it was until it was saved by getting wronger.For those of you just tuning in, Galasso runs the toystore. Conquest (Connie?) is his

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Ha, I'm going to have to make this a feature. The monthly girl-on-boy smackdown. I see so many examples and I'd like to go over each one and see what's going and then maybe reevaluate my earlier thoughts. I'm excluding, of course, stories about fighting, because if the girl is supposed to be kicking bad guy butt, then that's totally different. And then comb through Saturday Morning Breakfast

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All I really have to say is I LOVE THIS COMIC. I already loved Kilroy and Tina, which I should probably review on account of the awesomeness, and also because it's all free now, but Wonderella is such good stuff. And she can jump hella high.

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I had a laugh and a rant about the whole Wizard How-to-Draw books, and sketched up a fury stupidosity about it here in my livejournal. But the fact is, I really, really enjoy drawing hot ladies. Well, and hot guys, too. But ladies are easier and more fun. I see the fun in drawing hot ladies, even as I can see the sexism behind stating that female superheroes must stand differently than male

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I forgot to mention here that I did a guest column over at Comics Should Be Good, mostly because I was in Toronto when I wrote it and only got back late Wednesday. And then immediately got sick. It was a pretty "pass the sick around" weekend, but mostly it was all about comics. My husband was there for work (which is how we got the free rental car, because we are car-less bums), but I was there

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Everytime I write something and publish, I think of two million more things to say.I went back to the Pandagon post that inspired me to have something more to say on the subject of women hitting men and considered some more. It occured to me as funny that in the first snarkoleptics post I linked to before that twice someone brought up the lesson they learned as kids that just because someone hits

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There's been a bit of discussion in the livejournal snarkoleptics community about webcomics where a girl hitting a guy is played for comedic relief (starline's post on Questionable Content, kdsorceress's on Dominic Deegan). My first thought is that this is something often done but not so often thought through. So let's think this through.Violence is funny, especially between friends. I mock hit

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click for full size Devil's Panties!Sometimes it's entirely appropriate to show off a little.Like if you're a firefly trying to get laid. Flash 'em, baby. click for full size Striptease!Now over on Striptease, Chris has got his gang into a sort of goth-y nightclub looking for a friend who's been caged up and his girl can't persuade them to let him free. He's sending out big signals that this is

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You didn't read it here first, but Shaenon Garrity (she of Narbonic, as well as Smithson and L’il Mell and Sergio) is the new editor of Modern Tales, probably the biggest edited collection of webcomics around. It started off as a subscription based site, but is now mostly free and readers can benefit from having someone round up and show off the best webcomics. That someone is now Shaenon, who

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Shaenon's got a couple of posts up on Anne Cleveland and Jean Anderson that are pretty much must-reads:One and Two. The humor in these old comics really struck a chord with me. I went to a woman's college myself (RMWC!), but my mom went to Agnes Scott in the 60's and has told me stories about pushing up her pj pants legs and fastening on a raincoat to make it to the morning meal while looking

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If I were going to ask the question, it'd be more like "What's NOT a feminist comic?".I was thinking about highlighting some excellent webcomics that are feminist and I came to realize that ALL webcomics I think are excellent are feminist, because to not be feminist is to be a bad writer in many ways. I can think of a few good comics with some bad moments, and rest assured I'll get to those when

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I was thinking about adding on to my previous post on this topic, but you know, just ditto. How To Write An Original Female Lead Character In A Fashion That Doesn't Drive Karen Crazy works for me.The Web Cartoonists' Choice Awards are over and the winners are here. I nominated and voted and am pretty well pleased with the winners, though they're not many of my choices. If you don't read any

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I have a list of topics I want to write about, but right now I'd like to touch on a subject I brought up briefly in my old column: stereotypes.It's really, really easy to write stereotypes. Afterall, people tend to conform to them (and this is one reason why feminists want better female characters). Kids looking to conform often model their behavior after what they see, and stereotypes are

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Why aren't there more women creating webcomics? Why aren't there more women getting noticed creating comics?I've been reading quite a bit lately on the Marvel summit and Joe Quesada's comments on why there aren't any women writers there. NRAMA: Noticeably absent (and for some time) is a female creator in that group. Big picture wise, why hasn't a women creator made it into the tight circle of

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My name is Meaghan Quinn. I'm a webcartoonist and have been for about 6 years, drawing and writing my comic Eat the Roses, though lately I've acquired a writer. I've done other things too. I belong to Keenspot, have been on Modern Tales and Graphic Smash, have several good friends in webcomics, and am probably very biased. I'm also a feminist.Once upon a time I wrote a column for Comixpedia

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