Category: Comics
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Does ‘Boys Love/Yaoi’ Manga Have A Gender And Sexuality Problem?
‘Boys Love’ manga presents gay men for the pleasure of straight women – so why does it represent both so badly?
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The Lois Lane ‘Batman V Superman’ Doesn’t Think You Can Handle
Here’s why The Daily Planet’s ace reporter is far more than just Superman’s victimised girlfriend.
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30 Day Anime Challenge: Day 0 (Introduction)
Originally posted on The Cosmic Anvil Blog: Over the next month starting from today, the Cosmic Anvil team are going to be undertaking their greatest challenge yet: a 30 Day Anime Challenge running alongside our Kickstarter campaign, which is aims to raise enough money to get the very first collected volume of Age of Revolution…
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A Female Character’s Waistline Should be as Realistic as Her Job Description
If we want our heroines to look more positively ‘realistic’ then the parameters of their realism need to be defined by their individual lifestyles just as we real women are defined by ours.
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A Comic a Day in May – Day 20: Age of Revolution #1:Takeo Cooper
Check out this lovely review of the indie comic that I draw! A Comic a Day in May – Day 20: Age of Revolution #1:Takeo Cooper.
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Make Your Ultimate Disney-owned Property Team in #TheBigFour Game!
This started as a little time-waster game at the comic book company I work for (Cosmic Anvil – producers of the Age of Revolution comic book series) but we found it so much fun I decided to spread it out into the wider world! To form your team, all you have to do is choose ONE character…
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Superman Returns & Man of Steel: Man vs. Myth
“Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human cultural manifestation. Regions, philosophies, arts, the social forms of primitive and historic man, prime discoveries in science and technology, the very dreams that blister sleep, boil up from the basic magic ring of myth.” – Joseph Campbell, The Hero…
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The Problem with Graphic Novels
I have loved comic books right from when I first learnt how to read. It started with Tintin and Asterix and Obelix as a child, which my mum introduced me to. I later discovered superheroes as a teenager – Batman and X-Men were (and still are) particular favourites. Not long after that I started…
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Disability Visibility in Comics & Manga
Roughly a year ago now I started reading a manga called Gangsta online and became pretty much hooked from the first few pages. I lapped up every chapter that was available, and every subsequent chapter that was painfully slowly uploaded by the scanlators (I would explain what a ‘scanlator’ is, but the clue…
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Comic Lore: Batman, Superman, and The Third Identity
“As you know, I’m quite keen on comic books. Especially the ones about superheroes. I find the whole mythology surrounding superheroes fascinating. Take my favorite superhero, Superman. Not a great comic book. Not particularly well-drawn. But the mythology… The mythology is not only great, it’s unique…Now, a staple of the superhero mythology is, there’s the…
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