Friday Links Explains Steampunk
A little one this week cos so much reading to come with the Snapshot upon us! I loved this surreal Questionable Content page, which I think probably sums up many bewildered people’s thoughts on...
View ArticleTansy’s Con Report 1: Crafty Continuum, the Program
Rachel Holkner as '1950's feminine ideal Wonder Woman' complete with chatelaine & pincushionA lovely convention. The title ‘Craftonomicon’ was reflected in two ways – an emphasis on craft threaded...
View ArticleFriday Links Adds Frosting and Coconut
The awesome Terri started chronicling her crazy cupcake adventure from Continuum – she’s promised us a blog series about each Twelfth Planet Press book themed cupcake she made for the event, and starts...
View ArticleWhere the Wonder Women Are: #5 Wonder Girl
We tend to assume that most superheroes with ‘girl’ in their names are spin offs from better known male character, but it’s not always true, even in DC Comics. Wonder Girl is probably the most...
View ArticleFriday Links Is A Prestige-Free Zone
At Salon-com, Laura Miller takes on the question of why young adult literature is “dominated” by women and particularly examines the issue of how commerciality (or perceived commerciality) affects the...
View ArticleFriday Links is Fully Dressed II: The Pants Have It
The fact that this isn’t the first time I have given this title to a Friday links post goes to show that it’s not too hard to make sure your superheroines are fully dressed, people! Not if an artist...
View ArticleWonder Woman is Not the Problem
I’ve been meaning to write this for a while. How often do we hear about The Problem with Wonder Woman? That one is actually a very pro-Wonder Woman article which addresses many of the sillier myths...
View ArticleFriday Links is Four Today
That’s a lie, of course. It’s not Friday Links that is four, but my littlest daughter! Her birthday loot included a Wonder Woman with invisible plane, two metric tonnes of Lego, and a set of Disney...
View ArticleFriday Links is Sensational (Featuring Wonder Woman)
Welcome to a bumper edition of Friday Links! The August solicits for DC Comics had a delicious (one might say SENSATIONAL) announcement to make: a new digital-first comic for Women, bringing back the...
View ArticleFriday Links is a Series, Not a Standalone
You Can’t Take The Sky Kanga From MeFriday links lives! It lives! The biggest obstacle to Friday links, in fact, has been that my mother has been babysitting for me on Friday mornings, allowing me a...
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