![]() Shocking pretty much no one, Vault Comics did not release a statement about the incident. This week, it was Nathan Gooden, Art Director at Vault Comics, who deleted his twitter account after suggesting men should “try harder” when women tell them they’re not interested. It also wouldn’t be comics without at least one person making horrifying comments on twitter. ![]() Variant Edition Comics + Graphic Novels (YEG) May 20, 2018 We were flooded with folks old and new, coming out to show support, drop off snacks and sign a beautiful, large card. Yesterday, our community surprised us with a cash mob, organized in secret. ![]() Surprise: we have a wonderful, positive story to tell you. After vandalism believed to be connected to Comicsgate, the Edmonton comics community came together to help Variant Edition fix the damage. to push women and minorities out of the comics industry.”īut, the comics community isn’t taking the attacks by Comicsgate lying down. ![]() Of course, this is comics we’re talking about, so not all of the news was good.įollowing the dark news a couple of weeks ago that Comicsgate was targeting specific retailers, Magic Mirror Comics in Mill Creek, Washington, released a statement that they were “currently the target of a coordinated harassment campaign by anti-diversity ‘activists'” who were using “intimidation and misinformation. Those weren’t the only awards given out this week, as Jake Thrasher of the University of Mississippi won the Society of Professional Journalists’ Mark of Excellence Award for Editorial Cartooning.Ĭongratulations to Cartoonist CRNI featured cartoonist, who has won the 2018 Mark of Excellence from … /ndUQW4AWcI Brannon Costello of Louisiana State University was awarded the CSS Book Prize for Neon Visions: The Comics of Howard Chaykin the CSS Article Prize went to Benoît Crucifix of University of Liège & UC Louvain for “Cut-up and Redrawn: Charles Burns’s Swipe Files” and Alex Smith of the University of Cincinnati won the Chute Award for Best Graduate Student Conference Presentation for “Breaking Panels: Gay Cartoonists’ Radical Revolt.” The CSS’s executive board opted not to award a fourth prize for public scholarship, but may do so next year. Meanwhile, the Comics Studies Society announced their first annual prizes for comics scholarship. ![]() You can also submit new titles to be added, so if you notice something missing, you can recommend it to the team. This week also marked the launch of the Queer Comics Database, which catalogs over 130 titles (with more to come!), to help readers, librarians, and retailers find queer comics by genre, series type, tone, art style, type of representation, and more. Our sincerest thanks to everyone who contributed or helped spread the word! Remember a few weeks ago when we told you about our IndieGoGo campaign to fund WWAC’s move to a new web host? Well, the campaign was a roaring success, meeting 159% of our goal. We’re going to start off this week with some good news for once. ![]()
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