Medical Transcription Net breaks down the value of your body in ” You’re Worth More Dead Than Alive.”
The Art of Rap - Common Speaks on Writing His First Rap Verse
A short snippet from Ice-T’s feature length documentary “The Art of Rap” where Common remembers when “the heavens opened”. The film is out June 15th.
LINES: Art Adams
COLORS: John Rauch“Art Adams Rocketeer”
Carol writes about Maurice Sendak’s Where The Wild Things Are:
Maurice Sendak has died and it’s broken my monstrous heart. Sendak’s books were a huge part of my childhood and likely a huge part of who I have become as an adult. (And, hey, we both love Herman Melville). But one Sendak book was more important to me than any other: Where The Wild Things Are.
SF/F Editor James writes about magic, author’s cuts and e-books:
Recent fantasy novels seem to spend a lot of time describing their magic systems – who can use magic? how does it work? and at what cost to the magic user? C.J. Cherryh’s Rusalka is, in most senses, no exception to this, since these questions are answered quite clearly. That said, Cherryh’s answers have some really interesting things to say about magic.
Image: “Rusalka” (1934) by Ivan Bilibin via Tiny Ideas.
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I was basking in my love of Kate Leth from Kate or Die! and decided to make a short list of my favorite queer comic artists who are on tumblr.
Besides Kate, who often does comics about being queer, including this bisexuality series which has four parts and you should read them all! (click the picture for the link), I am also super into:
Joey Comeau of asofterworld - he also has a great blog about horror movies if you’re into that stuff too.
Erika Moen
Jess Fink
Natasha Allegri
Gail Simone - who creates for DC comics and had a kind of collection post of LGBTQ creators HERE. You should definitely check out the notes/reblogs on that one.
What about y’all? I know this is only a short list, so do you have any other favorite comic artists/writers who are also on tumblr?
-JenniJenni is a UofM alumna and got her degree in German and Women’s Studies. She is currently being an awesome barista. Her personal tumblr is here and her fancier long-form blog is here.
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Plan a Trip Through History With ORBIS, a Google Maps for Ancient Rome
Say you were thinking about taking a trip this summer to Italy, and were considering a drive northward from Rome to the ancient coastal city of Ravenna. How long would it take? How would you go about finding that out?
Most likely, you’d use Google Maps, which would tell you that by car you could take a variety of routes, all of which would get you to Ravenna in about four and a half hours.
Now say, just hypothetically, that you wanted to make the same trip except — and it’s kind of a big exception — that the year is not 2012 but 200, you’re not traveling by car but by ox cart, and, just for a little extra challenge, let’s say it’s February. How long would that journey take?
To answer that question there’s ORBIS, a sort of “Google Maps for Ancient Rome,” which will tell you that the fastest way for a third-century traveler to get to Ravenna will be to take your ox cart to the sea, board a ship, and sail around Sicily, around the southern coast of Italy, and northward to Ravenna. It will take you nearly 15 days and cost nearly 400 denarii. Over land, the trip will last a month.
Read more. [Image: ORBIS]
I just kind of randomly looked at Dan DiDio’s Facebook page for a minute this morning.
Holy crap.
Okay, let me first get this out. Dan does care about lgbtq portrayals. It’s important to him, I’ve had a dozen conversations with him about it. Out writers like Marc Andreyko have been told, by Dan, not to shy away from gay storylines, characters, and content. And he was a major reason why Batwoman finally got printed. Whatever else you may disagree with, I know this is important to him, and he’s backed it up in many ways.
This stuff isn’t coming from Dan, this is just a sampling of some of the posts people have sent him on his Facebook page in the last couple days.
“Just giving you a heads up because you’ve been a fair guy, If Wally West comes back gay, i’m done with DC comics forever. Nothing against LBGT, but they can’t have my favorite character.”
“Who will be the gay character?, Please no Superman, Batman, The Flash or Green Lantern!. I’ll throw away my collection and will not buy any. I have gay friends, but the characters who were not gay do not have to be now.”
“Mr. D, I sure hope you all aren’t planning to make Superman gay. You all have already torn the character down enough, please don’t ruin the character for the shock value. Not sure what DC has against having characters that are good role models…married and have a respect for their parents views.”
Yeesh.
I’ll be honest and say that I’m surprised. DiDio always struck me as an asinine misogynist who was hell-bent on forcing anything that didn’t feature straight, white males out of sight (with some exceptions, like the Wonder Woman series, Cyborg being a Token Black Guy in JLA, and firing pretty much every female writer DC had save Gail Simone). Hell, DiDio, and to an extent Geoff Johns, are responsible for the current, post-apocalyptic shambles DC has become, what with the unnecessarily dark storylines and a complete lack of light-hearted characters.Where is Plastic Man? Where’s Stephanie Brown? Why is Harley Quinn a fun-hating skank? Why is Amanda Wallers scrawny? Why is Captain Marvel as gritty as Batman? Why hasn’t Bart Allen acted like Impulse since the start of the pre-boot Teen Titans? Ask Dan DiDio and he’ll bully you instead of giving a straight answer.However, credit where it’s due. If DiDio is a supporter of LGBT rights, and is willing to make an established character gay, then I’d get behind it. It’d be an awkward, “don’t touch me” support, because I hesitate to throw my full weight behind DiDio no matter what worthwhile cause he fights for, but I’d be there.
Of course, one could assume that, like Cyborg is a Token Black Guy, whenever DiDio shows support for LGBT characters, it’s because the DC Universe requires another Token hero…
(But no seriously Dan DiDio needs to get the hell away from DC Comics)
There’s a lot we disagree on, but Dan is one of the most open guys to lgbt content I have come across in the industry. He was a major supporter of the Batwoman project when others were squeamish, and he supported my idea of Hippolyta and Phillipus getting married, among many other things.
NO major publisher is as progressive as I might hope, and the record for female portrayals is mixed at best. But a lot of positive stuff can be laid at Dan’s feet as well…I kind of blame the creators for not giving him the credit he deserves for the stuff he has supported, they want that credit for themselves.He’s made a lot of decisions I am adamantly in disagreement with, just recently we disagreed mightily on a project. But the truth is the truth, and Dan’s support for lgbtq characters is solid and admirable.
Northstar’s getting married! (Doop is in attendance).
Thanks, Monster Island Resort Podcast!