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Voices from the Archives: Miriam Libicki on <i>Lost Girls</i>

May 25, 2012
By Noah Berlatsky
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Voices from the Archives: Miriam Libicki on Lost Girls

“when she started having sex with everything, she became a lot more boring.”

July 28, 2009
By Miriam Beetle
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more boys vs. girls at san diego comic-con

So I’m no good at doing peppy little wrap-up posts, but I’ve gotta record for posterity my favourite overheard moment of last weekend. It was in the women’s bathrooms by the Small Press area, and I was leaving out the door so I have no idea what the women looked like or anything. All I [...]

July 22, 2009
By Noah Berlatsky
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Bust Interview With Miriam

Long interview with Miriam in Bust. Mary Sues, soldier fetishes, geopolitics, and more! Check it out.

Kids Comics Roundtable: it’s all good

Kids’ comics were a giant part of my childhood, and I don’t mean respectable European ones like Moomin or Asterix or Tintin. No, it was pure American corporate-owned, tie-in-toy, sugar-cereal shilling garbage like Mad Balls, Ewoks, Masters of the Universe, Planet Terry, Top Dog, Care Bears, Strawberry Shortcake, (there were three of us girls, but [...]

fandom confession: piers anthony

I can easily think of things from my youth that I don’t like now as much as I once did, and that other people would consider silly or unworthy: soapy mystery novels (Julie Smith and Martha Grimes were my favourites), Strangers in Paradise (as I’ve discussed before), Wolff and Byrd: Counselors of the Macabre (that’s [...]

defining mary

We’ve just begun our Mary Sue roundtable (Noah here, Tom here) but it’s already clear in the posts and comments that we’re working from several overlapping definitions. I surf around the fringes of the sci-fi and fanfic internets, so I’d been hearing the term for several years, as well as where it originally came from [...]

MR3 Part Too Late: the devil wears lancome

Firstly, as a non-manga-reader undergoing continuing education in these blog series, I want to agree with Tom that the Okazaki’s artwork shocked and thrilled me at first glance. Her art looks more gestural than any other manga I’ve seen, and the thickish lines and largish facial features were much more relatable, for me, than the [...]