Wonder Woman News
Nell Minow interviewed me at HuffPost about Wonder Woman and bondage.
On HU
Featured Archive Post: James Romberger on Sammy Harkham.
Robert Stanley Martin with on sale dates for comics in early 1948.
Me on Foxy Brown, The Descent, rape, revenge, and race.
Chris Gavaler on the problems with superhero marriages.
Kim O’Connor on why Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Black Panther won’t save comics.
Me on Gaspar Noe’s Irreversible, moral structure, and immoral style.
Me enthusing about Nirvana’s Freak Puke.
Utilitarians Everywhere
At the New Republic I argued that liberals shouldn’t frame contraception as an anti-poverty measure.
At Playboy I wrote about how xkcd is awesome.
At Vice I wrote about the new Muppets and Meet the Feebles, and how viscerally disturbing muppet sex is.
At Quartz I asked, what would “Foucault” say about “first-person” essays.
At Splice Today
—I wrote about how everyone is wrong about Trump. Yes. Even you.
—I argued that the internet doesn’t care about harassment.
Other Links
Elizabeth Bruenig on why many unwed American teen girls want to have children.
Heidi MacDonald on harassment in the comics industry.
Ijeoma Oluo on women of color and the struggle for reproductive rights.
The Heidi MacDonald item links to a New Republic article about teen pregnancy.
I believe this was the article intended? http://www.comicsbeat.com/how-a-toxic-history-of-harassment-has-damaged-the-comics-industry/
Thx, BU.
Argh; yes; sorry about that. Have to fire the unpaid intern again…
Is this the same unpaid intern from last time, or a different one?
Hey Noah, Is calling it Nirvana’s Freak Puke a joke or the unpaid intern again. It’s a pretty good joke.
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I don’t like xkcd as much as you do, but speaking of visually minimalist comics, have you ever seen Shane Simmons’s Longshot Comics #1 and #2? The “art” consists almost entirely of dots that represent characters, but I think they’re some of the best comics I’ve ever read. They’re really underrated.
http://dicktracy.info/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/DickTracySawdust.jpg
In ‘the internet doesn’t care about harassment’, Noah wrote:
“Internet sites still are liable for what they publish. But they’re not liable for what you publish.”
This is true regarding harrasment, but NOT regarding cases of copyright infringing. Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) requires online service providers to immediately remove content if someone claims(!) that it is a copyright infringement.
A practical example: I uploaded a small file to 12 different file sharing services. The file was named “oil-paste-_for-photoshop-cs5.zip”. It contained some brush presets I had made to the program Photoshop. They were made from scratch, by me.
But because the filename contained ‘photoshop cs5’, Adobe filed a DMCA and thus got it deleted.
Longshot does look like Sawdust, except that it includes 80 panels per page. There are some excerpts online, but most are from pages that I didn’t particularly like. Anyway, the two issues form a multi-generational epic that starts in 1860 and ends in 1993. His website says that he’s working on #3.