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New England Webcomics Weekend - 1 views

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  • Angela Becerra Vidergar on 01 Sep 10
     
    NEWW 2 - November 6-7, 2010. Webcomics Weekend is back in 2010 for another year of webcomics-themed festivities. Set in Easthampton, Massachusetts, NEWW is the premiere webcomic event in the United States.
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Penny Arcade! - 0 views

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  • Angela Becerra Vidergar on 29 Sep 08
     
    From Lori Lynn Taniguchi: I consider Penny Arcade to be a singular phenomenon: not only is it a wildly popular comic on gamer culture with heavy "bromance" language, vulgarity and shock value, but it is also an unparalleled business venture. Not even the very rare self-sufficient webcomics online can boast a huge, yearly gaming expo in Seattle and an immensely successful charity for sick children in St. Jude hospitals. The writer and artist have created not only an entertaining webcomic, but have grown themselves into a culture icon with lasting and far-reaching influence, all with an aw-shucks-gamer-next-door quality.
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MegaTokyo - relax, we understand j00 - 0 views

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  • Angela Becerra Vidergar on 29 Sep 08
     
    From Lori Lynn Taniguchi: Out of the all american webcomics which are modeled directly off of the Japanese manga influence, Megatokyo has got to be the most famous. Fred Gallegher has accomplished what many of us in our mary-jane ways have always wanted: to accummulate an adoring audience to our art and story which places us and our friends in the world we love so much, we want to be seen INHABITING it. His art was not very good to start, but with persistence, and some kind of viral popularity, his skills have substantially improved, and his patently shoujo-manga storylines became a trademark. I think the main character is probably very sympathetic to many men who feel bewildered and fascinated and ultimately manipulated by women. Add in a little gamer culture and technology, and you're appealing to pretty distinct kind of guy. Personally, I think the storyline's a little harem-style to be really original. But the fact remains that I believe it to really be the culmination of a lot of desires in webcomics at the time.
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FreakAngels - 0 views

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  • Angela Becerra Vidergar on 30 Jul 08
     
    Free, weekly ongoing comic written by Warren Ellis and illustrated by Paul Duffield. British disaster fiction/steampunk webcomic to be published soon as paperback/hardcover graphic novel.
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Reason for Higher Education :: Comic Books 101 | The Contemplation - 0 views

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  • Anthony Enns, cultural theorist
  • “There are many different ways to teach (this course),” says Prof. Enns. “One obvious (way) would be to take a strict literary approach—read more highbrow comic books and make an argument for comic books as literature… If you were going to teach the course that way, I think you would probably not bother to teach superheroes. I think that would be a mistake. “So much of graphic material is made up of the superhero genre. It would be wrong to just ignore it.”
  • “Is Wonder Woman a strong feminist figure, or is she a kind of a sex kitten? … (William Moulton) Marston, the creator, was really into S and M, he loved being tied up … there’s some aspect of sexual titillation to the Wonder Woman character.”
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  • He is bemused by the Robin-less state of most modern Batman literature; the Boy Wonder was conspicuously absent from blockbusters Batman Begins and The Dark Knight. “(Frank) Miller’s Dark Knight Returns turns Robin into a woman… (Miller) really tries to avoid the whole Batman/Robin relationship.”
  • a possible unit on Donald Duck. The problem isn’t Donald’s lack of pants; rather, it’s the imperialist ideology he presents. “Babar is often read as a parable about colonialism,” Prof. Enns explains. “Babar is educated in Europe and that’s the reason why he’s the king of the elephants.” Art Spiegelman’s Pulitzer-winner Maus, a Holocaust fable told, like Orwell’s Animal Farm, through the use of animals-as-people. “I’m going to look at it through this question of racial representation. The choice to represent Jews as mice and Nazis as cats… It’s offensive, but in an intentional way… it’s impossible to accuse Maus of being Nazi propaganda. That’s silly… but (Art Spiegelman) is definitely playing on the history of Nazi propaganda.”
  • It’s really going to be more like sociology or anthropology. Cultural studies ask the question of ‘what do comic books reveal about the culture that produced them?
  • “Pop culture says more about us than our highbrow culture,” he continues. “If you go back to the 18th century, the tools that dentists use say more about class differences than any of the great works of literature the culture produced.”
  • Angela Becerra Vidergar on 28 Sep 08
     
    Prof discusses a new course on Comics and Graphic Novels. Focus is on history and cultural background.
  • Angela Becerra Vidergar on 28 Sep 08
     
    Interesting comment about whether or not superhero comics qualify as literature.
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Templar - 0 views

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shared by Angela Becerra Vidergar on 09 Nov 08 - Cached
  • Angela Becerra Vidergar on 09 Nov 08
     
    Welcome to our online "ashcan" version of Templar, a five-issue comic book series by David Campbell and Ken Christiansen. Templar takes place on an earth under siege by creatures of the night and follows the adventures of Templar Knight Martin Sinclair and his team of bad ass commandos as they try to stop a demonic conspiracy in the heart of The Vatican.
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