Ultimately, it’s 2015, gang. If a massive publisher like Marvel with 70 or so books and well over 150 different creators can’t hire at least 10 female creators, they’re just not trying hard enough. There are so many talented women doing amazing work in this industry right now. It’s not hard to find great female cretors. Marvel’s usual response to a lack of diversity is to point out that there’s more coming, and that’s all well and good, but tomorrow is not today. And today, these numbers are rough. It’s even worse because it’s their big relaunch month. At a time when all eyes will be on Marvel, female creators will be few and far between. Not cool, Marvel. Sort of shameful, Marvel. Get it together, Marvel.
Random Thought
The most interesting thing about the Gawker shenanigans isn’t the question of whether or not this is the end of Gawker (It’s obviously not), but the fact that the Internet has changed so much in the last few years, and Gawker was not only unprepared, but apparently unaware of the change before publishing the Conde Nast story.
Who do you want to see at ECCC 2016?
We’re working on making Emerald City Comicon 2016 out best convention yet, but we want to hear from you!
When it comes to comic book creators, authors, artists, and celebrities:
Who do you want to see at ECCC next year?How do you feel about podcasters? *bats eyelashes*
Definitely time for an official X-Plain the X-Men panel.
When I read the green paper’s criticism, prefixed with “there is an argument that” we are not distinctive enough, I thought: is that all you’ve got? There is an argument that the earth is flat, but it’s a rubbish argument because the facts don’t sustain it.
My drivetime show hosts the Radio 2 book club, now the most important media outlet for books in the UK. The Shock of the Fall by Nathan Filer, Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healey and Burial Rites by Hannah Kent (among many others) all got their first attention here. On daytime, not tucked away in the wee small hours.
Chris Evans runs the 500 words competition, in which this year 120,000 children sat down and wrote a story to be judged by experts. That’s at breakfast. And then there’s our championing of the Museum of the Year and 115 hours of arts output.
But maybe that’s enough facts. They might not trump your ideology, but maybe it’ll give you pause for thought. (Did I mention 200 hours of religious output?)
Radio 2 DJ Simon Mayo responds to UK government suggestions that BBC Radio 1 & 2 should be closed down. From here.
The black-and-white footage shows the Queen, then aged six or seven, and her sister Margaret, around three, joining the Queen Mother and her uncle, Prince Edward, the Prince of Wales, in raising an arm in the signature style of the German fascists.
Edward, who later became King Edward VIII and abdicated to marry the American socialite Wallis Simpson, faced numerous accusations of being a Nazi sympathiser. The couple were photographed meeting Hitler in Munich in October 1937, less than two years before the second world war broke out.