So a Facebook group I belong to, Women Creating Comics, (that I need to be more active in networking is key!) recently posted a contest call for new banners. I decided to enter and the following gallery is what I’ve come up with. I struggled with various ideas and I’m not 100% happy with any of them. I like the pinned up pictures; I wanted to include lots of different c

If you haven’t heard the news about Starfire getting a much needed costume update—not to mention her own on-going series by powerhouse team Amanda Conner and Jimmy Palmiotti, ofHarley Quinn fame, along with Emanuela Lupacchino—then buckle up because I’m going to break it down for you. Costume updates are becoming the norm for the Big Two in the past few years, what with t

Netflix has every Batman movie from the original Burton franchise up, and I love rewatching them all over again. One of the first Batman anything I ever saw was Batman and Robin, the fourth movie of the franchise that featured Uma Thurman as Poison Ivy and Arnold Schwarzenegger as Mr. Freeze. The movie was terrible, and still is today, but it’s an enjoyable sort of terrible. The B

The look I was going for for these was something a little more horror while retaining a fantasy element. I like the combination of those two genres a lot, but I feel my intent came out more in the second cover. I went with lots of cloudy textures and white to beige coloring to enhance that fantastical tone, and of course the apple. I was originally going to make the apple gold as a callback

THE IMPORTANCE OF KORRASAMI IN CHILDREN’S MEDIA With the finale of The Legend of Korra having officially aired, we can now see the ripples its aftermath has created throughout the media. When protagonist Korra and her close female friend Asami Sato ended the show by walking into the literal spiritual sunset together, the implications of romance were hard to deny, so much so they’v

There aren’t a lot of bisexual characters in our media, but at Woman Write About Comics we wanted to highlight some of our favorite bisexual comic book characters. The character I decided to talk about was David Alleyne best known for New Mutants and Young Avengers.  I just adore David so much and he got such a bad wrap during the Young Avengers run.  Even so I wanted to talk abou

I’ve struggled with body issues since middle school. There, I said it. I was a chubby, short, frizzy-haired teenager who couldn’t stand to look in the mirror for more than a few seconds. Working out didn’t fix that; I fixed that. And when I did, working out became something I enjoyed, instead of something I felt obligated to do because of personal insecurities. The internet, however, isn’t