Why I Love Superman
One night, I was having dinner with an otherwise-quite-smart fellow writer, when she said...
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Author: Barry Lyga
Memory Monday: Talkin’ Comics Sexism. Again.
Er, Carol… I know he’s your dad and all, and I get that you’re trying to be kind to him, but… Doesn’t this strike you as the very definition of “a distinction without a difference?”...
Read MoreThis Week in Rejection!: DC Comics, ’80s Style!
My very first submission to DC Comics was way back in 1979 or 1980. I never received a formal rejection for that — perhaps DC didn’t take a story proposal written in #2 pencil on a sheet of torn-out spiral notebook...
Read MoreThe Distaff I Hunt Killers
What if Jazz and Howie were girls, not guys? You probably haven’t been wondering that. Heck, I haven’t been wondering. But a grad student in upstate New York decided to go ahead and shoot a short film of part of the...
Read MoreYes, This Year I’ll Be in San Diego! – Updated 2x
(Updated: Complete panelist list and Signing Info.) Y’know, every year around this time pretty much everyone I know asks me, “Are you going to Comic-Con?” And every year, I say, “No.” Not this year,...
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