Idle Worship Archive
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Joe Moviegoer Still Isn't Reading Comics Either
The hoped-for resurgence of comics-reading in the wake of Iron Man and the like has not occurred. We have yet to discover how to get people who like comics as an idea to like them as a fact, and buy them.
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Brubaker Gets Bagged
Willow is disappointed by the reactions of Ed Brubaker and Marvel to this whole teabagger controversy.
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Où Sont Les Cons D'Antan?
That means ‘where are the Cons of yesteryear’ in French, by the way, in case you weren’t yet in awe of Willow's brilliance.
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Jeeves Still Doesn't Read Comics
For years, mainstream literary circles have been aflutter over graphic novels. Yet almost no graphic novels make it on to bestseller lists, or even Best-Of lists.
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It Really Is Crack
When I was a geek, I spake as a geek, I thought as a geek, I reasoned as a geek; when I became a writer of mainstream news-oriented nonfiction, I put away geekish things.
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Thoughts from the Edge
Willow steps away from comics for a moment. Instead, she reports on the Islamic fundraising banquet she attended, and how she tries to make her Islamic and artistic beliefs meet in real life.
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Whither the Spiders from Mars?
This week: the column Willow was going to write last week. Yes, that means Young Liars finally gets its due.
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You Can't Print That: My Weird Week and Web Comics
Willow turns to the world of web comics in this week's instalment of Idle Worship.
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Slouching Toward Bethlehem
Willow examines the cathartic effect of re-imagining war through fiction with special reference to Vertigo's Unknown Soldier and DMZ.
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The Crumb Controversy, or Why I am an Iconoclast
Willow takes a look at the controversy surrounding Robert Crumb's adaptation of the Biblical Book of Genesis.
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In Which Willow Reads Shojo Manga
Willow's taste for artsy anime was developed at a young age, but only because I was a total poser.
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Comfort Trades
Recently on Twitter, Neil Gaiman inadvertently started a meme: comfort books. We’ve all got them—those novels, anthologies and books of poetry we reach for when we just want to curl up with something cozily escapist.
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A Very Modern Misogynist
Oh dear. G. Willow Wilson swore she’d stay away from the Irene Adler scandal, but she haven’t had this much schadenfreudian fun in ages.
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Fight, Woman, Fight
A week before testing for her orange belt in kajukenbo, G. Willow Wilson has been thinking a lot about female costumed heroes.
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Our Lord of the Quarter Bin
There is only Islam, and 1.3 billion idiots doing their best to follow it. G. Willow Wilson is one of them.
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Earhart Mania
G. Willow Wilson allows herself a moment of zeitgeistly pride for calling the Amelia Earhart fever that is sweeping the globe.
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Print Idols and Digital Icons
Everyone not living in a remote mountain monastery knows that print news is in trouble. Luckily, the comics industry started looking ahead ten years ago.
DC Dominates Diamond Top Comics & GNs List for January 2012
Press release by Frederik Hautain
Diamond has issued its monthly overview of top comics and graphic novels for January 2012. DC's New 52 titles ...
Myriad Editions to Publish Darryl Cunningham's Science Tales
Press release by Andy Oliver
U.K. publisher collects the popular web series this April.
Boston Comic Con 2012
Press release by Richard Boom
Boston Comic Con celebrates its fifth anniversary with its largest guest list ever! Once again at the Hynes ...
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