Last month I wrote a column for Comics Bulletin.
My daughter is awesome. I don't write about her much in this column for reasons mainly relating to her safety and privacy. The last thing I want is for people to judge her in five or six or ten years based on something her mom said about her when she was nine! Nevertheless, I'm about to break my own rule.
When I attended New York Comic Con last October, I had little hope that there would be any news concerning my favorite DC heroine.As it turned out, I was wrong.
I love statistics. So when Tim Hanley started posting his "Women in Comics" statistical analyses of DC and Marvel comics each month, I was fascinated...and curious. Tim's statistics lumped in all of the titles produced by each company each month. I wondered how the numbers would look if they were focused on each company's core products. I'm not familiar enough with Marvel to identify their core titles, but DC is easy: they put the vast majority of their marketing clout into, and receive the vast majority of their sales from "The New 52". I wrote to Tim and he very kindly sent me his raw data, which I then refined by removing non-New 52 titles like Scooby Doo, Ame-Comi Girls and Arrow.The results were interesting...
For the past several days, I've been caught up in the whirl of San Diego Comic-Con.Going from panel to panel, with trips to the Exhibit Hall in between and meeting up with friends for dinner after, SDCC is fun, exciting, and exhausting.
Let's try a little thought experiment, shall we?
Even before San Diego Comic-Con 2011, DC didn't much like Stephanie Brown.
Sometimes life throws you curveballs.
After last year's excitement, it was a sure bet I'd be taking another four-day tour of San Diego Comic-Con 2012.
A couple of months ago, Trina Robbins was kind enough to grant me an interview.In this, the third and final part, we'll discuss the influence of modern technology on the comics world, "Friends of Lulu", and the future of the comic book industry.
