Sentences with phrase «about women in comics»

Comics A Los Angeles Times article about women in comics concludes that «women in comics» really isn't a topic for discussion any more; the number of women creators and...

There's been a lot of talk about women in comics lately (just Google it!)

Not exact matches

Men can be interested in things that they feel women don't want to hear about — sports, Star Trek, the whole nerdy gaming / SF / comic scene, etc..

Marvel's had a busy week with announcements about their universe, especially major changes for The Avengers as Thor is now a woman, Captain America is getting a comic reboot in «The All - New Captain America» where the Falcon takes over as the Captain, and then Iron Man gets back to his darker Tony Stark roots in «Superior Iron Man».

During our discussion, we talked about how long she has to sit in the make - up chair to apply Okoye's tattoos, how she got inducted into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, her relationship with the other women in the film, comic book research, and what Wakanda thinks about the Winter Soldier.

This teaser was secretly debuted before Wonder Woman in theaters this weekend, and it's the perfect launch, because it's about the man and two women behind the actual comic book character of Wonder Woman.

«Toast» enjoys what is likely the best comic performance of veteran British actress Helena Bonham Carter in the role of Joan Potter, a cleaning woman who becomes the second wife of Nigel's dad, played by Ken Stott, and stepmother of nine - year old Slater who morphs suddenly about two - thirds into the film as the older Nigel Slater, played by Freddie Highmore.

Egotistical, penny - pinching, delusional and deeply in denial, he also (like the best comic creations) remains endearing even as he's waffling on about «minor Dickens» or boasting about his prowess with women.

The CW also renewed the Vertigo comic book adaptation «iZombie» and picked up «Cordon,» an outbreak drama from Julie Plec («The Vampire Diaries»), and Rebecca Bloom's «Crazy Ex-Girlfriend,» about a successful, driven young woman who gives up her life in New York City to pursue love in West Covina, California.

Charles Dance plays her father, not as though he were in a comic zombie movie but as though this were Masterpiece Theatre, and there's nothing funny about Douglas Booth as the handsome Mr. Bingley, except that women keep having to rescue him from zombies.

By extension, McAdams» comic turn in Mean Girls can be linked to the broader trend of «Women in Comedy,» as McAdams» onscreen mom Amy Poehler recently joked about during the AFI Tribune to Steve Martin.

Akhavan upped sticks to the U.K. this year, developing a comedy about a bisexual woman for the BBC «s Channel 4 — let's hope we get to see it some time in 2016, because she's one of the sharpest new comic talents we've seen in a long while.

The comic writer recently spoke about a new monthly series for the series Kick - Ass debuting February 14th, where Dave Lizewski passes on the title to a new hero Patience Lee, «a black woman who served in the military and is the mother of young children.»

Judging from her memoir, Dolezal genuinely can not understand why anybody would see anything remotely comic about a white woman deciding relatively late in life that she's Black.

«Girls» was named best comedy and Dunham, who stars as Hannah Horvath in the series about young women in their 20s navigating young adulthood in New York City, was named best comic actress.

Often included as the token comic book adaptation by and about women in numerous internet lists on the subject, it is one of the most remarkable feats of adaptation.

This news was revealed by the studio as part of its Comic - Con International: San Diego plans in a listing about Wonder Woman.

Wonder Woman (Patty Jenkins, 2017), because it's the most powerful popular feminist statement in mainstream cinema thus far, inspiring countless young women and girls to dare to succeed; because Patty Jenkins more than deserved it after languishing in the wilderness of episodic television after her masterful film Monster (2003), when any male director would have gone on to direct four of five features on the strength of that one film; because it's about damned time that a female comic book feature got made; because Jenkins still had to fight to get a fair payday to direct WW 2 — enduring months of fight - to - the - death negotiations to get a directorial fee comparable to that of Zack Snyder or J.J. Abrams for the sequel; and finally because she's better than either of those two directors, who are overrated hacks with little or no vision at all.

We're very excited for Angela Robinson's upcoming film about the story behind the greatest female icon in comics, Professor Marston and the Wonder Women, which arrives in theaters next week from Annapurna Pictures!

The Women in Manga panel was interesting, especially JuYoun Lee's comments about not just women in Korean manhwa, but Korean comics in genWomen in Manga panel was interesting, especially JuYoun Lee's comments about not just women in Korean manhwa, but Korean comics in genwomen in Korean manhwa, but Korean comics in general.

Okay, well, let's say, instead of jumping in and writing comics designed to attract women readers (Minx comics discovered this is harder than it looks), how's about writing comics which don't actually put women off?

«Strangers in Paradise» creator Terry Moore's horror comic «Rachel Rising,» about a woman who tries to unravel the mystery of her own death is in development with Alcon Television Group.

Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world's largest retail bookseller, today announced that Patty Yumi Cottrell's Sorry to Disrupt the Peace (McSweeney's), a darkly comic debut novel about a young woman seeking an explanation for her adoptive brother's suicide, and Jessica Bruder» sNomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty - First Century (W.W. Norton), a finely reported narrative that follows a new generation of itinerant workers, are the winners of the 2017 Discover Awards for fiction and nonfiction, respectively.

It kept me excited about comics at a time when I was ready to give up by giving me stories I was more interested in, particularly those starring young women.

With no cohesive plan or desire to actively expand that audience by advertising outside of the comic world (like perhaps an ad in women's magazines about female centric characters might reach, you know, women), an unwillingness to grow a new crop of fans by maintaining a consistent product for kids and a host of other issues like the economy and increasing competition form other areas of entertainment, it's no wonder things are in such disarray.

As we all know, the people who write on the Internet about comics are a tiny, tiny, tiny portion of the audience, and while they often clamor for diversity and Marvel responds to them, is there a large influx of young women, minorities, queer, and trans people going into comics shops and buying those diverse titles or at least getting them digitally or in trade?

New York, New York — March 7, 2018 — Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world's largest retail bookseller, today announced that Patty Yumi Cottrell's Sorry to Disrupt the Peace (McSweeney's), a darkly comic debut novel about a young woman seeking an explanation for her adoptive brother's suicide, and Jessica Bruder's Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty - First Century (W.W. Norton), a finely reported narrative that follows a new generation of itinerant workers, are the winners of the 2017 Discover Awards for fiction and nonfiction, respectively.

IN MAPS & LEGENDS: A digital comic about a woman caught between two worlds, and her attempt to save them both.

What about the advertising and comic - strip palette of Pop Art, digital artists for whom Photoshop's Color Picker translates so easily into hexadecimal, the drab of camouflage in political art, or many a woman artist's grids of tapestry and tile?