My Experience of the San Francisco Ring Cycle 1, June 2011
Seeing the Ring Cycle, Part I
Married to Mr. Romance
More on Gender in Comics
This is what I posted in Bleeding Cool’s discussion of how few women are in the business (and minorities, and so on): As someone who spent significant time attempting to create a stable of female and female-oriented comic book writers for the Internet graphic romance novellas of MyRomanceStory.com, let me…
These People? Not Whom We Thought
DC Reboot Boots Women Out
[This is a cross-posted response to an open letter to DC exec Diane Nelson remonstrating about the coming DC reboot, which appears to be eliminating many beloved female characters and storylines.] The reboot reads like “New Coke” to me, the kind of classic error that is supposed to attract new…
The Lincoln Cycling Club Poems
My grandfather, John A. Brown, was a remarkable man. He spent his early years on the family farm in Tannersville, New York, then went to Chicago to study law. He supported himself through law school and his masters, an unusual degree in the 1890s, by working for newspapers as a…
A Freaky Hoarder Story
I got a shocking view into the head of a hoarder the other day. I took a box of powdered sugar dessert cookies, nearly finished, into the kitchen and emptied it into a plastic storage container, including as much of the loose sugar as I could without creating a mess.…
The Meaning of Easter
My mother, Margaret Vartanoff, was an Episcopalian convert. She always greeted us happily on Easter Sunday with “He is risen!” In the week prior to that joyous day, my mother walked the walk of Jesus through all the miseries of the crucifixion. By Saturday, when he was “dead,” she was…