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Archive for May, 2005

Comic book writer (and former Real World cast member) Judd Winick has created a new show on Cartoon Network called The Life & Times of Juniper Lee. Plot-wise, it’s basically a rehash of every magical girl show from Sailor Moon to Buffy the Vampire Slayer (young girl is the chosen protector of the world from evil) but the character design and the animation is attractive and it’s smart (I can’t think of another children’s program that would make a reference to Flowers of Algernon). Mostly, though, at this point, it just has potential. Let’s hope it can live up to it.

By the way, if this site vanishes for a little while, it’s because I didn’t get a chance to renew my domain registration in time. It probably won’t come to that, but there might be some downtime.

It’s been out for a while, so I’m obviously a little behind on things, but Soft Skull Press, has a collection of comic stories by women called Scheherazade:
Comics About Love, Treachery, Mothers and Monsters, edited by Xeric Grant winner Megan Kelso (who has actually disowned the book, due to technical issues, although perhaps those have been fixed at this point. Her site was last updated in November 2004, Soft Skull has a release date of Feb. 2005 for the book).

Whether or not the book is unreadable or not (a review I’ve read made no mention of that), it makes me happy that there’s a growing (although still small) number of collections focusing on women comic creators. (Friends of Lulu is working on the next edition of Broad Appeal.)

As a side note that has nothing to do with the post overall, I missed Free Comic Book Day. I knew it was coming up, but I’ve been busy lately that it just slipped by me.