My Year in Comics News and Analysis 2015
I’ve had a huge year in comics. If you’ve missed it here are a few highlights. Thanks to everyone for your support!
– getting quoted in The Guardian about Batman #44
– the success of our Jessica Jones podcast (also available on ITunes). In terms of public support, the quality of our guests and listener numbers.
– the fact that I’m writing reviews a lot. Especially proud of my essays on
- The Humans (which I spent MONTHS on),
- Phonogram: The Immaterial Girl (which I lost sleep over),
- Race in Grayson #15 (even if no one read it),
- The Wicked + The Divine (in which I discuss my teen goth years),
- Thor’s Arm (aka Thor issue 1 which I know impacted how one comic artist is approaching a new book he’s doing) and
- Batman #44/charity industrial complex.
– @graphicpolicy Radio Podcast doing better then ever. My fave episodes this year included this interview with the
- writer of Batgirl and Black Canary (Brenden Fletcher)
- the writer of Catwoman, (Genevieve Valentine)
- one of the writers of Constantine: Hellblazer, (Ming Doyle, also an artist)
- the team behind The Humans and Henry and Glenn Forever (Keenan Marshall Keller and Tom Neely
- indie comics innovator and artist @d3-14 Ron Wimberly
- and our TWO podcasts about Daredevil (this one about the show over all with the A/V club and Salon’s Scott Erik Kauffman and
- this one about the use of torture with Spencer Ackerman).
– I can’t take credit for Graphic Policy running @gimpnelly‘s investigation of sexual assault in comics but I am really happy with how I supported it and other reporting on harassment that GP did on social media
– Working with Emma Houxbois to get James Robinson to apologize for transphobia in Airboy #2. Because at the end of the day organizing gets results and GLAAD is a force to be reckoned with (and after working in the movement for as long as I have if I can’t get an organization to weigh in on something big over a holiday weekend then I’m doing it wrong.