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RIP Legendary Cartoonist Trina Robbins, 1938-2024

It’s a sad time in the comic book world, which is poorer today after the passing of the iconic and influential cartoonist Trina Robbins. She began making comics in the late 1960s, writing and drawing strips for the alternative newspaper the East Village Other, before moving to San Francisco in 1970 and making a splash in the underground comix scene. Her book It Ain’t Me Babe Comix was an…

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My New Book, Batgirl and Beyond: The Dynamic History of the Heroines of Gotham City, Coming November 2024!

I broke the news in my post last week celebrating the tenth anniversary of Wonder Woman Unbound (for which, egregiously, I have yet to receive ANY gifts, even though I was expecting a plethora of tin and/aluminum presents, as is customary for a tenth anniversary), but now I have spent the day updating my website with fun new purple graphics so it’s time for an official post: I wrote another book!…

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Happy TENTH Anniversary To Wonder Woman Unbound!

Today in “posts designed to make me feel extremely old,” my very first book, Wonder Woman Unbound, came out TEN years ago on this very day! I mean, sort of. Unless your book is famous, release dates are kind of amorphous. It just comes out around then. But April 1, 2014, was the official date, and now it’s been ten years, somehow. Getting Wonder Woman Unbound published was the culmination of a…

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Heroines Who Changed the Superhero Game

It’s always fun to recommend books, and when the folks at Booklisti asked me to make a list doing just that, I jumped at the chance to talk up some of my favourite characters of all time. I decided to take a broad, historical perspective, as I am wont to do, and the result is a fun list spotlighting some amazing female superheroes! I went decade by decade, picking a heroine from each era that I…

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My Top Three Comics of 2023

Over at Shepherd, I’ve joined 1200 different authors (yeah, 1200!) in discussing our favourite reads of 2023. When asked, I knew I had to go all comics because that’s the kind of nerd I am. Also, there were some amazing comics out this year. My top pick was Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons by the amazing team of writer Kelly Sue DeConnick and artists Phil Jimenez, Gene Ha, and Nicola Scott. If…

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Betty and Veronica Interview with Sara Century, Available For Your Listening Fun on Queer Spec!

It’s me, back on another podcast! And this time I’m returning to Queer Spec‘s Patreon, chatting with the always excellent Sara Century about all things Betty and Veronica. We talked about Not All Supermen a few months back, but when we got to the end of that conversation we realized we hadn’t touched on my Betty and Veronica book at all. As luck would have it, the audiobook was due to come out…

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The Real Treasure of Riverdale was the Friends We Made Along the Way

It’s been a week since Riverdale wrapped its seven season run for good, and hopefully you’ve stopped weeping now and are beginning to move on from the loss. It was a ridiculous program, to be sure, but so much fun, and I’m definitely going to miss the unpredictable chaos it brought each week. Even more than that, I’m going to miss the fantastic portrayals of some of my favourite characters ever,…

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Listen to Me Chat about Live Action Lois Lanes on the Live With Lois Lane Podcast!

You all know that I love Lois Lane, so much so that I wrote a whole book about her! There’s not much I enjoy more than chatting about everyone’s favourite intrepid reporter, and recently I got to do just that on the new Live With Lois Lane podcast, hosted by Sara Christian. The show focuses on live action versions of the character, but we dug into Lois Lane’s entire history in print as well…

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Betty and Veronica: The Leading Ladies of Riverdale Audiobook Is Out TODAY!!

For your listening pleasure, the Betty and Veronica: The Leading Ladies of Riverdale audiobook is now available for download onto the device of your choosing! You can pick it up on Audible or Amazon, and enjoy a delightful audio stroll through the hilarious yet intriguingly relevant history of everyone’s famous teenage twosome. They’re best friends, they’re rivals. They’re in comic books, they’re…

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Betty and Veronica: The Leading Ladies of Riverdale Audiobook Coming July 17!

Just in time for listening while relaxing at the beach, kicking back at the cottage, enjoying a road trip, or just basking in the sun in your own backyard, the audiobook of Betty and Veronica: The Leading Ladies of Riverdale is coming out on July 17! The book will be available via Audible, iTunes, and Amazon digital for all of your summer listening fun. The audiobook was produced by Last Word…

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Not All Supermen Interview With Sara Century, Up Now On Queer Spec!

I got to chat with the excellent and delightful Sara Century from the Bitches on Comics podcast recently, and the episode is up now on the Queer Spec Patreon, free for anyone to listen! Usually you have to be a paying supporter to get access to a Patreon, but as a nice treat you can check this one out for nothing at all. It was a great chat, one of those ones where the interviewer rolls in with…

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Come Chat With Me About Superman and Lois in a Reddit AMA on Wednesday, October 26, 8pm Eastern/5pm Pacific

Come Chat With Me About Superman and Lois in a Reddit AMA on Wednesday, October 26, 8pm Eastern/5pm Pacific

I’ve been invited by the folks who run the Superman and Lois subreddit to do an Ask Me Anything about Lois Lane, both in terms of Bitsie Tulloch’s portrayal of her on the show and the character’s history generally. We’ll be chatting next Wednesday, October 26, at 8pm Eastern/5pm Pacific, and it should be a lot of fun. I’m a big fan of the show, and the subreddit seems like a great community. I’ve…

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Some Not All Supermen News AND Book Recommendations!

We’re nearing two months since Not All Supermen came out, and thanks again to everyone who’s picked it up! I hope you’re all enjoying it. It’s been fun to see how timely it’s been, in a totally unplanned way. There’s a whole section on She-Hulk in the book, just in time for the Disney+ show to drop, and the cancellation of the Batgirl movie is basically everything the book is talking about when…

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The Latest Not All Supermen News

The Latest Not All Supermen News

Not All Supermen has been out for nearly a month now, and THANK YOU to everyone who’s picked up a copy! I’ve heard from a lot of you who enjoyed it, and I’m so glad it seems to be resonating with people. It was also nice to see last weekend, a few weeks after the book’s release, that it hit #1 on Amazon’s “Women’s Literature Criticism” chart: A niche category, sure, but a) a pretty darn cool…

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Register for LTHJ Global's Panel Discussion "Unlearning Toxic Masculinity" (With Me, and Other Awesome Folks)

Register for LTHJ Global’s Panel Discussion “Unlearning Toxic Masculinity” (With Me, and Other Awesome Folks)

I’m very excited to get to be part of this great panel discussion from LTHJ Global! They’ve hosted panels on fascinating topics like “Unlearning Misogyny,” “Unlearning the Binary,” and “Unlearning Ableism” in the past, and I’m looking forward to joining their next panel on August 3rd, “Unlearning Toxic Masculinity.” This is a lovely promotional tie-in, given that my new book is called Not All…

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Get a FREE Signed Bookplate for your Copy of Not All Supermen!

Get a FREE Signed Bookplate for your Copy of Not All Supermen!

Now that Not All Supermen is officially out and available to purchase in stores and online, I hope lots of you are receiving your copies and enjoying the lovely cover design (and the words inside, too!). Some of you might even be keen to get your book signed, but alas I am far away on the Eastern coast of Canada and not traveling for many events or conventions this year. The pandemic is still…

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Not All Supermen is Officially Out TODAY!

Not All Supermen is Officially Out TODAY!

Yes, today! You read the headline right! I have, somehow, written five entire books now, and the fifth one, Not All Supermen: Sexism, Toxic Masculinity, and the Complex History of Superheroes, is officially on sale today. No more pre-ordering. No more waiting around. You can go to a store and pick it up! Or you can buy it online and have it winging it’s way toward you straight away! Or you can do…