We are giving up too much. We need to rethink our post 9/11 lives.
Russ Feingold, get your ass back in DC, please!
Glenn: +1
Any chance the FAUX News viewership could get a collective lobotomy and let the rest of us fix the stuff they keep fncking up?
Please?
I was very glad to see earlier today the Boston Comic Con confirmed that it will be held this weekend. Given the show’s location, right around the corner from where the bombs went off yesterday, there was some concern that they might have to cancel.
This is my hometown show and it has been…
Get out there, friends! Enjoy the con, the comics and of course, Boston!
Follow-up from BKV: APPLE vs. SAGA #12
A follow-up to yesterday’s press release:
I wanted to apologize to everyone for this entire SAGA #12 kerfuffle. Yesterday, I was mistakenly led to believe that this issue was solely with Apple, but it’s now clear that it was only ever Comixology too conservatively interpreting Apple’s rules. I’m truly sorry. I never thought either company was being homophobic, only weirdly inconsistent about what kind of adult material was permissible. I’m grateful that the situation was cleared up so quickly, and I’m delighted I can go back to reading smutty comics on my Retina Display iPad.
—Brian K. Vaughan
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My Facebook and G+ newsfeeds have been filled with pink and red lately, so it seemed important to point out to the queer and allied in my life that Human Rights Campaign actually has a track record of promoting some rights at the expense of others. Being a fairly rough-and-tumble sort of cisgender queer man, I waded in.
It’s frankly unconscionable; transgender rights are integral to queer liberation, and moreover transfolks are our sisters and brothers, have shed the same blood, sweat, and tears in horrifying numbers for the same goals. The fact that names like Virginia Prince and Sylvia Rae Rivera aren’t as prominent in our histories as Harvey Milk says, I think, all it needs to about the need for some pink and purple soul-searching. Go forth and introspect.
Visually, too, I think the HRC equality logo leaves a bit to be desired, but I made minimal changes. The colors are based on the transgender pride flag designed by Monica Helms in 1999, the most widely used of several designs and to my eye, the most pleasing.
Considering that HRC seems to be continuing to give lip service to trans folks while throwing them under the bus, this is important and timely.
People need to know that the most visible LGBT “equality” organization out there continues to only fight for gay and lesbian equality at the expense of everyone else.
Trans allies, please repost. (And don’t give money to HRC.)The lack of notes on this is troubling to me.
Ally! WHOO!
Today we lost another legend. Carmine Infantino helped usher in the Silver Age with Showcase #4’s introduction of Barry Allen as The Flash & brought us many other iconic characters like Barbara Gordon and Batgirl in Detective Comics #359.
“Let me ask you a question,” Carmine Infantino says at the end of our interview. His voice normally reaches the lows of a mumble, except when he has a point.
Like now.
“Where do you think I fit in the whole picture of comics?” he asks with an air of sincerity, as if he were asking if the sky was really blue. “Be honest. A lot of people don’t like what I did as editor, but some did.”
I’m not sure you ever understood the impact you had on the world, Mr. Infantino. You touched countless numbers of us through your work & art. Rest in peace.
RIP Carmine Infantino
