Discovering Sylvie Rancourt's Long-Lost Comics About Working As a Nude Dancer
In the mid-1980s, Sylvie Rancourt worked as a dancer in a strip club in downtown Montreal. In her downtime, she drew comics about her life.At the time, autobiographical comics were not common. This is...
View ArticleA Powerful New Comic Book Takes Aim at Abortion Stigma
Even where it’s legal and accessible, abortion can often be a difficult process. The procedure can be emotionally complicated and the stigma that hangs around abortion can make it feel fraught. In a...
View ArticleOh Joy Sex Toy: The New Magic Wand
Oh Joy Sex Toy is a weekly comics series that graphically explores sex and sexuality. This week, Erika Moen reviews the revamped Magic Wand vibrator. Read more Oh Joy Sex Toy comics or buy the Oh Joy...
View ArticleThe Thrilling Adventures of Ada Lovelace Are Now a Lovely Science Comic
Ada Lovelace was a brilliant mathematician. Her mind raced with big ideas on abstract mathematics—in 1843, she wrote what historians regard as the first paper on computer science. Sadly, it was her...
View ArticleA Comic About One Woman's Pregnancy
Cartoonist Rebecca Roher drew this beautiful comic for the Moms issue of Canadian feminist magazine GUTS. Enjoy. Related Reading: It's a Problem When Laws Protect Fetuses, but Not Pregnant...
View ArticleOh Joy Sex Toy: WTF are UTIs?
Oh Joy Sex Toy is a weekly comics series that graphically explores sex and sexuality. This week, Erika Moen asks WTF is up with UTIs. Read more Oh Joy Sex Toy comics or buy the Oh Joy Sex Toy book at...
View ArticleAn Illustrated Review of Broadway Musical "Fun Home"
Three people play Alison Bechdel in the Broadway adaptation of Fun Home, including Beth Malone, above.Alison Bechdel's best-selling graphic memoir Fun Home is now a Broadway musical. Not just any...
View ArticleJillian Tamaki Talks Comics, Mutants, and Why Canada is Awesome
Tom Spurgeon of the Comics Reporter called it: This is going to be Jillian Tamaki’s monster year.As an editorial and comics illustrator for publications like the New Yorker and the New York Times,...
View ArticleOh Joy Sex Toy: The Science Behind Abortion
Oh Joy Sex Toy is a weekly comics series that graphically explores sex and sexuality. This week, Erika Moen explains the science behind abortion. Read more Oh Joy Sex Toy comics, including one about...
View ArticleOh Joy Sex Toy: 50 Shades of Grey
Oh Joy Sex Toy is a weekly comics series that graphically explores sex and sexuality. This week, artist Erika Moen reads 50 Shades of Grey.Read a bunch more Oh Joy Sex Toy comics, including one about...
View ArticleAnti-Muslim Bus Ads in San Francisco Get an Update With Ms. Marvel
With her Ms. Marvel super powers, teenager Kamala Khan usually fights drug kingpins and supernatural villains. But this week, her image is being used to combat Islamaphobia. Since 2012, the American...
View ArticleOh Joy Sex Toy: Yeast Infections
Oh Joy Sex Toy is a weekly comics series that graphically explores sex and sexuality. In this week's comic, Erika explores the icky world of yeast infections. Read a bunch more Oh Joy Sex Toy comics,...
View ArticleShe Makes Comics: A New Documentary Explores the History of Women in Comics
She Makes Comics is a new documentary about the history of female creators and fans have who shaped the comic book scene. Featuring interviews with a diverse array people including writer Kelly Sue...
View ArticleOh Joy Sex Toy: The Condom
Oh Joy Sex Toy is a weekly comics series that graphically explores sex and sexuality. In this week's comic, Erika and Matt give a pitch for that ol' classic: the condom. Read a bunch more Oh Joy Sex...
View ArticleThere's a New Sci-Fi Women-in-Prison Comic in Town: Bitch Planet
In a science-fiction version of our world, the government has outsourced prisons to other planets. Women who are convicted of crimes are placed in tubes and rocketed out of the stratosphere, their...
View ArticleOh Joy Sex Toy: Flicking the Bean
Oh Joy Sex Toy is a weekly comics series that graphically explores sex and sexuality. In this week's comic, artist Erika Moen gets some alone time. Read a bunch more Oh Joy Sex Toy comics, including...
View ArticleWho Could Say No to a Bilingual Comic Called "Lowriders in Space"?
Lowriders in Space is a new comic that’s just as much of an adventure as it sounds like. Drawn entirely in blue, black, and red ballpoint pen, the comic looks like a kid’s dream sketchbook—a fun,...
View ArticleOh Joy Sex Toy: The Best of 2014
Oh Joy Sex Toy is a weekly comics series that graphically explores sex and sexuality. In this installment, artist Erika Moen rounds up her favorite products from her entire year of testing out sexy...
View ArticleOh Joy Sex Toy: The Mystic Wand
Oh Joy Sex Toy is a weekly comics series that graphically explores sex and sexuality. This week, artist Erika Moen finds herself in need of a brand-new vibrator. Read a bunch more Oh Joy Sex Toy...
View ArticleOh Joy Sex Toy: Consent
Oh Joy Sex Toy is a weekly comics series that graphically explores sex and sexuality. This week, artist Erika Moen talks about the building block of all healthy sexual relationships: consent. Read a...
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