30 September 2010

Shocked, Shocked at Violence in Comics

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For Banned Books Week , the Huffington Post ran an article (a slide show really ) about the books in comics form most often challenged in p...
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29 September 2010

Pitches Low and Outside

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In the ten years I’ve been helping to organize writers’ conferences, I’ve seen a trend toward “pitch” sessions in which writers give editors...
28 September 2010

What Do We Mean by “Kids’ Comics”?

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Yesterday Marvel-Oz artist Skottie Young wrote about the supposed lack of comics for young readers : The most popular complaint seems to be...
27 September 2010

Just Passing This On

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Quoting from Andrew Lloyd Webber’s website : An eagerly anticipated new addition to London’s West End, The Wizard of Oz promises to be the ...
26 September 2010

Sometimes a Crowbar Is Just a Crowbar

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How did the Joker kill Robin, the second Jason Todd? If you’re like most comic-book fans, or this drunk guy , the first picture in your mind...
24 September 2010

“Took down a square green bottle…”

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I don’t know much about wine, but I nonetheless feel skepticism about wine from Kansas. On the other hand, the Oz Winery in Wamego deserves...
23 September 2010

“Frequently Arrested Journalists”

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This morning I got to read this in the New York Times : The American military has frequently arrested journalists in Afghanistan and Iraq, h...
21 September 2010

A Place for Carol

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Over fifteen years ago, I went to a critique group for children’s writers at my local library for the first time. I didn’t know anyone there...
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20 September 2010

An Unbalanced Complaint about Speak

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Laurie Halse Anderson reports on an attempt to ban her acclaimed young-adult novel Speak from a public high school’s curriculum. Evidentl...
19 September 2010

What Could Become of the Child?

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In the cover story of Batman , #122, Dick Grayson dreams about Bruce Wayne marrying Kathy Kane, also known as Batwoman, and what comes of th...