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site posted:Never heard of this woman but she sounds like she really sucks poo poo and to a somewhat lesser extent so does the writer of this bio Highsmith? She was an incredibly influential mystery/thriller writer.
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thetoughestbean posted:She wrote a lot of comics for hire during the 1940s. She loving hated that she made comics; she really felt like she was slumming it. To be fair, comics writers were widely looked down upon at the time Do we have any idea what? I know most comics work was uncredited back then, but I’d be kinda interested. Piece of poo poo or not she wrote pretty drat well. If I recall from the biography they just mention freelance work in New York, like ad copy and puff pieces for women’s magazines and whatnot, but nothing about comics. Going to the library tomorrow anyway, I’ll see if they have it.
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Bulgaroctonus posted:Do we have any idea what? I know most comics work was uncredited back then, but I’d be kinda interested. Piece of poo poo or not she wrote pretty drat well. If I recall from the biography they just mention freelance work in New York, like ad copy and puff pieces for women’s magazines and whatnot, but nothing about comics. Going to the library tomorrow anyway, I’ll see if they have it. You can check her Wikipedia page. Looks like lots of all types. War comics, westerns. biographies, some super hero stuff. No characters I recognize though
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site posted:Never heard of this woman but she sounds like she really sucks poo poo and to a somewhat lesser extent so does the writer of this bio Highsmith wrote the original novels of The Talented Mr. Ripley (made into the movie with Matt Damon, and before that, Purple Noon with Alain Delon) and The Price of Salt (made into the movie Carol, with Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara).
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thetoughestbean posted:She wrote a lot of comics for hire during the 1940s. She loving hated that she made comics; she really felt like she was slumming it. To be fair, comics writers were widely looked down upon at the time In the times where she was working on comics, the comic book industry was basically a handful of studio sweatshops for writers and artists who were too Jewish, too Black, too Woman, etc. to get work with a syndicated newspaper strip or magazine illustrations or whatever.
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Opopanax posted:People aren’t buying these things for the quality workmanship Yeah, it’s this. To crib one of the Nazi fucks terms people buy these comics and others like it to virtue signal. Most of the people back/pre-order them just so they get a high funding number to show how people want these things compared to the evil WOKE mainstream comics. I doubt the vast majority of these comics are even looked at if they do get shipped out to begin with. But just like every other right wing rage funding, it starts to dry up because there’s always a new outrage to own the Libs over.
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Dr. VooDoo posted:Yeah, it’s this. To crib one of the Nazi fucks terms people buy these comics and others like it to virtue signal. Most of the people back/pre-order them just so they get a high funding number to show how people want these things compared to the evil WOKE mainstream comics. I doubt the vast majority of these comics are even looked at if they do get shipped out to begin with. But just like every other right wing rage funding, it starts to dry up because there’s always a new outrage to own the Libs over. Maybe he should try to hop back onto the hot issue of the day and make another grab at relevance by putting in a Captain Planet style villain who was pumping chemicals into the water in an effort to turn the (Cyber)frogs gay.
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thetoughestbean posted:Not a review per se but this thread is a comics fan with a good knowledge of comics history reading through the book and commenting on it. I feel like the author of that thread went out of their way to dislike the book? I've read it, it doesn't sugarcoat her racism. It doesn't make her look cool. What it does do is make her look like someone who uses a veneer of cool detachment to conceal how hollow her life is, and her own terror at the idea embracing her queerness. That's the plot of the story, so to take aim at her having the occasional glib one-liner feels like saying Psycho sucks because Norman Bates owns too nice of a hotel. The glibness is what we should be attending to, not the surface-level coolness. It's a quite good graphic novel that doesn't valorize Patricia Highsmith at all. I suppose one could level the critique that it's largely a story about shame-- at the core, about the shame of the closet-- which is why this shame is iterated in her embarrassment in working at comics. I think if anyone were to turn the last page of the book and think "wow, what a cool lady," they'd be a profoundly naive reader.
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How Wonderful! posted:I think if anyone were to turn the last page of the book and think "wow, cool lesbian," they'd be a profoundly naive reader.
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After the stressful acts of screaming about the Libz and releasing one comic book once every five years, Egg Van Sciver has suffered a heart attack. https://twitter.com/EthanVanSciver/status/1690765096287432705?s=20
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E the Shaggy posted:After the stressful acts of screaming about the Libz and releasing one comic book once every five years, Egg Van Sciver has suffered a heart attack. All those cigars and lobster and steak dinners can really do a number on you, I guess.
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How does that cg hashtag have anything to do with his post Does he just put that on every post no matter what
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Happy Hippo posted:How does that cg hashtag have anything to do with his post It says a lot, and not just about Van Sciver. If he has to put the hashtag on to make sure that everyone involved in ComicsGate sees his posts, it means that a lot of them aren't actually following him on Twitter. So CG isn't an orchestrated movement focused on him, he just happens to be the public face of it because he's the biggest name with the loudest mouth.
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Can we post good stuff here? https://twitter.com/renfamous/status/1693252298665775432?s=20 https://twitter.com/MartianManwich/status/1693269749298241896?s=20
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It is shocking to think EVS caught a ban on Elon's social media platform when Musk is paying people to outrage other people.
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He caught the ban like a week after Musk personally undid a ban on someone who caught it for posting child porn. It's like almost impressive.
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I really want to know what he said to catch a suspension on musk twitter
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Joe Fisto posted:Can we post good stuff here? 
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 What great news!His Robo Toad is loving DONE without Twitter.
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He'll just make a new account. Ban hopping has never been off limits for these bozos, they're pretty blatant about it.
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For all I know renfamous is friends with Elon
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Aug 21, 2023 05:40
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Uhhhh I’ve clearly forgotten and/or am out of the loop but isn’t Renfamous’s whole thing calling out ComicsGate jerks?
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It was a joke, intended to explain why EVS got banned despite Twitter being an increasingly crapulous shitheap (and one specifically inclined to take the side of people like EVS) not a serious conjecture 
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Nessus posted:It was a joke, intended to explain why EVS got banned despite Twitter being an increasingly crapulous shitheap (and one specifically inclined to take the side of people like EVS) not a serious conjecture That really didn't work..... Maybe re-think your approach in general
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It was clearly a joke, people.
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Yeah, I didn't imagine Nessus was remotely close to seriousness. Back on topic it is wild EVS got the boot and it was for, apparently, 'objectionable content' which... again, what do you have to do? He'll just make the equivalent of RekietaLaw, and go back to posting, I don't think he can literally afford to stay off Twitter.
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Probably told someone to kill themselves or that he/someone else was gonna kill them, they still get ya for those
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Other posted:Probably told someone to kill themselves or that he/someone else was gonna kill them, they still get ya for those I saw what it was. It was Ethan posting photos of a dude blowing himself and a long line of guys having anal sex, while he was shrieking "THESE ARE SJWS!!!"
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E the Shaggy posted:I saw what it was. It was Ethan posting photos of a dude blowing himself and a long line of guys having anal sex, while he was shrieking "THESE ARE SJWS!!!" Says a lot about Elon Musk that he unbanned someone who posted CP and banned someone for posting gay porn.
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https://twitter.com/danthemcmahon/status/1694064179202703603 CBR trending downwards in a big way.
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Is there a good comics news site out there? I got to CBR but it's pretty loving trash and I wouldn't if I had something better.
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catlord posted:Is there a good comics news site out there? I got to CBR but it's pretty loving trash and I wouldn't if I had something better. I only follow Women Write About Comics, but their news only comes out once a week. Maybe. And is a bit sparse most of the time.
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catlord posted:Is there a good comics news site out there? I got to CBR but it's pretty loving trash and I wouldn't if I had something better. It might be a little more specialized but TCJ has a weekly news update: https://www.tcj.com/topic/news/
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catlord posted:Is there a good comics news site out there? I got to CBR but it's pretty loving trash and I wouldn't if I had something better. if you don't mind it being in youtube form I like watching Comic Tropes weekly news roundup: https://m.youtube.com/@ProsAndConsLive
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Codependent Poster posted:apitcomics.com is pretty good, I think They seem to be the only ones on bsky for now so they are who I follow
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catlord posted:Is there a good comics news site out there? I got to CBR but it's pretty loving trash and I wouldn't if I had something better. CBR really died in a "boiling the frog" way - for years it's just sucked more and more gradually until you realise you can't remember when it was last worth a poo poo.
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