aweather – Comics Studies

What Makes a Woman (Gender Identity in Bitch Planet)

December 9, 2016January 17, 2018 by aweather

Even though our class only read the first volume of Bitch Planet, I continued to check back at a website I found where the newest issues were uploaded every month. Once I reached Issue #8, I noticed an ineteresting development in the story that we hadn’t gotten the chance to experience in class: the comic’s commentary […]

The Return of the (Printed) Comic Book

September 25, 2016January 17, 2018 by aweather

On September 18, 2016, an article was published on the Comichron website detailing the rise in comic book orders. According to the article, “Since 1998, Diamond Comic Distributors has never shipped more than 10 million comic books to comics shops in a single month. That changed in August, as DC‘s “Rebirth” resulted in shipments of […]