By D. Lynn Smith Many of you probably don’t know about the controversy with the Hugo awards this year. The Hugos, along with the Nebulas, are among Science Fiction’s highest awards for writers. This year a group of people got together and stuffed the ballot box, essentially negating the validity of … [Read more...]
Wonder Woman never asked for permission
By D. Lynn Smith I’m a big fan of the television show Longmire. Last week as I was watching a new episode, one of the lines of dialog was, “Good girls ask for permission, bad girls ask for forgiveness.” UGH! What a load of bull… We women have been fed versions of this time and time again until it … [Read more...]
Girls and Women and Body Image in Comics
By Maggie Field One of the things that excites me the most about my involvement with Kymera Press is our commitment to depicting our female characters like real women. It’s all fine and well for them to be attractive—I mean, really, who wants to look at ugly unless it’s from the inside out? … [Read more...]