By D. Lynn Smith Last month, Marvel’s Avengers, The Age of Ultron came to a theater near you. With it came a controversy over an interview in which Jeremy Renner and Chris Evans joked that Black Widow was a “slut” and a “whore” that went viral because it was so offensive. When I read this blog … [Read more...]
Hate has no place in the world of comics
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...]
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...]