DIY: fans creating for fans, the Loki Movie
What happens when the mainstream makers do not deliver what fans want? Very simple: they do it themselves. The “do it yourself” (DIY)…
New Spider-Woman #1 variant cover is showing her butt!
Women have been reduced to sexual objects, or mere objects, in media narratives in order to stress male characters journeys. Marvel has been…
Valor: Fairy tale comic anthology about courageous heroines
Valor is a comic anthology with fairy tales plenty of female heroines. Tales have been re-imagined or scripted from zero. The aim is…
Project 562 and the Tribes in the US
Matika Wilbur launched her Project 562 to photograph every federally recognized Tribe in the US (566). I found this project in Kickstarter by…
Superhero partners: Mary Marvel
Mary Marvel is a female superhero from the 40s, the sister of Captain Marvel, a comic book originally published by Fawcett Comics (now…
Social Media through comics and anthropology
How can comics and anthropology help your social media? By reading comics and observing them you can notice certain aspects that can help…
Breaking taboo in Japan
First of all: what is a taboo? A taboo refers to a social norm from a certain community, culture or sub-culture, that is…
Iwojima x Marvel’s Infinity: popular culture subconscious triggers
Images compel us far more than discourses. Even similar images can trigger our subconscious mind. In it we can find more than just…
Marvel wades in: the new Thor is a woman
In 1999 comics writer Gail Simone posted a list called “Women in Refrigerators,” in which she numbered female lead and supporting characters who…
Focal vocabulary related to Loki’s Army fan fiction
AU: (acronym) alternative universe Archive: (noun) a website that publishes fan fiction stories from many different authors. Beta/beta reader: (noun, compound noun) an…
Focal vocabulary related to hipsters in Barcelona
Focal vocabulary related to hipsters in Barcelona, and hipster-wannabe. Chonindie: (compound noun, mix of Spanish and English) choni (Spanish) + indie (English). “Chonis”…
Hipsters, hipsters everywhere
Two days ago I went to the local comic book store to simply hang out. Since they never have what I want, and…
