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  • 20 on the 20th — Featuring Paul Taylor from Wapsi Square!: This month, our 20 on the 20th Author is Paul Taylor from Wapsi Square. Taylor, an Iowa native, is the mind behind Wapsi Square. Wapsi Square is a slice of life comic centering on the adventures of Monica Villareal, a busty, short, and nerdy Latina, and the eclectic cast of characters that seem to be gathering in Wapsi. Monica’s life has been getting more and more complicated, since it seems like she might be at the center of a great ... READ MORE
  • Gina Biggs — Red String: Gina Biggs’ long-running Red String series (volumes one, two, and three are all available at Amazon) is reaching a climax. The series has been focusing on the trials and tribulations of three high school girls as they come to terms with their sexuality and burgeoning adulthood. While it’s drawn/plotted as a conventional manga, it’s far more than that. Miharu is bold, assertive, and the aggressor in her relationship with her soulmate Kazuo. Reika, the shy one, has been growing into ... READ MORE
  • The Guardian confuses voyeurism and art?: From the mailbag, reader Matt reports that the Guardian published an article about a man who furtively took bad photos of women in bathing suits and drew in their breasts and hips when the photos didn’t turn out so well. The article’s author is so busy sympathizing with the photographer’s inability to get laid that he neglects to so much as mention that the women he photographed may have found his coping method more than a little creepy. You might be ... READ MORE
  • Doctor…Horrible?: Joss Whedon’s latest project, developed during the writers’ strike, was an internet-based musical starring Neil Patrick Harris, Nathan Fillion and Felicia Day, aired in three acts over the past week. Spoilers for all three acts follow, if you haven’t seen it.
  • Drop Dead Gorgeous: The picture shows a woman, seated, back arched and head thrown back as if laughing – although her head above the chin is cut off, as if to say that who she is doesn’t matter; her near leg is raised provocatively. It’s not a seated pose; it’s not a comfortable pose. It is, in fact, a pose, a seductive pose. Every time I drive past the billboard, my first thought is that it’s an ad for a ... READ MORE
  • alina — jason johnson: At the heart of the Alina is the titular character, a Romanian teenager who does webcam porn in order to pay off her father’s debts. He’s been hospitalized, and Alina’s instituted The Policy, where she cuts costs whenever possible while working as much as possible in order to try and break even. The novel begins with this poignant scene: Alina took the tube of lipstick and began drawing on her stomach. She knew it might look ridiculous but ... READ MORE
  • Bloggers don’t shop at Target, says Target: ShapingYouth recently posted about a potentially offensive ad from Target. I say “potentially” because it’s another one of those that, if you could divorce it from a world full of ads using sexualized images of women to sell crap, probably wouldn’t seem like a big deal on its own. AdRants does a good job summing up the issue: Ready for everyone to tell us we’re reading way, way too much into this Target billboard that places a certain area of a ... READ MORE
  • Let’s talk about Love: Lately, Jennifer Love Hewitt has had to deal with paparazzi photos taken of her on the beach in a bikini. Personal potshots about how she should exercise more, how she’s so huge and fat and gross how dare she walk confidently anywhere in bikini…nothing, it seems, is off limits. Okay, so here’s the thing. I’m glad she is, but she should not have to speak out about her weight. She should not have to defend the way she looks. I’m ... READ MORE
  • Anthem: a second look at “Voices Carry”: I only learned about the original version of “Voices Carry” by ‘Til Tuesday when I was in the process of writing an article praising the video for an uncompromising glimpse into abuse by a good-looking, together-looking, charming “nice guy.” The first version of the song, as I noted in the article, used the pronoun “she” instead of “he”, implying a lesbian affair rather than a heterosexual one. It was probably a week later when I was listening to the song in ... READ MORE
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