It’s a sad time in the comic book world, which is poorer today after the passing of the iconic and influential cartoonist Trina Robbins. She began making comics in the late 1960s, writing and drawing strips for the alternative newspaper the East Village Other, before moving to San Francisco in 1970 and making a splash in the underground comix scene. Her book It Ain’t Me Babe Comix was an all-female extravaganza, and she was involved with the anthology Wimmen’s Comix for decades. She worked in the mainstream as well, most notably in the four issue The Legend of Wonder Woman run in the late 19 ..read more

I broke the news in my post last week celebrating the tenth anniversary of Wonder Woman Unbound (for which, egregiously, I have yet to receive ANY gifts, even though I was expecting a plethora of tin and/aluminum presents, as is customary for a tenth anniversary), but now I have spent the day updating my website with fun new purple graphics so it’s time for an official post: I wrote another book! And we’re going back to some familiar stomping grounds for Batgirl and Beyond: The Dynamic History of the Heroines of Gotham City. We spent some time in Gotham with The Many Lives of Catwoman, and No ..read more

Today in “posts designed to make me feel extremely old,” my very first book, Wonder Woman Unbound, came out TEN years ago on this very day! I mean, sort of. Unless your book is famous, release dates are kind of amorphous. It just comes out around then. But April 1, 2014, was the official date, and now it’s been ten years, somehow. Getting Wonder Woman Unbound published was the culmination of a long dream. It was an adaptation of my Master’s thesis, rewritten for a general audience instead of academic-ese, and I graduated with that degree in 2009. It took me a year to rewrite it, another year ..read more

It’s always fun to recommend books, and when the folks at Booklisti asked me to make a list doing just that, I jumped at the chance to talk up some of my favourite characters of all time. I decided to take a broad, historical perspective, as I am wont to do, and the result is a fun list spotlighting some amazing female superheroes! I went decade by decade, picking a heroine from each era that I thought best captured the time period. I started with Wonder Woman in the 1940s, of course. It’s kind of my thing. Batwoman was my choice for the 1950s, and I stayed in Gotham for Batgirl in the 1960s ..read more

Over at Shepherd, I’ve joined 1200 different authors (yeah, 1200!) in discussing our favourite reads of 2023. When asked, I knew I had to go all comics because that’s the kind of nerd I am. Also, there were some amazing comics out this year. My top pick was Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons by the amazing team of writer Kelly Sue DeConnick and artists Phil Jimenez, Gene Ha, and Nicola Scott. If you’re the sort of person who reads my blog, you’re probably the sort of person who’s already read Historia, but in case you haven’t, you need to. It’s an origin story for the Amazons that is bold and ..read more

It’s me, back on another podcast! And this time I’m returning to Queer Spec‘s Patreon, chatting with the always excellent Sara Century about all things Betty and Veronica. We talked about Not All Supermen a few months back, but when we got to the end of that conversation we realized we hadn’t touched on my Betty and Veronica book at all. As luck would have it, the audiobook was due to come out this summer so we set up another chat to talk about our favourite Riverdale gals specifically, and you can listen to it now for free on the Queer Spec Patreon. We hit all the highlights of Betty and Ver ..read more

It’s been a week since Riverdale wrapped its seven season run for good, and hopefully you’ve stopped weeping now and are beginning to move on from the loss. It was a ridiculous program, to be sure, but so much fun, and I’m definitely going to miss the unpredictable chaos it brought each week. Even more than that, I’m going to miss the fantastic portrayals of some of my favourite characters ever, especially Lili Reinhart as Betty and Camila Mendes as Veronica. They were perfectly cast, and brought the characters to life so well. With the series wrapped, I wrote a piece looking back at the lega ..read more

You all know that I love Lois Lane, so much so that I wrote a whole book about her! There’s not much I enjoy more than chatting about everyone’s favourite intrepid reporter, and recently I got to do just that on the new Live With Lois Lane podcast, hosted by Sara Christian. The show focuses on live action versions of the character, but we dug into Lois Lane’s entire history in print as well before spending a bit of time with each cinematic and small screen Lois. It was a great time, and you should definitely give it a listen. When you do, you’ll get a lot of Lois fun. We talked a bunch about ..read more

For your listening pleasure, the Betty and Veronica: The Leading Ladies of Riverdale audiobook is now available for download onto the device of your choosing! You can pick it up on Audible or Amazon, and enjoy a delightful audio stroll through the hilarious yet intriguingly relevant history of everyone’s famous teenage twosome. They’re best friends, they’re rivals. They’re in comic books, they’re in radio, they’re on TV. They’ve been around for over eighty years now, and this audiobook will walk you through the highs and lows of their adventures, their relation to larger cultural and societal ..read more

Just in time for listening while relaxing at the beach, kicking back at the cottage, enjoying a road trip, or just basking in the sun in your own backyard, the audiobook of Betty and Veronica: The Leading Ladies of Riverdale is coming out on July 17! The book will be available via Audible, iTunes, and Amazon digital for all of your summer listening fun. The audiobook was produced by Last Word Audio and narrated by Colby Elliott, and it turned out great. If you’ve listened to the excellent Wonder Woman Unbound audiobook, you’ll already be familiar with Colby’s fantastic work. He’s a top notch ..read more