Comments on: Very Minxy http://comics212.net/2008/09/26/very-minxy/ Never Safe For Work Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:47:59 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Reviews And A Lot Of Other Mental Detritus | Savage Critics http://comics212.net/2008/09/26/very-minxy/comment-page-1/#comment-114522 Reviews And A Lot Of Other Mental Detritus | Savage Critics Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:36:45 +0000 http://comics212.net/2008/09/26/very-minxy/#comment-114522 [...] The Minx closure is just depressing, for reasons that Chris Butcher puts his finger on, in part, here. I’m nowhere near the target market for this line, but I enjoyed almost all of the books to [...] [...] The Minx closure is just depressing, for reasons that Chris Butcher puts his finger on, in part, here. I’m nowhere near the target market for this line, but I enjoyed almost all of the books to [...]

]]> By: Blog@Newsarama » Blog Archive » Quote, Unquote http://comics212.net/2008/09/26/very-minxy/comment-page-1/#comment-100496 Blog@Newsarama » Blog Archive » Quote, Unquote Mon, 06 Oct 2008 02:59:22 +0000 http://comics212.net/2008/09/26/very-minxy/#comment-100496 [...] “They looked like manga-fans, they shopped through an entire area dedicated to teen graphic novels, and those two books were what caught their eye. We might never know if they liked them or not, but those books did attract the audience they were supposed to, even if in a direct market comic book store.” - Christopher Butcher ending his must-read postmortem on Minx with a positive account of a recent Minx transaction. [...] [...] “They looked like manga-fans, they shopped through an entire area dedicated to teen graphic novels, and those two books were what caught their eye. We might never know if they liked them or not, but those books did attract the audience they were supposed to, even if in a direct market comic book store.” – Christopher Butcher ending his must-read postmortem on Minx with a positive account of a recent Minx transaction. [...]

]]> By: Sophie Mayer http://comics212.net/2008/09/26/very-minxy/comment-page-1/#comment-100055 Sophie Mayer Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:58:52 +0000 http://comics212.net/2008/09/26/very-minxy/#comment-100055 Minx cancellation sux! I loved reading those books (quick reads, some nice stories if never very inventive art) and agree that DC had no idea how to manage/sell to a YA audience. In a sort-of related question, is The Devil's Panties still going? I don't see it on the online comix list and I really miss it... Have an awesome TCAF (wish I could be there... but I'm in London paying huge overcharges on US imports, blech) and -- ooh, could you pass on a call for submissions (we want single image and comic art as well!) "Issue 11: Utopia Deadline 15 June 2009 Guest Editor: Sophie Mayer From Margaret Cavendish's "blazing world" in the seventeenth century to Time Agent Captain Jack Harkness in the fifty-first, the places and people of speculative fiction have given writers and artists an opportunity to speculate about new forms of gender and sexuality -- going beyond queer, pansexuality and transsexualities to imagine the identities and desires of humanoid, post-human and non-human lifeforms. While the culture of mainstream SF, fantasy and comics has often been hostile to women, queer people and people of colour, brilliant science fiction writers since the 60s have aroused, mirrored and incited feminist and queer social revolutions and artistic development -- think of Joanna Russ' The Female Man, Star Trek slash fiction, Samuel Delany's polymorphous postmodern fictions or Kate Bornstein's cyberpunk erotica. How would condoms work in zero G? And (because it's not only the future that's queer) what would happen in Dracula got cosy with Lucy's suitors instead? Your imagination (and, in some cases, the laws of physics) are the only limits... Stories, poems, comics, drawings, photographs - if it fits into a journal, we want to see it." http://www.chromajournal.co.uk/#/utopiaissue/4530952834 Email: chroma.utopia@yahoo.co.uk for more information. Minx cancellation sux! I loved reading those books (quick reads, some nice stories if never very inventive art) and agree that DC had no idea how to manage/sell to a YA audience. In a sort-of related question, is The Devil’s Panties still going? I don’t see it on the online comix list and I really miss it… Have an awesome TCAF (wish I could be there… but I’m in London paying huge overcharges on US imports, blech) and — ooh, could you pass on a call for submissions (we want single image and comic art as well!)

“Issue 11: Utopia
Deadline 15 June 2009
Guest Editor: Sophie Mayer

From Margaret Cavendish’s “blazing world” in the seventeenth century to Time Agent Captain Jack Harkness in the fifty-first, the places and people of speculative fiction have given writers and artists an opportunity to speculate about new forms of gender and sexuality — going beyond queer, pansexuality and transsexualities to imagine the identities and desires of humanoid, post-human and non-human lifeforms. While the culture of mainstream SF, fantasy and comics has often been hostile to women, queer people and people of colour, brilliant science fiction writers since the 60s have aroused, mirrored and incited feminist and queer social revolutions and artistic development — think of Joanna Russ’ The Female Man, Star Trek slash fiction, Samuel Delany’s polymorphous postmodern fictions or Kate Bornstein’s cyberpunk erotica.

How would condoms work in zero G? And (because it’s not only the future that’s queer) what would happen in Dracula got cosy with Lucy’s suitors instead? Your imagination (and, in some cases, the laws of physics) are the only limits… Stories, poems, comics, drawings, photographs – if it fits into a journal, we want to see it.”

http://www.chromajournal.co.uk/#/utopiaissue/4530952834

Email: chroma.utopia@yahoo.co.uk for more information.

]]> By: Rivkah http://comics212.net/2008/09/26/very-minxy/comment-page-1/#comment-100038 Rivkah Wed, 01 Oct 2008 07:25:15 +0000 http://comics212.net/2008/09/26/very-minxy/#comment-100038 <i>"But editing and producing books for a young adult audience is a very specific skill, and one that is coveted by some of the biggest publishers in the industry."</i> I think you just hit the head on the nail. I couldn't imagine DC not editing these books, but I did wonder what kinds of editors they had for them. YA fiction, especially girls' YA fiction, is so drastically different in tone and dialog and pacing from your traditional DC fare and should be cared for by editors who love and have experience the genre. Did Minx have a dedicated editorial staff or were they shared with the regular DC staff? “But editing and producing books for a young adult audience is a very specific skill, and one that is coveted by some of the biggest publishers in the industry.”

I think you just hit the head on the nail. I couldn’t imagine DC not editing these books, but I did wonder what kinds of editors they had for them. YA fiction, especially girls’ YA fiction, is so drastically different in tone and dialog and pacing from your traditional DC fare and should be cared for by editors who love and have experience the genre.

Did Minx have a dedicated editorial staff or were they shared with the regular DC staff?

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