drupagliassotti @ November 27, 2011 # No Comment Yet
Well, done with the 50,000 words challenge, anyway; Imprimatur itself is still about three to five chapters away from completion, I suspect. I’ll keep working on it, but at least today’s sprint for the finish line will allow me to grade papers tomorrow secure in the knowledge that there’s no imminent deadline hanging over me. [...]
drupagliassotti @ May 17, 2010 # No Comment Yet
My co-editor Mark pointed out that in yesterday’s New York Times article “At Queens Libraries, a Passion for Japanese Comics Endures,” the book shown front and center is How to Draw Manga: Drawing Yaoi. Nice catch, Mark! The article is about how library cuts may adversely affect the library’s manga collection. Too bad. I know [...]
drupagliassotti @ April 19, 2010 # No Comment Yet
Last Friday the New York Times published “Out of the Closet and Up, Up and Away” about Skin Tight USA at the Stonewall Inn in West Village. The Skin Tight party — in which the costumes range from the familiar (like Spider-Man) to ones that only a comics geek would recognize (like the 1993 version [...]
drupagliassotti @ February 1, 2010 # 2 Comments
Last April I mentioned that I’d been introduced to the term “girlfag” by German scholar Uli Meyer, who ended up contributing a chapter to our Boys’ Love Manga academic collection. I wrote that the concept intrigued me and seemed potentially relevant to slash and BL fans. However, I’d had a hard time finding anything out [...]
drupagliassotti @ January 4, 2010 # 4 Comments
My chapter in our upcoming boys’ love anthology compares heterosexual to male/male romances, and as I’ve written here before, I’ve been thinking about turning my research attentions away from yaoi and toward the new genre of original, English-language, female-authored male/male romance novels. Lo, yesterday a friend sent me this link to an article in the [...]