I’ll be contributing a feature on Her Royal Highness of Cartoonists Rose O’Neill.
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The charity I have chosen to support this year is The Fistula Foundation.
The consequences of fistula are life altering when the injury goes unrepaired. In Congo, rape is being used as a tool of war on a massive scale. The result is often traumatic fistulas, that is holes in bladders, vagina and rectum that are caused by rape or attack using bayonets, wood, and even guns. The Economist magazine recently estimated that 80% of the fistula cases in the Congo were the result of sexual violence. For the women with the injury, they are still very much in need of treatment, and psychological counseling as well. The Panzi Hospital in the Congo, founded by Congolese gynecologist Denis Mukwege is a pioneer in helping these victims of rape.
Thank you for your consideration.
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Another lovely chance to mention a creator who helped shape the industry we know and love!
Laurie Sutton was a popular and respected comics editor/writer in the 1980′s, and she kindly popped in to guest blog about her experiences HERE.
(Laurie) handled the chores on “The Great Darkness” saga, considered one of the best Legion of Superheroes stories of all time! Her list of credits makes fanboys drool. And fangirls, too. She was the woman behind the Element Lad, the comic book hero who inspired my lifelong schoolgirl crush!
Check out these cute photos of Laurie and the gang!
Now Laurie is writing YA books featuring Wonder Woman. You can read all about it at this FREE website, and download the complete Nov/Dec issue of New Moon featuring Laurie Sutton!
Thanks so much to Laurie for dropping me a note so I could share this with you!
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Anne Nocenti was a popular writer and editor at Marvel Comics. She co-created the characters Longshot and Typhoid Mary.
Since the early 1990′s, Ms Nocenti has been a journalist and filmmaker, whose recent works include a documentary on Baluchistan. Currently, she teaches film in Haiti.
Her poignant posts and photos can be found at HiLobrow.
Related: The Wall Street Journal slideshow of photos of the Haitian election by photographer Olivier Laban-Mattei.
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I have absolutely awful eyesight, as in I can’t see the big E. At all. I see a fuzzy blank wall.
Since I was 20-ish, I have needed bifocals. I resisted taking the dual-peeper plunge because I have an extremely odd, expensive prescription and can buy 3 pairs of glasses for the price of one pair of these fancy bifocals. Prescription sunglasses are handy, so I’d spend the extra moolah on those.
In the past I kept an old pair of glasses on hand for reading, and used the updated glasses for everything else. As my eyes deteriorate, the old glasses become reading glasses, and the new glasses become everything else glasses.
Recently, the bifocals have become an imperative. My new eye doctor spent a ridiculous amount of time dancing around the issue of what he perceived to be female vanity, fearing that the pronouncement of my bifocal necessity would send me into a swoon. Apparently, ladies get in a tizzy when they don’t have perfect eyesight.
I could not parse the conversation at first. When I finally translated the mansplaining, I exclaimed, “For God’s sake, what the hell do I care about bifocals! It beats being blind!”
I proceeded to mock the dude to his employees for the rest of the visit.
Warned that bifocals would take “some getting used to,” they took no getting used to at all, except when I sat down to use the computer. My 21 inch screen and monster Cintiq sit too high. I have to lean back so far to see the screen, it is impossible to do work on the thing. The Cintiq can be laid flat, so it’s not as big a problem, but it looks like I will be using my old glasses as computer reading glasses after all. I don’t seem to have any trouble drawing with the new bifocals.
My new doctor is the best in this area of the state, and all the best people go to him. I know this because every celebrity with a country mansion on this side of the mountains got name dropped by staff, and I never knew that particular Charlie’s Angel lived out here. I am not immune to a taste for harmless celebrity gossip, and had a good ol’ time tittering with employees.
I wish somebody would titter the mansplaining eye doctor into the 21st century.
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