What Black Anime Fans Can Teach Us About Race in America

LINK: Cecilia D’Anastasio’s essay from VICE August 5, 2015 via @vice

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Female Creators Receive Record Number of Eisner Award Nominations

Check out the names at The Mary Sue.

PEOPLE OF COLOR (women and otherwise) are also represented among this year’s Eisner Award noms. The list includes:

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Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda for Monstress; Valentine De Landro for Bitch Planet; Erica Henderson for The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl and Jughead; Guojing for The Only Child; Jillian Tamaki for SuperMutant Magic Academy; Riad Sattouf for The Arab of the Future; John Leguizamo (!) and Shamus Beyale for Ghetto Clown; Cliff Chiang for Paper Girls; Dustin Nguyen for Descender; Frances Gateward and John Jennings for The Blacker the Ink: Constructions of Black Identity in Comics and Sequential Art; and Tony Ong for The Eternaut.

Aboriginal comic book ‘Neomad’ wins Gold Ledger Award

LINK: Created with the input of more than 30 young people in the Western Australian community of Ieramugadu

James Cameron Has A Plan For Directing All Four ‘Avatar’ Sequels At The Same Time

Click here to read at Uproxx.com.

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New Trailer for Anime Zombie Film ‘The Empire of Corpses’; In US Theaters April 19-20

Click here to read at Dreadcentral.com.

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