Stephanie Hill

Jennie Wood is the author of the comic Flutter, a coming of age story with a sci-fi twist that explores gender roles through a fantastical premise. Fifteen-year-old Lily is endowed with the ability to shape-shift into a boy's body. The comic traces…

When I started writing this profile, Lucy Knisley had not yet put up a comic that doubled as an engagement announcement, but that story — honest, confessional, well-organized, and carefully illustrated — represents exactly what is so engaging about…

The Wolverine debuted in theatres this weekend in all its rooftop motorcycle ninja glory. I’m sure that’s the only reason most people want to see the movie, but maybe a few of you have heard of a little someone called Logan, or Wolverine. Just a…

2013 is looking pretty good for comics, friends. Here are a few of my favorites, in completely arbitrary categories. There are too many comics out there for there to be an authoritative list of the best, but these ones are really, really good, so…

There's a point in Jane Austen's Emma in which Emma is caught in a carriage with Mr. Elton who begins to "actually make violent love to her." I was 13 or 14-years-old when I read that line, and I had to put the book down for a moment and collect…

So a character in Batgirl just came out as transgender. Pop culture takes another step towards representing more of the society that we see in real life. I’m happy about this. No, really, it’s great, so don’t get me wrong when I say that I’ve got…

Millennials aren’t exactly strangers to socializing online, and the more we do it, the more normal and acceptable it gets, and that extends to dating and making romantic connections. OKCupid, plentyoffish, Match.com, jdate, eharmony, and even…

Sometimes it looks like comic books, in their physical form, at least, might go the way of the cassette tape. Access to comics on the internet has never been so sophisticated. Comixology has brought comics from over 75 publishers to the online…

What? James Bond movies can definitely win Oscars! Oscars for Sound Editing, Best Original Song, Visual Effects … You know, stuff like that. Oh, you meant to ask why James Bond can’t be nominated for Best Film or Best Actor? Well, that’s a little…

Another day, another uber violent movie shows up on the scene and questions like “what happened to simpler times?” and “will this make little Jamal want a pump action shotgun?” are asked. This time around the movie is Gangster Squad. It’s directed…

Newark Mayor Cory Booker looks set to run against 88-year-old incumbent Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) in 2014, rather than facing off against New Jersey Republican Governor Chris Christie. While this move has pissed off the New Jersey Democrats,…

Django Unchained will be released on Christmas day, and there will, no doubt, be much fanfare and a huge turnout. This is the eighth film by director Quentin Tarantino, and if the trailer is anything to go by, it will be as full of violence,…

Someone out there will be shocked to learn that globalization has caught up with comic books. Even comic books are vulnerable. For the rest of us, the news that Belgium, birthplace of the speech bubble and Tin-Tin, is fighting a tide of foreign-made…

SkyFall: 007 opened to huge critical and commercial success. It is the third film of the rebooted Daniel Craig Bonds. I have accepted a new Bond film coming out semi-regularly as a staple of modern life, but I remember a time when I thought: “Wait,…

This Election Day, presidential candidates aren’t the only thing on the ballot. In Washington, Oregon, and Colorado Initiative 502, Measure 80, and Amendment 64, respectively, propose to legalize the growth and consumption of marijuana and hemp…

Assassin’s Creed III came out this past Tuesday. This time around the setting is in America around the time of the Revolutionary war. I’m not even halfway through the game yet and I’ve already spoken with Benjamin Franklin and Samuel Adams, and I’m…

For those of you who don’t live in Canada, you are missing the tail end of an aggressive advertising campaign called “Our Food. Your Questions” in which McDonald’s takes questions from the general public, and answers them. It’s an attempt by…

A young man from a very wealthy family has a traumatic experience and takes up life as a vigilante on a never-ending quest for justice. Welcome to Gotham, Starling City; home of CW’s Arrow, or, as he is known in the pilot, “a nutbar in a green…

James Bond was born into film in 1962 wearing a Savile Row suit and soon became a byword for quirky adversaries, gadgetry, and oddly-named female associates. In his 50 years of life the world has gone from facing the threat of disruption of the…