Jane's World: In the News

Shoujo Arts Society and Yurikon LLC hosted this brand-new,all-encompassing convention highlighting women's roles in animation and comics. I learned all about yuri, yaoi, josei, shoujo and
tentacles! Needless to say it was a fun-filled educational weekend.

I was one of the guests for the weekend (that's me on the right), along with Tania Del Rio (center), who writes and pencils the new and improved "Sabrina The Teen Age Witch," and Euralis Weekes (left), animator and co-owner of Chaotic Unicorn.

Find out more about Tania by visiting her blog,"The Witching Hour" :
http://www.livejournal.com/users/taniadelrio/

And check out more of Euralis's stuff at:
http://www.euralisweekes.com/

If you want to know about tentacles... Ask these crazy women from Drama Queen publishing in Houston. (http://www.onedramaqueen.com) But don't go to dinner with them...
They're bad luck in a restaurant.
 

Jane's Word at Comic Con

We survived San Diego Comic Con International and are finally rested enough
to post a few photos. I took my camera, but was too visually overwhelmed to
take any photos. How lame. So I've had to depend on a few pals to send me
images from the show. The highlights of the week? Got to talk to Seth Green
in Peet's coffee and bumped into Joss Whedon near my booth. Two guys from my
favorite show, "Buffy the Vampire Slayer."

Thanks to all the guys (and gals) at the Prism booth for letting me sign
books there and thanks to Tim and Mark (Cold Cut Distributors) for putting
me on the self-publishing panel. I always learn something new on those
panels!

Paige talks with an aspiring cartoonist while signing books at the Prism
booth during the recent Comic Con International in San Diego. (photo by Rich
Thigpen)

Paige (standing) and Adrienne (seated) talk to fans and run the Jane's World
booth during comic con. Thanks to all of you who stopped by to say hello and
pick up recent copies of Jane. (photo by Stephanie Samuels.)

Paige and Montserrat (right), from Ediciones Lacupula in Barcelona,
Spain, who just published the first vol. of Jane's World in Spanish.

Jane's World in Toronto:
 

The Toronto Comic Art Festival, hosted by the Beguiling at 601
Markham Street in Toronto, was a great show. I came back completely
inspired to try new and different things in Jane's World. It's always
energizing to hang out with a group of people who are creating books
that reflect their personal vision. Thank you Chris and Peter for
putting on such a fabulous weekend event (sorry it took me so long to
get this photo posted!). And a special thank you to all our Canadian
readers who stopped by to say "hey" and check out our books in
person. We love ya!

Jane's World arrives in Madrid

Montserrat Terrones from Ediciones La Cupula (the publishing company) in Barcelona, Spain, was kind enough to forward this photo from the Jane's World presentation celebrated in Madrid last week. The gentleman with the white beard is the publisher and the woman, Mili Hernandez, is a very popular lesbian in Spain who has a specialized gay and lesbian bookshop in Chueca (the gay district of Madrid). The name of the bookstore is Libreria Berkana. The gentleman on the right is Lawrence Schimel.

Check out this recent Jane's World review by Randy Lander on The 4th Rail.


WonderCon 2005

Prism comics
The comics industry's premier lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender advocacy group, promoting the work of LGBT creators and encouraging exploration of LGBT themes in comics. The not-for-profit group was formed in 2003 and publishes the annual resource guide PRISM COMICS: Your LGBT Guide to Comics.
http://www.prismcomics.org

Sequential Tart
A publication dedicated to providing exclusive interviews, in-depth articles and news, while working towards raising the awareness of women's influence in the comics industry and other realms.
http://www.sequentialtart.com/

Nowhere Girl by Justine Shaw
http://www.nowheregirl.com

A great place to relax in the sun
http://www.queenofheartsps.com/

The amazing comic book work of Terry Moore
http://www.strangersinparadise.com

Rhymes With Orange, by Hilary Price
http://www.rhymeswithorange.com

Pearls Before Swine, by Stephan Pastis
http://www.comics.com/comics/pearls/

Get Fuzzy, by Darby Conley
http://www.comics.com/comics/getfuzzy/

3WD: Web Development, Michael Shermis
http://www.3wd.com

Kyle Haskins, Web Designer
http://www.kylehaskins.com

For a vast array of books featuring online comics, check out Plan Nine Publishing.  http://www.plan9.org

http://www.iComics.com

The FAN Site For Gay Comic Readers and Creators!
http://www.gayleague.com/

The amazing illustration work of Kris Dresen.
http://www.GirlThrow.com

A great Seattle cartoonist, David Kelly:
http://www.davidkellystudio.com

James Courtney... Who did a guest cover for Jane's World Issue 18:
http://www.nakedcomix.com

Jane's World comic books have been showing up in comic shops, east and west! We wanted to highlight a few here and encourage folks to support their local comic shops! Here are a few places Jane has been spotted on shelves: