Cheryl Lynn isn't quite sure who she is, but she's pretty sure of what she wants to be. A warrior woman. A bad-ass mamajama. Perhaps an earth goddess extraordinaire. She spends her days abusing keyboards and screaming at computer screens while she waits for her cult following to finally show up.

She changes her mind more often than extras in rap videos change thongs.

Remember: save to your own server, sweets!

Reading SELF Magazine.

Writing To-Do lists.

Hearing Thunder.

Watching General Hospital.

Building Nothing.

Eating Vitamins.

Drinking Iced Tea.

Buying Comic books.

Thinking "It is HOT!"

Playing Episodes from Liberty City.

Adoring Cold water.

Saying Very little.

Abhorring Bigotry.

Feeling Calm.

Hoping To get in gear.

New York state of mind.

More random thoughts on the pop culture whirlwind that was NYCC.

Let's talk about Wizard and how I was mildly impressed by them. Why? Because they were asking people to fill out a very detailed survey at the NYCC. Wizard knows they ain't been doin' right, folks. And it looks as if they are really trying to make an attempt to fix things. The only problem is that I don't believe that the people working at Wizard have any idea how to go about fixing things. They simply know that things need to be fixed. The survey contained a great deal of questions about the usual topics (age, gender, race, class, hobbies, purchasing habits). It seems as if the company is actually trying to find out about all of the different types of people who read comics and what kind of magazine would interest those readers. That's a huge step forward for a magazine that spent an exorbitant about of time catering to sexually repressed fanboys who abhor any type of change.

I was going to do a write up on the Black Panel, but I see that Toon Zone has done a much better job with its article on the panel than I could have done here. I had loads of fun doing it, and everyone on the panel was exceptionally nice. I think that the only problem with the panel is that you have so many people working in so many genres that it is impossible to talk about black people in comics and limit it to just one hour. I'd love to see it expand and also focus on professionals working on slice-of-life independent comics like Baker and Abouet are writing.

And let's give a quick shout out to the people at Dark Horse who were absolutely charming and totally passionate about the work that they produce. They rock!

Speaking of shout outs, let's give one to creator Shannon Denton for his wonderful book Zapt! I was talking to Shannon about the lack of kids-appropriate reading material featuring characters of color and how wonderful it is that an adorable character like Armand Jones is around. The second volume of Zapt! will be appearing in March from Tokyopop.

I know I skipped over a chunk of stuff, but all of the stuff I skipped over will be mentioned in PW Comics Week tomorrow. No point in writing about things twice. And now, I am officially zoning out until Tuesday! Later, y'all!

Cheryl Lynn @ 02:23 PM EST Link