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Jennifer de Guzman is a writer and comics publishing professional living in the San Francisco Bay Area. She writes stories about sad girls, seawater, bottomless wells, airborne plagues, and horses. You can find links to some of them them in the Selected Works section or read them at her Scribd page.

What Are Possible Impossiblities?

“The Poet ought rather to chuse Impossibilities, provided they have Resemblance to the Truth, than the Possible, which are Incredible with all their Possibility.”
- Henry Fielding, quoting Aristotle in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

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Oh, You Sexy Geek: The Responses

On Monday, I sent G4 president Neal Tiles a link to my post and Feminist Fatale‘s post about Chris Gore’s conduct at the “Oh, You Sexy Geek” panel. On Tuesday, I was pleased to receive this response from him:

Hey Jennifer, saw your tweet regarding Chris Gore’s reprehensible comments at Comic Con…Im disappointed at [...]

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Comic-Con: The Take-Aways

I realized something this year, as I attended Comic-Con with my eighteen-year-old niece and eighteen-month-old son: Comic-Con is fun again. No booth duty means no stresses about changing out signing areas, answering questions, or finding time to eat. Now I have time to rekindle my love of comics. The booth was always on the [...]

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Comic-Con 2011: Oh, You Sexy Geek Recap

It’s too bad that the only panel I attended at Comic-Con this year was “Oh, You Sexy Geek.” I was, unfortunately, disappointed — and, at the end, disgusted. The discussion was dominated by America’s Next Top Model winner Adrianne Curry and actress Clare Grant, whose expressed opinions on feminism, the depiction of women in [...]

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Life in Comics cancelled, life in comics continues

Publishers Weekly has revamped its comics coverage to be more news-oriented, which means my column “Life in Comics” doesn’t quite fit in with the new format. So, after three great years at Publishers Weekly, “Life in Comics” has been discontinued. I’m going to explore other venues for the column, and if that doesn’t work out, [...]

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April Publishers Weekly Column

My latest Life in Comics column is up at Publishers Weekly. It’s about what happens when Team Comics turns into Angry Mob Comics.

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