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Jennifer de Guzman is a writer and comics editor 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.

Contact Jennifer de Guzman at blog@jenniferdeguzman.com

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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Sunday at Comic-Con

Is Sunday still family day at Comic-Con? I’m not sure. Last year, my family opted out of Sunday. We had a six-month old and we were a little tired, but later I regretted it. So none of that this year! Also, I’m bringing my niece with us as her graduation gift, so I don’t want [...]

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Saturday at Comic-Con

Saturday has a lot of great panels, which is perfect because Saturday is also the day that the convention floor becomes a terrifying, writhing mass of bodies inching along toward some unspecified goal. Going upstairs to get away from it is a good way to avoid burnout and exhaustion. Some of the panels I’ve chosen [...]

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Friday at Comic-Con

There were only a couple of panels that caught my eye for Friday at Comic-Con.

 

6:00-7:00 Girls Gone Genre— Come talk with women who write, read, game, and perform in arenas that are statistically dominated by men. What happens when traditionally “male” genres are reinvented by female writers and embraced by female fans? Sex and the [...]