About

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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Thursday at Comic-Con

Comic-Con International has posted its programming schedule for the convention’s first day, Thursday. If you’ve never gone before, you should know that you can’t just stroll up to the programming show and catch a panel as it’s starting. You have to line up — for hours, if it’s in Hall H. So it’s best to [...]

Favorite Things

A Few of My Favorite Things: Magical Game Time

A college student with an obscure interdisciplinary major might do well to consider the influence of the Japanese principle of mono no aware on video games. The phrase is difficult to translate, and it’s rendered variously as “sensitivity to things” or “sensitivity to ephemera.” It describes a certain wistfulness in art, an awareness of [...]

Pop Culture

Brooding Mentor Dream Boats: The Marriage of Sticks by Jonathan Carroll

Associate Professor Stefane August, Brooding Mentor Dream Boat

I’ve just started reading The Marriage of Sticks by Jonathan Carroll, and at about 75 pages in, I knew I needed to come up with a counterpart to the Manic Pixie Dream Girl, the effervescent ingenue who brings magic to the life of some world-weary boring [...]

Life in Comics

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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Politics

Toward a Working Definition of Racism, Part One

Recently, some members of the comic book community were called out by MSNBC commentator Lawrence O’Donnell for a comic strip depicting Michelle Obama scarfing down hamburgers and bullying her husband. The strip is part of a series called “Obama Nation” by James Hudnall and Batton Lash, published on Andrew Breitbart’s site Big Hollywood. O’Donnell’s outrage [...]