Since 1938Today’s guest poster won an award for best young journalist in Canada in 2006 and was nominated for two National Newspaper Awards and three Ontario Newspaper Awards for her work. In addition to journalism, Elisabeth Johns likes comics. A lot. Can you guess who she might be writing about?
Man, my latest kerfuffle made me remember all the arguments I’ve gotten in with Lois Lane hatahs in the past. At CBR I remember, it was me vs Super/Wondy and Bats/Wondy shippers (no offense to the Bats/Wondy peeps on my dash) which is weird because I don’t care about that stuff.I just mentioned…
Well, we didn’t manage to get #LoisLaneSeries to trend, but we got something more important than that – the attention of fans and comics creators alike! Not only that, the Editor-in-Chief himself:
DC Editor-in-Chief Bob Harras took notice, too. “The emotional investment our fans have for our characters is incredibly important to us. It is that passion that drives us every day and when you see conversations like the one regarding Lois, it makes us work even harder,” said the E-i-C.
Read the whole write up from Newsarama and another from MTV GEEK.
We did a great job, guys. It was fantastic to see all the Lois love flooding twitter.Everyone who used the tag should feel accomplished. It truly was a group effort. We have another campaign idea in mind, so keep an eye on this tumblr and our twitter account for more details. We still have some Lois fancomics and podcasts in the pipe as well if your interested in those. And thank you.
Behind the cut, see some tweets from comics professionals during the trending campaign:
Welcome to Lois Lane Verse!
This the official tumblr for the 12/12 day Lois lane appreciation project.
What is the 12/12 day project?
As big fans of Lois Lane, we want to do our best to show the folks at DC Comics that there would be support for a Lois Lane comic book series. As such, we’re going to try and trend the hashtag #loislaneseries on Sunday, December the 12th, starting at 4 pm EST.
To make the event more fun, we’d like to turn the entire day into a celebration of Lois Lane as a fantastic, strong female comic character with a rich history. We encourage everyone to tweet, tumble and blog about Lois; Lois art, Lois quotes, Lois videos, Lois images, anything you can think of to show that Lois Lane is an awesome character.
The organizers of this project have written and drawn 4 comic pages, as if Lois had her own series, to whet the appetites of fans for more and to show just how great a Lois Lane series could be. We’ve also recorded a series of podcasts where we discuss the various aspects and portrayals of Lois Lane, which we will be releasing as a lead up to 12/12. Watch for those soon!
We want to share the Lois love, and we hope you join us. More information after the cut…
JOANNE CARTER, Superman co-creator Jerry Siegel’s wife was the model for how Lois Lane looked in the early comics.
But, Lois brash, spunky attitude and personality was based on a fictional girl reporter named: Theresa “TORCHY” Blane.
TORCHY BLANE is a fictional female reporter featured in a…
