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G. Willow Wilson is an American author and essayist who divides her time between Egypt and the US. Her articles about modern religion and the Middle East have appeared in publications including the Atlantic Monthly, the New York Times Magazine and the Canada National Post.
William Kulesa writes, “for those who find pleasure in pushing the boundaries of their notions, AIR may be the ticket to buy.” Read the full review here.
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AIR
“Wilson and Perker create a world of lounges, cockpits and terminals that are more fantastically dangerous and sexy than the real things can be.” –PopSyndicate.com
An acrophobic stewardess. A man with no nation. A parallel world of flight beyond your wildest imagination. Read the new monthly comic book series everyone is talking about. Buy AIR at local comic book shops worldwide. Find your nearest shop here.
Posted by Site Admin on 08/20 at 05:24 PM
Live from Tariq i’Suez
May 13
First off, I’d like to say thanks to the talented Shazia for rehauling the site; it’s almost embarrassingly good-looking. To everyone else, welcome to gwillowwilson.com version 2.0. The blog portion of the site is likely to be eclectic—there will be news (about me and about other things) for people who like news, comics stuff for people who like stuff about comics, the Islamosphere for people who follow the Islamosphere, and probably a lot of crossover between all-of-the-above that one wouldn’t immediately assume was possible.
“I got most of that, but what’s the Islamosphere?”
It’s a term that’s emerged within the last couple of years to describe the loose collective of blogs, news feeds and sites dedicated to the big discussions taking place within modern Islam. Most of these sites are run by Muslims themselves, but some are run by non-Muslims. Since new media is much harder to censor than print or television, the internet has become a popular place for debate and networking between Muslims who live under authoritarian or religiously repressive regimes (as well as those who don’t). One such debate is in full swing right now between this popular writer/activist and a traditionalist colleague.
I’ve been on a comics-writing (and revising) bender recently, and have discovered that a lettered comic and a finished comic are not the same thing. When you’re editing a prose piece, identifying and fixing the parts that don’t work is usually a straightforward process. (Usually.) When editing a comic, however, a lot of the problem areas don’t seem to ‘pop’ until you see the text physically laid out on the page with the art. I’m sure the process becomes more intuitive the more comics you write, but for me, a newcomer, it’s been a learning experience. More on that later.
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