This morning, I have been reading the January issue of the Sequential Tart Webzine to help put me in the mood for 2007. In this issue, there are interviews with Mike and Louise Carey, Barb Lien-Cooper and Adrien van Viersen. In the featured articles, Shaenon Garrity lets us in on her secret origin of a fangirl, Pam Bliss writes #69 in her comics creation series “Hopelessly Lost, But Making Good Time”, Mary Borsellino writes about comics tie-ins in new media culture, Corrina Lawsonsays why she believes that the DC’s hardcover Absolute edition of The New Frontier was worth the price, and I take a look at how prophetic the V for Vendetta comic series was.

For comicon reports, Alice Doyle gives us the lowdown on Dublin City Comicon 2006.

In columns, Brian K. Vaughn is the subject of this month’s Tart Tastes, Young Avengers Volume One: Sidekicks gets a Fantastic Firsts article, Robert Lach writes about the mainstream audience in the redirected male column, the Tart to Heart column spotlights favorite covers and Lisa Lopacinski gives us an insider’s angle on the ups and downs of the comic book store business.

Culture Vultures interviewees include Fan Hope, Wiley Miller, Anne Openshaw, Jeannette Sousa and Lindsey McKeon.

In Culture Vultures articles, Tarts reminisce about their favorite eighties sitcoms, Jennifer M. Contino enthuses about new Disney DVD releases, Corrina Lawson rants about football video games, Tori Morris critiques Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Wolfen Moondaughter writes Part Two of Six Degrees of Science Fiction, Terry Drosdak gives geek girls a basic beauty primer and Shaenon Garrity writes about her thoughts while watching Sesame Street.

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