So You Want to Throw A Comic-Con Party?

Geek Girls United! | September 30, 2010

Some tips by guest writers @ArkhamAsylumDoc and @GeekGirls from the Geek Girls Network.

Perhaps you envision the final product: It’s a well-attended, successfully promoted, raging geekfest bursting at the seams with a few hundred of your closest real life and internet friends. Everyone has a drink in their hand, a nerdy tee, and a grin on [...]

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Interview: Why Seth Green Loves Geek and Gamer Girls

Action Flick Chick | September 24, 2010

Seth Green unlocked new achievements in geeking out this week. On Monday, he tweeted (@SethGreen) and played  HALO for the very first time, “getting my ass sadly handed to me” at Nathan Fillion’s HALO party. Shortly before that, the music video “G33k & G4m3r Girls” (a.k.a. “Geek and Gamer Girls Song”) in which he raps [...]

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G33K & G4M3R GIRLS Fangirl Furor: Should Geek and Gamer Girls Go Sexy, Sexless, Something Else?

Action Flick Chick | September 22, 2010

Team Unicorn (left to right): Milynn Sarley, Michele Boyd, Rileah Vanderbilt, Clare Grant

Team Unicorn: Milynn Sarley, Michele Boyd, Rileah Vanderbilt, Clare Grant

In its first week, Team Unicorn’s “G33k & G4m3r Girls” video (a.k.a. “Geek and Gamer Girls Song”), a parody of Katy Perry’s “California Gurls,” reached a million views at Break.com, hitting the million mark the same morning I posted an interview with team members Michele Boyd, Clare [...]

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Action Chicks Training Academy! Enroll Now for Fall Classes

Llama Mama | August 23, 2010

Professor Leeloo Dallas Multipass.

 Action Flick Chick: What courses would the Action Chicks Training Academy offer? 
Answers came from Facebook and twitter. 
Cristina Bogdan: Feathers for anihilation 101.
Tanner Gibson: Kicking Cell Spammers Ass?
Charissa Gilmore Duff: Shotgun speed reloading, group recon tactics, and the appropriate use of sweatproof/waterproof/smudgeproof makeup.
Armita Pebdani: High Speeds in High Heels 500
Wendy Harrington: Stiletto Stance 101
Stiletto Stunning 102
Stiletto [...]

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Gauge Comics’ Comic-Con Entertainment Line-Up with “My Damn Tweeter Buddy” Sean Patrick Flanery

Action Flick Chick | July 22, 2010

Press release:
I’m BUSY BUSY with San Diego Comic-Con International. Today is packed with amazing panels, as I’ll explain in the morning; tomorrow I finally have the “Where Are the Action Chicks?” panel. The list goes on and on. And, oh yeah, I hear Sean Patrick Flanery is expecting me. I can’t see him today (Thursday – it’s [...]

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Spring Cons 2010: Wonderful Pals with Wonderful Pics

Action Flick Chick | April 4, 2010

A lot of people have been asking about me at WonderCon, which is pretty sweet of them. Nathan Hamill hoped I’d do the con as Slave Leia. My convention plans for April are focused on Texas Frightmare Weekend’s film festival (more on that this week) and hopefully something else along the way. In the meantime, Manuel Yoro (@monkeyjedi) surprised [...]

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How Do Fan Convention Experiences Differ for Women and Men?

Llama Mama | March 6, 2010

Con-crowd-510

The Action Flick Chick and some friends got to discussing Comic-Con dos and don’ts. This wasn’t the first time the topic has come up and won’t be the last. A couple of her blogger gal pals have posted some great guides. For example, Nerdy Bird Jill Pantozzi (@TheNerdyBird) had responded to the LA Times’ “Girls’ Guide [...]

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Interview: Supergirl, Dazzler, Shadowcat, Agents of SHIELD

Action Flick Chick | October 18, 2009

Dazzler speaks.

When the Action Flick Chick covered Dallas Comic-Con for G4TV’s Attack of the Show!, she spoke with actors like Dean Stockwell and Yancy Butler, comics creators like Steve Niles and Josh Howard, and a number of cosplayers, people dressed as characters like Shaun from Shaun of the Dead and an assortment of superpeople. The interviews which [...]

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