Top News
INTERVIEW: Alexis Fajardo on Adapting Myths for Modernity in KID BEOWULF: THE BLOOD-BOUND OATH
“I’ve always loved mythology. I grew up reading Greek and Roman myths. I studied Classics in college, but Beowulf was the first epic poem I read and it stuck with me.”
Top News
Webcomic Review: Strong Female Protagonist: Truth, Social Justice and the Online Way
By Maggie Vicknair As a teenager, Alison Green was Mega-Girl, a member of the world’s foremost superhero team, until one day she quit dramatically on live television. After an eye-opening conversation which her former arch-nemesis She had realized that all the capes, costumes, and epic battle’s weren’t really helping anyone long term. Now, no […]
Image Comics Month-to-Month Sales July 2016: It Was a Pretty Good Year
David Carter dives into the Image Comics Sales Charts of July 2016!
More Stories
Most Recent Articles
DC Comics Month-to-Month Sales July 2016: Rebirth 2– Electric Boogaloo
David Carter analyzes DC Comics’ July sales!
DC Reborn Round-Up: Why SUPERGIRL #1 and CYBORG: REBIRTH Showcase the Best and Worst of What Rebirth Has to Offer
Alex Lu and Kyle Pinion dive into this week’s DC books. We look at SUPERGIRL #1 and CYBORG: REBIRTH. We also check in on old favorites BATMAN and GREEN ARROW.
Kieron Gillen is doing a new Marvel Project and talking about ethics
Writer Kieron Gillen hasn’t succumbed to the newsletter thing yet (I think?) he sticks with the old fashioned Tumblr method of communicating with friends and readers! So old fashioned. While I Ws running around last week, Gillen posted a BOMBSHELL post about things he’s working on, including a New SEERIT Marvel project. And other secret […]
Ed Brubaker on leaving Marvel Comics, writing Maniac Cop movie, and the new issue of Kill or Be Killed
Newsletters have made a BIG comeback, in that pendulum swinging way. I guess people are so exhausted from surfing the web and checking out snapchats that they want everything to come in their mailbox. Ed Brubaker has an infrequently mailed out one, which you can subscribe to here. A new one went out yesterday, chock full of news and chatter and a preview of issue #2 of Kill or Be Killed, his latest team-up with Sean Phillips.
Comings and goings: Steve Sunu leaves Stela
In an email sent out to comics folks, Steve Sunu, the PR contact for comics app Stela announced he was leaving. VP of Business Development, Yaling Catorcini and Business Development Manager James Tao will be continuing to deal with media and advertising. I’m not entirely clear what’s going on at Stela — they’ve announced a […]
Review: LUKE CAGE is Marvel’s best television effort yet
Our review of the first seven episodes of the upcoming Marvel and Netflix series
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits 9/7/2016: You won’t believe what William Shatner looked like after he went to four cons in one weekend!
§ The Labor Day weekend was an insane one for nerd events around North America with Salt Lake City Con, PAX in Seattle, Dragon*Con, Star Trek Mission New York, Fan Expo in Toronto, Baltimore Comic Con and the brand new San Francisco Comic Con all taking place. WHEW. You may sounds tired reading about it, […]
Review: Beth Heinly is making me laugh today
I’d say self-deprecating autobiographical comics by smart, talented women is officially a genre, and a sub-genre of that is self-deprecating autobiographical comics by smart, talented women with a biting, candid, sometimes inappropriate sense of humor. In this sub-genre, the humor is derived from the cartoonist simultaneously hold out their self-assuredness as a vehicle for self-deprecation. […]
Hang Dai, Hypothetical Island and DrawBridge art studios are getting evicted at the end of the month
At the end of the month, the thriving scene of artists studios centered in the Gowanus part of Brooklyn will be no more. As reported last year (but not imediately connected to the comics world) a massive collection of old warehouses that have been turned into artists studios, in the classic NYC sense, are now being turned into…well condos, probably. The area is located near the toxic Gowanus Canal and not considered safe for habitation but that won’t stop anyone. Maybe a bank or a organic dog treat store or a prozen yogurt shop will open up.
A new episode of Barrier by Vaughn, Martin and Vicente is up
After some delays caused by work on the oversized Walking Dead special, a new chapter of Barrier by Brian K. Vaughan, Marcos Martin and Muntsa Vicente is up, with a pay what you wish model for digital downloads via their Panel Syndicate site. Barrier, a follow-up to their stunning The Private Eye, is a SF tale […]
