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Monkeybrain Pledge all November Profits to The Hero Initiative

10/30/2012 2:00 pm by Steve Morris

Monkeybrain Pledge all November Profits to The Hero Initiative

  Chris Roberson, co-founder of the digital publisher Monkeybrain Comics, has put out an open letter today explaining that for the whole of November, all profits made by the company will be donated directly to The Hero Initative. Along with Allison Baker, Roberson set up the company earlier this year as a way to put […]

Filed Under: Announcements, Cartoonists, Comics Still Wonderful In Spite Of It All, Digital Comics, E-publishing, Monkeys, Top News Tagged With: chris roberson, Hero Initiative, Monkeybrain

Good Work, Comics!

10/26/2012 3:00 pm by Steve Morris

Good Work, Comics!

Is there nowhere in the world of culture which can stay positive for more than five minutes!? This week we found out that not even glam rock could provide us safety (now we’re firmly in the barren hair-straightened wastelands of the post-80s), with the news that Kiss and Aerosmith are now art war with each […]

Filed Under: Comics, Comics Still Wonderful In Spite Of It All, Culture, Reviews, Top News, Weekend Reading Tagged With: Brandon Graham, Extermination, Good Work Comics, Gurihiru, Multiple Warheads, Si Spurrier, Skottie Young

Comics are as great as you want them to be

10/03/2012 8:00 am by Heidi MacDonald

Comics are as great as you want them to be

A few recent things that scampered across my reading stirred similar feelings. One was MTV Geek’sThe 10 Best Comics Of September 2012 which was a reasonable sampling of pamphlet form comics from Marvel, DC Image, Dark Horse and Boom. It was by no means an embarrassingly bad list (credited author Alex Zalben reads a lot […]

Filed Under: Comics Still Wonderful In Spite Of It All, Top Comics

Lots of great books still coming up October & November 

10/01/2012 11:00 am by Heidi MacDonald

Lots of great books still coming up October & November 

…or at least in the UK. Forbidden Planet has a preview of October & November comics and it includes a pretty amazing line-up of books. A Posy Simmonds collection of her Guardian strips from the 70s and 80s. A new Hilda book by Luke Pearson Diana Thurg’s AUGUST MOON The Julio’s Day collection by Gilbert […]

Filed Under: Comics Still Wonderful In Spite Of It All, Previews, Top Comics Tagged With: Previews

SPX: Good comics, good people

09/21/2012 9:00 am by Heidi MacDonald

SPX: Good comics, good people

Much has been written and lauded about this year’s SPX, and I’m late to the game but I have a few thoughts I wanted to put to pixel before the memories fade. It was a great time for just about everyone, I think. I had a blast at TCAF this year and came away from it completely optimistic about The State of Comics. That mood was only deepened by SPX, and I don’t expect it to fade any time soon. A few little notes:

Filed Under: Art Comix, Comics Still Wonderful In Spite Of It All, Indie Comics, Literary Comics Tagged With: Indie Comics, SPX 2012

Best SPX ever?

09/16/2012 11:48 am by Heidi MacDonald

Best SPX ever?

Photo via @eee Possibly the best SPX ever—and definitely the most financially successful one. That’s what everyone was saying last night. By 4:30 Fantagraphics had made more money than they did at all of last year’s show. Similar stories were reported at PictureBox, Nobrow, D&Q and everywhere really. With a bigger floor space and a […]

Filed Under: Art Comix, Comics Still Wonderful In Spite Of It All, Indie Comics, Literary Comics, Small Presses Tagged With: Indie Comics, SPX 2012

Women Read Comics in Public 3

08/28/2012 4:00 pm by Heidi MacDonald

Women Read Comics in Public 3

It’s the third annual Read Comic in Public Day, and the third annual Women Read Comics in Public 3 tumblr. Get out there and show your stuff, world!

Filed Under: Comics Still Wonderful In Spite Of It All

Digital Comics: $3 spent

07/31/2012 2:10 pm by Jen Vaughn

Digital Comics: $3 spent

If you are one of the last souls who has yet to buy WANDER or DRACULA THE UNCONQUERED #2, allow me to convince you. Put away that latte money for I have something better for you to enjoy.

Filed Under: Comics, Comics Still Wonderful In Spite Of It All, Digital Comics, Downloadable Comics, Monkeys, Reviews, Weekend Reading Tagged With: Monkeybrain Comics

Marvel Creates New Superhero for a Hearing-Impaired Fan

05/23/2012 6:35 am by Steve Morris

Marvel Creates New Superhero for a Hearing-Impaired Fan

When a young fan with hearing impairment didn’t want to wear an aid because he felt it’d make him stand out, his mother assembled with Marvel’s staff to save the day

Filed Under: Comics Still Wonderful In Spite Of It All, Marvel Tagged With: Blue Ear, Hawkeye, Marvel Comics

Quote of the day: ECCC, Twilight of the Gods–CORRECTED

04/02/2012 6:00 pm by Heidi MacDonald

Quote of the day: ECCC, Twilight of the Gods–CORRECTED

–The panelists of Mythic Fiction in Comics included Bill Willingham, Kurt Busiek, Chris Roberson, Matt Wagner, and Dark Horse editor Rachel Edidin and they all agreed that superhero comics were a dying genre. They also all thought that it would be beneficial for everyone to allow the characters to lapse into public domain.

—Quoted by Matt Funk

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