What Nerve! open at RISD with awesome catalog
RISD (The Rhode Island School of Art and Design) is hosting an art show—now open and running until January 9, 2015—"What Nerve!" and it...
Marvel’s Brevoort responds to Manara controversy
I said I was going to be happy and puppies today, but I feel I should note that Marvel's executive editor Tom Brevoort responded...
Separated at birth: Spider-Man and Spider-Woman?
In commenting on his FB page on how drawing a sexy cover got attention at EW.com, artist J. Scott Campbell posted this classic...
Nice Art: AlphaBands by Ben Towle
Cartoonist/comics educator Ben Towle likes to take up half the year in alphabet themed art projects; once it was monsters then animals. This time...
Nice Art: Roman Muradov’s (In A Sense) Lost and Found
Let's end this week with some art! No publisher puts out more consistently beautiful books than Nobrow, and "(In a Sense) Lost and Found"...
By Its Cover Special: Image Expo 2014
This will be the last By Its Cover for a few months, so I thought I'd do something special. Today we're going to look...
Artist Randy Queen threatens legal action over unfavorable Tumblr posts
Randy Queen is a skilled comics artist who often draws attractive women. He's best known for Darkchyde but he's worked on many other books over the years like Red Sonja and Witchblade. Escher Girls is a tumblr that posts pictures of ridiculously drawn comics women. As you do.
Some of Queen's art was featured on the site, and he didn't like it. So he used the DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) to sport these posts to Tumblr and get them removed.
Interview: Rick Geary on Kickstarter, Murder, and Billy the Kid
Anybody who has read any amount of my writing, either here and elsewhere, will probably know who my favourite comics writer is*. But I...
By Its Cover (07.09.14 – 07.16.14)
A computer crash that I still haven't been able to get fixed has resulted in my not being as thorough this time around as I...
SDCC Discusses Blake J. Harris’ “The Console Wars,” with guests.
By: Nick Eskey
Once upon a time, Nintendo resurrected what remained of the home console market, and thus ruled the gaming world. Almost 95% of...
SDCC ’14: Careers in Creativity
By: Nick Eskey
In today's world, with the level of connectivity we all share, and all the available options for entertainment, there is a greater...
SDCC ’14: The Business of Geek Fashion
By Hannah Lodge
As the popularity of geek culture and comic book movies surges, retailers have seen a significant increase in the demand for stylish,...

















