Comics

A new challenger has entered the arena!

Controversy! The title of "First Great Comic of 2016" is hotly contested this year!

Author Mark Millar (Kickass) has arguably worked with some of the greatest living artists currently working in the comics industry including Sean Gordon Murphy (Chrononauts),...

Aside from company wide cataclysms, unquestionably the biggest periodical comics event of ealry 2016 is The Black Panther b y Ta-Nehisi Coates and Brian Stelfreeze. It's not too often that you get the most lauded intellectual of the moment to write a comic book, and when the subject matter and provennance combine - the greatest black superhero written by the author of the most powerful contemporary exploration of race in America - and you have something that could be important.

Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman's other long-running series Invincible is no stranger to adverse headlines. The series original artist Cory Walker (Destroyer) is coming...

For most of my life, the comings and goings of garbage was pretty much a mystery to me. When I was a kid, I...

VINES by Mike Geszel, Ben McCool*** and Inaki Miranda in a project thaht's been in the works for a while, and though Miranda remains as concept...

In recent years the gaming contingent of the South by Southwest festival has evolved to levels on par with other arts such as music...

"Funny animal comics" were a time-tested genre for comics in the 50s heydey, and some of the finest comics since then feature anthropomorphic lead...

<a href="http://www.villagevoice.com/arts/exclusive-boom-studios-announces-lumberjanes-and-gotham- What what?!? Yes DC and Boom! Studios are having a company crossover with two girl-oriented series, Lumberjanes and Gotham Academy. The six issue...

Yes, the *total* number of comics sold in a month still sounds impressive, but what about the individual books?  It's time to check in...

Some recent showbiz news that our usual correspondents haven't been able to keep up with: the Sandman movie is looking for a star and director again; Scalped is in development for TV and Powerless is going to be very strange.