You should buy this: Farel Dalrymple’s It Will All Hurt
I'll hold my hands up and admit I'm not a digital reader at all- there are a few web-comics which I love and keep...
BookScan: Kids’ comics and The Walking Dead ruled bookstore sales in 2012
It's my FAVORITE day of the year, when Brian Hibbs posts the year-end sales from bookstores via the Bookscan chart. Now we know these numbers are significantly low, but as I always say, they present a metric.
The huge take away? Well, we all knew The Waking Dead was a juggernaut,—sales in this franchise would have made it the #3 publisher all by itself—but after that it's kids comics all the way, led by the maybe-comics of Dork Diaries, but following by Big Nate, Ninjago, Ursula Vernon's Dragonbreath, Drama and so on.
Second Opinion: Batman #17
Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo's Batman #17 came out this week, concluding their 'Death of the Family' storyline to universal approval from reviewers. But...
Retrofit Comics Spring Subscription series announced
Following in the mini comics subscription model used by Oily Comics, Retrofit has announced its Spring series with comics by Simon Moreton, Andrew White, Ze Jian Shen, Josh Bayer (Raw Power 2), Sophia Foster Diminio and Roman Muradov, plus a summer release from publisher Box Brown.
Adhouse to publish Boulet’s The Darkness
You may not know the name Boulet, but this French artist is one of the most prolific and talented cartoonists working. Maybe you will recall his disgustingly accomplished 24-hour comic from last year, The Darkness. Or his blog, which includes English versions of his comics. That first link is getting a printed version in the US, courtesy of AdHouseIt's due in April to tie in with Boulet's 2013 US tour, and will be printed in a limited quantity. Hopefully this is only the first US edition of Boulet's work to see print. Here's a wee preview:
Constantine #1 Preview (Or Hellblazer PG-13 If You Prefer)
DC has sent over a preview of the New 52 Hellblazer relaunch, renamed Constantine, possibly after the Keanu Reeves film (which was surprisingly decent). As you can...
Review: Django Unchained #2
First issues are easy – it’s the second issue where you get the proper measure of where a story is going, how it’ll play...
Black Bat Adds Artist, Confirms May Launch (Preview Art)
The Black Bat was one of the early character pulps from the 1930s, along with The Shadow and The Spider. Like those last 2 pulps, The...
Nice Art: Kazu Kibuishi creates new Harry Potter covers
Talk about a high profile gig—for the15th anniversary of the series, Harry Potter is getting new covers for the paperback versions by cartoonist Kazu Kibuishi. All seven books will be released in a boxed set in September. Mary Grand Pré's iconic (and work for hire) covers will continue to be used on the hardcover and digest-sized paperback editions.
Wertham and Are Comics Art? — is it 1981 again?
A must read and a must-read for masochists top our linkage today, both returning to topics that were much on the minds of anyone in comics about 30 years ago — oldies but goodies.
First and most importantly, library professor Carol Tilley has been going through Dr. Fredric Wertham's notes and found out that he was, to use a technical term, full of hooey.
