Bryan Talbot’s Grandville III: The trailer
It's always hard to know what graphic novelist Bryan Talbot is going to be up to — will it be a crazy imaginative story...
The Sailor Twain Tour dates announced
First Second editorial director and cartoonist Mark Siegal, will be on tour for SAILOR TWAIN, this fall. Dates are above and in the link.
If you haven't seen SAILOR TWAIN, the rich story of a 1887 Hudson River barge captain who finds a mermaid, and what unfolds from that, you are missing an imaginative comics yarn that joins other comics about waterbourne voyages, like Far Ardden and Set to Sail. Heck it's a whole new comics genre.
Studio Coffee Run 9/28/12: Looper, The Walking Dead, Thor: The Dark World, etc.
Looper is already killing it with the critics, Robert Kirkman and Tony Moore reach an undisclosed settlement concerning Moore's involvement with The Walking Dead,...
Manga-Camera App: Turning 2D dreams into Smartphone reality
Comicsalliance just unveiled what could possibly be the best App EVER (or maybe just for you die hard otakus). With the commonality of Instagram's "vintage"...
A new edition of A Distant Soil is coming
On her blog, Colleen Doran has announced a new collected edition of A DISTANT SOIL, her long running signature work.
Mark Millar is Now a Movie Consultant For Fox (On the Marvel Licenses)
By Todd Allen
Mark Millar continues his migration to the world of film. Millar is now a "creative consultant" to 20th Century Fox. As you...
As Editor Brian Smith leaves DC, we learn you can’t spell schadenfreude without “Liefeld”
Former Marvel and now DC editor Brian Smith tweeted the other day that he was moving on to go back to his freelance work. Which is a fairly normal occurrence. Except when not long ago, the one and only Rob Liefeld was tweeting that you were a horrible editor and had small appendages. And so Smith's departure was the occasion for another Liefeld broadside:
This Weekend: Asbury Park Comic Con II
Comic cons are springing up like umbrella stands in the rain everywhere around the US -- even in small places like Asbury Park. This...
Gillen and McKelvie Roundup
By Steve Morris
Artist Jamie McKelvie and writer Kieron Gillen have taken the spotlight today, with several pieces of news - both good and bad...
Amethyst’s long heritage of attempted rape
So Amethyst is finally back! I admit this fantasy saga of a 13-year-old girl who finds she actually a princess of Gemworld was one...
Webcomic alert: Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong
Following up on the successful webcomic to print model of FRIENDS WITH BOYS, Faith Erin Hicks is serializing her new GN for First Second,...
Introducing The New Beat—and a request
A few people miss the all-in-one page layout—I think it's possible to create a page that presents it all in this fashion and in the next round of tinkers I'll look into that. ... Of course we'll be presenting as much top notch content, breaking news, thought provoking analysis and pictures of lovable kittens to earn these social media thumbs ups, but all of it will definitely help the site recover from the dark old days.
