REVIEW: Changing the Dynamic with ‘Halcyon and Tenderfoot’
I was sent the first issue of this miniseries from Art Heroes a few months ago, where it seemed like a fun, all-ages series about a superhero duo. But then the story suddenly went...
You Can Never Be Me: Bat-tales from Patrick Kyle
You Can Never Be Me by Patrick Kyle
There's a meme (as I believe they're called) that I see cropping up fairly regularly in my forays of Internet yonder. Here, allow me to show you:
Batman is...
New Autoptic comics and art event announces Jamie Hernandez as guest star
It's all still a bit cloak and dagger (and very early days), but there's a new and upcoming event in Minneapolis this August. Cooked up by Zak Sally, Anders Nilsen, Tom Kaczynski (all of...
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 up with and that's it. I've tried reading comics on...
Review: Nobrow’s 17×23 Showcase: moon men and hopeful dystopias
17x23 Showcase
Contributors: Isaac Lenkiewicz, Kyle Platts, Henry McCausland, Nick Sheehy, Joe Kessler
Nobrow Press
Following on from the success of the excellent Nobrow anthology- a bi-annual publication of two halves: one comics and one illustration, and...
‘Seconds’ from Bryan Lee O’Malley Delayed until 2014
Over on his Tumblr blog, writer/artist/Backstreet Boys maven Bryan Lee O'Malley has explained that - due to a shoulder injury he suffered last year - his next project Seconds will be delayed until 2014.
His...
Becky Cloonan Reveals New Mini-Comic, ‘Demeter’
Becky Cloonan, she of making universally acclaimed mini-comics when not drawing Batman, Swamp Thing, Northlanders and Demo fame, has just announced that this year she'll be publishing her third mini-comic. This will follow the previous success...
Holiday Reading Review: I WILL BITE YOU by Joseph Lambert
Though I attended MoCCA Fest 2012 where I WILL BITE YOU debuted, it went under my overwhelmed radar, but fortunately, it caught my attention at the Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival. Several people who...
INTERVIEW: Allison Baker on Year One of Monkeybrain Comics
2012 was the year we saw Marvel relaunch, DC reboot, Image rise, and Valiant return. And yet perhaps one of the biggest success stories of the year was the founding of Monkeybrain Comics by...
INTERVIEW: Barry Nugent, live at Thought Bubble!
After his first novel was published in 1999, when Barry Nugent went on to self-publish his second novel Unseen Shadows: Fallen Heroes five years later, he couldn't have seen what was coming. Ostensibly the first...
To Do Today: Canny Comic Con and Leeds Alternative Comics Fair
Christmas is being held on December 25th this year, so you've only got a few weeks left to find something decent to give your family and friends. But never tremble with frostbitten fear! Because...
Monsters, Zines, and MonsterZines with Stephen Bissette
Weird tales and comics naturally go together. From the days of pulp stories with enthralling illustrations, through EC’s Wertham-harried evocation of the fantastic and grotesque, to the heydays of Vertigo and Darkhorse, readers want...
