The Freelance Life

By: Nick Eskey The thing about fandom is that on some level, we all wish we be a part of what we love: We want...

Mark Waid's taken to his blog to write some advice for freelance writers who are just breaking in - or trying to break in...

By now everyone including the Hollywood trades has linked to Steve Bissette's Facebook post about the Constantine TV show and the fact that he...

Over on his website, Dan Berry has just put up a new comic which explains how he almost quit drawing comics. It's a story...

Artist Declan Shalvey has had an incredible year. Whilst working as regular artist for books like Venom and Thunderbolts at Marvel, he's also created art...

Later this year IDW will be publishing Half Past Danger, a new series written, drawn, and created by Stephen Mooney. After working as artist...

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...

Gail Simone has explained today on Twitter that, as of this week, she will no longer be the writer for DC's Batgirl series. On Wednesday...

Artist Joe Quinones tries his hardest to make friends and network at conventions, he really does, but for some reason everybody who comes into...

by Matt O'Keefe Welcome to Six In Six, where I ask comic folk six questions and get my answers in six minutes or less. Here...

After reading Bon Alimagno’s excellent interview/evaluation with colorist Erick Arciniega on iFanboy, I decided that it was time for more of us to start jumping on the coloring bandwagon. Getting the right colorist on a comic can be crucial to the success of the book, and yet there’s really very little coverage of this side of the industry available. With that in mind I contacted colorist-whizz (and nicest man alive) Val Staples, whose recent credits include books like Swamp Thing, New Mutants, Deadpool and Hulk, to get a basic insight into his life as a colorist.

The Romanian webcomic Fredo and Pid'jin, has been a big success for its creators Eugen Erhan and Tudor Muscalu, this piece at Next Web tells us, if by success you mean lots of links on Reddit and Digg. What emerges is the story of two guy with a dream and a webcomic about two evil pigeons out to conquer the world. Things looked low, but then a guy who works on the Simpsons came and told them they were on the right track, energizing them to carry on. But...questions remain: