Interview: Luc Bossé of Pow Pow Press on moving to English language comics
Luc Bossé is a cartoonist and graphic designer from Montreal and founder and editor of Pow Pow Press, a French Canadian graphic novel publishers. In 2015, Luc launched a crowdfunding campaign to translate four books and begin publication in English. I’ve spoken with Luc about his career, colour printing, where Pow Pow Press is going and about the difficulties in moving from the French to the English distribution models.
INTERVIEW: RED PANDA Creator Gregg Taylor’s Motion Comics are Your New Saturday Morning Cartoons
by Alex Dueben
For more than a decade, Gregg Taylor has been the writer, director and one of the voices behind Decoder Ring Theatre. He’s collaborated with other writers including Chris Schweizer with whom he...
6 Days of BAIT: Kirbi Fagan, an unexpected shining moment in life and literature.
What's up everybody! Welcome to a very special series you'll only see here on The Beat. We're days away from Dark Horse publishing the enigmatic Chuck Palahniuk's new collection of short stories/adult coloring book, Bait: Off-color Stories...
6 Days of BAIT: Lee Bermejo, “add all the devil horns” you’d like.
What's up everybody! Welcome to a very special series you'll only see here on The Beat. We're days away from Dark Horse publishing the enigmatic Chuck Palahniuk's new collection of short stories/adult coloring book, Bait: Off-color Stories...
INTERVIEW: Matt Phelan Talks About the Challenges of Reimagining SNOW WHITE
"Anonymity is protection."
Alan Moore’s Secret Q&A Cult Exposed! Part IV: At Last the Truth Can Be...
I had intended to post up the Q&A exchanges involved in this, a few at a time, over the summer months, but inevitably time got the better of me, so I'm posting all of...
INTERVIEW: Alexis Deacon talks Celtic myths and “inescapable fates” in GEIS
"There’s no way of escaping it. Often in the stories the more things they do to get away, the quicker they bring the events about."
INTERVIEW: Teri S. Wood discusses the grim toll of war in WANDERING STAR
"I haven’t even tried to watch Game of Thrones because I have heard that they keep killing people off, and I can’t stand that! Which I imagine sounds kinda awful, considering how quick with the knife I was in Wandering Star. I mean, look what I did to the Earth! But it had to happen. Wars don’t come without loss."
Kickstarter Spotlight: Thomas Edison & Amelia Earheart take on Fritz Lang in THE TRUST...
Launching a new comic book IP is as arduous a task as it ever was, but today's creators have more tools at their disposal to turn their passion projects into a tangible product. With the...
PREVIEW / INTERVIEW: Sara Kenney talks about the moral code of medicine in Image...
There’s the comics you read to escape reality, the ones you use to teach, and some you read for their historical significance. Once every few years, a comic comes out that does all three....
INTERVIEW: Stephen Murphy opens up about fear and slivers of hope in THE PUMA...
"I have an eleven-year old daughter. I would love to believe that there’s a sliver of hope for her generation. Mind you, I don’t think that the world is going to end. But I do believe that we’re in the midst of a sixth planet-wide extinction event..."
INTERVIEW: Eleventh Doctor scribe Rob Williams talks diversity, Doctors, and Daak
He's written for Martian Manhunter and Rebirth: Suicide Squad. But before all that, he wrote for the Doctor. We talk to Rob Williams about his work on two years of the Eleventh Doctor for Titan Comics.