The economic reality of indie comics page rates
Over the last year or so, there’s been an increasing amount of talk in creator circles about the low page rates being given out by independent publishers for some of the smaller books. The...
Self promotion the non-annoying way
We've quoted Blerdgurl (formerly Derpygurl) before on promoting at cons, and she has a new post out called 10 Ways to Promote Your Project for Free With Bloggers, Journalists and Podcasters with the subtext...
MATT CHATS: Wolves of Summer Creators on Kickstarter, Collaboration and the Hitler Youth
It truly is a new Golden Age of comics, not just because of the fantastic output from such publishers as Image, Fantagraphics, Oni, etc., but also because of how many great comics are going...
Making comics: Do you need to go to cons and live in NYC or...
Short answer: no.
Faith Erin Hicks has a far more informative and entertaining longer version, which includes anecdotes and concrete evidence of how she broke in while living in relatively remote, Halifax, NS.
A...
Doctor Who Comics Day is tomorrow!
We've been writing about it for months now, and can hardly believe it's almost here: the second annual Doctor Who Comics Day is tomorrow!
INTERVIEW: Introducing Keith Burns, Artist Extraordinaire
Keith Burns is an artist out of the UK that keeps an extremely low profile, at least on the Internet. He’s an artist you should know about that you probably don’t know about. There are...
INTERVIEW: Don’t Call it a Porno, Nik Guerra Takes On Mystery and Sensuality in...
by Alex Dueben
At a time when many comics are criticized for their approach to female characters, it’s interesting to read a comic which is about fetish models. Moreover, it's wonderful to discover that the comic...
Interview: Paul Cornell talks Manic Pixie Dream Doctors, Warcraft, and that time he “messed...
We talk with series writer Paul Cornell about his Four Doctors crossover event for Titan, his Dark Horse limited series This Damned Band, a recently announced Warcraft graphic novel due out next year and the one comic he walked away from.
How Fathom Blue Ripples in the Aspen Sea
We talk to Aspen Comics editor-in-chief Vince Hernandez about the brave new world of Fathom Blue.
MATT CHATS: Jeffrey Burandt on Music in Comics with Oni Press
As a medium that requires you to listen, music doesn’t seem like it would meld with traditional comic book storytelling. That assumption, however, has been challenged by a number of writers and artists who...
SDCC ’15: Listen to our interviews with the stars of DC and Marvel Television...
For those of you who don't know, my fellow Entertainment Editor, Hannah Lodge and I, along with Beat Contributors Harper Harris and Cal Cleary, host a mostly-weekly podcast together for our site, GeekRex (where we...
SDCC ’15: We talk cape snaps, controversy and cons with the Batgirl of Burnside...
At SDCC '15 I talked with the Burnside Batgirl crew about their creative origins, how the look that launched a thousand cosplays came to be, how to handle creative criticism, and their earliest con experiences.
