The Retailer’s View: On Art, Business, and Brian Wood
by Brandon Schatz
A few weeks ago, Marvel’s August solicitations revealed some alarming news: Warren Ellis and Declan Shalvey would be leaving Moon Knight after...
Conservative comics: if only we hadn’t gotten rid of the Comics Code
Last week I told you about The Forgotten Man, a graphic novel adaptation of Amity Shlaes' history of the Great Depression by Chuck Dixon...
Why Lauren Faust directing MEDUSA for Sony is important
News broke yesterday that My LIttle Pony: Friendship is Magic creator Lauren Faust is going to direct Medusa, a full length animated feature,...
Unassuming Barber Shop: Godzilla and the Real Professor X
Fans of X-men: Days of Future Past excitedly point to the film’s overt “social commentary” as a major reason for its success. We always...
Some old comics sell for $1.5 million
A Kentucky man who hoped to sell his comics collection in order to help send his grandkids to college will probably be able to...
Banned Books Week spotlights Comics this year
Every year the Banned Books Week National Committee announces a theme, and for 2014 its comics and graphic novels. The announcement comes in the...
San Diego Comic-Con under fire for its harassment policy, or lack thereof
The issue of harassment at cons isn't going to go away, and seems to get highlighted more each day as women, men, organizers, cosplayers and interne bystanders deal with the growing injection of actual hormonal humans into abstract fan scenarios. When I went to shows as a youngster, I thought of cons as a "safe space" believe it or not. Compared to the rock scene I was involved with, the relatively few women in comics were in a mostly hands off zone, mostly because most congoers were afraid of them, and should anything amiss happen there was a huge crew of friends to back you up. Notice that I just said "COMPARED TO THE ROCK SCENE"; it was far from a paradise of equality, but I felt safer at a comic con than I did at most places.
BookCon showed that readers still love books and authors
So BookCon was, like the very first New York Comic-Con, a raging success that caught everyone by surprise. It may be surprising that so...
“But where are the conservative mangas and graphic novels?”
A graphic novel is dropping this week called The Forgotten Man Graphic Edition: A New History of the Great Depression . It's a 320...
Interview: The coming of BookCon
This Saturday the previously business only trade show Book Expo America will turn into the very first BookCon, an event that is open to...
Flashback Tuesday: The Neuromancer comics adaptation
Considering that William Gibson's Neuromancer is one of my favorite books of all times, you'd think I'd have remembered that there was a comics...
