INTERVIEW: OUT OF LUCK and Kentucky Derby-Chasing with Jen Ferguson
Pop culture is a bizarre creature and often creates strange intersections in media. Brooklyn-based artist Jen Ferguson has found herself standing at a cross-roads...
INTERVIEW: Antony Johnston on Adapting Alex Rider for Comics!
Anthony Horowitz's Alex Rider series of novels, telling the story of a young boy who becomes a super-spy, are massively popular, and have sold...
INTERVIEW: The Phoenix’s Tom Fickling Guides Us Through the Oxford Children’s Comic Festival!
This weekend sees the first-ever Oxford Children Comics Festival, held on Saturday 4th. I'll be heading over meself, and there promises to be heaps...
INTERVIEW: Dan Berry’s ‘Make It Then Tell Everybody’
A comics lecturer and creator, Dan Berry both writes and draws his own work -- such as the forthcoming The Suitcase from Blank Slate...
Spotlight on the comiXology Submit Experience with W. Maxwell Prince
ComiXology Submit lauched on March 6, 2013, as a platform for independent comics creators to upload their comics, wait for approval, and if accepted,...
INTERVIEW: Marie Javins on Super-Geekdom and Compassion in IRON MAN: EXTREMIS
Reading Marie Javins new IRON MAN: EXTREMIS prose novel, released April 16th, on my iPad, gave me an eerie moment of realizing how much...
INTERVIEW: From Dragons to Vampires to Super-Spies, with Emma Vieceli!
It's St George's Day today, so to celebrate here's an interview with the only other person on known record to have slain a dragon -...
Interview Part 2: Alan Moore may be making movies with Kickstarter
PÓM: Jimmy’s End. The whole Jimmy’s End project, how is that coming along?
AM: Well, let me see. We have the first cycle of films,...
Today’s money breakdown from the Penny Arcade Report: paying for journalism with panty shots
The Penny Arcade Report is a video game news and commentary site run by....well, we'll let you figure it out. Yesterday editor Ben Kuchera ran down the economics of running a website in dollars and cents. Although he's talking about video games, it all applies equally to comics journalism:
Neil Gaiman and The Beat think exactly alike: “Nobody knows.”
Coinciding brilliantly with our post yesterday on the nagging uncertainty of making a career in future media, world-renowned best selling author Neil Gaiman said pretty much exactly the same thing in a keynote address at the London Book Fair which urged everyone to just try new shit (we're paraphrasing) to find what works:
MEGA-INTERVIEW with Matt Kindt: ‘find the territory that nobody has staked out yet’
Interviewing Matt Kindt at WonderCon brought with it some unusual circumstances. Just prior to speaking to Kindt, I had the opportunity to hear him...
INTERVIEW: 2000AD’s Arthur Wyatt Explores The Streets of Dan Francisco
Starting this week, Arthur Wyatt will be the writer for a new series in Judge Dredd Megazine which focuses on Dan Francisco, the former...
