Jodi Picoult’s a Marvel Zombie
This weekend I attended the fifth annual Tucson Festival of Books. TFOB is a among the top five book festivals in the nation. This year has attracted a lot of famous authors, including, Jodi Picoult.
Poisoned Chalice Part 5: Prologue to Warrior
Born in Goole in Yorkshire on the 4th February 1951, by 1982 Derek ‘Dez’ Skinn already had a long and successful history working in...
Chris Sprouse Steps Away from Orson Scott Card’s Superman Story
Artist Chris Sprouse, who would have been drawing controversial writer Orson Scott Card's contribution to the upcoming Superman anthology Adventures of Superman, has stepped...
Siegel Heirs Reject 21 Million Dollars
In keeping with the court's schedule, yesterday Marc Toberoff filed his response to DC's summary judgment motion in the Superman/Superboy lawsuits. Toberoff has filed...
Poisoned Chalice Part 4: Intermission – 1963 to 1982
In the nineteen-year gap between L Miller and Co Ltd's publication of Marvelman #370 in 1963 and Dez Skinn’s Quality Communications Ltd revitalisation of...
Show the love: Third Annual Mini-Comics Day
I'm a HUGE mini-comics fan; I think they encapsulate the potential and diversity of the medium perfectly in the way in which they combine...
The Beat’s Guide to Avoiding the DC SPOILER
Oh no! Spoilers have escaped onto the internet once more, this time for a DC title of some kind! How can you avoid reading...
DC Announced Its Latest Character Death in the NY Post (Spoilers)
Once again, the death of a major comic book hero is announced to the world via a newspaper before the book is on sale...
You Can Never Be Me: Bat-tales from Patrick Kyle
You Can Never Be Me by Patrick Kyle
There's a meme (as I believe they're called) that I see cropping up fairly regularly in my...
Review: The Infinite Wait by Julia Wertz: bio, booze and books
The Infinite Wait by Julia Wertz
Koyama Press
I have a complicated and knotty relationship with auto-bio comics, beset by apprehension and cynicism. There's no doubt the...
Thought Bubble announce first wave of guests for 2013 festival, unveil new logo
The UK's largest comics festival, Thought Bubble, has announced it's first wave of guests for this year. Declared rather unanimously to be the best...
New Autoptic comics and art event announces Jamie Hernandez as guest star
It's all still a bit cloak and dagger (and very early days), but there's a new and upcoming event in Minneapolis this August. Cooked...
