Adam Johnson: Pulitzer Prize Winner and A Comics Fan
Congrats to 2013 Pulitzer Prize winner for Fiction Adam Johnson! Not only a brilliant writer he's also helped to launch the Graphic Novel Project...
Is Marvelman Coming At Last? And What Might We See?
Much has been made in the past week of a statement by Marvel Comics’ editor-in-chief Axel Alonso about Marvelman. Speaking to Albert Ching on...
INTERVIEW: Greg Pak and Jonathan Coulton Team Up on Kickstarter!
Kick up the Kick-Watcher! Today sees the launch of Code Monkey Save World, a new 60-page graphic novel from Greg Pak and Jonathan Coulton,...
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits, 4/15/2013: a taxing time
§ Mark Waid remembers Carmine Infantino for the Los Angeles Times:
Carmine Infantino was, depending on your age, the Flash artist or the Batman artist...
Snowpiercer: The Most Overlooked Comics Film of 2013?
While much of the comics and film press has been focusing on various men of metal (iron, steel and adamantium respectively) alongside promising sequels...
Poisoned Chalice Part 9: The Dawn of Eclipse
Although Marvelman last appeared in Warrior #21 in August 1984, and the last issue of the magazine, #26, appeared in February 1985, this wasn’t...
On the Scene: MoCCA Fest 2013, SelfMadeHero’s Englishmen in New York
It’s a truism that comics culture and the comics industry varies radically from country to country, but MoCCA Fest’s efforts to bring in an...
A Comics Tribute to Annette Funicello
The beloved Disney icon whole burgeoning adolescence entranced a generation of Mickey Mouse Club Watchers—before she went on to become a beach blanket staple and Skippy peanut butter enthusiast—Annette Funicello died earlier this week at the age of 70. In a very full life she also managed to have a surprisingly large comic book presence. While this cover gallery speaks to Disney's endless—and disturbing—series of chintzy movies, looking at Annette's essential perkiness in a jaunty scarf and pristine white gloves, gives ample evidence of why she was so beloved in her day.
REVIEW: 10 Debuts at MoCCA Fest 2013
MoCCA Fest simulates the surreal experience of swimming in comics, even this year when things were more neatly arranged within their red curtained aisles,...
Kickstarter Watch: “Puffed Shoggoths” A H.P. Lovecraft Art Zine!
The boundless influence of horror/fantasy/weird fiction mastermind H.P. Lovecraft is palpable in so many sectors of popular culture today. From the countless punk and...
Is Ike-ification hitting all of Disney?
Have Ike Perlmutter's penny-pinching ways spread to all of Disney?
Weekly news wrap-up: Catalyst, Red Giant, Superman
Instead of Kibbles 'n' bits, we present a bunch of things I had tagged that I never got to write up in all the excitement. The news never sleeps!
