Marvel’s Tom Brevoort on the diminishing returns of relaunches
Brief and to the point -- over on his Formspring Tom Brevoort
was asked about Marvel's continued hammer-blows of relaunches,
Do you think the frequent...
2014 Eisner Nominations: It was the DeFractions year…and a lot of other great things...
OKay I had to only take a quick look at these but wow...looks like the (one nomer or great work) rule was in effect...
Webcomic alerrt: Sam Alden debuts his new “MS Paint” comics
I saw Sam Alden reading these at the NY Comcis SYmposium the other night and let's just say it gets better and better. He...
The Genre-Bending World of Hinterkind (Reviewing the V. 1 TPB, “The Waking World”)
Vertigo's new fantasy-ish title Hinterkind recently released its first trade paperback collection, The Waking World. If you only glanced at the covers, it's probably not...
What is it like to be a man in comics?
So yesterday I tweeted this, and there was quite a bit of outcry before during and after about Janelle Asselin's Tumblr post, linked to in this said tweet. The kind of short version of it all is:
FIVE YEARS LATER, Grant Morrison’s MULTIVERISTY is finally coming out
Sometimes the wheels of comics grind exceedingly slow, and Multiversity, a now somewhat outdated multiversical look at the DCU that folds in various...
Bone gives Shades of Grey a run as one of the 10 Most Banned...
If you were to guess what the 10 most banned or challenged books in the US in 2013 were, you might guess 50 Shades...
Indie Bookstores are survivors, just like comics shops
Speaking of Amazology, Lauren Davis at io9 got right to the darkest conspiracy theories of all with a post titledWill Amazon Do To Comic...
Reports: Linework NW was a hit
Over the weekend Portland, OR saw Linework NW debut as a new indie-styled comic arts festival to replace Stumptown, which has merged with Rose...
Comixamazon weekend round-up
People are STILL talking about Amazon's announced plans to acquire Comixology, although it has settled into the wait and see mode for now, as...
Commentary: An Inevitable Surprise—Amazon buys ComiXology
by Rob Salkowitz
Is Amazon’s acquisition of comiXology the beginning of the end, or just the end of the beginning, of digital comics’ golden age?
It...
Lust and Yang win LA TImes Book Prizes
The Los Angeles Times Book Prizes were handed out last night and the winner in the graphic novel division was Ulli Lust's Today is...
