Preview: A Distant Soil #42
Colleen Doran's A Distant Soil is one of the original creator owned comics—and after a long run it's actually coming to a close! Only...
The Lakes Comic Festival Gets Everything Right
Last weekend I headed south for Kendal, a bustling town in the beautiful Lake District of England for a comics festival with a difference....
Video alert: Kagan McLeod and friends revive the Tit for Tat drawing video
Kagan "infinite Kung Fu" McLeod writes to tell of a cool video project he put together at this year's TCAF: a collaborative drawing vdeo...
Lou Reed: A Man of All Culture
When Lou Reed died yesterday, the world lost one of the all-time great inventors of "alternative culture." Very few people of a certain age...
Preview: Avengers Arena #18 — the final issue
Marvel's take on the teenagers-hunt-and-kill-one-another genre, AVENGERS ARENA, winds up at the end of the month and here's a peek. Story by Dennis Hopeless,...
Marvel Comics Month-to-Month Sales: September 2013 — Marvel’s moral victory
While DC's Villains Month was the main talking point of the direct market in September, Marvel moved into their own event season. September saw the second month of INFINITY, with more tie-in books popping up across the line, while the X-Men titles began their own separate crossover, BATTLE OF THE ATOM. We also have the debut issue of MIGHTY AVENGERS, which launches as part of the big event.
THOR’s alien world to hit Disneyland on Friday
It seems that the Marvel Heroes are gradually sneaking their way into the Disney theme parks—at least in California, where the spectacular Marvel booth...
First Look: Nemo: The Roses of Berlin by Moore and O’Neill
Sixteen years ago, notorious science-brigand Janni Nemo journeyed into the frozen reaches of Antarctica to resolve her father’s weighty legacy in a storm of madness and loss, barely escaping with her Nautilus and her life. ... But when the pirate queen learns that her loved ones are held hostage in the nightmarish Berlin, she has no choice save to intervene directly, traveling with her aging lover Broad Arrow Jack into the belly of the beastly metropolis.
NYCC Panel Recap: Doing It the European Way
Moderated by Heidi MacDonald, this was a panel featuring a line-up of European artists discussing the rise and change in foreign comic markets. Panellists...
Jamie Smart’s Fish-Head Steve Shortlisted for the Roald Dahl Prize
Richard Bruton at Forbidden Planet International reports that Jamie Smart's Fish-Head Steve is the first comic to be shortlisted for the Roald Dahl Funny...
31 Days of Halloween: Stephen R. Bissette’s WE ARE GOING TO EAT YOU!
Stephen Bissette is one of the morbid masters of horror comics, having gained fame for pencilling Saga of the Swamp Thing, publishing Taboo, and...
Live from Detroit Fanfare: Cosplay photos
Hey there, we're transferred Stately Beat Manor to the warm Aboda Hotel in Dearborn, and have been enjoying the hospitality of the Detroit Fanfare...
