INTERVIEW: Elaine Lee on self-publishing, Kickstarter and Starstruck
Kickstarter has turned in to my new ESPN. You could have done a March Madness bracket of Kickstarter projects last month, but everyone wins....
Saga #12 rewrites the books
The matter of "Who censored Saga #12?" has been termed a fiasco by some, and that's probably the right word. While I certainly didn't...
DC Introduce First Transgender Character to the New 52
Batgirl has come back into discussion around the interwebs this week, but for purely in-story reasons this time round. This week's issue #19 sees one of...
Update: Apple didn’t ban SAGA #12; comiXology did – BKV’s statement added
UPDATE: Aaaaaand here's Brian K. Vaughan's statement:
I wanted to apologize to everyone for this entire SAGA #12 kerfuffle. Yesterday, I was mistakenly led to...
INTERVIEW: Larry Hama is a Historian of Horror in THE STRANGER
Sitting down to describe Larry Hama’s career it a pretty overwhelming task. Do you talk about his start in comics at the age of...
Kubla Comics—a Rotten Tomatoes for Comics?
A new site called Kubla Comics aims to be a review aggregator for comics, with a Rotten Tomatoes-like 0-5 rating system and pages for...
Will Sliney Profiles The Fearless Defenders: Warrior Woman
There's a new issue of Fearless Defenders out today, in which another character steps forwards into the spotlight. This time around it's not Valkyrie,...
Batman: City of Owls hits bestseller list
Continuing a run of graphic novels on the bestseller charts, Batman Vol. 2: The City of Owls (The New 52)
by Scot Snyder,...
On the Scene: MoCCA Fest 2013, Words from the Market-Wise at the ‘Art as...
Holding panels in the wood-panelled bowels of the Armory this year at MoCCA Fest did bring a certain gravitas to the proceedings even if...
Ware’s Building Stries wins Lynd Ward Prize; Carré and Ellsworth honored
Adding to a pile of kudos that you will soon be able to make an actual building from, Chris Ware's great Building Stories has won the Lynd Ward Prize for Graphic Novel of the Year for 2013. Heads or Tails by Lilli Carré (Fantagraphics) and The Understanding Monster—Book One by Theo Ellsworth (Secret Acres) were the honorable mentions.
The Prize is presented each year by Penn State University Libraries and the Pennsylvania Center for the Book to "the best graphic novel, fiction or non-fiction, published in the previous calendar year by a living U.S. or Canadian citizen or resident."
Youth in Decline website debuts
Youth in Decline is another in the exploding field of Risograph-based micro-publisher run by Ryan Sands, perhaps best known for his Umezu-obssessed blog Same...
Fallout on the Apple Saga #12 ban
News of Apple's decision to ban SAGA #12 from any app-based storefronts spread like wildfire yesterday, prompting outrage and head shakes from those who...
