A Month of Venturing into the All-New, All-Different Marvel Universe Week Three
Is Ant-Man swell? Does Karnak inspire religious fervor? Does Soule humanize the Inhumans? All this and more...
NYCC ’15: Biggest ever with 167,000 tickets sold
I haven't seen the numbers floated around much, but this year's NYCC was clearly the biggest ever as show runner Lance Fensterman told me...
2015 Joe Shuster Wards winners: O’Malley, Tamaki, Doris Slater win
The 2015 Joe Shuster Awards were presented on the 18th at the first Forest City Comic Con in London, ON. All the winners are below,...
NYCC and SDCC ’15: Portraying Mental Health in Comics
Mental illness has been a trope in comics-related properties ranging from Peanuts to Gotham, but do new sensitivities to mental health issues mean that...
The Multiversity Deluxe Edition: a must-read for the first timer, less essential as a...
We crack open the collected edition of the Eisner nominated miniseries
Reflecting on Masashi Kishimoto’s Visit: How NARUTO Helped A Generation Come of Age
by Austin Lanari
"1800 MAX SEATING."
That's from a sign held by a Hammerstein Ballroom usher outside on 34th as Masashi Kishimoto walked along the...
Podcorn Podcast V4.05- How Camilla Zhang “Broke Into” DC & Marvel
How to be yourself and still get accepted into the "Comics machine," man.
New York Review Comics launches with Beyer, Blutch, Baxter and more
New comics company alert! This is one that has been brewing for a while and you will not believe where it's coming from. The New York Review of Book, a publication that usually has the word "august" appended to it, is launching a line of graphic novels, with new editions of classic works by Mark Beyer, Blutch, Glen Baxter and more. The new imprint is in the tradition of their NYRB Classics line of prose reprints (And also a little reminiscent of Dover's recent efforts along those lines.)
INTERVIEW: Dean DeBlois and Richard Hamilton Reimagine Berk in “How to Train Your Dragon”...
The How to Train Your Dragons franchise is one of the biggest critical successes in animation from the last decade. Spawning two movies and three...
31 Days of Halloween: 1 million vintage images from the British Library
This isn't actually Halloween related but there is plenty that is spooky or ethereal in the massive trove of images that the British Library has uploaded to it's Flickr account. Some 1 million of them in fact. There's a page with various albums, including maps, children's book illustrations, historical events and so on. And yes comics, mostly broadsheet cartoons. The images have been cataloged and tagged by online volunteers from images that were automatically uploaded.
TO DO: Talk and signing The Art of Alfredo Alcala – Secret Teachings of...
Tomorrow night from 6-8 I'll be doing my first book signing in 20 years! And it's for the same book!
Dover has rereleased The...
