The 2019 Eisner Awards nominations have just been announced, and as usual, it’s a very wide ranging list, tending towards recognizing many different creators and publishers as opposed to giving a single title a boost. Image and DC led the publishers (Image had all six noms in the Best New Series category) and writers Alex […]
INTERVIEW: Alex de Campi says “I turned Judge Death into an undead Japanese schoolgirl”
“…violence shouldn’t be beautiful and romantic. It should make you never want to get into a fight again.”
NYCC ’18: “Ghost in the Shell – The Global Neural Network” Creator Panel
by Erica Friedman The panel was moderated by Ben Applegate, Editor at Kodansha, with guests David Lopez (All-New Wolverine), Alex de Campi (Archie vs Predator, Twisted Romance), Genevieve Valentine (Catwoman) Brenden Fletcher (Motorcrush, Batgirl) and Alejandro Arbona (Editor of Ghost in the Shell: GNN) Applegate started with a discussion of the new deluxe edition of Ghost in the Shell, published in Japanese style, with box, art prints, and all of Shirow’s color […]
NYCC ’18: Four Questions with Alex de Campi on “Ghost in the Shell”
By Erica Friedman Ghost in the Shell (攻殻機動隊 Kōkaku Kidōtai), the 1989 comic by Masamune Shirow, adapted into the genre-defining anime directed Mamoru Oshii, is arguably the franchise best known for shaping our ideas of a networked virtual society. Kodansha USA, which published a successful Attack on Titan comic anthology in 2015, is launching an official […]
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits 2/9/18: Japanese Olympic skaters perform to Yuri on Ice!!
ロングver. pic.twitter.com/kK9lae0c32 — いしだゆうき (@rinrin_118421) February 9, 2018 § The 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang are juts getting under way and the greatest moment for some already took place. During the short program in the pairs team competition, the Japanese pairs team skated to Yuri’s music from Yuri on Ice!! the popular anime […]
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits 12/1/17: Badass queens, scary Spawn, the final page of Berlin
§ Nice Art: Next Spring First Second will publish Brazen by Penelope Bagieu, a collection of biographical comics about notable women in history. And The Lily is excerpting a few, starting with Queen Nzinga, who rulked Ndonga and Matamba and demanded to be treated as an equal and refused to take a king. § Alex […]
A Year of Free Comics: Hell’s Kitchen Movie Club is just Frank Castle and Bucky talking about movies while they clean their guns
Alex De Campi was fooling around on twitter saying that all she wanted was a comic about Frank Castle and Bucky sitting on the sofa talking about bad action movies. While they cleaned their guns. Jim Acosta volunteered to draw it. And thus was born Hell’s Kitchen Movie Club. Sadly there has been only one episode […]
Catalyst Prime: Is this the comics universe we’re looking for?
by Elana Levin It is not too late to fall in love with a new superhero universe in comics. In a time where some publishers have made it clear that they don’t really care if people who aren’t cisgender heterosexual, non-semitic, white men read their stories, Catalyst is making it entirely clear that they do […]
A Year of Free Comics: Read No Mercy #9 by De Campi, McNeil and Lee for free
When you talk about dynamite collaborations, the team of Alex De Campi, Carla Speed McNeil and Jenn Manley Lee on No Mercy is about as superstar as it gets. A savage yet humane story that starts out in the “teenagers left on their own create a new society that reveals what people are really like” […]
ECCC: Bankshot by DeCampi and ChrisCross will be “high-octane”
A bunch of new comics and other major news will roll out at ECCC over the next few days, and here’s an announcement of a new creator owned Dark Horse tilte: Bankshot by Alex de Campi, artist ChrisCross (Convergence: Justice League of America), and colorist Snakebite. It’s described as all out action by de Campi. The five-issue mini series launches in June.