Fried Pie Con 2 is a day of comics and cartoonists and will be held April 15th in Broomfield, CO. It’s organized by the publisher that specializes in variant covers for 2nd & Charles and Book-a-Million outlets, among other. Some great guests have already been announced for the free event, but now three more are coming: […]
Black Cloud from Latour, Brandon, Hinkle and Wilson is coming in April
Black Cloud is one of the delayed Image books, announced back in April, and MIA since. But it’s coming out at last THIS April, as writer Jason Latour tweeted: Speaking of crazy ambitions: BLACK CLOUD is a book I'm co-writing @ImageComics w/ @IvanBrandon, with art by @greg_hinkle & @TheMattDWilson— — Jason Latour (@jasonlatour) January 2, […]
Image Expo 2016: Nothing is impossible – updated
Image Expo is kicking off with a stirring speech by Eric Stephenson. We’ll social media it along for you Image Expo is 10 minutes from starting, and the venue certainly has some swagger to it. #imageexpo pic.twitter.com/ML7zoPbNWd — Christopher Butcher (@Comics212) April 6, 2016 "Whatever you imagine, it can happen." Starting the keynote at […]
Image in March: Circuit Breakers, The Discipline and Power Lines debut
Image’s March solicitations are out, and in addition to the usual goodies like Saga, Injection, No Mercy and many many more a few news series and OGNs are debuting: • Circuit Breakers, a long in the making five issue series by Kevin McCarthy with art by Kyle Baker finally comes out. The series explores J-Pop […]
James Robinson releases statement on Airboy #2 to GLAAD
As anticipated, writer James Robinson has made a statement to GLAAD about the controversy over the issue of Airboy #2, which we reported on earlier today. And as also expected, he knows that he fucked up. It will certainly be interesting to see how this affects reprint volumes of AIRBOY. When Batgirl has a similar controversy, the trade […]
Airboy #2 criticized by GLAAD for transphobic storyline
When creators James Robinson and Greg Hinkle showed me a copy of the first issue of Airboy back at NYCC last year, my jaw dropped. A fourth-wall breaking 8 1/2 storyline about two creators bringing back a Golden Age hero while engaging in all sorts of drug taking, alcohol abusing and balls-out (and shown) sexual […]
Review: Nothing And Everything Left To The Imagination In James Robinson And Greg Hinkle’s “AIRBOY”
by Nick Eskey For starters, this work is not for kids, and there might be a plot spoiler. With that out of the way, let’s review! Airboy was originally made during the boom of super hero comics in the World War II era, where America dreamed of spandex clad heroes fighting not only super villains, […]
Airboy by James Robinson and Greg Hinkle is going to blow your mind
At the last NYCC, I got shown a few pages of the new Airboy series by James Robinson (Starman, FF) and relative newcomer Greg Hinkle. As I turned each page, my jaw dropped more and more and more. This is a roman á clef, a reboot, an autobio (?) comic, wish fulfillment…whatever, it’s crazy. Metafictional. […]