by Alex Dueben For more than a decade, Gregg Taylor has been the writer, director and one of the voices behind Decoder Ring Theatre. He’s collaborated with other writers including Chris Schweizer with whom he made six all new Crogan Adventures stories, he’s made a mystery series Blackjack Justice, but he’s primarily been telling the […]
Preview the last issue of Monkeybrain’s ‘Headspace’
Monkeybrain gave us a preview of the latest “Head Space” to share with you this week. Apparently, this is the end of the digital series. But the end is never certain with comics. The end of the whole mess. Shane V the Id in a blood red Carpenter Cove. Max and the kids under a slow […]
Bandette’s Coover and Tobin Talk about Digital Comics Going into Print [Interview]
One of the real breakout comics of 2013 was Bandette, from the husband and wife team Colleen Coover and Paul Tobin. A digital comic that is creator-owned and sold by Monkeybrain for only 99¢, the tale of young Parisian cat-thief Bandette and her team of accessories has been a hit both creatively and commercially. Awarded […]
Ryan K. Lindsay: “These are the sorts of stories I want to tell” [Interview]
Ryan K. Lindsay has made that fabled journey from comic-critic to comic-writer, balancing both aspects of his writing neatly as he launches new books at both Monkeybrain Comics and Sequart. With his newest series now announced – Headspace, a Prisoner-esque mindtrip of a story which throws absolutely everything at the lead character – Ryan was […]
INTERVIEW: An Artful Daggers Primer
I first noticed Artful Daggers, an ongoing series published through Monkeybrain, due to the artwork of Andrew Losq, who creates incredible abstract page sequences. Having read the first issue, I decided to catch up on the rest once the first story arc had concluded – that’s the benefit of a comics publishing model like Monkeybrain, […]
Great moments in comics marketing 2013
The other day I was prepping for a talk on marketing at an NYU publishing class, and reached out to the Twitosphere to ask what were “the notable comics marketing success stories over the last year” and the Twitosphere responded with a bunch of smart and savvy suggestions:
Monkeybrain to Publish A Prime-8s Ongoing Series
Prime-8s, one of the short stories released during the Mini Comics Included Kickstarter campaign, is to expand into a full series for Monkeybrain Comics. Written by Steve Seeley and Michael Moreci, the writers will be joined on the new series by Kyle Latino and Jordan Gibson. Steve MorrisTalking bunny, Little Mix enthusiast and co-publisher of […]
REVIEW: John Arcudi and A.C. Zamudio’s Real West
I hadn’t seen anything about this new series from Monkeybrain, but it appears to be an anthology of western cowboy stories featuring an assortment of different creators, each telling a short story at a time. With John Arcudi – whose name is probably most well known with the Mike Mignola series B.P.R.D. – writing the […]
Wednesday’s Review Slate: Skybreaker, Liberator and Tom Strong
This week’s review slate once more races backwards and forwards through time – we’ve got Skybreaker #3, which came out a short while back, along with an issue of Liberator that had bunnies on the front cover, as well as Tom Strong and the Planet of Peril #1. Steve MorrisTalking bunny, Little Mix enthusiast and […]
Celebrate Bandette’s Eisner Success with a Free New Story
Bandette creators Paul Tobin and Colleen Coover had a great time at the Eisners, winning the Eisner for Best Digital Comic. And to celebrate, another edition of their Bandette: Urchin Stories series has been made available online for free. Drawn by Erika Moen, you can find the two-page story here. This series stands alongside the main […]