Tag: News
CAB 2017 Debuts Part 1: From a Human Tree to Penny the talking cat...
It is time for our sort of annual look at all the news books coming out at this year';s Comic Arts Brooklyn fest. Feast your eyes on the wonders and beauties of what's coming...
#STEMartists Shows Us Creativity is for Everyone
On October 23, Twitter user @dagneo36 started the hashtag #STEMartists to help bring awareness about creativity in the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math fields. The hashtag has been retweeted thousands of times and has sparked an important conversation about the intersection of logic and creativity.
#FreeNseRamon: Cartoonists Rally Behind Imprisoned Political Activist
Political cartoonist and activist Ramón Nsé Esono Ebalé has spent over fifty days in detention following his arrest on September 16 in the West African country of Equatorial Guinea. Ebalé was detained as part...
Interview: Exploring Africa’s Past and Present with Malika Warrior Queen
Roye Okupe didn’t grow up reading comics but he did love superheroes. As a child he watched cartoons like Voltron, Justice League, X-Men, Transformers, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. He loved video games and...
Lenticular Rorschach cover for Doomsday is here!
Let's get lenticular! We previously showed your two NORMAL covers for DOOMSDAY CLOCK #1, but this morning the lenticular Rorschach cover was revealed in a Geoff Johns tweet, as is tradition.
SDCC ’17: President Brains, Nanobots, and Nuclear War Comedically Combine in Rob Kutner’s “SHRINKAGE!”
In 2015, veteran comedy writer Rob Kutner (The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Conan) launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund Shrinkage, a phantasmagorical burlesque about a group of nanobots that invade the President’s brain...
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits 5/10/17: Who fired what now?
§ This column has been absent for the usual reasons, a big deadline on an outside project, travel and the fact that running this site now takes up about half my day. But I've...
You’ll gasp when you see the film that left comics retailers speechless
https://youtu.be/s7Gfd9mm1mw
At last week's Diamond Retailer Summit, nothing got a bigger reaction than this video explaining how Diamond has upgraded their Olive Branch packing facility.
When this film was shown during breakfast, the room fell silent....
INTERVIEW: As GOTHAM ACADEMY ends, Cloonan and Fletcher brace for the heartbreak
Since the book was first announced, Gotham Academy has always been the square peg in a round Bat hole. Surely a tale about friendship, intrigue, good times with your best friends, and pizza didn't...
User by Grayson, Phillips and Bolton is FINALLY being collected by Image
Well here is some news that couldn't make me happier.
User, a book originally published by Vertigo around the turn of the century, is finally being collected at Image. It's coming in May.
I was an editor on...
Breaking news: only 30% of the news on comics news sites is actually about...
Months ago, a comic book publicist and I were chatting about this and that and he suggested, rather ominously, "Have you ever tried counting how many stories on comics news sites are actually about...
Preview: Churck Forsman’s Slasher looks creepy as heck
Charles Forsman has been building a body of work that combines indie-style introspection with new action violence and action. His ongoing Revenger comic (Bergen Street Comics) is a gut-punch shoot 'em up; The End of...