The last remaining remember of DC’s Vertigo imprint before cutting ties in the early part of last year, Shelly Bond has since moved on to a much more personal project. In October of this year, Bond will be launching Black Crown, an imprint with IDW. At this year’s San Diego Comic-Con, Bond along with writer […]
First Black Crown title announced: Kid Lobotomy by Milligan and Fowler
The first title from Shelly Bond’s Black Crown imprint has been announced at WonderCon this afternoon and it’s by veteran Peter Milligan and artist Tess Fowler. So you can see this pub is going to have some star studded customers standing at the bar. Deets to come. It here’s the PR: Earlier this month, Shelly […]
Vault Comics launches next month with Natasha Alterici’s lesbian Viking saga Heathen
Another new publisher? It’s true, but Vault Comics has found some excellent material to launch with. Te AV CLub had the deets on their first six titles, which launch starting in February starting with Heathen, a “beloved lesbian Viking Comic” by Natasha Alterici. Vault is run by editor Adrian Wassel. Their first six titles include: Heathen by Alterici […]
Stjepan Sejic is the new artist on Rat Queens
Following the departure of co-creator Roc Upchurch, Rat Queens is getting a new artist for issues 9-11: Stjepan Sejic, already an Image name for his work on Sunstone.
Kurtis J. Wiebe continues as writer of the popular female-led sword-and-sorcery title. Tess Fowler is drawing the The RAT QUEENS SPECIAL: BRAGA #1, which comes out on January 14, with Sejic taking over for issue #9 out on February 25.
More Comics folks take the Ice Bucket Challenge: Haspiel, Fowler, etc.
As reported yesterday, the Ice Bucket Challenge fad is hitting comics and it’s spreading like wildfire. The viral fad involves having a bucket of ice dumped over you to create more awareness of ALS — Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis— a “progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord” and can […]