This week’s crowdfunding watch is brought to you by my childhood. I dreamed of living inside books or having them somehow magically become part of my real world. I longed to experience the thrill and dangers of time travel and longed to immerse myself in the magical realms of Fairy Tales. Paying homage to my […]
A Year of Free Comics: Saint for Rent by Ru Xu
First off, I am totally stealing this list of up and coming cartoonists at TCAF by Ardo Omer. The first name on her list is Ru Xu, definitely an up and comer. This Chinese-American SCAD grad already has a full length graphic novel coming out from Scholastic/Graphix, Newsprints, which is about a girl who disguises herself as a newsboy in an imagined […]
REVIEW: TIME WARP #1, Putting the Vertigo in Sci-Fi
Publishers seem increasingly willing to roll the dice on anthology formats recently. Maybe it’s the success of things like Dark Horse Presents, and the model they’ve followed of introducing new works and then successfully spinning them off into new story titles like BLACK BEETLE. There’s an inherently approachable aspect to anthologies—new readers can pick them […]