Crowdfunding: An Indiegogo campaign is underway to fund a documentary about The Million Year Picnic, Cambridge, Massachusetts’ staple comic shop.
Interview: Marc Bernardin, whose series Genius debuts Wednesday, reflects on race in comics, in the larger society and on his own journey as a comics fan. Published by Top Cow, Genius is about a black woman who brings together the gangs of Los Angeles and tries to secede from the United States.
Interview: Scottish creators Neil Slorance and Colin Bell discuss their all-ages series Dungeon Fun, which won in the best artist, writer and series categories in the Scottish Independent Comic Book Awards. Bell sums it up nicely: "At the outset, Dungeon Fun is the story of a girl raised by trolls, who comes across a cursed sword and sets off on a quest to stop assorted rubbish being thrown into the moat where she lives. Broadly speaking, it’s me and my pal Neil Slorance pouring our love for dungeon-crawling videogames, epic adventure and silliness into a comic."
Interview: Writers Robert Venditti and Van Jensen talk about their work on Green Lantern and Green Lantern Corps
BadAzzMoFo talks about the presence of African-American comics creators at Comic-Con! Featuring a cameo by Static Shock and his creator.
The first installment of a series about defunct comics publishers spotlights Marvel’s Epic imprint, a creator-owned line of comics for older readers that was a bit ahead of its time.
Scholars take comic books seriously at Wizard World
When Sheena Howard, now a professor at Rider University, started working on her dissertation about African-American comics creators, she couldn’t find a book devoted solely to the subject. So she created one, which one this year’s Eisner Award for Best Scholarly/Academic Work.
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