Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Comic Round-Up: January 13, 2015

Superman by Olga Tereshenko

"Superman" by Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation-based Olga Tereshenko


Interview: Doug McCash’s report from Wizard World New Orleans includes an interview with local artist Tim Lattie, creator of Night Stars.

Interview: Paul Gravett interviews Dylan Horrocks about his new graphic novel, Sam Zabel and the Magic Pen.

News: Dark Horse is publishing a hardcover edition of Cory Levine’s Bowery Boys: Our Fathers! with art by Ian Bertram (Detective Comics, Batman Eternal) and Brent McKee (Outlaw Territory). It collects the web series about rapscallion adventure in rough and tumble 19th century New York City.

News: Someone tossed a homemade fire bomb into the offices of the German newspaper Hamburger Morgenpost at about 2 a.m. on Sunday. Firefighters put out the fire quickly, and no one was in the offices at the time. The paper published three of the controversial Prophet Muhammad cartoons from Charlie Hebdo on Thursday with the headline “This much freedom must be possible!”


Reviews: Matt Adams on Silver Surfer: New Dawn.  Todd Klein on Batman '66: The Lost Episode.

4 Things Everyone Gets Wrong About Graphic Novels and the People Who Read Them

7 Things to Know About Marvel's Brand New Star Wars Comic Book

I know you have all seen Neil Gaiman’s amazing advice on how to become a writer but for the five people who didn’t, it’s a classic.

ICv2 has the BookScan–Top 20 Graphic Novels list and now non fiction is added, making Ros Chast’s Can’t We Talk About Something More PLeasant? The #1 book for December, beating even The Walking Dead and Saga.

The Mary Sue argues that "It’s [Not] Okay" How Women Die In Comic Book Movies

Supergirl Is Coming to CBS, and the CBS Chairman is calling the Supergirl Series a “Female Empowerment Story” 

What Marvel and DC Comics can learn from Fox's "Empire"

When Los Angeles cartoonist and animator Elana Pritchard had to serve time in jail for violating a court order, she took her animator director’s advice to document what she saw in jail.  Using only a golf pencil and scraps of paper she could find, Pritchard would draw everyday scenes of life in both the Century Regional Detention Facility (CRDF) in Lynwood, and Twin Towers Correctional Facility in downtown Los Angeles, where she was held during her two months of jail time.


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