Thursday, January 22, 2015

Comic Round-Up: January 22, 2015

Wonder Woman by Jeff Langevin

"Wonder Woman" by Jeff Langevin

Interview: Aisha Franz talks about moving from self-publishing to being published by others, and about how she constructed the story for her graphic novel Earthling: “With Earthling

Interview: Comic Historian Nicky Wheeler-Nicholson on Women in Comics

Interview: DC Co-Publisher Dan DiDio dishes "Convergence" details

Interview:  Michael DeForge talks about the “meandering” structure of his stories, his changing palette, and his favorite webcomics.

Interview: Roman Muradov discusses his first full-length graphic novel, (In A Sense) Lost and Found, published by Nobrow.

Interview: Ted Rall on the State of Political Cartooning

Interview: Terry Moore goes in depth about Rachel Rising

News: The 26th Annual GLAAD Media Awards nominees have been announced. These are awards by the organization formerly known as the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation that are intended to "honor media for their fair, accurate and inclusive representations of the LGBT community and the issues that affect their lives."  They've had a comic book category for several years. This year's nominees in "outstanding comic book" are:
Review: Noah Berlatsky on Twelve Cent Archie. Greg Hunter on An Iranian Metamorphasis. Tom Murphy on First Year Healthy. Andy Oliver on Fungus: The Unbearable Rot Of Being. Kelly Thompson on Squirrel Girl #1.

9 Marvel Star Wars Covers you've never seen

A British politician totally ripped off the "V for Vendetta" logo for a new nationalist party he’s trying to get off the ground. If you’re going to rip off some one rip off the best, but come on.

The fundraiser on behalf of Norm Breyfogle, a veteran artist known to people of my age as a Batman artist but fairly well-traveled generally, has been extended. My understanding is that Breyfogle was caught in a bad place insurance-wise after suffering a stroke.

Here’s a point of view you don’t see too often: Monica Edinger argues that Cece Bell’s El Deafo should be eligible for a Newbery Award because the text carries the story.

Marvel Announces Comic Book Sequel to Guardians of the Galaxy Post-Credit Sequence

Marvel teases reboot of their comics for the first time: What is Secret Wars?

Terms of Service is a a graphic novella about privacy and surveillance in the Internet age, by Josh Neufeld and Michael Keller, and presented by Jazeera. It combines elements of oral history, opinion journalism, and diary comics. The comic also advertises Pulp, a free and open-source library for webcomic layouts, maintained by AJAM.

Why star Clipper's owners shuttered their beloved St. Louis Comic Book Shop

With the long-planned expansion of the San Diego Convention Center stalled indefinitely, the Los Angeles Times offers an overview of efforts to keep Comic-Con International in the city past 2016, and what suitors like Los Angeles and Anaheim, California, have to offer.


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