Tuesday, February 3, 2015

Comic Round-Up: February 3, 2015


"Gold" by Jasric

Interview:  Agent Carter's Lyndsy Fonseca: "My Character Is There to Support Peggy"

Interview: David Lloyd stops to chat about V for Vendetta, his digital comics platform Aces Weekly, and the late cartoonist RK Laxman.

Interview: Massive: an interview with comics historian Graham Kolbeins

Interview: “You’ve got a better chance of being an NFL linebacker than an editorial cartoonist,” said Kevin Necessary, who beat the odds (after years of obsession and hard work, and almost quitting the field entirely): He’s been hired to draw editorial cartoons for the website of the TV station WCPO.

Interview: Scott McCloud on artistic frustration, optimism, and evolution
News: Marvel Cancels Spider-Man 2099 but announces Secret Wars 2099 

News: McFarlane reveals abandoned Spawn/Batman crossover plans


News: A restored copy of Detective Comics #27, which marks the first appearance of Batman, is expected to bring in more than $100,000 in a February 20 sale held by Heritage Auctions.

Previews: Never-Before-Seen Pages From DC Comics’ Harley Quinn Valentine’s Special

2001: A Space Odyssey Gets Turned Into “The Weirdest Sci-Fi Comic Ever Made

Comic book fans should embrace the recent serious approach to films

Girl Writes DC Comics Asking For Female Superheroes (More at HuffPo)

A group of Indian creators and editors got together for a discussion titled “So Many Ramayanas: Can Indian comics move beyond myth and legend?

Hugo Award-winning novelist John Scalzi has written his first graphic novel, and it’s a game tie-in: Midnight Rises, which is available free for iOS devices, is a prequel to Industrial Toys’ upcoming mobile game Midnight Star.

Librarian Mara Thacker talks about the University of Illinois’s collection of more than 1,000 Indian comics, which she believes is the largest such collection in North America.

Michael Cavna looks at a Pew Research survey about American attitudes toward Charlie Hebdo‘s Prophet Muhammad cartoons and notes that support for publishing the cartoons skews strongly according to racial, gender and party lines.

Phillipsburg High School in Pennsylvania is offering comics electives, and to raise funds to buy the books that students will need, they are having their own comic con, with a guest lineup that includes artists Scott Hanna, Rags Morales, and Adam Kubert as well as writer Joe Kelly and Eisner Award-winning writer-about-comics Sheena Howard.


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