Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Comic Round-Up: March 10, 2015

Batman: Arkham Knight Batmobile Cover by Dan Panosian



Event: Jimmy Palmiotti & Amanda Conner (Harley Quinn, Power Girl, The Pro) appear at Phat Collectibles in Anaheim, California on Saturday, March 28th at 2:00 PM to sign THE BIG CON JOB! RSVP on Facebook!

Event: Tony Daniel will appear at Epic Comics in Orlando, FL on Sunday, March 29, 2015 from noon till 4:00 PM! His work has appeared in the pages of Action Comics: Superman, Teen Titans, Hawkman, Batman, Detective Comics, Superman/Wonder Woman, and recently relaunching the return of Slade Wilson in the pages of Deathstroke! RSVP on Facebook!

Interview: Danielle Corsetto talked about her webcomic Girls with Slingshots

Interview: Jules Feiffer reminisces at length about his career, working with Will Eisner, drawing cartoons for The Village Voice, leaving the Voice and taking up a teaching position, and his return to graphic storytelling with his most recent work, Kill My Mother.

Reviews: Henry Chamberlain on The Bully's Bully.  Todd Klein on Trigger Warning, Aquaman And The Others #9 and Superman #37.  Paul O'Brien on X-Force Vol. 3.
5 Comics to Read Before Watching the New Series Powers

10 Characters Who Must Cameo In Deadpool

Are There Too Many Comic Book Movies?

Deb Aoki is the Charles Dickens of Storify, You may know her from that other one we mentioned recently, but she also put together an epic compilation on manga translation based on her being a judge at the Manga Translation Battle in Tokyo.  If you're interested in manga at all this is all a must read, but here’s themost interesting graphs for you sale chart freaks

Golden Age Superheroines Who Were As Awesome As Wonder Woman

Here’s a piece on a US artist who went to Japan to work in the Japanese animation industry and ended up being paid $25 a week, and that’s not even the toughest part of the experience.

Hope you like comic book cinematic universes, because here comes another one

Liza Donnelly writes about life as a political cartoonist in the post-Charlie Hebdo era, how she feels about the Prophet Muhammad cartoons (she wouldn’t draw one, but she would defend someone who did), and her disappointment at the cancellation of the political cartoonists symposium Rencontres du Dessin de Presse.

Marvel announces Guardians of Knowhere, a Blade Runner-esque mystery set during Secret Wars

Matt Thorn, a well known manga professor who lives in Japan explains Why it bugs me that you call your comics “manga”, which discusses the high standards for being considered a “mangaka” and why he feels it should mostly be applies to actual Japanese cartoonists.

The New Indian Express suggests Five Feminist Webcomics You Need to Follow ncluding Lucy Knisley and Girls with Slingshots, but I was most intrigued by Aarthi Parthasarathy‘s Royal Existentials which is sort of a Dinosaur Comics for India that takes classic art and adds contemporary balloons.

 The NY Times has a great profile of retailer Socko Jones of Comic Book Jones on Staten Island.

Suicide Squad won't be like a comic book movie we've seen before

There’s also a super Tumblr storify rounding up all the discussion about Mahou Shounen Breakfast Club kerfuffle here. 
Will Comic Books Movies Stay On Top? asks MoviePilot.

Zainab Akhtar presents 10 great cartoonists you need to know


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