Thursday, March 12, 2015

Comic Round-Up: March 12, 2015

Batman by Borislav Mitkov



Event: Artist Sandy Jarrell appears at Fight or Flight Comics in Raleigh, NC on Wednesday, March 25, 2015 from 4:00 – 6:00 PM to sign BATMAN ’66! RSVP on Facebook!

Event: Cartoonist Jeff Smith, creator of Bone, RASL, and Tuki Saves the Humans, appears at Laughing Ogre Comics in Columbus, OH on Saturday, March 28, 2015 from 11:00 am – 1:00 pm! They will celebrate Bone’s 10th anniversary with Graphix! RSVP on Facebook!

Interview: Phoebe Gloeckner, who’ll give a lecture Saturday as part of Detroit’s Comics Jam, discusses her current project and the importance of honesty in her work: “To me, no human experience is off-limits, because that’s what art is about: human experience. To categorize something as shocking or not shocking or boring or not boring, it doesn’t really mean anything to me.”

Interview: Scott Snyder on the New Batman and Batman: Eternal Season 2

Interview: Steve Orlando takes Midnighter "back to his roots"

News: Sotheby’s auction of comics and comics art over the weekend in Paris brought in about $4.1 million for 189 works, including Hergé’s cover art for the 10th-anniversary issue of Le Petit Vingtième (the magazine where Tintin first ran).

Previews: Doctor Who #1.

Reviews: Michael Cavna reviews Exploring Calvin and Hobbes and shares some highlights from the book, which includes an in-depth interview with Bill Watterson.

The 30 greatest superhero movies of all time. As voted for by Empire magazine readers.

41 Thoughts About 41 Comics - From X-Men To Surface To Star Wars
The All-Islamic super-heroes: Muslim children love 'The 99' comics, but hardliners loathe their creator - whose trial for heresy is looming

Batman Writer Scott Snyder Teases Big Changes in June

Global Voices rounds up some cartoons protesting the Myanmar government’s harsh treatment of student protestors.

Marcia Lynx Qualey reports on a symposium on Arab comics, including talks on the shift from local comics to imports, the use of comics as state propaganda, and the significance of the use of different languages.


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