Monday, March 2, 2015

Comic Round-Up: March 2, 2015

Spider-Man (Miles Morales Costume) by Dave Seguin

"Spider-Man" (Miles Morales Costume) by Dave Seguin


Events: Maus to be discussed at Des Plaines History Center March 18, from 6-7 p.m.

Events: The second Camden Comic Con takes place March 7 at Rutgers

Interview: Daniel and Dawna Davis came up with the idea for their first comic, Monster Commute, during their three-hour daily commute; after a visit to Comic-Con International in San Diego, they resolved to come back as exhibitors.

Interview: Genevieve Valentine Opens Up on Catwoman

Interview: “I thought I was writing the last Marvel comic book,” writer Brian Michael Bendis says of his first visit to the Marvel offices; the publisher had just declared bankruptcy and all the filing cabinets had already been sold.

Interview: Jeff Lemire on the Coming-Through-Slaughter of Descender
Interview: Writer James Wright and artist Jackie Crofts talk about their new comic Nutmeg, about a pair of teenage girls who turn to crime.

News: The first-ever Dwayne McDuffie Award for Diversity went to Nilah Magruder's web effort M.F.K.. The award was presented at the Long Beach Comics Expo to Magruder by Dwayne McDuffie's widow Charlotte McDuffie. A speech was given earlier by Reginald Hudlin.

News: Princess Leia gets her own Star Wars comic

News: Society of Illustrators announces the Comic and Cartoon Art Annual winners

5 Ways To Introduce Punisher Into the Marvel Cinematic Universe

10 DC Comics Stories Warner Bros. Should Animate Next

Are you doing it wrong? Alex Abad-Santos presents a primer on how to read a comic, with a glossary of basic terms and an explanation of how a comic page is structured, with Ody-C artist Christian Ward providing additional commentary.

Batman's 9 Most Violent Moments, as chosen by IGN.

Broken Frontier examines Six UK Small Press Creators to Watch in 2015

The Daily Beat ponders How Superhero Movies Lost Their Humanity while suggesting Sam Raimi’s 2004 Spider-Man 2 was the highpoint of the genre and it’s been callow thrills since then.

Despite the explosion of conventions all over the world and the convention's seemingly unique ability to draw criticism for things that never get applied to other shows, Comic-Con International's show in San Diego is still the E-Ticket ride to end all rides, with near immediate sell-outs

Every Member Of The Avengers, Ranked by io9

How Descender Draws a Map of All of Sci-Fi

IGN discusses How Violent Should Superheroes Be?

High Moon, the werewolf/cowboy comic by David Gallaher and Steve Ellis is back. After running on DC’s Zuda webcomic site and seeing a print edition, four new pages will be posted every Monday, in a mobile responsive interface, and available on Tapastic and Comixology as well. Nerdist has a preview, and artist Ellis, who’s also drawing the Better Call Saul comics for AMC, recently did a Reddit AMA. The story involves bounty hunter and Pinkerton agent Matthew Macgregor investigating the spooky goings on in a Texas town seeing hard times while trying to hide his own supernatural secret.

Marvel is giving us a peek inside Princess Leia artist Terry Dodson’s sketchbook!

Multiversity’s Small Press Spotlight month has wrapped.

Newsarama remembers 10 Actors Who Were Almost Superheroes


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