Monday, April 6, 2015

Comic Round-Up: April 6, 2015

Super Cubist - DC by Thiago Grizilli

"Super Cubist - DC" by Thiago “Ramon” Grizilli

Event: Joe St. Pierre signs at Silver Moon Comics & Collectibles in Salem, MA on Wednesday, April 8th at 5:30 pm! Joe’s work can be found in Spider-Man 2099, Venom: Tooth and Claw, Venom: Along Came A Spider, Amazing Spider-Man: Ben Reilly Epic and some Valiant titles.  RSVP on Facebook!

Event: Writer/creator Tim Seeley (Hack/Slash, Batman: Eternal) and cover artist Jenny Frison (Red Sonja, Vampirella) appear at Johnny Cee Cards in Schofield, WI on Saturday, May 2, 2015 to celebrate Free Comic Book DayRSVP!

Interview: Brazilian artist Marcelo d’Salete discusses his historical graphic novel Cumbé, which contains five stories of slaves who defied their masters.

Interview: Elham Atayi talks about her life as an illustrator and cartoonist in Iran

Interview: In the wake of Zunar’s charges and several other recent attempts to suppress political cartoons, Michael Cavna talks with Robert Russell, executive director of Cartoonists Rights Network International, which has brought many of these cases to international attention; CRNI is running an IndieGoGo campaign to support and expand its work.

Interview: Jae Lee and How To Get Yourself Drawn On A Cover 

Interview: What Monica Gallagher learned while writing Part-Time Princesses.

News: Craig Yoe will publish Milt Gross’s long-lost graphic novel Milt Gross’ New York next month under his Yoe Books imprint. The book was sold at the 1939 World’s Fair but sort of disappeared after that.

News: The Malaysian government has charged cartoonist Zunar with nine counts of sedition stemming from his tweets about the sodomy conviction of opposition party Anwar Ibrahim. Zunar was released on bail, then held for questioning when an image appeared on his Facebook page depicting the prime minister’s wife (a frequent target of the cartoonist) in prison garb.

News: The nominees for the 39th annual Kodansha Awards include Knights of Sidonia, The Seven Deadly Sins and Kiss Him, Not Me, all three of which have been or will be available in English.

11 R-rated superhero movies we hope to see after Deadpool paves the way

50 comic books that explain the comic industry today

The Batgirl Revival Could Have Only Lasted Six Issues

The Death Of: 10 Suggestions for DC's Next Big Kill

Gail Simone wants to know if there’s a difference between comic and "Tumblr fans."

A great article on the importance of female action figures. Because being super cool warriors is not just for boys!

A journalism student (and editor of his student newspaper) and a veteran newspaper editor discuss their thinking about running Charlie Hebdo‘s Prophet Muhammad cartoons with their news coverage of the attack on the satirical weekly’s staff.

Matt White lists 14 environmentally themed comics in honor of Earth Day.

Nerdist explains How I Learned to Stop Worrying About Canon and Love the Story

Never doubt that Margaret Atwood doesn’t keep up with contemporary stories, as evidenced by this great photo of her reading up on Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky’s Sex Criminals. For that, you can thank Canadian comics fan Hope Nicholson, who introduced her to the book. No stranger to sexual politics in fiction (see The Handmaid’s Tale, Oryx and Crake, etc.), Atwood’s takeaway was “That’s fun.”

Ra's al Ghul: Father Figure as Terrorist: "In the 2005 Christopher Nolan movie Batman Begins, Ra’s al Ghul is first mentioned as a rumor, a whisper . . . a Keyser Söze kind of figure who evolves from phantom to falsehood, from mentor to enemy."

Read an excerpt of Last of the Sandwalkers at Tor.com


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