Monday, May 5, 2014

Comic Round-Up: May 5, 2014



Interview: 8-Time Eisner Winner Dave Stewart On Creating A World Of Color

Interview: Brian Michael Bendis on Sexism and Making a Nonwhite Spider-Man

Interview: CBR interviews Marvel editor Sana Amanat about Ms. Marvel, her recent TED talk, and more.

Interview: J. Michael Straczynski talks about his new Image Comics series Dream Police: “I grew up without friends for most of that, and no stability. My subconscious, needing some kind of continuity, began to stitch tighter some of the places I’d lived into a dream city, a familiar neighborhood cobbled together from bits and pieces that I still sometimes dream about."

Interview: Comic Creator News interviews Mark Schultz, the creator of the Eisner and Harvey award winning Xenozoic Tales.

Comics scholar Paul Gravett talks with the Independent about the new exhibit at the British Library, “Comics Unmasked: Art and Anarchy in the U.K.,” which he helped curate: “It could easily have been a serious, reverential exhibition called ‘Graphic Literature’, and it could have been really dull. But we wanted to make sure we didn’t lose sight of comics’ subversive side. Comics have a long history of upsetting people, so it would be wrong to try to make them seem respectable.”

The Comics You Must Grab After Seeing The Amazing Spider-Man 2

Dennis Barger, co-owner of Wonderworld Comics in Taylor, Michigan, and the driving force behind the new retailer association CBRA (Comic Book Retailers Alliance), says direct-market stores want publishers to pull back on same-day digital release, and debut the print comics first. He says ComicsPRO, the established, much larger, trade organization, is taking the wrong approach in trying to adapt to digital. Barger also feels that hand-selling by employees, not social media, is what propels sales of comics, especially non-Big Two titles.

How Censors Killed The Weird, Experimental, Progressive Golden Age Of Comics: In the 1940s, comic books were often feminist, diverse, and bold. Then the reactionary Comics Code Authority changed the trajectory of comic book culture for good.

Ming Doyle has some advice for any women trying to get into comics.

Oculus VR's Carmack plots virtual reality comic book shop

Over at Comixology, you can download around 200 free #1 issues from Image, and another 20+ Comixology submit comics.

Why The Amazing Spider-man 2 May Be The Best Comic Book Movie Ever


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