Showing posts with label comics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label comics. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 1, 2015

Fresh Take: Elder Heroes

Aged Superheroes by Eddie Liu

"Elder Heroes" by Shanghai, China-based Eddie Liu

Eddie Liu, an artist based in Shanghai, has created a short but wonderful series that imagines what a few of our favorite superheroes might look like when they grow old. In Liu’s interpretation, they’ve lost some of their youthful sheen but retain all of their heroic majesty.


Comic Round-Up: December 1, 2015

Spider-Man Avengers by Gerardo Sandoval

Spider-Man & Avengers by Gerardo Sandoval


Interview: Riad Sattouf, author of the graphic memoir The Arab of the Future, talks about living in France and Syria and feeling like an outsider in both places.

News: CBS Announces A Full Season Order For Supergirl

News: The Beat notes another extension for the Secret Wars series.

News:Rare 40-Year-Old Star Trek Comics Are Finally Being Released In the U.S.

Feature 10 reasons why Supergirl defies our expectations

Bring Us A Dream: What Sets Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman Apart?

Monday, November 30, 2015

Link Round-Up: Jessica Jones

Jessica Jones by Amrit Birdi

Produced at a Netflix event in Paris. Colours by Dee Cunniffe.


Interviews


Carrie-Anne Moss on her role in Jessica Jones: "Everything influences us"

David Tennant on Marvel's Jessica Jones, feeling sympathy for Kilgrave

David Tennant on Marvel's Jessica Jones and the pains of playing a psychopath

David Tennant Would Love Purple Man to be in an Avengers Movie

Comic Round-Up: November 30, 2015

Spider-Man by Iqnatius Budi

Spider-Man by Jakarta, Indonesia-based Iqnatius Budi



Interview: Bob Mankoff Thinks Cats Are Funnier Than Dogs

Interview: Charged Malaysian cartoonist Zunar vows to fight on as he receives CPJ Press Freedom Award

Interview: Gorillaz artist Jamie Hewlett unveils his first exhibition

Interview: Jessica Abel on Intersection of Comics and and the Limitations of Art

Friday, November 27, 2015

Comic Round-Up: November 27, 2015

Batman Vs. Superman by JP Valderrama

"Batman Vs. Superman" by JP Valderrama


Interview: Carey Piersch is drawing an arc of Lumberjanes

Interview: Frank Miller Admits to Hating Superman

News: Marvel's Doctor Strange begins filming, reveals list of main cast

News: Pay what you want for The X-Files comics on Humble Bundle


Reviews: Waerloga69 on Witchblade #185.

The 30 best comic book writers for November 2015 

Thursday, November 26, 2015

Comic Round-Up: November 26, 2015

Captain America by Dave Seguin

"Captain America" by Dave Seguin

Event: The Salt Lake City’s FanX spring event (March 24-26) just announced its first nerdlebrity guests

Interview: At a panel at North Carolina Comicon, Afua Richardson talked about her love of hip hop and the controversy that followed Marvel’s hip hop variant covers.

Interview: Gail Simone Guides 'Blockbuster Update' of Red Sonja

Interview: John Little talks about his graphic novel The Salesman, the story of a man bent on punishing excess consumption.

Interview: Malaysian cartoonist Zunar says he uses creativity to fight corruption, and that’s why his cartoons strike a nerve — and get him into trouble with the law.

Wednesday, November 25, 2015

Comic Round-Up: November 25, 2015

Iron Man by Dave Seguin

"Iron Man" by Dave Seguin


Interview: Blogger Reed Beebe interviews the bloggers from The Dinglehopper about how they decoded the alien messages in Paper Girls.

Interview: Chris Mautner offers a transcription of his interview with Bill Griffith from the Small Press Expo, going in depth about Griffith’s new graphic novel Invisible Ink.

Interview: Dale Lazarov talks about his gay sex-positive comics.

Interview: Jeph Loeb Embraces 'Grounded Stories' of Marvel's Netflix Series

Interview: The Wall Street Journal interviewed Ben Katchor about a cartoonist’s take on Small Business.

Tuesday, November 24, 2015

Comic Round-Up: November 24, 2015

Batman by Dan Mora

"Batman" by Dan Mora


Interview: Dylan Taylor-Lehman talks to Jared of Super Fly Comics.

Interview:  Embattled Malaysian cartoonist Zunar came to the US

Interview: Smithsonian Magazine presents an interview with Francoise Mouly, publisher of RAW magazine and, recently, 2015 Ingenuity Awards recipient.

Interview: Stan Lee talks about his newest creation, Lucky Man

Monday, November 23, 2015

Comic Round-Up: November 23, 2015

INVInCIBLE IRONMAN variant cover for issue 1




Interview: Alex Abad-Santos calls Marvel editor Sana Amanat “the Shonda Rimes of Marvel Comics”; she’s the editor of Captain Marvel, Hawkeye and Ms. Marvel, all of which break away from the usual comics tropes.

Interview: Marc Guggenheim Channels Bond to Bring "Agents of SHIELD" from TV to Comics

Interview: Movie News Guide profiles Sana Amanat

Interview: TCJ interview with the late Denny Eichhorn

Interview: Webcomic Spotlight with Gunnerkrigg Court Creator Tom Siddell 

Interview: Writer Kelly Sue DeConnick and artist Emma RĂ­os talk about their series Pretty Deadly, which launched its second arc this week.

Friday, November 20, 2015

Comic Round-Up: November 20, 2015

Thanos by Blake Henriksen

"Thanos" by Blake Henriksen

Event: DC Comics-Inspired LEGO Art Exhibit Opens

Interview: Anne Ishii interviews Adrian Tomine in depth about his new collection of short graphic stories, Killing and Dying.

Interview: Hunger Games' Amandla Stenberg comes to Comics with "Niobe"

Interview: Kelly Sue DeConnick talks about Bitch Planet (“It’s a book very few people have middling feelings about, you know?”), Pretty Deadly and Captain Marvel.

Interview: Tillie Walden, creator of The End of Summer and I Love This Part, talks about her work and the emotional response it evokes.

Thursday, November 19, 2015

Comic Round-Up: November 19, 2015

Harley Quinn by ai-eye

"Harley" by Japan-based ai-eye


Interview: Abraham Riesman's interview with Frank Miller

Interview: Frank Miller Talks About Superman’s Penis and His Plans for a Children’s Book, which are presumably two separate topics, because a kid's book about Superman's Penis would probably not be a top-seller.

Interview: "I want my entire career in comics to be a metaphor for that moment in the Anaconda video when Nicki Minaj slaps Drake’s hand away from her butt, and walks away laughing." Michelle Dean profiles creator and publisher Spike Trotman, who has always done things her own way, starting with the webcomic Templar, Arizona

Interview: Jeff Lemire on Inhumans and Interconnectivity in Extraordinary X-Men

Interview: Jeremy Whitley talks about his comic, Princeless, breaking into comics, getting an unexpected Eisner nomination, and his work at Action Lab Comics.

Interview: Members of the Lynd Ward Prize committee discuss their deliberations, which included reading a lot of graphic novels, and how they came to agree on this year’s winner, Mariko and Jillian Tamaki’s This One Summer.

Interview: Paul Tumey talks to Louise Amandes and Ron Austin.

Interview: Webcomics creators, including Ryan North, John Allison and Dorothy Gambrell, discuss how their business model has evolved over the past ten years.

Wednesday, November 18, 2015

Comic Round-Up: November 18, 2015




Interview: Anthony Bourdain on His Ultra-Violent New Graphic Novel

Interview: Dylan Horrocks on Sam Zabel And The Magic Pen, a semi-autobiographicalish comic that deals with the nature of and relationship between creativity and depression, kicking things off with a chapter titled “Anhedonia,” an inability to experience pleasure that arises from melancholy states.

Interview: Gary Sohmers, organizer of Northeast Comic Con, explains why he does it: "As nerds, we have a different mindset — you know you are a nerd if someone is bullying you. But this convention is a safe and fun environment and a creative opportunity to explore our interests."

Interview: Hope Nicholson discusses the anthology Moonshot, which collects work by 28 Native American creators, and how comics can push back against stereotypes and racism.

Interview: Rob Pereyda, CEO of the U.S. arm of the streaming anime service Viewster, talks about his company’s take on the subscription merchandise package, Omakase.

Interview: Robert Triptow talks about his graphic novel Class Photo, which has its origins in an old class picture he found under a pile of trash.  Class Photo is his first full-length graphic novel — and the first to be sold by a bookstore in his home town of Salt Lake City.

Interview: Zainab Akhtar interviews Natalie Riess, whose Space Battle Lunchtime is the first comic to be selected by Oni Press from its open submissions.

Tuesday, November 17, 2015

Comic Round-Up: November 17, 2015

Harley Quinn by In-Hyuk Lee

"Harley Quinn" by In-Hyuk Lee


Interview: Jennifer Hayden Tells The Story of My Tits

Interview: John Layman on the Home Stretch for Chew

Interview: NPR’s Renee Montagne interviews Stan Lee about his upcoming graphic memoir, Amazing Fantastic Incredible.


Monday, November 16, 2015

Comic Round-Up: November 16, 2015

Daredevil by Dan Mora

"Daredevil" by Dan Mora



Interview: Ant-Man Director Peyton Reed Discusses The Falcon’s Awesome Cameo

Interview: Garth Ennis offers a Reaction to the Preacher Trailer

Interview: Genevieve Valentine on Writing Catwoman As the Mob Queen of Gotham


Interview: Todd McFarlane Explains Unique "Spawn" Collaboration with Larsen

Friday, November 13, 2015

Link Round-Up: Neil Gaiman

Death:The High Cost of Drawing by theopticnerve

In honor of Neil Gaiman's 55th Birthday

Interview: Author Neil Gaiman of Coraline, Sandman, and American Gods on our love of stories and how what he set out to do as an author was "write stories to the world"

Interview: Bookslut has an interview with Neil Gaiman

Interview: Bryan Fuller describes a 'Marvel Universe' of gods and says Steven Spielberg is 'very involved' in 'Amazing Stories.'

Interview: Neil Gaiman discusses Fragile Things at Google

Interview: Neil Gaiman reflects on 25 years of Sandman history

Comic Round-Up: November 13, 2015

Spider-Man Vs. Venom by Juan Gedeon and Carlos Cabrera

"Spider-Man Vs. Venom" by Juan Gedeon and Carlos Cabrera


Interview: Ben Towle talks about Oyster War and creating graphic novels in general for his hometown newspaper.

Interview: Greg Rucka Drops the Mic in "Lazarus," Conjures "Black Magick" at Image & Can't Resist Star Wars

Interview: Ivan Velez Jr. Sings The Epic, Multicultural "Ballad Of Wham Kabam!"

Interview: Jennifer Hayden about her graphic memoir, The Story of My Tits (which just made the Amazon best of the year list).

Interview: Naruto creator Masashi Kishimoto is bullish on the future of manga: “Especially with the development of high-quality digital tools, the artistic side of manga has become much easier. I think that there’ll be a whole new class of artists from all over the world emerging that may have been previously discouraged and now with these digital tools, they’ll be able to create works and create what looks like manga but have a totally different perspective since their views are different from those from Japan. I think that will help expand the manga field through their new stories and new perspectives, and I really look forward to seeing the results of some of their works.”

Thursday, November 12, 2015

Comic Round-Up: November 12, 2015

Harley Quinn by Daniel Scott Gabriel Murray




Interview: Alison McCreesh says her graphic memoir Ramshackle, which chronicles her first year of living in Yellowknife, is about the real Northwest Territories city, not the “romanticized” version seen on TV

Interview: Benjamin Dix started interviewing Syrian refugees about their experiences in 2013, and earlier this year he was hired to turn those accounts into comic strips.

Interview: Designer Chip Kidd talks about the new book Only What’s Necessary: Charles M. Schulz and the Art of Peanuts, which includes many bits of Schulz ephemera — sketches and discarded cartoons — that have never been published before

Interview:  Dominic Umile talks to Edie Fake and Keiler Roberts about architecture within their comics work.

Interview: Matt Huynh discusses his graphic adaptation of Nam Le’s The Boat, a fictionalized story based on the experiences of refugees fleeing Vietnam after the fall of Saigon.

Interview: New Yorker cartoonist Danny Shanahan talked about his life and career last week to an audience of students at Southern Illinois University.


Interview: Sandra Marrs and John Chalmers, the Scottish creators who work together under the name Metaphrog, talk about their new graphic novel The Red Shoes and Other Stories, published by Papercutz.

Wednesday, November 11, 2015

Comic Round-Up: November 11, 2015

Death by Mike Dringenberg

"Death" by Mike Dringenberg


Event: Wilkes-Barre cartoonist Bob Heim will hold Cartoonathon

Interview: CM Punk Explains How He Ended Up Writing Drax Comic

Interview: David Michelinie talks about his work, including the Iron Man story “Demon in a Bottle” and the Avengers story “Emperor Doom.”

Interview: Dominic Umile talks to Edie Fake and Keiler Roberts about architecture within their comics work.

Interview: Eric Dean Seaton talks about the significance of diversity in his graphic novel trilogy Legend of the Mantamaji

Interview: Greg Hunter talks to Sammy Harkham.

Interview: Jason Aaron Says His Wicked New Series "The Goddamned" is "Not Going to Be For Everybody"

Interview: Putting the “comic” in “comic book,” comedy writers talk about their forays into writing ink-and-paper comics.

Interview: Tatiana Gill of the webcomic Living in the Now talks about her autobiographical comics, which chronicle her experiences with alcoholism

Tuesday, November 10, 2015

Comic Round-Up: November 10, 2015

WolverineCreated by Christopher Stevens

"Wolverine" by Christopher Stevens

Interview: Brendan Burford, comics editor for King Features Syndicate, talks about the history of the funny pages.

Interview: Clayton Crain, back in his hometown of Yakima, Washington, for Central City Comic Con, talks about getting his start as a comics artist and working his way up to his current status as a freelancer for Marvel and other publishers. 

Interview: Lynda Barry, whose work is being featured in an exhibit in Madison, Wisconsin, does a radio interview on art and her inspirations.

Interview: Michael Cho talks about the 24 Marvel variant covers he's doing in February

Interview: Supergirl's Facinelli Explains Why Maxwell Lord Isn't Lex Luthor

Interview: Tom King On Hal Jordan's Big Decision

Monday, November 9, 2015

Comic Round-Up: November 9, 2015

Deadpool by Dave Seguin

"Deadpool" by Dave Seguin


Interview: Alan Moore talks to John Higgs about the 20th Century

Interview: Firefly's Alan Tudyk on Comic Conventions

Interview: Henry Chamberlain conducts an audio interview with Chris Hunt, creator of the new crime noir comic Carver: A Paris Story.

Interview: James Robinson explains to io9 How Scarlet Witch's New Comic Uncovers The Mystic Marvel Univers.

Interview: Legends of Tomorrow's Arthur Darvill On Taking Rip Hunter Where He's Never Gone Before

Interview: Owen Freeman writes about designing a cover for Lazarus

Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...