Alison Sampson

Welcome to the pretty-much-mostly-daily Lying In The Gutters. A run around the day before and the day ahead. You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here The 10 most-read stories yesterday Erik Larsen Says Colorist Who Poorly Recolored Marvel Comics Presents #48 Cover Should Be Killed "League Of Legends" Player Maria "Remilia" […]

Rosilyne Bean wrote from New York Comic Con 2017: Today, Image Comics closed NYCC with a panel entitled Image Comics: The Future of Storytelling. David Brothers (Branding Manager at Image Comics) hosted the panel, and was joined by Marjorie Liu (Monstress), Cliff Chiang (Paper Girls), Kyle Higgins (Hadrian's Wall), Nikki Ryan (The Family Trade), Andrew […]

Image Comics gets two more printings out of the door. Regression #1 by Cullen Bunn, Danny Luckert and Marie Enger has sold out of its second printing from Image Comics and is going to third, for the 12th of July. Adrian is plagued by ghastly waking nightmares. To understand and possibly treat these awful visions, […]

So many legendary comics artists, movers & shakers #InkingWoman launch @Cartoonmuseumuk CAROL BENNETT!!! centre left of @streakofpith pic.twitter.com/bj4Wlnz9KV — Corinne Pearlman (@comicopera) April 28, 2017 I couldn't make it to the opening of this one. But I heard it was a blast. The British Women Cartoon and Comic Artists exhibition, currently running at the Cartoon Museum […]

2 Hours to go, $567 left after putting on $7000 overnight. We write about the Broken Frontier anthology here last week, and now it's down to the wire. Can a last minute Bleeding Cool bump put it over the edge?  A 250-page hardcover colour anthology of comics with 45 contributors including David Hine, Mark Stafford, Greg Pak, […]

By Chris Thompson [audio:http://popculturehound.net/podcast/PCHPodcastEpisode103.mp3] Following on from last week's episode 'live' at the pub with the hilarious Gerry Duggan (which you can still listen to here), this time I'm back with artists Emma Rios, Alison Sampson & David Lafuente for the insightful European Influence in American Comics panel from last weekend's Dublin International Comic Expo […]

Image Comics releases 64 page graphic novel Genesis this week and amid Image's trademark swath of very individualistic books, Genesis stands apart for a number of reasons. It may well be the most visually unorthodox Image book I've read in terms of panel layouts, and morphing, stream-of-consciousness spreads, and it's also a book that handles […]

Alasdair Stuart writes; Rachel Deering wears a lot of hats. She's part of the team who produce the Amelia Cole comics from Monkeybrain, has her own horror series, Anathema and is in the final stages of bringing In The Dark into land. A huge horror anthology filled with some amazing creative talent, it's Kickstarter campaign […]

You'll know the names. Mostly mid-level comic creators working for Marvel, DC, Image, Dark Horse, IDW and the likes. But they all have loyal fanbases. And they are all contributing to a new anthology of horror comics, twenty creative teams, two hundred and fifty pages and an introduction from Scott Snyder, funded by Kickstarter. Which […]