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Pirouette, an early indie series from then up-and-coming publisher Black Mask Studios, will be collected in trade paperback this week The series is written by M L Miller and drawn by Carlos Granda who reunited on this creator-owned title after their work-for-hire Jungle Book trilogy published by Zenescope Entertainment. Pirouette generated some early hype for Black Mask at the time[...]

Black Mask Studios returned to the indie comics scene this summer with plans to release their catalog of titles in trade paperback Titles such as the thriller Nobody is In Control by Patrick Kindlon and Paul Tucker, Devil Within by Stephanie Phillips and Maan House, and Breathless by Pat Shand and Renzo Rodriguez saw the publisher emerge from a period of no releases during the[...]

The four-issue series debuted from Black Mask Studios, a publisher known for their edgy, political content, in 2019 and is now being collected into a single volume. Kindlon & Tucker's Nobody Is in Control Goes to Trade Credit: Black Mask While promoting the book, Kindlon tweeted: I AM PROUD OF THIS. And then continued to shed more light on[...]

Black Mask Studios has been adding to their library of trade paperbacks and graphic novels, emerging from the shutdown with the same energy that put them on the map, to begin with The company, known for its comics that feature social commentary and political intrigue, including Matt Pizzolo's subversive Calexit and Young Terrorists, is starting Halloween early this[...]

As the comics industry returns to a state of… somewhat normalcy (though, in this industry, what really is "normal" anyway?), Black Mask Studios has begun to roll out a slate of trade paperbacks With Jade Street Protection Services and Last Song 3 on shelves now with Breathless set for a September release, the indie company is known[...]

Black Mask Studios is back like they forgot something The company is known for the hit comic Kim & Kim, and We Can Never Go Home announced earlier that they'd be publishing Breathless in trade paperback, and are now rolling out two more graphic novels: Jade Street Protection Services, which collects the 2016 series, and Last Song 3, the[...]

Loud! by Maria Llovet is surprisingly difficult to describe. It feels like an X-rated short feature or a particularly decadent midnight movie. Simplest: A

This Black AF line continues with Anansi and his apprentice spying on a Russian auction superpowered black children. Does it make for a good read?

Kim & Kim are back to hunt bounties and have fun. They're now working for a big company and are tasked with getting an art piece back. Is it a good read?

Words and Pictures by Bleeding Cool's Mike Sangregorio: Midday Thursday at San Diego Comic-Con 2018 saw Black Mask Studios (Black, Jade Street Protection Services) discuss their recently announced Mr Robot comic series. The panel was moderated by Black Mask's publisher, Matteo Pizzolo, and featured a discussion between he and show writer Jeff McKibben, who will be writing the[...]

Black AF expands further with Widows and Orphans #1, which has the powered ninja bodyguard of a powered senator investigating an assassination attempt. Is it a good read?

It doesn't roar out of the gates like a punch to a smug Nazi's face, it picks itself up from the street, from the corner you just walked past, creeping out into the concrete night daring to be itself, to at best expose the hands on the knives carving out the humans from humanity and[...]

Black Mask Studios, the publishing/production company launched in 2014 by Matt Pizzolo (Occupy Comics, Halo-8 Films), Brett Gurewitz (Bad Religion, CEO Epitaph Records, ANTI- Records), and Steve Niles (30 Days Of Night), has unveiled its third slate of comics: a dozen projects principally from new creators bringing bold and unorthodox points of view to their[...]

Tomorrow's Ashes by Matt Pizzolo (Young Terrorists) and Anna Wieszczyk, sees the creators of Godkiller return for an all new saga. In a twisted future

The Dregs by Zac Thompson, Lonnie Nadler both of Vice fame, with Last Born artist Eric Zawadzki is the latest Black Mask Class of 2016 title. It's very

The Forevers by Curt Pires (The Fiction, Mayday) and Eric Pfeiffer (Arcadia) is another new entry in Black Mask's Class Of 2016. Live fast. Live forever.

Black Mask's Class Of 2016 seems to have a couple who are resitting the year... Space Riders vol 2 by Alexis Ziritt and Fabian Rangel Jr is entitled

For Black Mask's Class Of 2016 comes No Angel by Adrianne Palicki, Eric Palicki and Ari Syahrazad with Amancay Nahuelpan covers. Eric writes Guardians of

For Black Mask's Class Of 2016, we have The Skeptics, a new series by Tini Howard and Devaki Neogi of Curb Stomp. A stylish, period, political adventure

It's not just the newest talent behind Black Mask titles. Run Of The Shadows is co-written by the veteran writer JM DeMatteis, being the likes of

We were only talking about the work of Magdalene Visaggio the other day. She drew the ashcan of her sci-fi LGBTQ comic book Kim + Kim, released in

It was the Kickstarter that could. And now, as part of Black MaskPress's Class Of 2016 promotion, they have announced that they will be publishing Kwanza

  New York! Once again, New York Comic Con descends upon us all. 4 days of huge crowds, celebrity sightings, street cart food, long walks, and bad

He was a total gentlemen and there wasn't a time when he wasn't trying to make something happen in a positive way." There were also a number of great vendors who brought all the hard-to-find back issues and hot-off-the-indy-press issue ones from the likes of new 'it' indy publisher Black Mask Studios (for more on that[...]

Clandestino arrives from Black Mask in October, created by artist Amancay Nahuelpan (Young Terrorists, Boy-1), and boy is the art expertise obvious on

While the amazingly valuable and popular Black Mask Studios comic We Can Never Go Home, written by Matthew Rosenberg and Patrick Kindlon, with pretty gorgeous art by Josh Hood is in reprints for issues 1, 2, and 3 in shops currently, Rosenberg let slip that there have been some changes to the reprint for Issue[...]

Well, did you? Because if you managed to snag one of the 50 numbered copies available from New England Comics' Black Mask signing, it is worth a pretty

Now I know you all have your exclusive lists planned out, but it just wouldn't be complete without an actual Space Rider figure or a variant cover of the

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This Black Mask Studios-published series has been a stand out success among several of their books already gathering some steam, with first runs selling out and multiple printings heading to shops It's easy to see why We Can Never Go Home is hitting home by combining classic elements with a kind of raw, honest intensity[...]