A Chicago-based political action committee, Family-PAC has campaigned for voters to tell Representative Mike Smiddy to vote against last year's proposed
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I've been told that a project based on volunteers, and particularly a project that creates comics, rarely has longevity Attending the "History of World War 3 Illustrated" panel at MoCCA Fest in New York this past weekend taught me otherwise, and to some extent, my mind is still processing that a work of such integrity[...]
Earlier this week, we stated that DC would be relaunching a new Teen Titans book Newsarama just confirmed the news, and gave us the creative team of Wil
At the same time, I've been tirelessly sharing all press, art previews and more on social media, making my kickstarter as loud as I can, virtually shouting it from the rooftops, naked, with my schmuck blowing in the breeze. I've been writing emails to my friends asking for support and retweets and continuing to think[...]
Most of these books that come along can't hold a bar to what is produced by big publishers like Dark Horse or DC but I feel it's important to highlight those books that do reach beyond the common stereotypes of independent comics to produce a book with an intelligent and engaging story along with interesting[...]
Comics are far more than most of us will ever experience There are mainstream superhero books from the Big Two, there are "artsy" independent comics, web comics, licensed books (Lion Forge had Dennis "Mr Belding" Haskins from Saved by the Bell doing autographs for their new comic adaptation at ECCC), cartoons, TV shows, movies and[...]
Nailbiter, out from Image in May, is one of those comics that inspires an unhealthy delight in the reader, recognizing a kind of condensed obsession with the whole history and cultural fascination with the origin, motivation, and operation of serial killers But you'll be too caught up to question your fascination until the comic starts[...]
Diamond Comic Distributors have very kindly agreed to send me the full wodge of Free Comic Book Day 2014 comics for review – with the proviso that they are to be embargoed until, the 28th April Which, I think, is very fair and I was happy to agree.
DC Comics however did not agree to include[...]
Back in 2007, Matt Hawes of Comics Unlimited posted a video parody about Archie Andrews, the beloved all-American teenager, supposedly being killed off in the comics, as a publicity stunt The video was meant as a satire on how the comic book industry kills off characters for cheap publicity stunts and he made it in[...]
Let's have a look at some upcoming Free Comic Book Day titles, today all about the robots from IDW and Red 5, the first in all stores, the second in some.
Marvel is undergoing a creative summit, where editors and creators from all over the world gather to pitch, share, collaborate and work out where Marvel Comics will be going in, well, 2016 The difference between the Marvel and the DC Summits? The Marvel ones let participants tweet about it.
My arrival at the Marvel retreat: http://t.co/dLl2RBmCYe
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This is a scene from the recent first issue of Real Heroes, by Bryan Hitch, from Image Comics.
And that mention of Josh Trank, is because Bryan Hitch, artist for The Ultimates, The Authority, America's Got Powers – and at one point, Fantastic Four, is currently working as designer on the new Fox movie.
Which, yes, is[...]
It's that time again, time for a preview of 2000AD for Wednesday, April 9th in the UK in print, available the same day digitally, and a little behind in
This is going to push that over 40 million oretty damn soon…
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Osamu Tezuka is the first manga creator to have his work archived as part of the Google Cultural Institute's historical archives.
The collection was added on April 7 to the "Cultural Figures" section of the search engine giant's online resource, which contains historical materials of[...]
DC Comics is doing it again, another BlackMilk swimsuit giveaway This one is between now at 10 AM PST tomorrow and the prize is one of five Wonder Woman Cape Suits… this whole swimsuit with a cape thing, this isn't going to take off right?
And again there are only size Medium.
Here are the rules:
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