There's a phrase I've mostly heard screenwriters for television use, the "idiot ball", where in order to make a plot work in the the time you have, one of
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Welcome back to Disenchanted, Si Spurrier and German Erramouspe's grown-up fairytale comics, a free webcomic from Bleeding Cool's publisher Avatar The new issue just went up.
The first collection is out in print later this year, but is all still available free from the website.
How does that make you feel?
Exactly.
Welcome back to Disenchanted, Si Spurrier[...]
Tuesday, January 28th
The NY Comics & Picture-story Symposium will be held on Tuesday, January 28, 2014 at 7:00 PM at Parsons The New School, 2 West 13th Street, in the Bark Room (off the lobby) Free and open to the public. [PLEASE NOTE: Events this semester will take place on Tuesday evenings rather than Mondays].
The[...]
Could Wally West be reincarnated at a young African American boy? Does that mean a Latina Donna Troy is far behind?
Why the difference?
And The Comics Beat gets heat for linking to it And kicks back.
Guess what trolls, I was "gender baiting" before most of you were born, except then it was called "examining gender/social roles." The rise of the internet and social media means everyone is allowed to call out shit when they see it[...]
Okay, so we all know (now) that Hawkeye #16 came out before Hawkeye #15. It happens. Very occasionally. But Marvel aren't finished messing with the
Why stop there? Much has been made of Image Comics' contracts that don't give them ownership of any comic, but is that fair? Just as a letterer and a colourist may be more committed to a comic if they own a piece of it, why shouldn't that be true of a publisher? What about the[...]
For some, Brad Meltzer is the man behind DC Comics' Identity Crisis When you-know-what happened to Sue Dibny To others he's a leading novelist with a string of successful books.
Well now he's gaining an entirely new audience and is taking Chris Eliopoulos with him A new series of children's comics in the young children's hardcover[...]
And as the series progresses, we'll gradually introduce new members of the supporting cast, as well, while keeping the narrative focus fixed firmly on Doc.
AP: I'm kind of obsessed with the trend in comics away from a third person, omniscient author's voice and toward a first person inner narrative approach I like the way you[...]
From Papercutz artist Rick Parker (also former Marvel letterer and artist on Marvel's Beavis and Butt-head), we have Weird Zombie-Fantasy…
And from Frank Frazetta, we have Weird Science-Fantasy from EC.
Rick Parker explains the genesis of this incredibly detailed parody cover: "I was a kid in the mid 50's when those EC covers and MAD Comics came[...]
It's the talk of the town when it comes to art comics, and Benton's going to be inscribing madly at Angouleme coming up with his trademark full art renderings inside the large covers of the new book But you don't have to go to France to get one of these beauties hand-drawn inside by Benton–he's[...]
Alyssa Pack reports for Bleeding Cool from Wizard World Portland: At Wizard World Portland on Saturday, Chris Gage and Scott Allie took the stage of the
A couple of years ago, the North London comic convention Kapow won two Guinness Book Of World Records for the fastest produced comic book and the most
Edward Greenberg of the Collector's Paradise stores writes, regarding the Unity #1 3D cover offer from Valiant that we covered in depth. The Valiant 3D
Ian Melton writes from Wizard World Portland Comic Con, I spoke briefly with Joseph Michael Linsner, first about his work on Conan about how Dark Horse