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Waking Nightmares: Taking a Trip Through Charles Burns' The Hive
The second part, The Hive, continues the original story, and solidifies Burns' place as one of the finest cartoonists working today. Charles Burns is sort of the David Lynch of the comics world, exploring the dark, surreal edges of consciousness in strange, feverish stories of sexual mutation, psychedelic nightmares and paranoiac dreamscape His dark, distinctive art[...]
Kickstart From The Heart – kaBOOMbox
And a few others for 2013. Paul – I've been drawing comics for about a decade now I mostly Publish with Image, but I drew Spider-man once I have an upcoming series from Image with Chris Roberson called Reign, and a series written by Joe Casey over at Dark Horse called Catalyst Comix Both will be[...]
When Josh Hoopes Stole From His Place Of Work… And From Artist Pasquale Qualano
A quick google discovers that address linked to another attempted comics scam to sell supposed artwork by Art Adams, and use of yet another pseudonym, Joshua DeLava. Including trying to sell the following forgeries; some based on work in Mike Burkey's art collection, a man he previously tried to scam. And googling Joshua DeLava unveils a[...]
Brett Carreras On Rick Ketcham
Within hours of Rick being named the trustee of his Grandparent's estate, he was aggressively arrested while driving his mother to the Social security offices on completely factless untrue charges, and his VERY good name was dragged through the mud of the comics industry, based only on a factless accusation by his sister. I am pleased[...]
NYCC – San Diego In Disguise?
And it doesn't have the Hyatt bars as a concentrated mass of comics industry professionals in the evening, but it does have the kind of Irish bar where you can totally bump into Garth Ennis and Brian K Vaughan sharing a pint, but willing to engage with everyone who wanders in. There si a fundamental difference[...]
Avatar, Boom, Dynamite And Valiant Solicitations For January 2013
Who will be crowned the victor in this month's grudge match? More importantly, who will be the loser? And will the cabal of Sable, Meridian, Sol Invictus, and the Manchurian be able to decipher the mysteries of the prison before one of them is selected to enter the arena? Written by industry legend Paul Jenkins (SENTRY,[...]
Surviving The Public: Unshelved
"Are you a librarian? Do you know any librarians?" It's not a frightening twilight zone interrogation scene, it's the Surviving The Public panel at the
Numbercrunching The DC New 52 Year-On-Year
There are some who have taking last month's comic book sales numbers, compared them to last year's September numbers, and have declared as a result that the New 52 is a failure, because DC Comics sold fewer copies and had a smaller market share. This strikes me as wrong in so many ways, and here are[...]
Free Digital Comics For Hallowe'en From Your Comic Store
The Diamond Digital system, being launched in comic stores across the nation, is planning to give away a bunch of digital comics to get people used to the system over Hallowe'en. The free books being rolled out include Doctor Who Annual 2010, G.I Joe #0, Locke & Key: Keys to the Kingdom #1, Hoax Hunters #1,[...]
ComiXology Around The World: Brendan McCarthy Is Big In Japan
Louis Falcetti writes for Bleeding Cool; UPDATE: Apparently for every mention of Harlequin Comics, it should have read Walking Dead #103 Possibly the first time this mix-up has ever occurred I'll amend the chart but leave the intro text – and visual – the same. Lots of times America's proud, stubborn refusal to acknowledge the rest of[...]
Seven Image Issue Ones For January
There's something about a new issue one from Image Comics It could simply be anything While a new book from Marvel or DC is likely to feature existing characters, Image have been the most successful instigators of something brand new, week after week after week. And in January, there are seven of them Kind of[...]