Dark Horse Comics has a thirty-year history in comics and manga, and along with that comes a great back catalog of fantastic comics. Here are my favorites of their bibliography. It was really hard narrowing down their canon, and you'll note that some favorites like The Umbrella Academy (surely one of Dark Horse's breakout series) […]
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A couple weeks ago, Wayne Alan Harold held a fire sale on P. Craig Russell's Salome And Other Stories Fine Art Edition. I bought one then for $50, and can't stop thinking about the book. I don't like opera, but Russell chooses those stories to adapt, so I learn to enjoy the form. P. Craig […]
[rwp-review-recap id="0"] Shadow has trouble with the heating in Lakeview and meets his neighbor. Wednesday arrives not long after and takes Shadow to Las Vegas to meet up with another contact. They spend some time there, and Shadow returns to Lakeview and finds means of keeping himself occupied while waiting for Wednesday's next arrival. American […]
Neil Gaiman has teamed up with P. Craig Russell and Scott Hampton to adapt and expand his best selling novel American Gods into the comic book medium. The adaptation has been broken into three series, matching the three parts of the book. Part one, American Gods: Shadow, has already been collected into a trade. Part […]
The Blu-Ray and DVD edition of DC's Batman and Harley Quinn animated film has more going for it than a sex scene between Nightwing and Harley Quinn. One of the special features is the promised featurette about DC's next animated film, Gotham By Gaslight. The film is based on the comic by Mike Mignola, Brian […]
DC's next animated movie may be taking a trip back to the past! According to some leaked art from the back of the DVD box for the Batman and Harley Quinn animated release, Gotham by Gaslight is DC's next animated movie. It's a fact that Batman and Harley Quinn will have a featurette about the […]
Winner of numerous awards, Jones passed recently in 2011, so we take a moment to remember her life and art.Ray Flook brings up Philip Craig Russell, a classic artist with a long history of working on numerous elements of comic creation:I discovered Philip Craig Russell’s work in 1987…and interestingly enough, it was through his inking of Mike[...]
About a year ago I read American Gods for the first time. Or rather I listened to it, unabridged full-cast audio recording. I remember the opening very clearly. As the character of Shadow started feeling anxious about getting out of prison, I started feeling anxious as well. I knew as a reader that something bad […]
Entertainment Weekly just broke the news, and it looks like the NYCC-week announcements are hitting hard early in the week this year. Dark Horse will adapt Neil Gaiman's American Gods into a 27 issue comic book series in collaboration with Gaiman, P. Craig Russell, and Scott Hampton. Titled American Gods: Shadows, issue #1 will go on sale […]
My first introduction to Michael Moorcok's character of Elric came when Marvel published Elric the Dreaming City as the second Marvel Graphic Novel back in 1982… the first having been The Death of Captain Marvel. The book was stunning, featuring the art of P. Craig Russell and the writing of Roy Thomas. Titan Comics is […]
A campaign has been launched on Indiegogo to help P. Craig Russell restore his original hand-colored art for The Dreaming City, an adaptation of the first Elric story by Roy Thomas and P. Craig Russell. The work originally appeared in Epic Illustrated before becoming a graphic novel from Marvel in 1982. Russell has the original […]
You may remember some time back, Bleeding Cool alerted you to the fact that P. Craig Russell was embarking on a major Sketchbook Archives project, digitally scanning sketches, lining up comparison pages with colors, and sampling images from his long and impressive career in comics. Based partly on the fact that he's kept a massive […]
Posted by Travis Ellison... this History Of The DC Universe image used to appear in the DC Comics lobby, outside the elevators. I think I briefly saw it once on an attempt to gatecrash the place during one NYCC several years ago. It's gone now, replace by a New 52 panel instead, which will be […]
By Rich Johnston and Hannah Means-Shannon Following on from last year's "Best" lists to create a Bleeding Cool tradition, Rich Johnston and Hannah Means-Shannon put their heads together to pick out the landmark works in the comics medium of 2014, here specifically presenting the best graphic novels. This category has been delineated based on personal […]
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Seconds: A Graphic Novel by Bryan O'Malley
Batman: A Visual History by Mattew K Manning
The Graveyard Book Graphic Novel: Volume 2 by Neil[...]
P. Craig Russell has moved through five volumes of graphic storytelling instructional video projects that are going to produce an entire generation of super-trained and probably frighteningly versatile artists any day now, but until then, there's also his Sketchbook Archives at over 250 pages of personally chosen work for fans. The Kickstarter for the volume […]
I've experienced a modicum of debate in my time over the role of adaptations into the comics medium from prose novels, film, or TV properties and even those with a great respect for the comics medium often undervalue a work that has the "adaptation" label attached, as if that may be a devaluing quality that […]
P Craig Russell has adapted Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book as a graphic novel But not even he knows everything to expect, as he opens his comp copy of the first volume and compares it to his original notes...[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54Qhhji-Qdw[/youtube] P Craig Russell has adapted Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book as a graphic novel[...]
