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Scott Snyder talked on his Substack newsletter about Nocterra getting optioned by Atomic Monster, James Wan's company at Netflix with Roberto Patino, attached to write And then it was Wytches.  Originally by Snyder and Jock, and published by Image in 2014, it tells the story of the Rook family, in particular their daughter Sailor, who[...]

Subscribers to Jonathan Hickman, Mike Huddleston and Mike Del Mundo's Three World Three Moons substack may be a little light on completed pages for the project so far, but you can't deny the huge amounts of background material on offer and plans being made We mentioned that Stephen Green was hired as an artist on[...]

Writer, artist, and actor John Stanisci's first creator-owned series Lifedeath was originally developed for Vertigo, but after that all folded, was taken to Kickstarter a few years back and now, for his birthday, is coming back via Substack today With comics industry stalwart Jeremy Atkins, they are launching a Substack newsletter – though not one[...]

Stephen Green, co-creators of Sea Of Stars and artist on Hellboy And The BPRD: 1954 The Black Sun and Lobster Johnson: Garden Of Bones, is joining Mike del Mundo, Jonathan Hickman, and Mike Huddleston's Three Worlds Three Moons shared universe comic book project being serialised (slowly) on Substack. You've gotten some great [PROCESS] posts from Mike[...]

Because Ed Brubaker went on John Siuntres' Word Balloon podcast to talk up his Reckless graphic novels but also his decision not to take the Substack Pro shilling offered to him and Sean Phillips by Nick Spencer Bleeding Cool had mentioned that before, but Ed Brubaker went into further details At which point many Little[...]

And on his Substack channel Tales From The Farm, he has posted that a) it is returning and b) subscribers will be able to see much of it teasers and process work on Substack, though the comic will appear first with Image Comics Jeff Lemire writes; The story never felt done to me and it has[...]

Tini Howard just shared the word on her Substack After her first work for DC Comics in December on Batman: Urban Legends #10 And in January, she will be writing the ongoing Catwoman #39 title, replacing Ram V and being joined by Nico Leon as artist and Jordie Bellaire as colourist, and covers by Jeff[...]

On his most recent Substack, Jonathan Hickman announced that Jason Howard would be drawing for the upcoming Duels series, part of the Three Worlds Three Moons 3W3M universe that Hickman is creating on Substack with Mike Del Mundo and Mike Huddlestone, as well as guest-writers Al Ewing and Ram V. Jason Howard To Draw Jonathan Hickman's[...]

With the New York Comic-Con kicking off this weekend (though most European attendees are still banned from entering the country) Scott Snyder has been reminiscing on his Substack about the mistakes he has made at comic book conventions and that; I didn't respect the fact that it was one big workplace, that everybody in the industry[...]

It goes to Final Order Cut-Off from comic book stores on Monday, but with the conversation about creator-owned comic books and Substack reading its head again, what's his take on the Substack scenario This has seen comic book creator offered a large six-figure sum for a year to start up a subscriber account and publish[...]

Joe Grunenwald at Comics Beat asked Brian Bendis, given that he has a Substack newsletter if he had also received a Substack PRO offer He confirmed that he had, saying "Yes, I have an offer from them I usually don't speak of business that I'm in the middle of, right? That always been, maybe how[...]

He is now the first Substack Writer In Residence, and his new Substack newsletter explains more of what that actually means for him Because there are more writers to follow it seems. Adrian Tomine Is Substack's First Writer In Residence  I had the idea to address the most common questions and comments I've received recently, and to[...]

Tonight Ryan Stegman will be running a Livestream for his and Donny Cates' Substack subscribers for Kids Love Chains Press And he'll be taking the opportunity to draw Spider-Man, last seen from Ryan in King in Black before he jumped to KLC Press comics, being serialised on Substack Starting at 6.30 pm ET, 3.30 pm[...]

Kelly Thompson has joined the list of prominent comic book writers and artists who have been recruited with significant six-figure sums by Nick Spencer to start a subscription service at Substack, to publish their creator-owned books digitally ahead of print publication at a later date, probably from Image Comics And I knew because I have[...]

And now Tynion is taking it to Substack With The Department Of Truth: Wild Fictions. It will focus on the Field Office team which hunts down legendary monsters before enough people believe in them, and were introduced in The Department Of Truth #11 and #12 Bigfoot story. The two-parter introduced THE DEPARTMENT OF TRUTH: FIELD OFFICE, which[...]

James Tynion IV has continued to talk on his Substack newsletter about his work on the Batman comic book and the editorial and creative challenges it faced, working on a run that was basically a fill-in, something to lead up to 5G, which is all anyone was interested in and, in November 2019, there was[...]

Even if a few scabs need pulling off first. Where are the new comics? The crowd goes wild!    Photo by Rod Lamberti LITG: The ten most-read stories, yesterday Comic Store In Your Future: Chaos and Substack Fortnite Teases Chapter 2 Season 8 With Aliens & Unicorns Cobra Kai Creators New 4-Year Sony TV Deal Includes Franchise Spinoffs SCOOP: DC To[...]

Nick Spencer (writer of Amazing Spider-man)  started working with Chris Best, founder of Substack, during covid What is Substack? Founded in 2017, it is an online platform that allows writers to send digital material to subscribers Substack recently announced they intend to get into the comic business Substack is said to be throwing big bucks[...]

James Tynion IV and Michael Avon Oeming have released the first chapter of their new comic series, Blue Book, on Substack The first of several original series that Tynion will debut in this fashion Blue Book is a new ongoing comic book feature recreating stories of real UFO encounters in comic book form, based on[...]

Recently, Matt Fraction and Kelly Sue DeConnick mentioned in their newsletter that they had been made a Substack Pro offer but were undecided on whether to take it, as many other high profile comics creators had Estimated by Bleeding Cool to be $600,000 as an advance grant, they broke down the offer, saying;. So the SubstackPro[...]

As part of his Substack, Donny Cates has been talking to wife-and-fellow-comics-creator Megan Hutchison-Cates about their new project, Flood as well as a look at the Substack exclusive variant cover for Flood #1. Donny Cates: FLOOD began life as a thought experiment for me I wanted to write about the things I was afraid of My[...]

Supposedly, $600,000 is the amount that some comic book creators were offered to kick off their newsletters/digital comic book subscriptions on Substack for a year Some, undoubtedly will have been offered less, but that seems to be the approximate figure offered to the Donny Cates/James Tynion IV/Jonathan Hickman/Jeff Lemires of the world[...]

It's Grant Morrison time! Tonight as part of a reward for the first 500 subscribers to Jonathan Hickman, Mike Del Mundo, and Mike Huddlestone's 3W3M Substack, and for all Founder Level subscribers, Jonathan Hickman conducted an interview with Grant Morrison streamed live Sadly, I was out at the theatre seeing a brand new play, Leopards[...]

So, if comic creators will be publishing comics though Substack in return for those $600,000 grants, how will people be reading them? Jonathan Hickman, Mike Huddlestone and Mike Del Mundo began just embedding pages in e-mails, Jeff Lemire provided PDFs but today Substack announced another alternative Stating that "To make the experience even better for[...]

Jeff Lemire is the latest major comic book creator to announce he has signed up to Substack as part of Nick Spencer's promotional Substack grant scheme, to debut new comic books digitally to subscribers and share the process of creation He writes in his first Substack missive; With that, I'm excited to announce FISHFLIES, the first[...]

And Sophie Campbell has just announced that she is the latest creator to take the Substack shilling and create comics for a Substack subscriber base The estimate for some creative advances for comic creators has been around $600,000, but whatever she has received, she will be using it to revive her graphic novel sequel to[...]

First off the block to start publishing their Substack Comics is Jonathan Hickman, Mike Huddleston, and Mike Del Mundo, Three Worlds Three Moons, or 3W3M Previously, Mike Huddleston had talked about the design of the habitat as being in different time periods, one with a lush lake, the other an arid desert And now that[...]

Nut a number of creators have confirmed 5G, just not in anywhere near as much detail as James Tynion IV has begun to on his Substack. The information that had trickled down through the corporate ladder was that the goal was to create a generational leap for the characters akin to the jump between the Golden[...]

On his brand-new Substack newsletter (not a Nick Spencer $600,000 deal though) he talked about his plans going forward, saying "the biggest change we're going to make from other incarnations of Jinxworld is that we're going to space the projects out a little bit more Sometimes, in my genuine enthusiasm to get the material to[...]

Three Worlds Three Moons, is a shared continuity comic book universe for Substack created by Jonathan Hickman, Mike Hiddleston, and Mike Del Mundo, accompanied by two of Hickman's Xbooks writers, Excalibur and X Of Swords writer Tini Howard, and SWORD writer Al Ewing as well as Catwoman/Swamp Thing/Justice League Dark's Ram V with artists Mike Del Mundo and Mike Huddleston and graphic designer Sasha E[...]