Last week we gave you a glimpse at the covers and a two-page spread for Dark Circle's upcoming The Fox #5. Now that it is hitting shops this week, we've gotten a few more interior pages for the Mark Waid / Dean Haspiel issue that wraps up the Fox Hunt story arc. The FOX HUNT reaches its […]
The Fox returns in Fox Hunt #5 for this arc's final issue from Dark Circle at Archie, written by Mark Waid and Dean Haspiel, and drawn by Dean Haspiel with colors by Allen Passalaqua and letters by Rachel Deering. I was mighty impressed with the visual experimentation in Fox Hunt #4 and am looking forward […]
Right. Wow. Well, I've been reading Dean Haspiel's work for a few years now, and recently interviewed him for an upcoming issue of Bleeding Cool Magazine (#18) where he talks about his indie work and the evolution of his career in comics, but I've been convinced for awhile that what I see him doing in […]
In stores this week from Dark Circle, the superhero imprint form Archie Comics, comes the third issue of the Dean Haspiel and Mark Waid on-going series The Fox. Fox Hunt, Part 3—The Devil You Know: Just as The Fox was through being a superhero, his son was putting the final touches on a gift for […]
Chapter 3 of The Fox: Fox Hunt is nearly here, arriving on June 10th next week, and aptly titled "The Devil You Know", written by Mark Waid and Dean Haspiel with art by Haspiel and colors by Allen Passalaqua, with letters by Rachel Deering. You can check out my reviews of the previous issues here […]
This is the situation. We have our memories. The world moves on. The structure of our memories, the locations, the sources of the sights and sounds, eventually become barely recognizable or disappear entirely. What does that do to us or for us? Does it set us free, or does the thought turn things toxic for […]
Dark Circle has released these preview pages for their new on-going series The Fox #1. After the success of the last miniseries, Dean Haspiel and Mark Waid are back for a new storyline called Fox Hunt. Emmy Award winning writer/artist Dean Haspiel (Billy Dogma, HBO's Bored to Death) is once again united with Eisner award-winning writer […]
What could you come up with that was more extreme than something that might appear in the Dark Horse series Grindhouse? Well, you can't really–you just might find out they were already planning a similar story, like Dean Haspiel (The Fox and Fox Hunt with Mark Waid from Archie/Black Circle) did when he was asked […]
By Alyssa Pak Dean Haspiel is an Eisner nominated artist best known for his collaborations with Harvey Pekar on the American Splendor series and on The Quitter graphic novel, as well as winning an Emmy Award in 2010 for his design work on HBO's Bored To Death. He is currently working for Archie Comics on […]
Dean Haspiel is never still. When I asked him recently what he was currently working on, he said Fox Hunt for Dark Circle Comics at Archie with Mark Waid, Garbage Pail Kids for IDW, and a couple more specific projects off the record. He tacked on an ominous "and more" to the list, because he's […]
The packed out panel for Dark Circle Comics at Archie barely afforded me room to creep in at the back, and things started off with beautiful cover art for The Shield. Joining the panel were Dean Haspiel, Alex Segura, Mike Pellerito, Paul Kaminski, Paul Wendig, Duane Swierczynski. Alex Segura said, "I'd really like to think […]
Archies Comics new imprint Dark Circle Comics released the list of books and creators that will be coming out in 2015. Along with the announcement they released the following promo image by Francesco Francavilla. Here's the first three titles from Dark Circle Comics: THE BLACK HOOD is a gritty, noir crime thriller written by Duane Swierczynski […]
Sensation Comics featuring Wonder Woman arrives in its first 2014 issue on August 20th. It's a "digital first anthology" that will bring in a wide range of comics talent to explore the character and her Amazonian background in a number of guises. Already announced on the book are Gail Simone and Amanda Deibert writing on […]
Monday, August 18th The ninety-fifth meeting of the NY Comics & Picture-story Symposium will be held on Monday, August 18, 2014 at 7 pm at Columbia University's Butler Library, room 523. The event is free and open to the public. The Presentation will be by Tom Motley on "Composition Lessons from Comics Masters". He says: […]
Something unusual in inception is making inroads into the way we view comics in Brooklyn, New York. For the second year running, the Comic Book Theater Festival is bringing a myriad of comics-based plays to life in a number of interpretive formats, from performance comics with visual projections, to dance, to more traditional actor-based performances […]
Archie Comics have had a number of attempts to revive and republish the Red Circle line of superhero comic books with less than stellar results. Beginning with the Shield created in 1939 for Pep Comics, The Black Hood and The Wizard, were relaunched in the sixties following DC Comics superhero revival, introducing The Fly and […]
We got quite the treasure-trove of first look images from Red Circle Comic's The Fox #5 this week including covers by Dean Haspiel, Howard Chaykin and Alex Toth. Plus we see that comic writer extraordinaire J.M. DeMatteis has come on board to write just in time for the last issue. Hannah Means-Shannon also reviewed the […]
By Natalie Kim [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDXLSHEyUdk[/youtube] It's a Draw with Natalie Kim returns this week chatting and drawing with Emmy Award-winning cartoonist Dean Haspiel, artist on Red Circle's The Fox, on Harvey Pekar's The Quitter, and on The Alcoholic with Jonathan Ames. Their "two word suggestion" from viewers is "pineapple monster". Cripes. Dean Haspiel Website: http://www.deanhaspiel.com/ […]
In some ways I was dreading reading The Fox #5 from Red Circle/Archie Comics, because it meant the end of the arc, and possibly the end of this incarnation of the hero known as the Fox that has been so startling, and inspired me with a great deal of hope about the future of alternative […]
Live from the Comic Shop this week managed to dodge the icy weather, settling for a hail of cold rain, and there are so many books out this week that it's another tough choice for what to read first, and how to find the time to make sure you don't miss out on some excellent […]
