There are times where certain subjects rise to the top of pop culture. Motifs suddenly become the flavor of the month, and ideas pop up in different places — similar concepts appearing from separate sources. Right now, for example, two of my new favorite comic series feature wildly differing takes on a few common...
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Free Comic Book Day is a day when comic shops across America (and the world) give away special edition comics from a variety of publishers. It falls on the first Saturday of May, and serves as both a promotional opportunity for retailers, and a holiday celebrating the medium of comics. Over the eleven years...
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On April 28th and 29th, New York’s MoCCA (Museum Of Comics and Cartoon Art) took over the 69th Regiment Armory on Lexington Avenue, to hold their tenth annual festival celebrating the art and culture of american comics. The main hall of the building was filled with artists and publishers displaying their wares, and two...
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Music is an integral part of Hopeless Savages, but it’s not the focus. This comic is about a cast of characters, a family of brilliant and insane individuals, and their trials and tribulations. Their world so steeped in musical culture that music itself is barely referred to; it just exists in every frame, a...
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And now, it’s time for the last batch of our pictures from C2E2. It’s been a couple weeks, but we’re still walking on air at the thought of how much fun we had. A DJ was set up right by the opening of the main floor, mixing a well-picked selection of funk, hip-hop, soundtracks,...
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Cow Boy is a new graphic novel from Archaia, and it’s a masterful work of poignance, varmint wrangling, and hard-bitten, spur-jangling protagonists. The title character is Boyd Linney, a ten year-old child with a bandanna, a hat, and a horse. He’s the youngest bounty hunter in the old west, and he has some scores...
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This year’s C2E2 (Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo) was a fun-filled weekend of media overload, with panels and parties and programming galore. The main floor was filled with booths targeting every imaginable faction of fandom. Publishers advertised new releases; dealers hawked boxes upon boxes of collectible comics, antiquarian sci-fi books, faded old magazines, posters,...
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Well, we’re back from the weekend’s festivities in Chicago, and there’s a lot to talk about, as soon as we can get our thoughts in a coherent order. Our “Comics And Pop Music” panel on Friday night was a great success, full of fascinating conversation and intriguing insights. We have lots of photos to...
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This weekend, April 13-15, McCormick Place in Chicago will play host to C2E2 (the Chicago Comics and Entertainment Expo) and we will be there on Friday, April 13 at 6:30pm, in room N426b, to present and moderate a panel that ties into our “pop music comics” series. We’ve gathered a selection of professionals to discuss the ties between music and...
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The second story arc of 27 picks up a few months after the close of the first series. The fallen rock star William Garland is learning to live with the mysterious device that turned his life upside-down, and deal with the demons (both figurative and literal) that have plagued him. He’s struggling to rehabilitate...
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Fantastic Four 33 cover by Jack Kirby.
