Doc Bizarre, M.D. is the latest transmission from the twisted mind of Joe Casey (acclaimed author of Gødland, Automatic Kafka, The Intimates, Butcher Baker the Righteous Maker, and other strange and wonderful comics). It tells the story of the eponymous…
Joe Simon: My Life In Comics (Titan Books, 2011)
Joe Simon is a legend in the world of comic books. He co-created Captain America (and many other memorable characters), worked with many of the field’s most important names, and stands as one of the first artists to recognize the…
Comic Review: Screamland (Image Comics, 2011)
Monsters are real. That’s made clear within the first couple pages of this series. Those old-time film boogiemen, they weren’t imaginary. They starred in those movies, playing the roles that were written for them. And now that they’ve gotten old,…
Pop Music Comics: The 90s, part one. Rock-It Comics, Revolutionary, Marvel Music, Grateful Dead Comix.
In the early 1990s, the comic market was exploding. New publishers were springing up in an attempt to catch a piece of the craze, existing companies were introducing new titles right and left, investors were entering the field and speculating…
New York Comic-Con 2011: in conclusion.
Now that we’ve had a couple weeks to recover, it’s time to wrap up this year’s NYCC coverage. It was a show full of memorable moments: Staring in awe at the thirty-foot inflatable Jake The Dog at the main entrance.…
Comic Review: Our Love Is Real (Image Comics, 2011)
Our Love Is Real is a stand-alone 24 page comic book, an off-kilter, blackly humorous tale about a sex-obsessed dystopian future society and the people who live (and love) there. The world is a shambles, and political factions are categorized…