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Kickstarted: Humberto Ramos & Paul Jenkins’s ‘Fairy Quest’
I like Kickstarter a lot. It's an efficient way to directly connect with artists while also making sure that a project that interests you gets funded. There are still a few hitches that need to be worked out, but my experience with Kickstarter has been largely positive...
Kickstarted: The Glorious Return of Carbon Grey
I like Kickstarter a lot. It's an efficient way to directly connect with artists while also making sure a project that interests you gets funded. There are still a few hitches that need to be worked out, but my experience with Kickstarter has been largely positive...
Kickstarted: Amy Reeder & Brandon Montclare’s ‘Halloween Eve’
I like Kickstarter a lot. It's an efficient way to directly connect with artists while also making sure that a project that interests you gets funded. There are still a few hitches that need to be worked out, but my experience with Kickstarter has been largely positive...
The Ed Brubaker ‘Captain America’ Exit Interview
With the release of Captain America #19, drawn and colored by his former partners-in-crime Steve Epting and Frank D'Armata, Ed Brubaker wrapped up an eight year run on Captain America, having shepherded the character and series through a small fistful of different incarnations and titles...
Kickstarted: ‘Cerebus: High Society’ – Special Audio/Visual Digital Edition [Review]
I like Kickstarter a lot. It's an efficient way to directly connect with artists while also making sure that a project that interests you gets funded. There are still a few hitches that need to be worked out, but my experience with Kickstarter has been largely positive...
Augment the NBA season with Takehiko Inoue’s ‘Slam Dunk’
I grew up watching the Atlanta Hawks, Atlanta Falcons, and Ohio State Buckeyes (football, of course). Sports are something I'm really into, though not to the point that I'll paint my face and show up shirtless to your tail gate party. But, y'know, on gameday, I'll wear a Hawks wristband or shirt to show my support...
What is Ewing & McCarthy’s ‘The Zaucer of Zilk’ About?
Brendan McCarthy and Al Ewing's The Zaucer of Zilk came out this week, the first volume of a two-part story. It's a doozy of a comic, psychedelia crashing up against a traditional hero narrative and crossed with a slice of social commentary...
Ennis & Robertson’s ‘The Boys’ Blows The Bloody Doors Off
So, what's the deal with Darick Roberston & Garth Ennis's The Boys? Is it a gross-out superhero parody, the book that "out-Preachers Preacher?" Is it a more straightforward narrative, an examination of how power corrupts? Is it a rocking action movie where hard men fight men with hard skin? Is...
Ron Wimberly on Vertigo’s ‘Prince of Cats’, Culture, And Working Solo [Interview]
What do Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet, Ronald Reagan's '80s, city life, and black culture have in common? As it turns out, kind of a lot, and Ronald Wimberly's graphic novel Prince of Cats is a particularly beautiful illustration of that fact. Wi...
‘Bucko’ Creators Jeff Parker & Erika Moen On Art, Juggalos And Murder [Interview]
September 19, 2012 is a day that will go down in infamy. Erika Moen and Jeff Parker's webcomic Bucko -- a strip that covers everything from botched threesomes to Juggalos to cover bands to farts to murder -- finally arrives in print form...