Kurt Busiek

‘Astro City’ And The Human Cost Of Superheroics [Issue #3 Preview]
‘Astro City’ And The Human Cost Of Superheroics [Issue #3 Preview]
‘Astro City’ And The Human Cost Of Superheroics [Issue #3 Preview]
On sale now from Vertigo is Astro City #3, continuing the long awaited return of this most distinctive superhero series by Kurt Busiek and Brent Anderson. Known for its vast cast of heroes, villains and civilians, the series has always viewed superheroics from the vantage that matters most: the streets; the people whose lives are impacted for better or for worse by the impossible action in the sky
Buy This Book: ‘Superman: Secret Identity’
Buy This Book: ‘Superman: Secret Identity’
Buy This Book: ‘Superman: Secret Identity’
Last week, DC Comics released a new paperback of Kurt Busiek and Stuart Immonen's Superman: Secret Identity, and if you haven't read it, this is a pretty good time to remedy that. It's got a premise that's immediately interesting, starting from the simple question of what Superman would be like if he existed in the real world -- our world, the one that already has Superman as a fictional charact
‘Astro City’ Ends Three-Year Hiatus With New Ongoing Series In June
‘Astro City’ Ends Three-Year Hiatus With New Ongoing Series In June
‘Astro City’ Ends Three-Year Hiatus With New Ongoing Series In June
Fans of the big-city adventures of Kurt Busiek and Brent Anderson's critically-acclaimed Astro City are in luck come June. The series is returning at DC Comics as a full ongoing following a three-year hiatus, with the book's original team of Busiek, Anderson and character designer and cover artist Alex Ross at the helm...
Kurt Busiek & Steve Lieber’s ‘Thoughts On A Winter Morning’ Is A Perfect Digital Comic
Kurt Busiek & Steve Lieber’s ‘Thoughts On A Winter Morning’ Is A Perfect Digital Comic
Kurt Busiek & Steve Lieber’s ‘Thoughts On A Winter Morning’ Is A Perfect Digital Comic
Thoughts On A Winter Morning was released fairly quietly this week from the Monkeybrain digital comics collective. Very thoughtfully written by Kurt Busiek (Astro City, Superman: Secret Identity) and exquisitely drawn by Steve Lieber (Whiteout, Underground), the eight-page story is an autobiographical tale that finds its narrator reflecting upon the neighborhood where he grew up in light of the bi
Kurt Busiek and Alex Ross Team for ‘Kirby: Genesis’
Kurt Busiek and Alex Ross Team for ‘Kirby: Genesis’
Kurt Busiek and Alex Ross Team for ‘Kirby: Genesis’
Dynamite Entertainment certainly wasn't bashful about the involvement of Alex Ross when it teased the coming of "Kirby: Genesis" last week, and today the publisher pulled back the curtain on its initial promo image even further to unveil not only more of Ross' work, but also to reveal the involvement of writer Kurt Busiek...
Conan Returns to His Homeland, Cimmeria
Press Release The world's most famous barbarian will be going through some changes, starting with a relaunch of the Dark Horse comics series after issue #50. First, though, they'll be tying up some loose ends: after Tim Truman and Cary Nord wrap up their adaptation of "Rogues in the House" in Conan #44, original Conan writer Kurt Busiek and artist Greg Ruth will be finishing off Born on