underground

We recently posted about a very interesting conversation between comics artist Steve Lieber and the 4chan message board, where the artist discovered scans of Underground, the spelunking indie comic he created with Jeff Parker. After Lieber initially showed up on the thread, the commenter who originally posted the scans offered to take them down, saying that he'd only wanted to give Lieber's work

Movies: Universal and Illumination Entertainment are teaming up with Tezuka Productions to produce a live action/CGI hybrid adaptation of Naoki Urasawa and Takashi Nagasaki's Pluto manga, which explores a world analogous to Osamu Tezuka's Astro Boy stories ...

Depending on who you talk to, 4chan is either The-Site-That-Must-Not-Be-Named or just another image board frequented by passionate, tech-savvy users. For all its fun contributions to memedom, however, the site's definitely earned its reputation as a force to be reckoned with...

Long before he started illustrating his own edition of "The Book of Genesis," R. Crumb was drawing the hell out covers for "Zap Comix," and he wasn't alone. Underground comics of the 1960s and 1970s became the amino acids that gave way to modern literary tomes like "Maus" and "Black Hole...

Jeff Parker and Steve Lieber's 5-issue "Underground" series from Image Comics gets collected in trade paperback form this Wednesday and the creative team is going to great lengths to get the word out. Working from the idea that more publishers equals more sales, they're angling for nearly every comic book company in the North American Market...

The use of photo reference is a pretty amorphous technique among illustrators. Painters like Alex Ross tend to use it to capture lighting details, Tony Harris uses it to capture realistic body language and Greg Land seems to use it to capture...

Savage Critic and "Reading Comics" author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week, using this helpful key:KEY £ Demagoguery % Peculiarly textured hair ° Snobs get what's coming to them § Protagonist wears spectacles ¥ Antepenultimate installment € Psychological state of environment-closing-in represented graphically ^ Shooting off sparks

Savage Critic and "Reading Comics" author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week: KEY ^ Fists % Science ^ % INVINCIBLE IRON MAN #19 In which Matt Fraction and Salvador Larocca wrap up their excellent 12-part "World's Most Wanted" serial, and the price gets jacked up a dollar...

Savage Critic and "Reading Comics" author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week, using this helpful key: KEY # As seen on TV ^ Redheads figure prominently % The stage of Joseph Campbell's "hero's journey" known as the Inmost Cave is likely to be evoked at some point ¥ The technological advances in comics coloring of the last ten

Anyone who has lived in a city with a major public transportation system for any length of time inevitably has a few stories. After living in NYC for three years, I have a few of my own, including the half-naked hobos running around with a Jack-o-Lantern stuffed full of money, and the time I fell asleep and and actually woke up on a different train...