Derek Fridolfs

The Bully Gets His Day In 'Biff To The Future' #1
The Bully Gets His Day In 'Biff To The Future' #1
The Bully Gets His Day In 'Biff To The Future' #1
In Back to the Future Part II, Marty McFly visits a dystopian timeline where Biff Tannen has taken over Hill Valley, murdered Marty's dad, and married his mom. This turns out to be because his older self in 2015 stole the DeLorean to give his younger self in 1955 a Sports Almanac that enabled him to become wealthy by gambling. But when you think about it, it would take more than results of sporting events for a less-than-brilliant teenage bully to become a wealthy corporate titan. Biff to the Future, a new six-issue miniseries from IDW, tells that story. Beginning with young Biff receiving the almanac, it follows him as he realizes just what he has and how to use it, and then start accumulating money and power.
ComicsAlliance Gift Guide: What To Buy For Young Readers
ComicsAlliance Gift Guide: What To Buy For Young Readers
ComicsAlliance Gift Guide: What To Buy For Young Readers
The holiday season is fast approaching, and that means it's time to hit the shops! If you're looking for inspiration for gifts for all the important people in your life, ComicsAlliance has put together a series of guides centered on different themes and personalities! It's likely that everyone read some form of comics as a child, and for many of us it's where our passion for the medium first began. If you've got a young reader in your life who can't get enough of comic books, or you're ready to start them on that adventure, we've put together a list of some of the best titles for young readers available to buy today.
'WWE: Then. Now. Forever.' #1 Is Weird In All The Right Ways
'WWE: Then. Now. Forever.' #1 Is Weird In All The Right Ways
'WWE: Then. Now. Forever.' #1 Is Weird In All The Right Ways
Ahead of the launch of Boom Studios' officially licensed WWE comic, the publisher has released a jam-packed one-shot titled WWE: Then Now Forever, which features a story about the final days of The Shield by Dennis Hopeless and Dan Mora, and a ton of bonus content featuring the likes of The New Day, Sasha Banks and... Tugboat?! It's a very strange comic, but for fans of wrestling it shows a love of the sport that makes it a fun, authentic read.
IDW Announces 'Biff To The Future' From Gale, Fridolfs, Robinson
IDW Announces 'Biff To The Future' From Gale, Fridolfs, Robinson
IDW Announces 'Biff To The Future' From Gale, Fridolfs, Robinson
Of all the movies I obsessed over in my youth, I don't think that any of them had a character as thoroughly wretched as Biff Tannen. As the primary villain of the Back to the Future trilogy, he exists to ruin multiple generations of the McFly family, with horrible schemes that are responsible for breaking the timestream itself. I mean, it's one thing to cheat to win, but to use time travel to cheat so much that it winds up turning his hometown into a nightmare dystopia? That's honestly the least of what Makes Biff such a horrible person. Now, though, we're getting a few more details about the fall, rise, fall, rise, and fall of Hill Valley's least favorite son in the form of IDW's newest Back to the Future series, Biff to the Future, from BTTF screenwriter Bob Gale, Derek Fridolfs, and Alan Robinson.
IDW Announces New 'Dexter's Laboratory' Comic
IDW Announces New 'Dexter's Laboratory' Comic
IDW Announces New 'Dexter's Laboratory' Comic
It seems Dexter's variant Powerpuff Girls cover cameo was merely a teaser of things to come. IDW is expanding its line of Cartoon Network line of comics with a brand new ongoing series based on Dexter's Laboratory, and it promises to continue the science-based sibling rivalry between Dexter and his sister Dee Dee. The new series, written by Li'l Gotham's Derek Fridolfs and with art by Ryan Jampole
Best Sequential Art Ever (This Week)
Best Sequential Art Ever (This Week)
Best Sequential Art Ever (This Week)
The comic book, animation, illustration, pinup, mashup, fan art and design communities are generating amazing artwork of myriad styles and tastes, all of which ends up on the Internet and filtered into ComicsAlliance’s Best Art Ever (This Week). These images convey senses of mood and character — not to mention artistic skill — but comic books are specifically a medium of sequential narratives, and great sequential art has to be both beautiful (totally subjective!) and clear in its storytelling (not so subjective!). The words and the pictures need to work together to tell the story and create whatever tone, emotion and indeed world the story requires. The contributions of every person on a creative team, from the writer to the artist(s) to the letterers, are necessary to achieving a great page of sequential storytelling. It is the special nature of comic books that we’re celebrating in this recurring feature: Best Sequential Art Ever (This Week).
Best Art Ever (This Week)
Best Art Ever (This Week)
Best Art Ever (This Week)
  We make a regular practice at ComicsAlliance of spotlighting particular artists or specific bodies of work, as well as the special qualities of comic book storytelling, but because cartoonists, illustrators and their fans share countless numbers of great pinups, fan art and other illustrations on sites like Flickr, Tumblr, DeviantArt and seemingly infinite art blogs that we’ve created Best Art E
DC All Access: Aquaman Vs. Sharknado
DC All Access: Aquaman Vs. Sharknado
DC All Access: Aquaman Vs. Sharknado
DC Comics began its week-ish slate of Comic-Con programming with an "All Access" panel which mainly spotlighted previously announced publishing plans including the recently launched Trinity War and forthcoming Forever Evil and gave readers an opportunity to get some questions answered by: VP of Sales Bob Wayne, Chief Creative Officer Geoff Johns, Justice League Dark/Animal Man/Green Arro
‘Adventure Time Annual’ #1 Coming In May With Stories By Langridge, Fridolfs, Nguyen And More
‘Adventure Time Annual’ #1 Coming In May With Stories By Langridge, Fridolfs, Nguyen And More
‘Adventure Time Annual’ #1 Coming In May With Stories By Langridge, Fridolfs, Nguyen And More
What time is it? At Boom! Studios it's Annual Time! Following the continued success of its ongoing series and tie-ins, Boom! has announced an upcoming Adventure Time Annual #1. Set for a May release, the annual will serve as something of an AT anthology with stories by Roger Langridge, Derek Fridolfs, Dustin Nguyen and more to be announced...
The Dennis 'D-Man' Dunphy Memorial Awards: ComicsAlliance's Best Comics of 2012, Part 3
The Dennis 'D-Man' Dunphy Memorial Awards: ComicsAlliance's Best Comics of 2012, Part 3
The Dennis 'D-Man' Dunphy Memorial Awards: ComicsAlliance's Best Comics of 2012, Part 3
We didn't realize when we set out to list our favorite comic books of 2012 that it had been such a fun year to be a fan of the medium that we all love so much. The last twelve months offered readers a wide variety of work ranging from the most crowd-pleasing superhero epics to the most idiosyncratic of indies; the return of much missed mangaka and the emergence of exciting new talent; a new crowd-