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Sweden's Peow Launches its 2016 Line-Up Through Kickstarter
Sweden's Peow Launches its 2016 Line-Up Through Kickstarter
Sweden's Peow Launches its 2016 Line-Up Through Kickstarter
The launch and rise of Peow, a Swedish publisher that was nominated for three Ignatz Awards this year, is one of the most encouraging success stories of 2015. Founded by Patrick Crotty, Olle Forsslöf and Elliot Alfredius, the studio started with three artists and a risograph machine, but has now established a reputation for bright, vibrant, and funny works that are unlike anything else in the industry. Peow has now turned to Kickstarter to fund its Spring/Summer 2016 line-up, featuring new work from creators including Guillaume Singelin, Wai Wai Pang, Mathilde Kitteh, Luca Oliveri, Mackenzie Schubert,and Patrick Crotty himself. It looks as though next year will see Peow grow even further, so we sat down with Crotty to take a closer look at the publisher's history and its hopes for the future.
Tim Seeley Talks Celebrity And Spookiness In 'Effigy'
Tim Seeley Talks Celebrity And Spookiness In 'Effigy'
Tim Seeley Talks Celebrity And Spookiness In 'Effigy'
This week sees the debut of Effigy, a new Vertigo title from Grayson/Revival scribe Tim Seeley and Madame Xanadu artist Marley Zarcone. The series follows Chondra Jackson, a woman who, as a child, starred in a beloved kids' sci-fi/mystery TV show, and now lives a quiet life as a police officer in small-town Ohio – until she gets pulled into a mystery involving ritual sacrifices, a shadowy celebrity-worshipping cult, and pieces of her past coming back to haunt her. To mark the launch of the book, we spoke with Seeley about his work process, his inspirations, and how the world of celebrities and comics intersect.
ReedPOP Goes In-Depth On  Plans For New York Super Week
ReedPOP Goes In-Depth On Plans For New York Super Week
ReedPOP Goes In-Depth On Plans For New York Super Week
Last week, ReedPOP (the company behind New York Comic Con) announced that it would present an event called "New York Super Week" in October -- a ten-day festival of pop media events at venues all over Manhattan and Brooklyn. And while the initial press release was full of hype and excitement, and contained a few intriguing tastes of planned events (Neil DeGrasse Tyson! Podcasts! Concerts!), the announcement came with very little information. There was no language about pricing, ticketing, or other logistics. The just-launched Super Week website contains links to forms so retailers and restaurants/bars can sign up to offer special promotions in association with the festival, as well as a submission form for organizations and individuals to propose events -- but again, concrete details were light on the ground. As might be expected, this has led to a variety of reactions from the comic and entertainment community. Many welcomed the idea of an expanded event, unbound by the confines of a convention center, while other conversations on websites and social media expressed skepticism about the motivation for crowd-sourcing venues and events, and commented that it seemed like an attempt for ReedPOP to monetize satellite events not actually organized by the company. ComicsAlliance reached out to Matthew Wasowski, the Festival Director of Super Week, to ask for clarification on some of these issues, and get answers to a few of the questions that have arisen.
Crowd Funding Watch: Ryan North Remixes A Shakespeare Classic With ‘To Be Or Not To Be’ [Interview]
Crowd Funding Watch: Ryan North Remixes A Shakespeare Classic With ‘To Be Or Not To Be’ [Interview]
Crowd Funding Watch: Ryan North Remixes A Shakespeare Classic With ‘To Be Or Not To Be’ [Interview]
The cross section of webcomics creators and crowd-sourced funding is logically large. Having bucked the traditional route of starting their project with a publisher, creators of webcomics have often needed to find new ways of raising funds in order to keep releasing their art to a wider audience...
The Ed Brubaker ‘Captain America’ Exit Interview
The Ed Brubaker ‘Captain America’ Exit Interview
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...
Activist Bill Ayers Talks About Teaching Comics [Interview]
Activist Bill Ayers Talks About Teaching Comics [Interview]
Activist Bill Ayers Talks About Teaching Comics [Interview]
Best known as a co-founding member of the radical organization The Weather Underground, Bill Ayers has spent the last few decades as an education reformer who has committed his life to changing the way public schools teach students. Now a retired professor from the University of Illinois at Chicago, Ayers has written numerous books on how to change the learning process, including To Teach: The Jo
Jeff Parker and Erika Moen Talk the End of Portland Mystery Comic ‘Bucko’ [Interview]
Jeff Parker and Erika Moen Talk the End of Portland Mystery Comic ‘Bucko’ [Interview]
Jeff Parker and Erika Moen Talk the End of Portland Mystery Comic ‘Bucko’ [Interview]
A year ago, Periscope Studio members Jeff Parker (Thunderbolts) and webcomics diarist Erika Moen (DAR) joined forces to bring their Portland-based webcomic Bucko to the Internet. Bucko follows a long, strange week in the life of an unemployed 20-something man nicknamed Bucko, where half the mystery is figuring out what the mystery is...
Paul Cornell on ‘Soldier Zero,’ Stan Lee, and Crowdsourcing [Interview]
Paul Cornell on ‘Soldier Zero,’ Stan Lee, and Crowdsourcing [Interview]
Paul Cornell on ‘Soldier Zero,’ Stan Lee, and Crowdsourcing [Interview]
This week Soldier Zero #1, the first book in the Stan Lee-spearheaded BOOM! Studios superhero line, made its way to the shelves from writer Paul Cornell (Doctor Who, Action Comics) and Javier Pina (Manhunter, Superman). The comic tells the story of Stewart Trautmann, a wheelchair-bound Afghanistan veteran who's trying to readjust to everyday American life when he ends up bonded to an alien soldier