Jay Faerber

If You Love 'Star Wars', Try These Comics Next
If You Love 'Star Wars', Try These Comics Next
If You Love 'Star Wars', Try These Comics Next
Star Wars is more popular than ever after the release of last years' seventh installment The Force Awakens rekindled everyone's love for stories set a long time ago in a galaxy far away, and the trailer for this year's Rogue One has that excitement rolling right along. Comics and sci-fi have a long history together going way back to serialised comic strips of the '30s such as Flash Gordon, and they've only grown in size and scope since then. Star Wars itself has experienced a comics renaissance at Marvel Comics thanks to the likes of Jason Aaron, John Cassaday, Kieron Gillen and Salvador Larroca, but once you've caught up on those, we've assembled a list of some of the best contemporary independent sci-fi comics on the stands.
Jay Faerber Fuses Capes And Crime In ‘Anti-Hero’ From Monkeybrain [Interview]
Jay Faerber Fuses Capes And Crime In ‘Anti-Hero’ From Monkeybrain [Interview]
Jay Faerber Fuses Capes And Crime In ‘Anti-Hero’ From Monkeybrain [Interview]
"What if superheroes were real?" is obviously a heavily mined premise for countless expressions of American comics' most enduring genre category. Less common is the premise, "No, I mean, what if superheroes were really real?" put forth by Jay Faerber in many of the comics he's written over the last decade, most especially the multi-volume Noble Causes and its spinoff Dynamo 5, which detail the personal lives of a dynasty of heroes. Faerber's fascination with the intersection of real people and fantastical powers continues in Anti-Hero, a new digital-first work for Monkeybrain whose first issue imagines how a superhero's lifestyle would impact the stability of his family, with an added twist: what happens when that superhero's secret identity is compromised by an opportunistic street criminal?
The Creators Of ECCC 2013 [Photo Gallery]
The Creators Of ECCC 2013 [Photo Gallery]
The Creators Of ECCC 2013 [Photo Gallery]
Where some conventions skew more toward pop culture than comic books, this past weekend's Emerald City Comicon 2013 stocked Seattle with hundreds of prominent creators from every corner of the medium. ComicsAlliance was on hand to catch the faces behind the funnybooks as they met fans, signed comics and worked on commissions...
Image Announces New Series From Rucka, Fraction, Casey, DeConnick, Chaykin and More [SDCC]
Image Announces New Series From Rucka, Fraction, Casey, DeConnick, Chaykin and More [SDCC]
Image Announces New Series From Rucka, Fraction, Casey, DeConnick, Chaykin and More [SDCC]
Comic-Con 2012 has featured a few big announcements from several publishers. Not to be outdone, Image dropped a few of their own. At their panel on Saturday, Editor-in-Chief EricStephenson was joined on stage by Matt Fraction, Joe Casey, Darick Robertson, Kelly Sue DeConnick, Howard Chaykin, Chris Roberson, James Robinson and Greg Rucka, each of whom will be doing new projects for the publisher