Sean Witzke
Symbiosis: X-Artist Steven Sanders on Sci-Fi Worldbuilding and Creative Commons [Interview]
Kansas City-based artist Steven Sanders has for the past few years been working on books for Marvel's X-Men line: Wolverine and the X-Men, Wolverine, and S.W.O.R.D.; as well as the original alternate history graphic novel The Five Fists of Science and science fiction romance one-shot Our Love Is Real; and the SPECTRUM art book series...
Away From Human Memory: Editing And Composition In Frank Miller’s ‘The Dark Knight Returns’
Recently I read Miguel Corti's experimental comic Watchmen #13. A cut-up pdf created by numbering and randomizing the panels in Alan Moore and David Gibbon's Watchmen, the book is laid out along variations of the original's consistent nine-panel grid...
Duet On ‘Solo’, Part Nine: Scott Hampton
Published between 2004 and 2006, Solo was a DC Comics anthology series with an innovative twist: each issue was created from the ground up by a single cartoonist and collaborators of his own choosing. Edited by DC's head art director Mark Chiarello (Wednesday Comics, DC: The New Frontier), the series offered artists a platform to control their visions completely in the form of original stories, un
Duet On ‘Solo’, Part Eight: Teddy Kristiansen
Published between 2004 and 2006, Solo was a DC Comics anthology series with an innovative twist: each issue was created from the ground up by a single cartoonist and collaborators of his own choosing. Edited by DC's head art director Mark Chiarello (Wednesday Comics, DC: The New Frontier), the series offered artists a platform to control their visions completely in the form of original stories, u
Duet On ‘Solo’, Part Seven: Michael Allred
Published between 2004 and 2006, Solo was a DC Comics anthology series with an innovative twist: each issue was created from the ground up by a single cartoonist and collaborators of his own choosing. Edited by DC's head art director Mark Chiarello (Wednesday Comics, DC: The New Frontier), the series offered artists a platform to control their visions completely in the form of original stories, u
Brian K. Vaughan Defies Genre Conventions And His Past Work In ‘Saga’ [Opinion]
Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples' Saga is one of the growing collection of great science fiction comics coming out in 2012. The story of two people from warring space tribes and their newborn child is told from a purely character-based perspective, with a focus on human interaction taking center stage...
Duet On ‘Solo’, Part Three: Paul Pope
Published between 2004 and 2006, Solo was a DC Comics anthology series with an innovative twist: each issue was created from the ground up by a single cartoonist and collaborators of his own choosing. Edited by DC's head art director Mark Chiarello (Wednesday Comics, DC: The New Frontier), the series offered artists a platform to control their visions completely in the form of original stories, un
Duet On ‘Solo’, Part Two: Richard Corben
Published between 2004 and 2006, Solo was a DC Comics anthology series with an innovative twist: each issue was created from the ground up by a single cartoonist and collaborators of his own choosing. Edited by DC's head art director Mark Chiarello (Wednesday Comics, DC: The New Frontier), the series offered artists a platform to control their visions completely in the form of original stories, un
Duet On ‘Solo’, Part One: Tim Sale
Published between 2004 and 2006, Solo was a DC Comics anthology series with an innovative twist: each issue was created from the ground up by a single cartoonist and collaborators of his own choosing. Edited by DC's head art director Mark Chiarello (Wednesday Comics, DC: The New Frontier), the series offered artists a platform to control their visions completely in the form of original stories, un