The comic book medium is about sequential storytelling; doesn’t matter if we’re discussing webcomics, comic books, comic strips, or mini-comics. What matters is the material, and getting your […]
I had no reservations about going to comic book conventions because comics are a medium, not a genre, and while at the larger cons there are people dressed […]
In a time when literally hundreds of new comics are coming out each month, it is hard to draw interest into a new title.
I love the traditional comic book format, and it’s by far my favorite format to work it. It’s the perfect weight and size, can be easily read in […]
Comics are like that [playing baseball]. It’s a hobbyist medium. We’re craft workers, and we’re really lucky to be able to make our living from craft.
In the right hands, comics are an excellent medium for revealing character with a few concise words and lines.
Sometimes mainstream superhero comics aren’t very good. Sometimes they are astonishingly great. The same goes for every other kind of media product and/or narrative.
Like science fiction, this is a medium with its roots in pulp and the alternative: for every scholar who attempts to trace the history of sequential art back […]
Reason #1 to love this 1941 superhero [Mr. America]: His secret identity is a Texan oilman out for revenge against the Nazis. Reason #2: His sidekick’s name was […]
No graphic novels for me, it’s too much work, I’m too lazy, and quite honestly, I’d rather play hockey.
Adult comics are very much ghettoized in the comics world, shunted off to the side with the expectation that its readers want jerk-off material and nothing more.