It’s really a dance, trying to pair up the text with the art, not simply illustrating the words, but to move the story forward visually.
Since I have a comic store, it’s easy to have a display up front. If I make a pitch to someone asking if they want to read my […]
One of the most blatant signs that a creative team is about to waste my time occurs when the first issue of a brand new comic series that […]
Wonder Woman is a lame superhero. She flies around in her invisible jet and her weaponry is a lasso that makes you tell the truth. I just don’t […]
Yes, she’s [Batwoman] a lesbian. She’s also a redhead and rides a motorcycle. These are all facets of her character we need to get out there and then […]
I love Wonder Woman because she doesn’t brood. There is nothing emo about her. She is, in fact, one of the toughest sumbitches in comic books, yet still […]
There are more women creating comics than ever – ever! – before, but on the other hand we still see male editors hiring their drinking buddies.
Newspapers have definitely gone downhill […] A big mistake was downgrading the comics so that they are run so small one can barely read them, and eliminating continued […]
The thing I find most fascinating about him [Jeff Brown] is they’re supposed to be autobiographical comics, but they’re clearly not. Also, these relationship comics are a lie. […]
There’s an old adage in comics that says “every issue is someone’s first”. What that means is that every issue should, to some degree, give a new reader […]
It’s awesome that the comics medium is so conducive to frenetic storytelling. And as hard as that makes drawing comics, it also makes comics more fun to draw.