Writing comics is far more fun, and faaaaaaaar less time-consuming (and hence, technically far more lucrative), than actually drawing them.
While some mainstream comics fans (i.e., superhero fans) certainly do react with knee-jerk, sneering, overweening contempt and disdain at any hint of the so-called “manga style,” I have […]
Reading a comic book is as a complex semiotic process – it involves understanding how the interactions between words and images have been manipulated in order to achieve […]
What are Webcomics? Nobody knows. In the same way that “comics” is just such an utterly wrong label for what the comic is, “Webcomics” doesn’t get close to […]
By the time I got to college I wanted to be a fine artist, and the emphasis is on fine. I mean I wanted to have nothing to […]
The issue [Captain America #50] shows us a Captain America willing to do whatever it takes to live up to his responsibilities; it shows that superhero comics are […]
Kids today really don’t read comics much anymore. In fact, they barely read anything except for the instructions to a video game.
It’s difficult to admit artistic duplicity. A cartoonist who does cinema just doesn’t fit into any of the boxes.
A lot of artists are naturally wary of fan pressure and the excessive criticism that come with a higher profile, so they put their all into a project, […]
The periodical art form is something that’s unique to comics and it’s something that we’re proud to do, and do our very best at month-in, month-out.
The advent of this modern superhero era in Hollywood and the intense success of the gaming and tech culture have made this the Golden Age of Nerds.
Any character you create for a shared universe, as structured legally along work-for-hire rules, is no longer your character the moment it is published.
Comics are always a weird hybrid of text and words, bunged together idiosyncratically by individuals or committees.