Already dealing with the controversy over all-male Grand Prix nominee list, the Angouleme International Comics Festival provoked even more outcry at Sunday night’s closing award show. The ceremony opened with the emcee, French comedian Richard Gaitet, coming on stage and announcing the award winners…only to reveal minutes later that it was all just a big joke. All…
Incredible Indie Tuesday: Female Artist Claire Wendling Makes Grand Prix Shortlist Despite Festival Fail
While the film industry’s been wrestling with the complete shut-out of any people of color from the Oscars acting nominations, a similar storm has been brewing over comics’ most prestigious award. Unfortunately, #AngoulemesSoMale does not a great hashtag make, so it may have flown under your radar! It all revolves around a lifetime achievement award given to…
Incredible Indie Tuesday: MLK’s Surprising Comic Legacy & Celebrating Black Comic Books
Every year, I try to celebrate Martin Luther King Day by delving into the life and times of Dr. King beyond the too-common reduction of his legacy to a quick soundbite. This year it involved comics, the way every major American holiday should! My best discovery this year was Montgomery Story, a short comic written…
Incredible Indie Tuesday: Kate Beaton Auto-Bio Comics Will Chase the Winter Blues Away
If your 2016 has been anything like mine, the winter doldrums have truly set in, and any comfort and joy of the holiday season is loooooong gone. (Seriously, there should be a limit on the number of family members that are allowed to be in the hospital at the same time.) All this means that I’m in desperate…
Incredible Indie Tuesday: Let 2016 Be the Year of the Queer Lady Protagonist
Welcome to the first Tuesday of 2016! Isn’t it thrilling? Are we all still elated by the possibility of the new year and a fresh start? Personally, I’ve spent most of 2016 battling off a hellish sinus infection, so I’m more congested than cheerful…but this week’s news has got me pretty pumped about what’s coming…
Incredible Indie Tuesday: Which Would You Be, Power Ranger or Princess?
Loyal readers, in a perfect world, you would get this delightful weekly column without fail every Tuesday. But in that perfect world, no one’s co-workers get unexpectedly fired right before the holidays, and therefore your devoted columnist has time to write instead of spending hours trying to negotiate a settlement package to make sudden unemployment at…
Incredible Indie Tuesday: If You Like French Time-Traveling Space Secret Agents, This Column’s For You
Are you ready for the GREATEST comic movie news of 2015 that doesn’t feature Sebastian Stan’s mournful eyes??? The dude who made The Fifth Element is making a movie out of the French comic Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, which is exactly the kind of ’60s sci-fi zany adventure it sounds like. The two titular leads are…
Incredible Indie Tuesday: World-Building, the Perils of Graphic Memoirs, & Swedish Comics
Wow, ever have one of those vacations that was so lovely it somehow makes going back to work on Monday worse instead of better and more well-rested? Because I am so there this week, and no amounts of .gif sets of the new Civil War trailer can soothe me. Luckily, there are a few delightful interviews to check…
Incredible Indie Tuesday: Interviews Edition!
Trying to put together this week’s column, I made a perilous, very irritating discovery. We’re less than a month out from The Force Awakens premiere and, oh sweet baby Jesus, there is SO MUCH Star Wars coverage in the geek media sphere. How can one movie generate this many headlines??? I feel like Artax in The…
Incredible Indie Tuesday: Snowpiercer coming to TV and Doctor Mirage (finally) coming back to comics
Loyal readers, let me give you a piece of advice: if you must have a day-job, try not to have one that involves constant three-hour drives to rural Ohio hospitals. Even more importantly, if you must do work that involves long drives and overnight trips to rural Ohio, definitely don’t leave your overnight bag containing your clean clothes,…
Incredible Indie Tuesday: Preacher Trailer Debuts, Dominic Cooper Makes Super Hot Priest
The first trailer for Preacher on AMC dropped on Sunday and, boy, does Dominic Cooper just make the hottest priest or what? You can tell he’s a badass too, because he’s got those little silver collar tips in addition to the priest collar (and also because he beats up some dudes but, let’s be real, it’s mostly…
Incredible Indie Tuesday: Marjorie Liu Should Win All the Awards
Writer of the upcoming Monster and one of my favorite people in comics, Marjorie Liu gave a must-read interview talking about the personal inspirations behind her upcoming work, being an Asian American creator in comics, and why all the focus on ‘strong female character’ is totally misplaced. Her Image series Monster with artist Sana Takeda is a fantasy epic dealing as…