Joseph Boyden, Canadian author and winner of the Giller Award and Canada Reads, has announced his latest project — Kwe: Standing With Our Sisters. Kwe is an anthology of stories about First Nations women in Canada, featuring work from more than fifty contributors, including Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatje, Gord Downie, Thomas King, Lee Maracle, and Yann…
Game of Thrones Game Ep 1: Iron from Ice
I am on a mission to convert non-gamers to the wonderful world of gaming, and Telltale Games is helping me with my goals by offering interactive stories based on popular series. I’ve talked about their The Walking Dead and Fables games in the past. Now it’s time to get bloody with Game of Thrones. You don’t…
Incredible Indie Tuesday: Creative Team Changes & Disability in Comics
Indie news is a bit slow this week, but there’s still some awesome news nuggets amid the growing tsunami of Year’s Best lists. First up, some creative team shake-ups over at two popular kaBOOM! series. Artist Carolyn Nowark is taking over penciling duties on Lumberjanes for 3 issues starting in January. Regular co-creator Brooke Allen will be back…
Merry Scary Christmas: Saint
Saint Dick Maas Parachute Pictures Netherlands It’s night, and a gang of outlaws charge through the streets of a medieval village, led by a man in a bishop’s outfit, to attach a list of demands on a door before retreating to their ship. The villagers are tired of this gang’s demands, and prove themselves surprisingly…
Unlikely Team-Ups: Batman Eternal #31-32
Batman Eternal #31: Buried Deep Story by Scott Snyder & James Tynion IV Script by Ray Fawkes Art by Fernando Pasarin Last issue we saw the collapse of Arkham Asylum. This issue touches on a tiny bit of the fallout from that event. Primarily, the fate of Alfred and the escape of many of Gotham’s most notorious…
Drink Your Comics: Tackleford’s Finest Ginger Beer
How to make ginger beer! It’s really easy. But this is a comics site, so first let’s get thematic. When I think “ginger,” I think of my favourite webcomics redhead: Shelley Winters. (Not actually true, but a useful lie.) Scary Go Round dot com is currently in Bobbins Now gear. I’ve mentioned my penchant for…
Cats in Cardigans: London Illustration Fair 2014
Frances covered Lush’s Sandlewood Smugglers launch for us so well that we sent her out again. Do you have an indie comics, illustration, otherwise WWAC-friendly event coming up in London? Let us know! It’s bloody freezing in London at the moment, and the woodland animals of the city’s illustration scene are very sensibly wearing their warmest…
