Lumberjanes Creators Talk Friendship, Girlhood and Social Media Recently upgraded from a miniseries to an on-going, Lumberjanes from BOOM! Studios has generated a lot of buzz in the comics world. Creators Grace Ellis, Noelle Stevenson and Shannon Watter spoke to ComicsAlliance about how Lumberjanes came to be, the upswelling of support for the book from social…
Incredible Indie Tuesdays: Webcomics, Kids’ Comics, and Trippy Sci-Fi Goodness
Prologue to Matt Fraction and Christian Ward’s Ody-C Comes Online, Not to be Included with Comic The creators of this sci-fi, gender-swapped retelling of The Odyssey have put up a prologue to the story that won’t be included in the comic itself. It’s beautiful and strange, absolutely unlike anything that’s on the stands today. Christian…
Incredible Indie Tu-Wednesday
Creator Farel Dalrymple talks upcoming graphic novel about kids in weird, dystopic future For readers of Image’s Prophet revival, Farel Dalrymple’s work should feel familiar. After working mostly in alternative comics, he took a spin on the sci-fi book during its run before setting out to work on The Wrenchies, his upcoming graphic novel from First…
Incredible Indie Tuesdays: TV Coming to Comics and Vice Versa
New Fraggle Rock Series Brings Another Henson Property to Life Sure to please younger readers and nostalgic fans of the original, a four-issue Fraggle Rock miniseries hits the stands in October. It’s exciting to see Archaia’s continued commitment to bringing the work of Jim Henson into comics, from the award-winning Tale of Sand to the…
Incredible Indie Tuesdays: Upcoming New Mignola Work May Be on the Horizon
First Hint of New Non-Hellboy Work from Mike Mignola Obviously, the name of the game when it comes to Mike Mignola is Hellboy: a character that’s just celebrated his 20th anniversary and has spawned a whole comic ‘verse centered around him. Now we have hints that Mignola may be branching out with new cover art…
Incredible Indie Tuesdays (On Wednesday!): Mice Fights and Fancy Leotards
Mice Templar creators talk process of creating 22-page all-battle issue It’s always exciting when creators pull back the curtain and go into detail about all the work and planning that goes into creating a seamless final project. In this piece at CBR, the team on Image’s Mice Templar discuss how the huge battle filled with…
Incredible Indie Tuesdays: Movie/TV Options for All!
Valiant’s Archer and Armstrong Bound for the Big Screen Seems like Hollywood producers have been catching up on their indie comics lately! Archer and Armstrong, newly revived in 2012 by Fred van Lente and Clayton Henry, has been picked up by the Sean Daniel Company, a.k.a. the production company that did the Mummy movies. This odd-couple action series…
Incredible Indie Tuesday: Scary Memes and Rocket Girls
New Jeff Lemire Book Tackles ‘Forgotten’ Golden Age Heroes He’s been doing DC cape comics for the past few years, but Jeff Lemire is now teaming up with artist Dean Ormston on an independent superhero book filled with characters that could have stepped out of the Golden Age of comic books. The premise of The Black…
Incredible Indie Tuesday: Lovely Art and Editors-in-Chief
Artist Tula Lotay Talks New Series with USA Today Though a relative newcomer to the comics world, all of Tula Lotay’s art on Supreme: Blue Rose looks absolutely, ridiculously good. Add the incredible art to Warren Ellis writing a female-led sci-fi comic, and it’s like Image Comics WANT to take all my money. This interview sheds a…
Incredible Indie Tuesday: Creator Interview Edition
Original Creators to Return to Quantum and Woody The relaunch of Quantum and Woody is a hit from Valiant Comics, but there’s nothing quite like the original. Two decades after their ’90s run, creators Christopher Priest and MD Bright are reuniting to produce Q2: The Return Of Quantum & Woody. The miniseries, which starts in October, reunites the original…
Incredible Indie Tuesday: Creepy Webcomics Bonanza!
Web-Comic Broodhollow Blends the Cute and the Creepy Larry Cruz at Robot 6 looks at Kris Staub’s webcomic Broodhollow which manages to be both adorable and one of the scariest comics being published right now. The first complete chapter of this webcomic is up here to catch up on the series and follow along with the on-going…
Doctor Strange Fancast
An upcoming Doctor Strange movie has got its director, Scott Derrickson, which means casting announcements are sure to follow. Our staff share their picks of who should play the Sorcerer Supreme in his big-screen debut.