Congratulations on dragging yourself through the first week or so of 2022. It’s been challenging, all of it, I know but look, a bunch of cool stuff happened too! Cool zine news! Danny Caine, the owner of Raven Bookshop in Lawrence, Kansas and creator of the zine ‘How To Resist Amazon and Why’ which…
Previously On Comics
Now I don’t know if I’m very lucky and the (comics) world just chooses to be very well behaved on the weeks I am assigned to write the news or if it thinks wow we should all wait until someone with a bit more sense is writing before we do something that requires analysis. Either…
Previously On Comics: Short and Sweet
When you read this, I want you to bear in mind that I wrote it with a migraine and double vision so be nice ok. I’m trying. Anyway, did you hear? Jon Kent is gay! Officially. Yes that Jon Kent, Clark and Lois’ kid — SUPERMAN! For some reason, British telly had long-time pantomime dame…
Previously On Comics: Man, It’s A Short One
It’s not a joke. It really is a short one. Look. This week DC Comics announced and launched their first Webtoon, Batman: Wayne Family Adventures and it’s really good. Yes, I know this is supposed to be news, not reviews but seeing as I have a captive audience right now you may as well know…
Previously On Comics: Welcome to Hot Dog Month
Pride month is over and now we must sink into the warm embrace of hotdog month. Yes, hot dog month is here again. However, regardless of how hungry I am at the time of writing, now is no time for hot dogs. Now is time for news!
Previously On Comics: In Memoriam
This week, comics lost more than it gained with the deaths of writer and artist Jesse Hamm and creator and illustrator Patrick Dean. Both deaths were announced by loved ones via Twitter with Jesse’s wife stating “Jesse just died. Blood clot on lung”. The sudden passing was met with an outpouring of love and support…
Previously on Comics: Matters of Record
I don’t know about you but this week has felt so incredibly long. Luckily, it only produced about 4 minutes of pertinent comics news so you can slurp this up and then go back to worrying about real stuff. First up, nominations! This week DisCon III announced the finalists for the 2021 Hugo Awards. Information…
Previously On Comics: Don’t Be A Fucking Nazi
I literally do not know how to address the events of the last week. It would be disingenuous of me not to even mention that I along with a large portion of the world watched white supremacists attempt a coup in real time, live on tv. Or that I did it while on my second…
Previously On Comics: Reinventing the Wheel
Welcome back to Previously on Comics, the place where we try to keep track of the things that have the audacity to keep occurring inside of the pandemic purgatory we find ourselves trapped within. I’m not sure if comics is especially quiet at the moment or if we are all too caught up in local…
Previously On Comics: You Win Some, You Trace Some
Good morning, it’s monday and the thing about comic books fans is that we are, for the most part, a bunch of detail orientated, pedantic nerds. This means that when you trace artwork and then try to pass it off as your own someone will notice. And by someone I mean everyone. In unrelated news,…
Reimagining the Personification of Death in Popular Culture
When people learn that I am studying death and comics they will invariably ask if I mean the grim reaper. Usually I say no, because that’s not at all what I’m doing, but sometimes I say yes, just to see where the conversation will go, to find out what they know about the thing that…
Previously On Comics: Refresh and Re-vote
Comics has been remarkably quiet this week but not so quiet that we have been able to forget that Eisner season is truly upon us. That’s right friends, it’s almost time to get dressed up in your best cargo shorts and make your colleagues feel uncomfortable in the name of creative achievement. How they are…