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…
Previously On Comics: Priorities
I don’t know how to do this today. I don’t know how to be anything but scared and angry anymore. I don’t know how, during a pandemic, where Black people are being forced to risk their lives in order to explain that their livers MATTER, on the three year anniversary of Grenfell, a few days…
Previously On Comics: Lockdown Limbo
It’s strange to think that life has been allowed to continue while we are, for the most part, trapped within our various states of lockdown limbo. That things completely unrelated to COVID-19 are still occurring every single day. Heartbreaking, incredible, hilarious, terrible, mundane things, just happening! Every, Single. Day. Some of these things have transpired…
Previously On Comics: Keep on Tickin’
How are you doing? Are you looking after yourself? Baking some bread? Considering a DIY cut and dye job, perhaps? Good. Stuff’s hard and you deserve a distraction. Like this weeks news! You’re welcome. While you would like to think that even in times like these the comics machine would keep on keeping on it…
Previously On Comics: For Your Health
Welcome to Previously On Comics, I’m obviously Kell Richards. It’s been a fairly quiet week in the news mines but we have managed to unearth some gold in between all the hand washing. Following last week’s update regarding Emerald City Comic Con a further announcement has been made, this time to notify guests, artists, fans…
Previously On Comics: Survive
Welcome back to Previously! If you are reading this, you have survived January, the cursed year within a year, and now you must keep surviving. To aid you, here is some comic book news. This week saw Cartoonist Jerry Craft win the Newberry Medal for his book New Kid. This is the first time a…
Previously on Comics: Tempus Fugit
November is here and there is no time to waste because the clocks have done their nonsense clock thing on both sides of the Atlantic and I don’t know when we are anymore so let’s get to it.
Previously On Comics: Release the Richards Cut!
I don’t even know where to start. Most of the week and all of the weekend has been dominated by New York Comic Con and everything a 4 day con entails. People have been busy and as you can imagine shenanigans have been low on everyone’s list of priorities. That said there has been some…
Previously On Comics: Now With Space Fascists
Good news folks, comics ARE for kids again! The Wall Street Journal said so. I think. It’s behind a paywall but from what I can glean they have just now learned that graphics novels that are aimed at younger readers and deal with more sensitive topics such as those by New York Times bestseller list…