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…
He-Man, Hugos, and Who Benefits From Fandom
Last night I learned about two things in quick succession.
Previously On Comics: Oops! All Quick Hits!
The week before SDCC is always a strange sort of dead space. Too early for big announcements, too late to start anything new, and too busy to cause any high level trouble. But now its been and gone and I know you all are eager for those tasty SDCC exclusives. Unfortunately, I do not have…
Previously On Comics: With Great Wealth Comes Great Opportunity
This last week started off awfully quiet and in retrospect that should have been all we needed to know that something big would happen. That big something came in the shape of DC Comics announcing that they would be shutting down its Vertigo imprint and moving toward branding its comics by age appropriateness. DC will…
Previously On Whatever It Was We Were Reading Before N.K. Jemisin Invented Comics
This week DC announced the return of its Young Animal imprint and with it the launch of Far Sector, an original Green Lantern story written by the Hugo and Nebula Award winning author, N.K. Jemisin and artist Jamal Campbell. Alongside this we will also see the return of Doom Patrol, and the new original series…
Previously on Comics and Comics Adjacent Media but Mostly Comics I Promise
This week has been chock full of pre-ECCC announcements and first looks so apologies if this starts to get repetitive but there is a ton of cool stuff on its way and — bonus — pretty much everyone was too busying prepping for cons to show their ass so I dont have have to write…
Previously On Comics: GYNO TO THE MAX
Forgive me, readers, for the gynocentric lens through which I must present this week’s Previously On Comics. I am but a simple non binary woman and while I do not wish to alienate any of our male or male adjacent friends by focusing on ‘women’s issues’ instead of the more universal understanding of the news…
Previously On Comics: Ask Me About My Trans Exclusionary Feminist Agenda
While the majority of us are still too busy trying to recover from the holidays to get caught up in trash and nonsense, comics never truly rest and the news just keeps on coming. We started the year with the news that the chairman of IDW has recently loaned the company $28 million to help…
Previously On Comics: Flagged for Adult Content
As far as comics news goes this week has been pretty quiet. I mean, stuff happened but it’s been mostly comics adjacent and as no one showed their ass on the tl so it’s felt, y’know, quiet.