While growing up in Senegal and spending summers in France in the ’90s, Juni Ba found lots of time to feed his active imagination with the likes of Xena, Beyoncé, manga, bande dessinées, and the Cartoon Network. When not busy watching or reading of the exciting adventures of any number of his favourite characters, he…
INTERVIEW: Ed Brisson and Damian Couceiro Take Us Beyond the Breach
Imagine your life as you know it has fallen apart. Leaving your cheating partner behind, you head off on a road trip, filled with rage and uncertainty about what comes next. What if that ‘what comes next’ is a giant interdimensional tear that looses monstrous creatures into our world? Writer Ed Brisson and artist Damian…
Emilia Clarke on Her New Comic M.O.M.: Mother of Madness
Comics written by celebrities are a mixed bag. From the blockbuster IP grabs like BRZRKR that attach a beloved actor in order to get a movie made, to the B-movie style indie comics which wouldn’t pass muster if there wasn’t a big name attached, through nepotism-driven Spider-Man runs that quickly run their course, it can…
A Marriage of Literacy & Tarot: A Chat With Brink Literacy Project CEO Dani Hedlund
If there was ever a tarot deck that was designed for avid readers, the Literary Tarot is it. This deck, which is being published by the Brink Literacy Project, aims to seamlessly marry classic and modern literature in an innovative way. Each of the traditional 78 tarot cards represents a piece of classic literature which shares…
House of Socks/Powers of Socks: An Interview with Al Ewing on S.W.O.R.D #1-5
As we draw closer and closer to the Hellfire Gala, we took the time to sit down with Al Ewing to talk about all thing S.W.O.R.D. We take a look at the many ways the book and its team took shape, how to offend Khora of the Burning Heart, and how to launch a title…
INTERVIEW: Eric Palicki on his New Punk Rock Noir Horror Series Black’s Myth
Coming this July is Black’s Myth, a punk rock noir horror series starring werewolf private investigator Janie Jones. At its heart, this black-and-white series is as much about discovering whodunnit as is about “outcasts finding each other and accepting their place in the world,” said writer Eric Palicki in the AHOY Comics’ press release. Palicki…
Celebrate the Little Victories of Life with Yvon Roy
Every parent has their own hopes and dreams for their children, which sometimes don’t always end up becoming reality. (I think my mom still mourns the fact that I never became an engineer.) For Yvon Roy, those hopes and dreams ended up taking a different path in life when he found out his young son…
INTERVIEW: Glenn Head’s Cathartic Return to Chartwell Manor
Content warning: Discussions of sexual and psychological abuse and trauma.
INTERVIEW: Chris Roberson and Leila del Duca on the Mysteries of The House of Lost Horizons #1
Out this month is the first of a five-part locked-room mystery that sees paranormal detective Sarah Jewell and her associate Marie Therése’s weekend getaway become something far more ominous than they had planned. Surrounded by a storm, murder, and occult items, the duo must play a game of whodunit before they become one of the…
INTERVIEW: Jeff Smith & Vijaya Iyer on Kickstarting Tuki, Loving the Industry, and Having Fun
Cartoon Books Inc’s third graphic novel series, Tuki, went live on Kickstarter last week. It has already soared past its initial goal before writer and artist Jeff Smith and publisher Vijaya Iyer even knew what was happening. Iyer and Smith practically glow with excitement on the screen as we chat about the fun they are…
Colorist on Color: Tamra Bonvillain
Hello again friends! We’re here with another installment of Colorist on Color. This time we are joined by Tamra Bonvillain. She is a colorist living in the Southern US. Tamra has won multiple awards for coloring, from the Comicbook.com Golden Issue Awards in 2017 and 2018 to the Aurora award in 2017. She’s an accomplished…
A Pack of Feral Super-People: An Interview with Crystal Frasier on Immortal Hulk, Gamma Flight, and More!
With the recent announcement of Marvel’s 5-issue Mini Gamma Flight it felt like an amazing time to sit down with one of the writers on the upcoming title, Crystal Frasier, to talk more about the series, her work on Immortal Hulk, and more. It was truly an honor and inspiration to sit down with the such…