Jeff Lemire and Dean Ormston’s superhero saga, Black Hammer, returns with a whole new story, set 20 years after the Lucy Weber took up the mantle her father left behind. The legacy her father left behind, the secrets of what has happened over the past two decades, and the crushing frustrations of her everyday life…
Single Issue Stories: A Conversation With Vita Ayala on New Mutants #15
Vita Ayala and Rod Reis’ New Mutants #15 is an issue that marked a personal turning point for the new Krakoan paradigm in what we can expect the stories of this era to tackle. This issue is an unfolding promise to tackle concepts such as identity, bodily-agency, and belonging in ways that no X-Men story has…
INTERVIEW: Tokusatsu, Boarding School Dramas, & Superhero Comics Come Together in Mat Groom’s Inferno Girl Red
In Inferno Girl Red, Cássia Costa needs something to believe in, especially after an ancient cult and their demon army steal Apex City, her home. Cássia discovers that she is the only person who can right this wrong with a mysterious and powerful dragon bracelet affixes itself to her arm. Now, as the only person…
INTERVIEW: Christopher Golden and Bridgit Connell on the Long-Awaited Debut of Lady Baltimore
It’s been over a year since Lady Baltimore was first announced. Co-written by Hellboy’s Mike Mignola and bestselling novelist Christopher Golden, with art by Brother Nash creator, Bridgit Connell, the five-part comic series sees Sofia Valk embrace her monster-hunting destiny by taking up the Baltimore mantle. The series also features colours by Michelle Madsen and…
INTERVIEW: Wendy Chin-Tanner on Embodied: An Intersectional Feminist Comics Poetry Anthology
Poetry is Wendy Chin-Tanner’s first love. In her own poetic work, she calls on the influences of poets such as Audre Lorde, Ai, Sylvia Plath, Vera Pavlova, and Lorine Niedecker. For A Wave New World’s Chin-Tanner, poets are a kind of literary world superhero, because, she says, “they’re always trying to do the impossible —…
INTERVIEW: Greg Hunter on Seekers of Aweto and Everything Lerner Books Has in Store for 2021
In 2018, Lerner Books published the first English-language translation of artist and writer, Nie Jun’s, called My Beijing, a collection of slice-of-life stories with a sprinkling of magical realism, translated from its original Chinese. This week, Lerner brings us a whole new adventure from Jun that introduces English-language readers to the fantastical world of the…
Ricardo Delgado’s Dracula of Transylvania Promises a Horrifying Yet Fun Addition to Vampire Lore
Ricardo Delgado is well-known for his comic series, Age of Reptiles comics and cites the paintings of Charles R. Knight’s as childhood inspiration. For his latest work, the film and comic artist draws on his childhood adoration of classic monster movies from Hammer and Universal studios, Marvel’s Tomb of Dracula comics, Famous Monsters of Filmland…
Interview: The Beautiful Horror of Natalia Lopes and MystoPress
Natalia Lopes has always wanted to make comics for a living. As of 2019, she has finally begun to live her dream, starting with a successful Kickstarter that that brought the horror anthology Paroxysm to life under Lopes’ MystoPress: “From tales of modern vampires, to the horrifying implications of current events, to the feeling of…
Igniting OMNI Volume 2: An Interview With Melody Cooper
Melting icecaps, raging wildfires and diseases,war—in the world of OMNI, the Earth has had enough. It’s responding to the constant onslaught humans inflict upon it by fighting back. Does one of those ways of fighting back involve granting abilities to certain people? In the first volume of the series, Dr. Cecelia Cobbins discovers her ability…
Ayize Jama-Everett and John Jennings Unpack Their Box of Bones
Horror takes on a whole new meaning when told by and about Black people. With so much of history for people of the African Diaspora bound up in enslavement, it’s difficult to separate any artistic expression from the generational trauma and the continued weight of racism. Though it is as disturbing to read those stories…
A Platform for Philippine Komiks: An Interview With Penlab
Filipino komiks (“comics”) have long had a commercial industry that goes far back as the 1920s, but it has been only until recently that interest in these works has grown outside of the Philippines. With social isolation restrictions still in place due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many artists have been turning to ways to expand…
Discover Hope in The Sacrifice of Darkness
If 2020 teaches us anything, it is to find hope in darkness. That hope comes in many forms, even from the past. Roxane Gay’s 2013 short story “We Are the Sacrifice of Darkness” is a story of a world plunged into literal perpetual darkness and one family’s hopes to overcome it. Now a graphic novel…
