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…
INTERVIEW: Greg Keyes and Drew Edward Johnson talk Godzilla: Dominion
Greg Keyes and Drew Edward Johnson’s Godzilla: Dominion is the latest in Legendary Comics’ series of Monsterverse tie-in graphic novels. Dominion follows Godzilla as he restores order in chaos of the aftermath of 2019’s Godzilla: King of the Monsters. In preparation for the release, Keyes and Johnson were kind enough to answer a few questions…
INTERVIEW: Olivia Cuartero-Briggs’ Silver City Dreams
It came to Olivia Cuartero-Briggs one night in a dream while she was in her 20s — she pauses — “I’m starting to sound like a bad musical,” she says with a laugh before going on to describe waking up on the floor of a building she didn’t recognize with strangers all around her. Workers…
INTERVIEW: Artist and Co-Creator Erica D’Urso Brings the Action and Emotion to Inferno Girl Red
Mat Groom and Erica D’Urso’s Inferno Girl Red has taken off on Kickstarter. Following up on our interview with writer Groom, we’re checking in with D’Urso to chat about her art and other creative contributions to this exciting new character and story.
INTERVIEW: Return to Spiral City with Jeff Lemire and Caitlin Yarsky’s Black Hammer: Reborn
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…