It’s been a busy start to the year for Space Goat Productions. Not only have they been successful with their Terminator Board Game Kickstarter, they’ve also introduced a new line of “Backpack Edition” comics. At only 9″ x 6″ the graphic novel collections are the perfect fit for your bag of choice. Created in 2006,…
GOLGOTHA: Top Cow’s Latest Journey Through Time and Space
The GOLGOTHA is mankind’s first mission to colonize a new world. It will take 80 years for the vessel to travel across space, where its passengers will awake from cryosleep to an untouched civilization that they will call home. But when the crash-landing wakes Captain Michael Lawton from his nightmares, he discovers that technology caught up…
Women Making Comics: Catching Up with Emet Comics’ Maytal Gilboa
Two and a half years ago, a rogue group of screenwriters and filmmakers inspired by the creative freedom they saw in the comics medium founded Emet Comics. With their first publishing effort–a wildly successful Kickstarter for the beloved Finding Molly: An Adventure In Catsitting–the company and its founder, Maytal Gilboa, made a clear statement: they might…
The Glory of Sophie Campbell
Heads you lop, tails you lose The half “Amazonian,” half demon Gloriana Demeter has gone through a few transformations since her first appeared in Rob Liefeld’s Youngblood Strikefile #1 in 1993. She garnered a solo series written by Mary Jo Duffy and drawn largely by Mike Deodato and J. Morrigan, which ran from 1996 to 1997. Glory was a…
Monsterella: Nevin Arnold’s New 1970s-Inspired Anti-Heroine
Canada-based publisher Hangman Comics has taken to Kickstarter to fund Monsterella, an anthology which will bring a new set of anti-heroines to the comic pantheon. Women Write About Comics spoke to creator Nevin Arnold about what we can expect from this upcoming title.
Aevee Bee and Mia Schwartz Talk “We Know the Devil” and “Heaven Will Be Mine”
Amidst the din of the Sunday after show floor, I headed to the Visual Novel Reading Room in the Indie Megabooth at PAX East to meet up with Aevee Bee and Mia Schwartz, creators of the indie visual novel game, We Know the Devil. In typical go-with-the-flow PAX fashion, we hold our interview standing around…
Life of the Party: An Interview with Mary Fleener
Mary Fleener’s 1996 collection of her autobiographical comics, Life of the Party, is a cult favorite, loved for its humor, authenticity, confidence, and distinct artistic style. In Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art, Scott McCloud uses examples of Mary’s art style to explain the concept of non-iconic abstraction. In his pyramid that breaks down varying…
“To Me The ‘S’ Means Something” – Jamal Igle on Supergirl
Jamal Igle has been a creative force in comics for over twenty years. His first work in comics was Green Lantern #52 published in April of 1994. Since then he has worked on some of the biggest names in comics, with art credits on Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, Wolverine, Daredevil, and Firestorm. He is most…
Time Share: A Dirty-Joking Time Travel Adventure Worth Reading
What’s that? Oh, its me! In mid-february, yours truly (on the right) guested on Allison Pregler’s entertainment review channel. Just take two gals, one huge mutual investment in Quantum Leap, and throw it all in a bowl with Quantum Creep, a “fun” comic from Parody Press and the early ’90s. What do you get? A diverting twenty-seven minutes….
What’s in Store for Amalgam Comics & Coffee House
Just over a year ago, Ariell Johnson made local news as the first black woman to open and manage a comic shop on the East Coast. In an industry that too often has pushed back against diversity, Philadelphia’s Amalgam Comics & Coffeehouse, Inc. has made diversity the foundation that it is built on. “We think that comics…
Making a Way by Moonlight: Charlene Ingram and Sailor Moon R’s North American Journey
For kids of the 90s, Sailor Moon is a classic beloved series, despite its rather unpredictable run on network television. While many of us managed to catch at least up to the second season or Sailor Moon R, we might not have gotten a chance to watch beyond that. That’s where Viz Media comes in, with a…
Black Comix Returns
The Black Comix Returns Kickstarter has just a few days to go, but it has already more than doubled its funding goals. Unsurprising, considering the success of the first volume, published seven years earlier. If you’re lucky, you might find a copy of the latter on Amazon for a cool $300. As of writing this…