The Adventure Zone: Here There Be Gerblins Clint McElroy (Writer), Carey Pietsch (Writer, Art), Tess Stone (Letterer) First Second July 17, 2018 It’s incredibly difficult to convince anybody to listen to a 60+ hour Dungeons and Dragons podcast, which is why I’m glad that The Adventure Zone: Here There Be Gerblins is finally here.
2018 Splatterpunk Awards: Novels
With the short stories, novellas, collections, and anthologies dealt with in the first and second parts of this series, all that is left are the novels. So, join me as I take one last trip through the inaugural Splatterpunk Awards’ list of the most depraved horror fiction of 2017. Editor’s note: Once again, this post bears…
As Black As Resistance Seizes Justice By The Roots
As Black As Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation William C. Anderson and Zoé Samudzi AK Press June 5, 2018 What is the most effective first step of resistance in the Age of Trump? The answer offered by William C. Anderson and Zoé Samudzi’s new book, As Black As Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation, is simple:…
BOOM! Bar: Licenses, Lettering, and Letting Go
BOOM! Bar! Where we talk about the month’s BOOM!, KaBOOM!, BOOM! Box, and Archaia releases, try to spot trends, and think about what BOOM! “is,” as a publisher. Remember last month, when I wondered about how letterers get attached to projects at BOOM! and their substudios? Well, I got some answers. So let’s start with…
Jeff Lemire Takes a Deep Dive Into The Hammerverse
At the end of a busy Friday at San Diego Comic-Con, I found myself nestled into the Dark Horse booth in their lounge area. It was quiet, sparse, and one of the first calm places I had come across after fighting the crowds of the exhibition floor. As I was waiting for Jeff Lemire, the…
Hire these Folx: Sara Eileen Hames
Hire This Woman was a long-running series of interviews at ComicsAlliance overseen by Janelle Asselin. We’re happy to announce that from here on out, with Asselin’s blessing, we’ll be taking over the “Hire This Woman” mantle adapting it to cover any creators who don’t identify as men called “Hire These Folx.” Using the questions from…
Previously on Comics: The WiFi is HOW much?!?
Things are a little quiet now that San Diego Comic-Con is over, but have no fear, we still have plenty of comics-related news for you. First up, a couple of stories about just how hard it can be for the folks who make comics to also make a buck:
My First Comic: Enter Sandman
Four years ago, everything I knew about comics came from Saturday morning cartoons (X-Men, BTAS, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) and the Marvel Cinematic Universe. I honestly didn’t read comics. I knew we had a local comic shop, but had never been there. I really wasn’t all that interested in comics as a storytelling medium….
The Silver Sprocket Take Over Continues
Silver Sprocket have quickly established themselves as a force to be reckoned with in the often homogeneous world of comics. So we were super stoked when we heard that they would be working to smash the system from the inside by putting their books in comics notorious direct market monopoly Diamond. We covered their first…
Seattle, Superheroes, and Social Justice: Vishavjit Singh’s WHAM! BAM! POW! at the Wing Luke Museum
WHAM! BAM! POW! Cartoons, Turbans and Confronting Hate opened May 4, May 2018 and runs through February 24, 2019 at the Wing Luke Museum in Seattle, Washington. It is the story of Vishavjit Singh, a Sikh American cartoonist who dresses as Captain America to dispel misconceptions in the United States about the traditional Sikh turban.
Monthly Marvel Muster – Everything Old is New Again
Hello, and welcome back to Monthly Marvel Muster. It’s been a while, and rather a lot has happened since my last post in February. There’s too much to go into in any detail, but I’ll try to hit the high notes.
Book Beat: BAME Writers, A Queer Eye Book, and Germany’s Oldest Public Library
Hello lovely readers — welcome to another installment of Book Beat, from your Bookmarked editor Paige. While my week has been wonderfully exhausting chaos, it seems the publishing world has avoided too much controversy as summer starts its slow crawl into fall. Not gonna lie… I appreciate the break. Still, there are a few key events to…
