Indie news is a bit slow this week, but there’s still some awesome news nuggets amid the growing tsunami of Year’s Best lists. First up, some creative team shake-ups over at two popular kaBOOM! series. Artist Carolyn Nowark is taking over penciling duties on Lumberjanes for 3 issues starting in January. Regular co-creator Brooke Allen will be back…
Merry Scary Christmas: Saint
Saint Dick Maas Parachute Pictures Netherlands It’s night, and a gang of outlaws charge through the streets of a medieval village, led by a man in a bishop’s outfit, to attach a list of demands on a door before retreating to their ship. The villagers are tired of this gang’s demands, and prove themselves surprisingly…
Unlikely Team-Ups: Batman Eternal #31-32
Batman Eternal #31: Buried Deep Story by Scott Snyder & James Tynion IV Script by Ray Fawkes Art by Fernando Pasarin Last issue we saw the collapse of Arkham Asylum. This issue touches on a tiny bit of the fallout from that event. Primarily, the fate of Alfred and the escape of many of Gotham’s most notorious…
Drink Your Comics: Tackleford’s Finest Ginger Beer
How to make ginger beer! It’s really easy. But this is a comics site, so first let’s get thematic. When I think “ginger,” I think of my favourite webcomics redhead: Shelley Winters. (Not actually true, but a useful lie.) Scary Go Round dot com is currently in Bobbins Now gear. I’ve mentioned my penchant for…
Cats in Cardigans: London Illustration Fair 2014
Frances covered Lush’s Sandlewood Smugglers launch for us so well that we sent her out again. Do you have an indie comics, illustration, otherwise WWAC-friendly event coming up in London? Let us know! It’s bloody freezing in London at the moment, and the woodland animals of the city’s illustration scene are very sensibly wearing their warmest…
Merry Scary Christmas: Mickey’s Christmas Carol
Mickey’s Christmas Carol Directed: Burny Mattinson Voiced by Alan Young, Wayne Allwine, Hal Smith 26 mins, G It shouldn’t be surprising that Mickey’s Christmas Carol is so disturbing. Obviously it’s based on Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, which itself was based on an age old tradition of telling ghost stories at Christmas and/or Yuletide. The…
Inquisition Diaries #7: Wither the Wardens Wander
SPOILER WARNING: These diaries will contain spoilers for Dragon Age Inquisition (DAI), as well as its predecessors, Dragon Age: Origins (DAO) and Dragon Age II (DA2), and may also contain spoilers from the tie-in materials. If you’re new to this whole Dragon Age business and want to know what the hell I’m going on about,…
Mighty Marvel Monday: Cowboy Hat Man Vs. Marvel
It’s time again for Marvel Monday — all the Marvel news that’s fit to link from other sites, with a healthy dose of my sass-mouthed commentary. Oh, and there’s some spoilers today at the very end: you’ve been warned!
Building Community: MariNaomi on Community, Necessity, and Forgiveness
MariNaomi is an indie cartoonist and artist specializing in memoir. When we spoke, she was touring her latest book, Dragon’s Breath and Other Stories. The book collects a series of stories, first published on the Rumpus as Smoke In Your Eyes. The book “explores a wide spectrum of topics including youthful rebellion, mortality, disillusionment and compassion.”…
Dogears: Peanuts and Unconventional Narrators
Schulz and Peanuts David Michaelis Harper I think I’ve discovered the secret of life — you just hang around until you get used to it. -Charles M. Schulz
Gift Guide: Books and Comics
When in doubt give books or comics! There’s something out there for all readers, no matter their age or preferred genre. Plus they’re easy to wrap. Here are some suggestions from our Books Editor, Christa Seeley, and our Reviews Editor, Kayleigh Hearn.
Variants We Love! A Look At DC’s Homage to Film
DC Comics has revealed their March variant covers and they’re paying homage to films! They all look fantastic but let’s talk about the ones that caught my eye (and heart).
