2015 was a crazy year for comics, but it was also a year of creative explosions, with the small press and digital comics spheres in particular showing off incredible material. Most of our favorite comics this year came from creators working outside the confines of the mainstream industry, with boutique presses like Nobrow and Youth […]
The 100 Best Comics of the First Half of the 2010s: Part Five, 20-1
People tend to reminisce about long gone eras, arguing that things were always better way back when. But when it comes to comics, there’s no denying that the 21st century has seen the medium explode in unprecedented and unpredictable ways. For many people, that has come primarily in the form of the advent of the […]
The 100 Best Comics of the First Half of the 2010s: Part 1, 100-81
People tend to reminisce about long gone eras, arguing that things were always better way back when. But when it comes to comics, there’s no denying that the 21st century has seen the medium explode in unprecedented and unpredictable ways. For many people, that has come primarily in the form of the advent of the […]
Anatomy of a Page: Wolf #1 Page 26 by Matt Taylor, Ales Kot and Lee Loughridge
Comics are a visual medium, but so often criticism of the medium hinges on narrative, ignoring or minimizing the visual storytelling and unique structures that make comics so different from cinema and photography. We’ve decided to change that up with a feature that we’re calling Anatomy of a Page, in which we explore pages and […]
Putting Out Fire with Gasoline: Wolf #1 is LA Noir with a Bite
Do you think fire stands out to humanity as an immortal symbol because of its danger? Or is it because of its utilitarian purpose? We fear fire but it also guides us, warms us, destroys forever anything we feed to it. Fire is fleeting but its destruction is permanent, a sure way to erase an object […]
Loser City on the Web: Elkin on Sex Coven, Muncy gets 404sight, Hennum on, well, everything
We felt so bad about skipping out on our round-ups of where everyone is writing that we decided to double up this week. So without further ado… Daniel Elkin went down south. As in New Zealand. Or at least on the interwebs he did. Joining up with the crew at Faction Comics for their Factional section, […]
The Other Side of the Mirror: Questions and Reflections in Material #1
As high schoolers, my friends and I used to play this game. The way the game worked was that one of us would message a different friend, someone who wasn’t clued into the game, and emulate a chatterbot, testing how long it took for the other person to catch on that we were in fact […]
Holographic Hope: Ales Kot Opens Up in a Big Way with The Surface
The Surface #1 Written by Ales Kot Drawn by Langdon Foss Colored by Jordie Bellaire Designed by Tom Muller Lettered by Clayton Cowles Published by Image Comics The thing about Ales Kot, comics’ current game changing hip priest, is that he’s both cynical and hopeful. More specifically, Kot is a trippy writer who is nonetheless […]
A Whole Galaxy of Multicolored Uppers, Downers, Screamers, Laughers: The Winter Soldier’s Hallucinogenic Cosmic Espionage
Before you’ve even started to read Ales Kot and Marco Rudy’s Bucky Barnes: The Winter Soldier, its creative team wants you to know they’re going to fragment your consciousness. The new series’ first image is of the titular Bucky Barnes, smirking in malicious glee behind a red eyed domino mask as various other personas he has […]
Long Live the New Flesh: Why Comics Needs More Shittalkers
Nick Hanover: About a week ago, Ulises Farinas, artist behind Gamma and Judge Dredd: Mega-City Two posted this update on his Facebook feed: Post by Ulises Farinas. As one of the most visible and prolific shittalkers in what is turning into perhaps the frankest, boldest generation of comic creators, Farinas knows what […]