Questionable Comics is a series where Dan Hill surveys professionals from every corner of the comics industry about their methods and experience. First up this week is seasoned comics veteran Duane Swierczynski, who has bylines with basically every major comics publisher and has most recently been doing work for Archie’s Black Circle imprint and just […]
Pass the Pastiche: Kennel Block Blues and Comics’ Addiction to Retreads
Comics doesn’t have a monopoly on “new” reimaginings of works from other media, but the past few years have certainly made it seem like hungry creators are looking inward for inspiration less and less, instead drawn to the appeal of a quickie make-over of an exciting hit from some other realm. The past couple years […]
Down and Out in Terminal City: Catching Up with Ed Brisson
As one of the hardest working men in comics, Ed Brisson seems to always be juggling a number of promising projects. We chatted with the gritty Vancouverite earlier this year about his trippy super hero epic The Mantle so we were happy to talk to him again about his new urban noir work The Violent. Where The Mantle was a […]
Advance Review: The Fiction #1
Fatalistic times generally call for a lot of escapist fiction. People glancing up at burning skies and down at flooding earth want to be transported to less troubling worlds, where things either look a little hopeful or at least more exotic. What to make of the current crop of anti-escapist fiction, then? Humanity’s prospects don’t exactly […]
Boom Swagger Boom: Curb Stomp is the Kind of Comic Debut We Need More Of
Earlier this month, BOOM! Studios made the comics news rounds after it kicked off a “movement” with its Push Comics Forward campaign, which seemed to tie a general need for more diverse voices in comics in with their upcoming titles. Some people were into it, some people called it out as a hollow PR move, […]
Five (More) Impressions About Comics in 2014
End-of-year lists offer readers one of two things: consensus (that thing you like? You were right! Everybody agrees with everybody! Good for YOU!) or a cursor to mark a time and a place. The goal that underlies each outcome should also (maybe) point in some different or unknown direction. In other words, there is something […]
