It seems like a week can’t go by without the entire comics industry losing their shit on Twitter about something or another. So we thought we might as well make the process a little more entertaining by providing you with a Bingo card to keep track of the comics twitter rage cycle. Enjoy!
Archives for August 2016
Questionable Comics: Sandra Lanz and Laura Graves
Questionable Comics is a series where Dan Hill surveys professionals from every corner of the comics industry about their methods and experience. Today’s first subject is Sandra Lanz, the creator behind the new Stela series House Girls. What current projects are you working on? I just finished work on my first creator-owned series called House Girls. […]
Level Up is More Than a Mushroom, Not Yet a Tanooki Suit
It’s not uncommon for a film’s best and most memorable character to be the locale in which it takes place: the sweat drenched glitz and grime of a Michael Mann cityscape, the paradise-turned-Hell of WWII Polynesia in The Thin Red Line, the looming shadows of Jean-Pierre Melville’s noir vision of Paris. So too is the […]
Fossil Records: Aphrodite’s Child’s It’s Five O’Clock
Sometimes, for whatever reason, great art slips past audiences and remains woefully underappreciated. Which is why we’ve created an essay series called Fossil Records, devoted to helping people discover lost and obscure work that never got its due. Aphrodite’s Child didn’t put out “fossil records” so much as they were a full blown “fossil band”: best known […]
Questionable Comics: Christopher Sebela and Ryan Ferrier
Questionable Comics is a series where Dan Hill surveys professionals from every corner of the comics industry about their methods and experience. First up today is Twitter sensation comics writer Christopher Sebela, who has accumulated credits at most of the major comics publishers, including Boom, Oni, Image and Marvel. What current projects are you working on? […]
Just Another Unfortunate Thing: On Paul Qui and Redemption
Back in March of this year, not long after news broke that celebrity chef Paul Qui had been arrested for assaulting his girlfriend and endangering her child, Dan Solomon wrote a piece in Texas Monthly confronting the narrative that emerges around abuse and abusers, arguing in its headline that “How we talk about Paul Qui’s […]
Der Bunker is an Unsettling and Baffling Odd Couple Film
About midway through Nikias Chryssos’ debut feature film Der Bunker, Pit Bukowski’s anonymous boarder asks the Jack-esque “child” Klaus (Daniel Fripan) he has been pressured into tutoring to stop playing the organ. Klaus, decked out in an outfit that would have looked right at home on Pet Sematary’s Gage, turns and asks “Too fortissimo?” It’s an extremely odd moment […]
Fossil Records: Igor Wakhevitch’s Hathor
Sometimes, for whatever reason, great art slips past audiences and remains woefully underappreciated. Which is why we’ve created an essay series called Fossil Records, devoted to helping people discover lost and obscure work that never got its due. There’s a certain type of music that I’ve taken to referring to as “story music”—stuff that lends itself to […]
Questionable Comics: Alison Sampson and Garry Mac
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 Alison Sampson, co-creator of the Image graphic novels Genesis and Winnebago Graveyard, and the curator of the excellent Think of a City project. What current projects are you working on? Winnebago Graveyard with Steve […]
No More Mancubes: In Defense of Suicide Squad
Last weekend, the Austin contingent of Loser City got together to watch the much maligned hit Suicide Squad. Kayleigh Hughes, Chris Jones and Nick Hanover (and Dylan Garsee, who is too busy running a fancy chicken shack to participate in roundtables these days) went in with low expectations but were pleasantly surprised by the film, so […]