Your very first panel is insanely important, it’s pivotal, it’s you at your date’s door, flowers in hand, hoping to make a good impression. Or maybe an update on that is it’s your Tinder pic and you want every reader in all of comics to swipe right [is it right that you swipe that’s good? […]
Yellowed Pages: The Residents’ Freak Show
Sometimes we just want to talk about old comics we found in bargain bins or antique stores or in our garages. Is that so wrong? In this installment, we look back at Dark Horse’s 1992 collaboration with The Residents, Freak Show, which brought together the world’s most mysterious band and an awe inspiring line-up of […]
Anatomy of a Page: Owen Gieni’s Negative Space #1
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 […]
Filling the Void: An Interview with Ryan K. Lindsay Part Two
Several weeks ago, Ryan K. Lindsay reached out to see if we wanted to take a peek at his upcoming new Dark Horse series Negative Space and talk to him about it. A quick glance at Owen Gieni’s imaginative and unique art made it clear Negative Space was going to be a different series than readers of Lindsay’s […]
Filling a Void: An Interview with Ryan K. Lindsay
Several weeks ago, Ryan K. Lindsay reached out to see if we wanted to take a peek at his upcoming new Dark Horse series Negative Space and talk to him about it. A quick glance at Owen Gieni’s imaginative and unique art made it clear Negative Space was going to be a different series than readers of Lindsay’s […]
Writing is Living: Negative Space is an Emotional Look at Writer’s Block
For one week in 2012, Facebook blatantly manipulated the posts nearly 700,000 users saw on their feed in order to gauge the impact the social media platform had on human emotion, removing positive or negative posts to make some people have “happier” feeds while others wound up with “sadder” ones. When news of this experiment […]
What We Talk About When We Talk About Money In Comics
Last week, Big Trouble in Little China artist Brian Churilla made a post on his Tumblr regarding the financial realities of making comics. He writes: So you want to be a comic book artist..? Here’s some sobering information. One year. 12 issues. 264 pages. 4 covers. […] This was a strictly work-for-hire job on a […]
Technicolor Doomsday: Apocalyptigirl Provides an Unusually Colorful Dystopia
The color palette of the apocalypse is sorely out of date. Think about the end times fiction you’ve consumed and chances are it screens in your head in dusty yellows and browns, blackness around the edges, shadows run rampant from desert heat. This is because the apocalypse we used to fear was man-made in a […]
Advance Review: Fight Club 2 #1 Fuck Your First Rule
I used to love Chuck Palahniuk. His prose was well-groomed—coiffed and manicured. I discovered Fight Club and Survivor my sophomore year in high school, and my teenage brain, so desperate to intellectually Other itself from its banal and ephemera-focused peers, confusing superficiality and accidental satire for meaningful substance, latched onto his oeuvre. I gorged myself […]
Advance Review: Pop #1 is the Most Fun You’ll Ever Have with a Meta-Deconstruction of Celebrity
How fucking weird is it that Pop Art has morphed from a seemingly disposable movement to one of the most prophetic social commentaries in the modern era? Today Andy Warhol’s purposefully hollow replications of celebrity iconography look a whole hell of a lot like memes and his prediction that in the future everyone would have […]