Written by Steve Horton Art by Stephen Thompson Colors by Lisa Jackson Letters by Neil Uyetake Edits by Sarah Gaydos Published by IDW Whenever I see the argument to “keep politics out of sci-fi” come up, I have an urge to point out the genre has always been on the forefront of political writing. Many […]
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. […]
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? […]
Questionable Comics: Nic J. Shaw and Taylor Esposito
This week’s Questionable Comics spotlights two of comics’ best letterers, Nic J. Shaw and Taylor Esposito. Nic is up first, and has lettered projects for publishers as diverse as Image, IDW and more. What current projects are you working on? The Fix with Nick Spencer, Steve Lieber, and Joseph Ryan Hill at Image; Karma Police with Chris Lewis, […]
Questionable Comics: Elsa Charretier
This week, Loser City is unveiling a new column called Questionable Comics, wherein editor supreme Dan Hill and writer Ryan K. Lindsay survey other creators about their work, their process and the industry at large. Up first is Elsa Charretier, co-creator of the IDW miniseries The Infinite Loop and an incredible up-and-coming talent in comics. What […]
The 100 Best Comics of the First Half of the 2010s: Part Three, 60-41
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 […]
Eye in the Sky: Drones and Long Distance Killer Narratives
There’s a long history in warfare of truly heinous acts being committed in the hopes that it will ultimately save lives. Dresden, Hiroshima, Nagasaki — these come to mind for most immediately. But in our current era of technological hegemony, innocent lives and constitutional freedoms are dually sacrificed in the name of some kind of […]
A Grainy White Rush: Miami Vice Remix Ain’t Your Daddy’s Miami Vice
Turn it up, that thing we all Comics Critics are gonna say, in my headphones, turn it up: “This ain’t your daddy’s Miami Vice.” Yeah that, that sounds real good. Now gimme the 808 kickdrums. “This ain’t your daddy’s Miami Vice.” That’s what I’m talking about man, keep that low end bouncin’. Now gimme that […]
Take This Job and Shove It: D4VE is the Most Exciting Workplace Sitcom You’ll Ever Read
I grew up loving sci-fi, but not really the pulpy, mass paperback, day-glo world variation. No, for some reason the sci-fi stories that sucked me in the most were the ones where everyone kind of hated the future. That frequently meant the paranoid visions of Philip K. Dick or the politically cranky epics of Robert […]
Anatomy of a Page: Ulises Farinas’ Judge Dredd: Mega-City Two #3
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 in Loser City that we’re calling anatomy of a page, in which we explore pages […]