Dan Grote · WMQ&A Episode 124: The Kubert School special Dan and Matt journey to the Kubert School in Dover, New Jersey, to talk to President Anthony Marques and instructor Fernando Ruiz about the how the school has evolved under COVID-19 and its newest tenant, Dewey’s Comic City. Also, check out our new show logo…
Each week, Xavier Files staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Will’s Pick Ice Cream Man Presents Quarantine Comix Special #1: During the height of the pandemic in the spring, Team Ice Cream Man – writer W. Maxwell Prince, artist Martin Morazzo, colorist Chris O’Halloran…
BOOM Studios on Tuesday launched a Kickstarter for the graphic novel collections of BRZRKR, an upcoming series about an immortal warrior seeking to end his life, a development project for actor Keanu Reeves, co-written by Matt Kindt, drawn by Ron Garney, colored by Bill Crabtree and lettered by Clem Robbins. By Friday, it had made…
Up-and-coming indie comics creators and start-up publishers need to answer a lot of questions. How much money do I need to publish my comic? How can I work with comic shops to market the comics? How do I select a printer? Entertainment contracts attorney Gamal Hennessy seeks to answer those questions in The Business of Independent Comic…
Chances are, if you make comics, at some point you’ll be out here crowdfunding a book through Kickstarter. But just like every comic may be some reader’s first, creators, too, need to start somewhere when it comes to promoting their first indie or self-published comic. After covering Kickstarters and similar projects on his own site,…
Third-generation comics artist Emma Kubert joins the show to talk about her new Image series “Inkblot,” about a mischievous void-space cat that can traverse dimensions and just doesn’t listen. Much feline flap-a-gummin’ ensues.
Each week, Xavier Files staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Vishal’s Pick We Only Find Them When They’re Dead #1: A spacefaring crew harvests the bodies of dead gods to sustain civilization, while its captain desperately seeks to find a live one, in a…
Longtime Deadpool artist Mike Hawthorne joins the show to talk about his BOOM Studios graphic memoir, “Happiness Will Follow,” which tells the story of growing up with his single Puerto Rican mother.
Each week, Xavier Files staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Batman: Three Jokers #1: No one picked this, but it feels silly to ignore the elephant in the room of this week’s releases, DC’s long-threatened Black Label Bat-mini by writer Geoff Johns and artist…
In 2012, 10 years after the first Free Comic Book Day, Diamond Comic Distributors rolled out Halloween ComicFest, a similar promotion in which comic shops gave out free (to customers) books on the last Saturday in November. While not having quite the same cache as FCBD, it capitalized on a holiday when kids and fans…
Writer Jeremy Whitley joins the podcast to talk about his new Papercutz graphic novel, School for Extraterrestrial Girls, his upcoming Marvel Action: Chillers comics from IDW, the future of Princeless and the stuff he’s gotten away with in My Little Pony.
Each week, Xavier Files staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC comics come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Dan’s Pick Wonder Woman: Dead Earth #4: Daniel Warren Johnson wraps his DC Black Label series about Diana waking up in, and bringing hope to, a post-nuclear future overrun by giant monsters. ($6.99) CHECK…
Next Saturday, Aug. 22, is DC FanDome, described in a press release as a “24-hour, immersive virtual fan experience which brings the universe of DC to life and features the stars, filmmakers and creators behind its biggest films, TV series, games and comics.” (Notice how comics are last.) It’s like many of the virtual cons…
Undone by Blood #5 Writers: Zac Thompson and Lonnie Nadler, Artist: Sami Kivela, Colorist: Jason Wordie, Letterer: Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou, Publisher: AfterShock I call it the Knives Out effect. Sometimes a piece of media is so beloved by those who have consumed it, that when they hear someone else has experienced it, their voice takes on…
Writer and comics journalist Zack Quaintance (Comics Bookcase, The Beat) returns to the show to talk about his first Kickstarter project, Next Door, transitioning from writing about comics to making them, and the never-ending quest to bag and board them all.