Hair and hair-care is a subject that all of us reckon with every single day. It is universal, and everybody has their own specific experience and relationship to it. And yet it remains an underexplored subject in comics. Thatâs something thatâs been slowly changing, as there have been comics and graphic novels coming out exploring…
Alex Paknadel is irritated by writers who think they are too good for âgenre fiction.â âNo one wants to be Ian McEwan, who absolutely insisted what he was doing wasnât science fiction,â he tells me over Zoom, and he would know. Paknadel holds a Ph.D. in English literature. His masterâs thesis was titled, ââThey’re Nuts…
Robert Secundus: Today on ComicsXF we are joined by the writer of Age of X-Man: The Extremists War of the Realms: Giant-Man, X-Factor, X-Men Black: Emma Frost, What If? Magik, The Amazing Mary Jane, The Trial of Magneto, Gwenpool Strikes Back, and the forthcoming comic (R)ender. We will be discussing Exterminators #1, the first issue…
âWhile I was in the pandemic […] I had started to toy around with this instrument I purchased called an Apprehension Engine.â Claudio Sanchez says from his home recording studio. âItâs typically this scary, nightmare instrument. I had started to fool around with this instrument and it started giving me these ideas about what the…
I had the chance to attend Dragoncon this past weekend and asked Rico Renzi, artist of Spider-Man: Enter the Spiderverse, She-Hulk, Unbeatable Squirrelgirl, and currently Grim a few questions about his art, his contributions to Grim, and life and death! Renzi has utilized his masterful pairings of color to create an instantly recognizable body of…
It’s been a little over a year since Scott Snyder left DC to pursue a massive line of creator-owned work at Comixology, IDW and other publishers. A lot has changed across the industry and in the work, so I sat down with Scott to talk about the new genres he’s branching out into, the craft…
Look at your bookshelf right now. Whatâs on it? Some novels you havenât touched since that book club you joined after college, maybe a framed photo of your partner, some cherished action figures from the 1990s Toy Biz X-Men line that have no value otherwise. Now look down at the next shelf, the one sagging…
Somewhere on the Trans-Canada highway, that great artery connecting all ten Canadian provinces, Ryan North speeds along in his car. There, among the anonymous byroads of rural Quebec, where the Internet is spotty, the white-throated sparrows serenade with their call of âoh-sweet-Canada-Canada!â and the cabanes Ă sucre provide the vital, sugary lifeblood to the worldâs…
Youâll have to excuse me, Iâm in a bit of a mood. My eldest dog has had diarrhea the past two days because we mistakenly bought the wrong kind of wet food, and so our mornings just consist of shampooing various carpets. Also, we live in an unjust society that has abdicated its responsibility to…
From Deniz Camp, Filya Bratukhin, Jason Wordie and Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou, Scout Comicsâ Agent of W.O.R.L.D.E. follows special agent Philip Blank, a top operative for the orangutan bosses at W.O.R.L.D.E., as he travels all over the world, time and the multiverse saving it from itself. But Philip isnât naive enough to think that his bosses have…
Scorpio Vol. 1, collecting issues 1-3 in 80 full color pages of the urban fantasy Zodiac comic, is now live on Kickstarter. Each issue focuses on a different holder of the celestial powers of the Zodiac, starting with its protagonist Daniel Shim. Daniel Shim is a young, ambitious CEO who finds himself entangled with the…
A creature of myth stalks Venice Beach, California. But itâs not your typical vampire or werewolf. No; it is Adam, a Golem, the animated clay monster of Jewish myth created to protect the people, whose often single-minded pursuit of justice can make them as much of a threat as those they are created to stop….
In 1991 six teenagers sit down to play a RPG and end up trapped in a fantasy world. They fight, love, explore and do all the things you do when you play a RPG. Eventually the consequences of their actions become too much and they return home, scarred for life. One is left behind in…
If you were tasked with assembling your ideal superhero team, who would be on it and does it have to include Wolverine? Would you mix members of the Avengers and X-Men or maybe even throw in an Inhuman or two? As comic fans, itâs something we daydream and debate about all the time, but I…
âLiterally the last thing I did before I left Marvel was the first Marvelâs Voices. It was a huge fight,â Chris Robinson says of the anthology series focused on marginalized creators and characters. The publisher has since put out six follow-up anthologies celebrating first âdiverseâ intellectual property and, second, diverse creators. âWhile you guys are…