Newspapers. Believe it or not, they still exist! And they’re not just for telling you yesterday’s news, Peanuts reruns and where the good yard sales will be this weekend. A new Kickstarter asks the question “what if newspaper but comics criticism?” The Comics Courier is a twice-annual print newspaper that will feature a mix of…
Food. You know it. You love it. You’ve probably eaten some in the past few hours. I just had sushi. From ShopRite. DON’T JUDGE ME. But if you’re like me, you’ve probably wondered if any of your favorite comic creators have any good recipes to share. Like MarkWaid-a-roni and cheese or Chicken a la Tom…
He rose from the regional commercials of the 1980s, a hapless, overconfident man in a denim vest and a beige cap, come to pester his ever-silent, ever-suffering, never-seen neighbor Vern about dairy products or car dealerships or local restaurants. Like the California Raisins, the Crash Test Dummies and the GEICO cavemen, Jim Varney’s Ernest P….
In May, housing rental behemoth Airbnb announced a new promotion called Icons, a series of “extraordinary experiences” including overnights in museums, mingling with celebrities, and recreations of fictional locations like Carl’s house from Pixar’s Up. If you are a fan of the X-Men, one of these locations might have activated your portable Cerebro unit. The…
Last fall, the inaugural Uncanny Experience, an immersive convention for fans of the X-Men, was held at the historic Minneapolis Club in Minnesota. This year, the show is returning for year 2 on the final weekend of September, featuring more Chris Claremont, more animated X-Men voice actors and more twists on the traditional convention experience….
There are many comics that are underrated, many comics that are controversial and many comics that have been given the wrong shake. Kaare Andrews’ Spider-Man: Reign is one such work. A flawed, messy, brilliant comic that engages with the time it came out while remaining relevant to this day, full of evocative imagery, fantastic fight…
Since its debut last year, Hasbro and Skybound’s Energon Universe has breathed new life into a 40-year-old franchise, giving readers a thoroughly modern take on the Transformers and GI Joe. Last week, phase two of GI Joe’s return launched with Kelly Thompson and Marco Ferrari’s Scarlett. One-half of ComicsXF’s Has-Bros, Tony Thornley, sat down with…
Godzilla, the king of the monsters, a force of wanton destruction summoned by man’s inhumanity to man, known for tearing cities apart … but also, perhaps, bringing people together? On Feb. 7, IDW will release the Godzilla Valentine’s Day Special, a comic in which a kaiju blogger and a paramilitary peacekeeper go from enemies to…
Union, New Jersey, the town where I grew up, was a victim of the comic shop implosion of the 1990s. By the time I left town for college in 1998, a couple of the stores where I had bought books over the years had closed. I had no idea whether there were any stores near…
Forty years ago this month, Kevin Eastman drew a masked, bipedal turtle with nunchucks to make his buddy, Peter Laird, laugh in their New Hampshire apartment. And thus a pop culture franchise was born, spanning comics, animation, toys, live-action rubber-suit movies, video games and one unforgettable Vanilla Ice song. And sure, you know Leo, Mikey,…
Will Robson is excited to talk about Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, his comic about a team tasked with cleaning up ocean pollution whose mission quickly goes bad. He said the underwater horror book was inspired partly by the fact that he saw a double feature of Jaws and The Exorcist when…
X-Fans know Ann Nocenti as a legendary, generative editor during the 1980s, and as the writer who created Longshot, Spiral, Mojo and the Mojoverse. Daredevil fans will never forget her. She’s been mostly away from Big Two comics in recent days, but now she’s very much back, with a mini-series set in the past of…
“We had this pitch going for three years,” Lonnie Nadler tells me, his voice a mix of pride in the work and dissatisfaction with the comics industry writ large. “And the only reason it’s taken us this long is because we couldn’t find a publisher who would be willing to commit to a series this…
Hollywood is historically rife with White Savior narratives. Hollywood is also rife with spoofs. A new comic by the team of Scott Burman, Eric Nguyen, Iwan Joko Triyono and Micah Myers hopes to combine both in comics form. Published by Dark Horse comics, two issues have been published so far of the four-issue mini-series. CXF…
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. That’s something that’s been slowly changing, as there have been comics and graphic novels coming out exploring…