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…
Ryan North had a long, modern classic run on the comic The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl. He’s now returned to write a podcast about the character. It’s good. We talked to him about it. Zachary Jenkins: Squirrel Girl: The Unbeatable Radio Show is a new, six part audio mini-series from Marvel and Sirius XM. This is…
Popular across Instagram and Twitter, you may have already seen Beany Tuesdayâs work without realizing it. If youâve ever seen a meme asking âWhy am I laughing?â youâve stumbled into a Beany Tuesday classic. Known mainly as a leftist cartoonist, Beany Tuesdayâs popularity stems from the way he captures the experience of being on the…
Iâve always been a sucker for a good anthology, going back to classic EC comics reprints and continuing to things like James Tynion IV and Steve Foxeâs Razorblades, and Iâm always on the lookout for more. Thatâs why I was excited to talk with writer/artist/publisher/podcaster Matt Emmons about his just launched Kickstarter campaign for Vol….
All of you who read our site regularly may know me as a writer, podcaster, editor and crowdfunding correspondent. But what you may not know is that while Iâm all those things by night (and later afternoon, early morning and the occasional lunch break), by day Iâm the director of IT at a regional theater…
Reburn is a futuristic dystopian comic about revolution and what happens when revolution goes awry. This interview with writer Alyson Shelton, artist Elise McCall and series editor Jessica Petelle delves into the visual world of Reburn, the complications of long-distance collaboration and the many perils of Kickstarting an ongoing series. Tiffany Babb: Can you give…
In the modern comics landscape, I feel like the mainstream, and much of the independent, press tends to overlook the all-ages market. Sure, there are the lip service articles when a new Dogman or Raina Telgemeier book comes out and sells 10 times the best-selling floppy of the year, but thereâs little focus and little…
Since 2009, Spike Trotmanâs Iron Circus Comics has leveraged the power of crowdfunding to produce comics on its own terms. Until this month, those terms included Kickstarter. But after the crowdfunding leader announced in December that it would be pivoting to blockchain technology â the stuff that makes cryptocurrency and NFTs possible â Trotman opted…
For those just joining us, last week we debuted Part I of our exclusive interview with John Allison, where we discussed the origins of his ongoing Giant Days/All-Star Batman crossover, currently being published at badmachinery.com. I didnât want to spoil the reveal of the new villain, 147, so I held back this portion of the…