Dan Grote · WMQ&A Episode 235: Dropping a Solemn Cowabunga with Sarah Gailey and Liana Kangas Sarah Gailey and Liana Kangas join the show to talk about their new BOOM Studios series, Know Your Station. You can listen to WMQ&A on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Spotify, Stitcher, Amazon Music, Audible and at ComicsXF.com, where new episodes…
Dan Grote · WMQ&A Episode 137: The Cult of Liana Kangas Liana Kangas returns to WMQ&A to talk about her burgers-crime-and-Satanism comic TRVE KVLT, her TKO short “Seeds of Eden,” drumming, her dogs, “The Mandalorian” and much more. As always, you can listen to WMQ&A on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Spotify, Stitcher and at xavierfiles.com, where…
Marty is stuck at his dead-end job at Burger Lord and the last 15 years have passed him by. What happens when he accidentally steals a supernatural weapon from an insane cult full of violent lunatics, led by a monster in human form? Will his manager and best friend Bernice roll her eyes and fire…
We’re on record as being a pro-Liana Kangas website. So we were a hard yes when our friends at AHOY Comics offered us this exclusive cover reveal for the new volume of their black-and-white werewolf detective series Black’s Myth. Kangas does covers for the series, created by writer Eric Palicki and artist Wendell Cavalcanti, and…
Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New comics come out Wednesdays. See your local comic shop for more info. And if you own a local comic shop and would like to sponsor the CXF weekly Staff Picks, email contact@comicsxf.com. Matt’s pick: The Question: All Along the Watchtower #1: In the…
Another New York Comic Con has come and gone. This year’s event crammed more than 200,000 people into the Javits Center over four days, according to show organizer ReedPOP, with an estimated economic impact of $80 million. And ComicsXF was there, taking pictures, attending panels, schmoozing with creators and getting handed free comics on the…
Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New comics come out Wednesdays. See your local comic shop for more info. And if you own a local comic shop and would like to sponsor the CXF weekly Staff Picks, email contact@comicsxf.com. Matt’s pick: Batman & Robin Year One #1: While Bruce Wayne…
New York Comic Con was last weekend, and the CXF team was there, getting lost in crowds, taking selfies with creators and touching all the same surfaces as tens of thousands of people in a large, enclosed space! Below are a crapload of photos and some commentary on what we saw: the good, the bad…
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…
Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC books come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Adam’s pick: X-Men #25: The Hellfire Gala is over. The mutants have been decimated. Again. And Kate Pryde has jumped to the other side of the pirates vs. ninjas debate. Time to stab some Orchis…
You’ll have to excuse me, I’m 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…
Imagine you’ve died. Doesn’t matter how. It’ll probably be doing something mundane. Except instead of the eternal void or whatever your religion may have taught you, you find yourself on a fantasy battlefield, surrounded by soldiers from throughout history, fighting skeleton warriors and being guided by a fairy who kind of looks like Wilford Brimley….
I’ve 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 Foxe’s Razorblades, and I’m always on the lookout for more. That’s why I was excited to talk with writer/artist/publisher/podcaster Matt Emmons about his just launched Kickstarter campaign for Vol….
Forrest Hollingsworth: Rob, we’re gathered here today to celebrate the lives and numerous deaths in TKO’s newest horror anthology, TKO Presents: Tales of Terror, which collects all of their previously released horror shorts. First, though, I want to know how you feel about framing narratives for anthologies. There’s a storied history for them in horror,…
You open the door to the record shop, and waiting for you is an old friend, or maybe someone you’ve never met before, there to sell you a record and tell you a spooky tale or two. That’s the experience you’ll get when you back Dead Beats 2: London Calling, the new anthology that launches…