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Comics A.M.| Retailers on print vs. digital; Yang on comics, Christianity
Justice League #1 Retailing | Sacramento, Calif.-area retailers are relatively unconcerned about DC Comics’ newly launched digital initiative or an immediate threat to their bottom lines from digital...
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Retrofit Comics has arrived!
Box Brown started Retrofit Comics as a Kickstarter project, with the intention of publishing 16 alternative comics. And by “alternative comics,” we mean 32-page floppies, not webcomics or graphic...
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Comics A.M. | Prosecution rests in Michael George murder trial
Legal Legal | Prosecutors in Macomb County, Michigan, rested their case Friday in the second trial of Michael George, a former retailer and convention organizer accused of the 1990 murder of his first...
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Interview: Box Brown on Retrofit Comics
While the rest of the world is going digital, Box Brown is heading in the other direction: Last month he launched Retrofit Comics with plans to publish 17 print comics by new and independent creators...
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Take a peak at James Kochalka’s ‘Attract Mode’ from the Devastator
from Attract Mode The fourth issue of the humor anthology The Devastator arrives Nov. 9, and the theme for this issue is video games, It includes contributions from James Kochalka, Danny Hellman, Corey...
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Food or Comics? | Everybody wants a piece of the Action
Welcome to Food or Comics?, where every week we talk about what comics we’d buy at our local comic shop based on certain spending limits — $15 and $30 — as well as what we’d get if we had extra money...
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Kids comics these days!: Adventure Time, Batman: The Brave and the Bold #16...
You’ve heard it said that children are the future, and if that’s true—and it must be, since they’ll be around for more of the future than we adults will be—it’s as true for comics as it is for whatever...
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What Are You Reading? with Joey Weiser
My Cardboard Life Hello and welcome to What Are You Reading? Our special guest today is Joey Weiser, creator of Cavemen in Space, The Ride Home and Tales of Unusual Circumstance, and a contributor to...
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Free Comic Book Day: What to look out for
Today is Free Comic Book Day, and here’s a rundown of some of the comics that caught my interest. If you want to check ‘em out before you go, CBR has previews of many of the FCBD titles. (My FCBD...
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What Are You Reading? with David Harper
Saga #3 Hello and welcome to What Are You Reading?, where each week we detail what comics and other stuff have been on our reading piles. Our special guest today is David Harper, associate editor over...
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Digital deals | Get Eddie Campbell, James Kochalka GNs for $1.99
Here’s a digital choice for you: You could pay $3.99 for a single issue of some Marvel comic, or you could get two plump e-books by well-known creators for a penny less. First, Panel Nine is offering...
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Food or Comics | Marzipan or Captain Marvel
Welcome to Food or Comics?, where every week we talk about what comics we’d buy at our local comic shop based on certain spending limits — $15 and $30 — as well as what we’d get if we had extra money...
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Comics A.M. | DiDio and Lee on state of DC and industry
Jim Lee Publishing | ICv2 sits down for a three-part interview with DC Comics Co-Publishers Jim Lee and Dan DiDio that takes the long view of the past year, covering the launch of the New 52, the...
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Careful, James Kochalka, this is how a beef starts
Occasional Marvel employee James Kochalka’s first impression is right, that cover is awful, least of all because of Mark Bagley’s Joe Quesada’s illustration. As sickly sentimental as the composition...
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Countdown to Friday premiere of SuperF*ckers cartoon
Top Shelf points out that Cartoon Hangover has been adorably counting down to the Friday debut of SuperF*ckers, the online animated series based on the comics by James Kochalka. If you’ve read the...
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Comics A.M. | Did British Comic Awards underrepresent women?
British Comic Awards Awards | Were women underrepresented in the first British Comic Awards? With three women and 13 men on the shortlist, some argue they were; Laura Sneddon follows the discussion,...
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SuperF*ckers now available to watch and wear
Ultra Richard SuperF*ckers made its animated debut today on the Cartoon Hangover site. Based on the comics by James Kochalka published several years ago by Top Shelf, it features, as Kevin noted...
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Robot 6 Q&A | James Kochalka on the end of American Elf
After 14 years, and more than 3,500 cartoons, James Kochalka is bringing his diary comic American Elf to an end. Since October 1998, Kochalka has been chronicling small slices of his daily life in...
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Comics A.M. | Cartoonist Richard Thompson’s long journey
Richard Thompson Creators | Michael Cavna talks to cartoonist Richard Thompson in-depth about his Parkinson’s disease, its effect on his cartooning, and the brain surgery he had this year to combat it,...
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Jason says goodbye to American Elf
The Norwegian creator Jason pays tribute to the last day of James Kochalka’s American Elf in the sincerest way possible. Never fear, Kochalkaholics: James is busily making other comics, and Top Shelf...
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